Before You Give Up On Your Reactive Dog, Watch THIS

Meet Bodhi, a Rottweiler with a bite history. He'd redirected on Natalie, he'd bitten Adam's dad, and walking through their own town had gotten to the point where it felt like a risk assessment every time they left the house. They tried to manage it, it wasn't working. They were running out of options. We had 5 days to take Bodhi from this to this. But here's the bit that most dog trainers don't show you: what happens weeks or months after the before and after clips, when the trainer has gone home and the cameras are off and normal life starts again. Because a good result at the end of the training program is one thing. What matters is whether it holds when the owners are back home dealing with their real life. So in this video, you're going to see the week that changed Bodhi, what Natalie and Adam had to learn, and then we're checking back in 4 months later to see what life after boot camp actually looks like. Right, let's get into it.

Okay, so we're just going to do a quick video on what we did with Bodhi on the boot camp. There's a tiny little twist difference to how we'd maybe approach the majority of dogs on a boot camp. But essentially all the components are exactly the same, they're just slightly shuffled in the order. So, when we're looking at helping dogs with reactivity, we have a triangle of things that we might apply. We've got differential reinforcement, i.e., giving them a different job to do. We can also add into that a bit of counterconditioning, because we're using that marker and trying to make the dog feel slightly different about the trigger that they see. We've got habituation, desensitization, i.e., spending some time around triggers that maybe they haven't been able to before so they can get accustomed and used to those things. And then we've got the scary one, we've got contingent punishment, i.e., stopping behaviors proactively. In addition to that, we've also got the really big players of fulfillment. We've got play, And we've got off lead freedom. So normally when we get dogs on boot camp, we assess their food drive, we assess their markers, we make sure everyone's done their homework, and Bodhi's owners have done that really, really well. The problem that we ran into was that he was quite explosive in the way that he reacted, and it was really cutting into the time that we're going to be able to do these things. Normally we like to start with this so that we've got a front-loaded behavior. That even if we do start using some punishment with, the dog's more likely to drop into that because that's what they've got a good history of reinforcement for. There was no way we could just have him around people and dogs because his reactivity was too much and we wouldn't be able to get any effective habituation, desensitization. So we actually did start with contingent punishment. It was introduced through play, and the good thing was that Bodhi's owners had done loads of great homework. They'd done loads of good work before him. So much respect for these 2 owners, but that's a different story. They'd done loads of really good play work. So he really wanted to play, but within the play he would cheat and he'd take cheap shots. So what we did was introduce contingent punishment to keep him accountable to those rules. Once we've got that nailed down, we started using some other little bits of setup work. So we use a little bit of food on the floor, a little bit of setup stuff in that sense, and we made sure that— excuse me— he had a really good idea of what this new word meant because we use a marker system with our punishment before we showed him any dogs or people. We then used play prior to any session. We gave him a nice outlet. We set him up to win. He also did fail, but what that did was give him a real good understanding of all these rules and boundaries that we've got set in place. Once he'd got punishment nailed down, we could stop the behavior. Yes, suppression if you will. What it gave us a chance to do is to start using his marker and his food drive, which was really, really good, but we didn't have an opportunity to use it because he was too busy kicking off. And then We could counter condition and we could desensitize. We then added more and more and more volume of people and dogs throughout the week. There's plenty of footage of him going to parks and even sitting in a pub with dogs by the end of the week, and also some footage of him going absolutely crazy at the start of the week. So by the end of play on Friday, we'd front-loaded Bodhi with a new skill set. So what people aren't very good at is teaching him no. He had a good yes already, he had good food drive. We taught him a no. That was super important. He was already good at play. We e-collar trained him so that he could have off-lead freedom, which is also another form of— that's weird— also another form of fulfillment. He already also had great obedience, to be fair to the lad, so he could already walk on a fairly loose lead and do all his downs and all that kind of stuff. And then we had the opportunity to help him learn chill. So these are the six pillars that we teach and want to nail so that you can enjoy your dog and they can enjoy their lives. This these two here give the clarity. Structure isn't clarity. Using your crate isn't clarity. Yes, it's a really good tool for management, but it doesn't stop behaviors; it just prevents them. So giving them a really good rule set in life. Yep, do that again, please. No, don't do that again, please. Liberates your dog, gives them the freedom that they deserve as a dog, and hopefully makes sure that you can enjoy them as much as they enjoy you. Click the link in the description if you want to know a little bit more about these 6 pillars and how we apply them. The Behaviour Bible is a free resource. It's really, really good. I'd argue it might be too good.

