Do dog parks help reactive dogs?
Sid Ferry
2025-06-27 09:56:52
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Reactive dog owners don’t go out of their way to make their dogs react and act out, they try to do everything to avoid that. They try to do everything to avoid that. Their goal is to have an uneventful, calm walk for and with their dog. It comes down to the dog not trusting their environment. The owner is not aware that their dog is not coping and continues to expose their dog to the same routine and so expose them to the same unpleasant scenarios again and again. This is where we are failing as a community, we seem to be labeling reactive dog owners as bad owners. Being able to read your dog’s body language is key. Training is essential to every dog, the more trained your dog is the easier is it to call them away, and the easier it is to notice when they are unconfrontable or overly excited. When dogs first become reactive there is a stage of denial, everyone and every dog website is offering advice, every dog owner is trying to give advice, more exposure is often the advice but you can see that without education you are creating more issues with more dogs. As dog owners, we need to get our communities better educated, those owners who think they have social dogs in the park often are the ones who have the least dog body language knowledge.
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