mostly, individuals with canines that bark and lunge at strangers or different canines dwell in a bubble of worry, hopelessness, and frustration. After years of expertise operating with numerous consumers and their reactive canine, and with Ben, her personal competitive puppy, award-winning writer Emma Parsons (Click to Calm) has discovered a greater strategy to aid much more proprietors and their canine: through conscientiously orchestrating managed exposures to triggers in a category setting.

A complete type jam-packed with reactive canines appears like a recipe for catastrophe, however it is exactly the formulation of bringing those frazzled vendors including their canines in a single room that makes the category paintings so good. Emma, her assistants, and her scholars shape a supportive group devoted to assisting one another and holding everybody secure. Enveloped in empathy, scholars learn how to teach their canine to tolerate gradually higher exposures to their classmates.

Teaching a reactive puppy category isn't for the green or the faint of middle; the demanding situations are many, however the rewards are nice. In educating the Reactive puppy category, Emma offers a whole six-week curriculum you could comply with your wishes. This blueprint for teachers and employees and for go-it-alone vendors of reactive canines offers:

a week-by-week advisor to category objectives, key recommendations, and the most important exercises
useful recommendation approximately what to do whilst issues pass wrong
a collection of accompanying weekly pupil handouts of routines (also to be had as downloadable PDFs)
heritage and rules each teacher may still know
guidance for recruiting, education, and utilizing category assistants
distinctive necessities for students
specific innovations for carrying on with education as soon as scholars have accomplished the class

"Emma was once our greatest cheerleader. with no her periods and aid i do not be aware of the place we'd be. as soon as a skeptic, i'm now a believer. I in basic terms want I had stumbled on Emma and clicker education sooner!" —Jen Lihzis, student

"Emma helped me know about thresholds, gave me instruments to aid heal my puppy, inspired me in the course of the downs, and gave nice workouts to savor your puppy whereas development your talents to assist focus on life." —Tish Webb, student