Natalie, Adam, obviously I did your consult, but we're trying to do a bit of a repeat. Just give me a bit of context and background.

He was an ASBO.

Fairly, fairly reactive dog, wasn't he? So classic scenario, walking around town, close proximity. somebody'd walk past us with another dog, he'd kick off. Redirect in the, in the early stages on Natalie, that's why we got the muzzle. But yeah, that was an issue. Somebody that, who we knew would come up to us, want to chat, Bodhi wouldn't give us that opportunity.

Yeah.

He'd want to just attack. We do have another dog, Frenchie. They got on at one stage, but something just clicked. They no longer get on, so we have to separate them. So there's, there's been a few significant issues, haven't there?

Yeah, to say the least.

That we've had to deal with.

Yeah, um, a few bruises, a few scars.

Yeah, he's had a bite history, hasn't he?

Yeah, he has.

How did you kind of navigate those issues previously? Like, what was the management structure you had to put in place to obviously keep him safe and you guys and everybody else?

If people come around the house, yeah, we've got a kennel up the garden, so he'd get separated or he'd be put in the cage. And then out on walks, you get to the point where you start using avoidance. We live in a market town, so my day-to-day walks, when I walk him at lunchtime, is generally around the town. So we were constantly bumping into other dogs, but I got to the point where you kind of stop walking him in those places.

It's not pleasurable, is it, walking around town? It becomes almost a chore, and that's not fair on the dog. It's not fair on us. You become a bit anxious. Nobody about, That is fine. We do a lot of walks up in the Peak District to try and get out of everybody's way. As soon as you see somebody coming towards us with a dog, you are straight away back on the lead, which is the responsible thing to do, but you are just a bit anxious. He has tested us both. Yes, he has tested us both. We have got to ultimately put him first and what sort of quality of life he is going to have. And we want to keep him. We want to keep him. He is great. This week we've seen such a huge change in him, and we was only saying this morning that our affection towards him has just been—

I just feel like our relationship's improved already. I was always closer to him than what you were, probably from an emotional perspective. Yeah, but even though I spend more time with him, I feel like already our relationship's just— I feel like he's got more respect.

Yeah.

So no, you can't have him.

Oh damn, missed the point.

How much?

Yeah, nice. When you arrived on Monday, we did do a dog test. We did our dog test. He had his muzzle on and he did redirect quite heavily onto you, Natalie. Yeah, you spent the first couple of days with Kirkie. Obviously he's a bit more of a dog that needed a bit more TLC and had complex needs given his prior history. And you'd already tried lots of training with him, right?

Yep.

And just give me a rundown before I kind of move on to the next one. Like, what had you previously tried?

We haven't actually used any other official trainers. Um, it was more trying techniques that you watch online. We've tried various things. Um, but it's, like I say, it was just, I don't think any of it was working.

Obviously it's now Friday. We reintegrated you back into the group. How's that gone? When did he lose his muzzle?

It was Wednesday, wasn't it?

Yeah, um, I had it on when we were doing the loose lead walking in the arena, but to be honest, he didn't need it at that point.

It wasn't an option early in the week to take his muzzle off. However, with the yes scenario, Newton's Cradle, that, you know, which we was— you gave us homework before we started the course, that's helped. And I think what's immensely helped is the e-collar, so we felt confident enough He's not going to redirect and the muzzle can come off.

He's not in that angry state of mind that he was previously in.

He's a much more relaxed boy. Yeah, came in Monday and he came in very huffed chest, tail all the way up, acting the big one, ready for a fight essentially. And now, yeah, he's mummy's sweet boy again, isn't he?

Yeah, I think he is.

I think that's very true.

Mummy's boy.

Nail on the head.

Bye, Jacob. Bye. Yes.

What you got? Oh, that was perfect. He is a knob.

Hey, are you a knob?

Yeah.

So you felt safe enough to take the muzzle off Wednesday?

Yes.

He hasn't had his muzzle on since?

Nope.

You've obviously been on some walks at— well, at the Airbnb that you guys are staying at.

How's that all going?

All really good. Um, took him out last night off lead. Actually didn't encounter any other dogs, unfortunately, but even, um, You know, just his recall was better. This morning I took him out for a quick wee. There was 2 dogs walking up the path towards us and he had a look, but he was good as gold.

So my final question, would you do it all again?

Definitely.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Definitely.

Can I stay another week?

