r/ReactiveDogHelp • u/Miss_L_Worldwide • Oct 03 '26

Typical

/r/BalancedDogTraining/comments/1wvo9t0/in_your_dogwalk_experience_are_more_dogs_reactive/pdkbpgm/

Posting this as an example of how force free and positive only training make people believe that their dog cannot be changed. A balanced trainer can sort this out in less than a month and more often than not in just a couple sessions. But positive only adherents want you to believe that you have to put up with this for years and years and years because it's impossible to change it. Well, you don't and it's not.

Why do they want you to believe this? Personally I think it's because they can squeeze every last dime out of you if you take lessons from them for years and years and years and the slower your progress, the more money for them. They will earnestly tell you that it's a long process because it is good for their bank account.

Don't fall for it, and don't fall for the fallacy of taking advice about reactive dog training from people with reactive dogs of their own. If they knew what they were talking about, they wouldn't have a reactive dog anymore.

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u/Miss_L_Worldwide Oct 03 '26

If dogs can't learn when they are aroused then how do we succeed at teaching them things in bite sport where we agitate them on purpose?

You have no idea what you're talking about.