Living with a reactive dog can feel overwhelming, especially in busy neighborhoods. Fortunately, with CPT’s experience, structure, and guidance, lasting change is possible.
CPT’s reactive dog training in Atlanta focuses on confidence building, impulse control, emotional regulation, relationship building, and benevolent leadership communication, whereupon you and your dog can walk together peacefully and enjoyably.
Regardless of whether your dog is reactive to family members, unfamiliar adults, neighborhood children, family dogs, neighbor dogs, cats, livestock, wildlife, bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, cars, or trucks, CPT’s expert guidance will teach your dog to exhibit superior self-control and appropriate social behavior.
Schedule an AppointmentAt Comprehensive Pet Therapy, we are committed to converting your reactive dog into a calm, confident, peaceful companion, whereby we maximize the quality of life for both you and your canine family member.
The sooner you address reactivity, the easier it is to shape successful responses. Regardless of whether you first witness reactivity when your pet is a young puppy or when your pet is an adult dog, rapid intervention prevents behavioral patterns from becoming deeply entrenched. Through structured exposure therapy modalities and clear human-dog communication, CPT improves your dog’s behavior benevolently, positively, and effectively. CPT training and reactivity modification programs establish a foundation for long-term success during early stages of development and throughout any stage of life.
CPT starts by addressing the emotional state that underlies your dog’s reactive behavior. Whether the ulterior cause is anxiety, fear, insecurity, past trauma, excitability, hyperactivity, a general lack of impulse control, a context-specific lack of impulse control, or a combination of the preceding, CPT will employ scientifically proven methods that resolve the root origin. Next, CPT will improve basic leash walking skills. If you also wish to address off-leash reactivity, then CPT will concurrently work on improving the reliability and responsiveness of your dog’s off-leash obedience. Reliable off-leash obedience provides superior general manageability, which will reduce the probability of reactive events. Once your dog becomes calm, safe, and secure; walks on a loose leash; and reliably responds to your communications; we then conduct leash walking drills amidst a designated volunteer human or animal.
Via a scientific exposure therapy model that incorporates stimulus control, counterconditioning, systematic desensitization, and cognitive control, CPT maximizes the probability and speed of goal outcomes while minimizing risks of failure. Instead of feeling overwhelmed, your dog will confidently and cognitively learn calmer reactions to triggers like visitors ringing the doorbell, guests inside your home, strangers your dog sees on the street, children playing, neighbor dogs- even barking dogs, cats, squirrels, deer, bicycles, scooters, cars, or trucks.
If you answered “Yes” to any of the above questions, then a CPT Reactive Dog Training Program should improve the enjoyment you receive from your pet owning experience, your quality of life, and your dog’s quality of life. Thousands of Atlanta dog owners agree that a CPT Reactive Dog Training Program is an investment that returns incomparable value for the life of dog owners and formerly anxiously, excitably, impulsively, or aggressively reactive dogs.
The best way to resolve reactive behavior is a combination of resolving the underlying maladaptive emotional state that prompts a dog’s reactive behavior, teaching superior human-dog communication skills, teaching superior human leash management mechanics, improving loose-leash dog walking behavior, relaxing the dog amidst the presently provocative trigger stimulus, and teaching the dog to adopt alternative coping responses. Once accomplish the preceding steps, Atlanta dogs walk calmly, quietly, confidently and happily.
Dogs may be genetically prone to reactive behavior, due to a genetic predisposition to exhibit anxious or excitable high-arousal emotional states. In addition, dogs may exhibit reactive behavior due to inhibited social environments, delayed socialization, or traumatic events. Some dogs exhibit reactive behavior due to health conditions, accidents, pain, discomfort, or frustration. Other dogs exhibit reactive behavior in response to frustration emanating from improper owner leash walking technique or from emotional contagion originating from owner anxiety. CPT Reactive Dog Programs diagnose the origin, triggers, and trigger thresholds, then develop customized solutions that resolve causation, improve management, and teach alternative coping responses, in lieu of vocal or physical reactivity.
If your dog reacts abnormally, either vocally or physically, on walks, when outdoors, when on-leash, when off-leash, at your doorway, or inside your home, whereby your dog prevents safety, management, or disruption issues, then you will greatly benefit from a CPT Reactive Dog Program.
When resolving reactive behavior, CPT typically recommends one or a combination of private, in-home private, and/or public access private instruction with a CPT Head Trainer. Occasionally, CPT may recommend board training. However, any of the listed forms of private instruction are often superior, as we can concurrently work with both the owner and dog, we can more immediately assist dogs who are insecure around strangers, we can better address reactivity directed toward a specific family member or family animal, and we can more effectively address territorially reactive behavior that is specific to or more pronounced within the dog’s home or yard.
To schedule a reactivity appointment, please email CPT or contact the CPT office by phone (404-236-2150). When calling, please note CPT office hours are M – F from 9 am – 4 pm.Need to get in touch with CPT? I’ve got you covered.
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