If you want to, yeah. In all honesty, this has become something over a week ago that I was like, the amount of money it's going to cost, and then I'm self-employed and losing time off work. We've not had a holiday for, you know, couple of months, whatever it is. But as soon as we got here, and then where we are staying, I've thoroughly enjoyed it, and it's almost become a holiday. The first day on Monday, I'm going to be completely honest with you, I didn't want it to end. I was so happy. I was just like, this is, this is great. This really is great. I would do it all again next week.

Yeah, I do feel a little bit sad to be going home today, to be honest.

Yeah, yeah, it's, it's well worth it. Yeah, very happy, very happy.

Bodhi's happy, aren't you? He's enjoyed his week.

You tried a couple of bits and bobs in terms of like e-collar and prong collar before, right?

Yeah.

And obviously we've used the e-collar specifically this week. Why do you feel like that didn't work before? Just like your experience with that, I'm just genuinely curious.

Probably just because we probably weren't using it correctly. Or in the right situations.

All right.

I think the prong, if anything, it was probably making him angrier when he was—

Just riling him up.

Yeah, and because he, when he kicks off, he flies in the air.

Yeah.

Oh yeah, you've got some videos, right?

I try and stop him and then he gets angry at me for stopping him. And then he's, you know, to be honest, this slip lead, I've never thought of using one of these. No, that's been more effective than the prong. Yeah, well, actually, well, yeah, with that.

And again, just genuinely kind of curious, and I'm asking all 3 of you to be fair, because I know you've worked together, uh, day 1 and 2.

What, what was your—

where were your breakthrough moments? Because from what I was seeing Monday, I think it was, we were struggling to get through to him, right? He was just like riding through pretty much all Each and every level of feedback we were trying to give him.

Introduce knee collar as a bit of a rule setter in play. All right. So his revs were high, but for a different reason, and we just overlaid it on out enough things like that to be like, okay, well, there's rules, but his level of arousal or the objective motivation was very, very different. But he picked it up fucking fast. Like, I was like, what did you do? Well, he already knew out, but he was a little chompy.

All right. And you just—

so he was like, don't be chompy. when we say enough, enough is enough. We introduced some punishment stuff at super low level, like food stuff, but he picked it up super quick, like a lot quicker than I thought. The play thing was the biggest thing.

All right, interesting.

Because his revs were like— he's good at play, to be fair. His revs are comparative when he plays as to when he's a little bit maybe antisocial, but for a very different reason. Yeah, so it gave us a good idea of what levels might be appropriate for cutting through mist at certain points, so it was good. Yeah, but just from me, like, in terms of working with people, you can't argue with, like, your commitment. From the perspective of, like, they would just try anything. Like, Natalie particularly, like, started off the training and just had a pair of metaphorical bollocks.

Yeah, that's what we like to say.

Yeah, basically. Yeah. So, like, kudos, because obviously they— I'll help anyone as long as they're willing to buy into what we do, and they just attacked it. I thought it would take longer than it did, but because Of the commitment of them two, then it just went way smoother than maybe even expected.

All right, what have you been up to this week then?

Like, what were your highlights of the week? And like, you know, what have you enjoyed about it?

What Wednesday onwards, surely, when you started doing some proper stuff?

I've got to be honest, from day one I've enjoyed it. When Monday ended, I didn't want it to end. Do all this again.

All right, I really would.

Oh, sounds good.

Can you give me a job?

Not that we need to.

Yeah, I would say, I would say probably from the Wednesday point, we felt comfortable enough to, don't want to tempt fate here, but remove his muzzle. What we'd learned with the Newton's Cradle, the homework obviously that was set out to us before we even started the camp, was very beneficial to Bodhi and us. So it gave us a good head start, didn't we? And then, like I said, I know you guys, obedience, isn't it?

Yeah.

top priority, but it, it has helped to a degree. Um, it has helped Bodhi. So like with the outs and, you know, everything else, it, it picks it up relatively quick.

I think for me, getting face to face, how close me and Owen got with our—

with what we saw. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, that was a turning point for me because when I walk him, he doesn't allow me to talk to people. If the neighbour wants to stop and have a chat, he doesn't allow it.

Really? What happens?

He just kicks off, he fires off at them. So for me to be able to get that close, face to face, have a conversation with someone that has got a dog, was, was a big turning point.

And you've been offsite and stuff like that?

Yeah.

Yeah, we've just bore witness to him in the pub.

Yeah.

Which is great.

It's really enjoyable because we used to do it when he was younger.

Yeah.

After the reactivity started, we stopped doing all those things.

When did that start? About 10, 12 months, around that mark? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Can't really take him to any pubs, or we haven't been. And so today's And he just chilled out and was just chilling, right?

That's crazy.

Even walking around, around Hay Park this morning was just like great to see. He was just in so close proximity with the other dogs.

His whole demeanor's changed.

Yeah, he looks way more like just chilled.

We were saying as well, more relaxed. Our affection and respect for him has changed through this week, really has. Really has helped immensely.

Hard to love when he was Yeah, you find a genuine—

you'll develop a genuine, like, level of resentment almost that you're so constricted by your dog's behavior in life. They're obviously a massive factor, massive part of our life, and we do love them unconditionally. But when you have that element of unconditional love but, like, pragmatic limitations through their behavior limitations, you have a real internal conflict, which is a very difficult place to live for a sustained amount of time as you have. So you've probably felt a level of relief this week that— Yeah, that is probably allowed you to have a slightly different perspective on, on, on, on Bodhi, right?

Yeah, I almost see a future now.

Exactly that.

Of where we've— where we're going. Whereas before I was questioning, what is the future?

Is this dog going to be with us?

Yeah, yeah, it's shit, isn't it? Really sucky.

It's hard to give up such a key part of the family, isn't it?

So we—

it wasn't really an option.

Yeah.

You guys was the last resort.

So let's talk like plan of action when we go home. What are we doing?

We are going to go through all the list of walks that we do.

Yeah.

And basically go out and go out there and start putting it into place.

If you nail the first 3 days, he'll enjoy the rest of his life.

What I would go and do, I'd take him early somewhere where you know he's gonna at least test the rules.

Yeah.

And as soon as you see him step the line from New rules, back into old rules. Administer your punishment protocol with your e-collar and put a very clear line in the sand of like, nope, we're gonna— we're— we— the rules are here now. Because there'll be one or two moments when you return home where he'll go, are the rules the same? And if you permiss that period of time and say like, you get— if you give him benefit of the doubt is one of the worst things you can do in that point. But if you say no, And you just nip it in the bud, you'll just, you'll just see him like soften and go like, oh, okay, we're still doing the same thing. All right. So if you just again nail the first 3 days, take him somewhere where he's rehearsed a lot, and as soon as you see that little bit of shift in him, well, you know exactly what to do now. And then all the other, everything else will just fall in place nicely.

But by the end of the week, Natalie and Adam could see a completely different future with Bodhi. He'd settled in a pub, he'd worked around other dogs, and for the first time in a long time, they could see a life with him that didn't revolve around the next problem. Those results mattered. They showed Natalie and Adam what was possible when Bodhi had clear communication and they knew what to do with him. But the proof of any training is what happens next. Do the owners go home and keep building on it? Does it hold when they're in their own street, when another dog appears, somebody stops to talk to them, or life gets busy again? So 4 months after boot camp, Natalie and Adam brought Bodhi back to our boot camp graduation day. This wasn't about trying to prove the week was real. It was about finding out whether the change had carried out into real life.

Come and spend the day with Bodhi at his boot camp graduation at Yorkshire Canine Academy. As you can see, he was super keen to get going, so we hit the road and headed north. Stopped off for wee-wees on the way at the services and grabbed ourselves a coffee because we were a little bit tired from getting up so early. We then arrived at Yorkshire Canine Academy. We've actually not been here for a few months now because we did our boot camp at the end of March, so it was great to catch up and see everybody. We got parked and everyone started to arrive, so took the dogs out for wee-wees just before it got too busy. Here we are in the car park waiting for the socialization class to start. Bodhi sat lovely watching all the dogs pass by. Then we headed out into the fields and just started doing just some walking around the field, getting him to walk nicely, getting him used to being in close proximity to all the dogs. It started to get quite busy. I think there was over 60 dogs there that day.

Cock nose, come on, cock nose.

Nice, here we go. Now we're cooking on gas. You guys go side by side together, tell each other about your dog please. These 3 go together around as a 3. Dogs close but they can't reach each other. Go around to tell each other about your dog. There you are, you can leave them all to it now. You see, it's called self-sufficiency. Set him off, yeah, waffle. Okay, you should all be in little clusters at this point. If you're not in a cluster, in a 2 or a 3, Come and find me in the middle. Everyone else stay in your clusters. Change direction to the direction you were just traveling in, please. We're gonna linger around here just for a little while to do some traditional, like, group class stuff. And we'll, you know, God forbid, throw a little bit of obedience in, uh, just for something new to try. Then what we're gonna do, we're gonna go on a, a mini, a mini group walk. Whilst we're in kind of walking mode and mooching mode, don't feel like you need your dogs in a very stringent, strict heel. You don't need to, you know, let them be a dog, let them sniff, all the rest of it. However, if you have communicated that you want to heel, make sure we're absolutely on top of it and we're not blurring any lines. Okay, so what I would like everyone to do now is to just line themselves up, and you'll nigh on be shoulder to shoulder on the back fence facing me this way, ready to walk down the field.

And then we started doing some exercises where we were just getting the dogs to walk past each other and walk towards each other. Here we were doing a simulation exercise of stopping and talking to people, and it's really hard to believe that all these dogs were once reactive, and here they are all sat ignoring each other in close proximity. Something like I never thought we'd ever be able to do. Like, this was Bodhi pre-boot camp in the video, and look at him now. It's just absolutely amazing.

Please don't anyone let their dog kill my dog. I don't know where he is. He will typically stay out the way. But he's kind of oblivious. Don't be afraid of traffic. If there's traffic, simply just stop, wait for the traffic to pass, carry on. Pop your dogs in sits either side. Oh, we're partnerless. You can go as like a small group, like a coffee group if you want to. Oh, Kato! Oh, Kato! Stop. Come here.

Shh.

Come here. There you go. Anyway, yeah. Oh, bless him. Just a little bit of advice. Obviously, we've got some quite close quarters interactions happening today. What we typically want to try and avoid is you know when we're getting nice and close to other dogs, I want to make sure I've not given my dog all the leash in the world, so he decides to go. Oh, okay. I'm gonna go and say hello. To Morgan over here, right? And he's gonna lunge and freak Morgan out. But neither do I wanna be keeping it, holding him at bay like this, right? And start giving kind of cause for concern to my dog by putting a load of tension through that leash. So I do not mind the length of your leash changing at any point depending on circumstances. But of course we wanna make sure it's remaining loose. All right? If a couple of us are holding the leash across body, which I typically don't have a problem with, But just bear in mind, if, if I'm holding leash across body, heeling that way, if Starkey decides he wants to go over there, he's got a full length of leash to operate with. And so, you know, this is gonna help you navigate everyday life. We want as, as short a leash as we need, but making sure there's enough slack in there where our dog's not feeling continuous pressure. So if I'm walking past Morgan here, of course I don't wanna be doing this. Okay. But neither do I wanna be, if I don't entirely trust my dog, you know, full length of the leash to operate with, and he's got here. Very simply, and I'll do it from both angles in a second, I want to shorten my leash but make sure there's a— there's enough there that he's not feeling the continuous pressure. But at the same time, if he decides, there's minimal movement he can make before I have the opportunity to block him. Does that make sense to everyone?

We then headed out into the fields for a pack walk. Again, Bodhi was on top form, super happy mood, all the dogs behaving themselves. We saw alpacas and we saw some cows. Oh, and there's Jacob. We picked Darcy up on the second leg of the walk and she joined us for a little walk across the fields as well. Then we waited for lunch, had a little chill. Here they are waiting in the queue for their Greek chicken gyros. Bodhi wanted Adam's. And then everyone just sat and chilled in the field with their dogs. It was lovely. After lunch, we headed to Temple Newsome where we had another big pack walk, split off into 2 big groups. Once we got to the open part of the field, we let the dogs off the lead, which again is just absolutely amazing. I don't think one of us ever thought 6 months ago that we would be able to do this with Bodhi, but yes, it's absolutely fantastic. There were picnics, there were footballs flying, there were kids doing cartwheels, and there were just dogs running around everywhere, and Bodhi was just absolutely fantastic. Not a reaction at all, such a good boy.

Very quickly, I think you can tell us about Bodhi. Let us know the problems you had prior to YCA.

The problems we had with him, where do we start? Very reactive to people, dogs, biting history. Did the boot camp late March.

Late March.

Late March. First day, brought him into the arena, had his muzzle on because we, we used his muzzle on every walk for his own safety and other people's. You guys got to see Bodhi for actually how he was. He actually redirected on you when one of the trainers brought another dog in, so again you all got to see what he was like. And then I would say probably the turning point was probably on the Wednesday where muzzle was off. We started to see a huge improvement and it was just progression in every day. Got to the Friday—

He sat in a pub on that Friday.

Yeah, we did a couple of walks around the local parks, good as gold, didn't kick off. And then like Natalie's mentioned, when we was in Hickory's, he just sat down in the corner, didn't murmur, Didn't bark or anything. That was the point where it was just like, yeah, these guys at YCA are just like fantastic. They've just changed his life and they've changed ours.

Since boot camp, I don't think I've really had a reaction out of him. I can literally walk past like this close now and not get a reaction, and people still try to avoid me, and I'm like, no.

He was never able to do this. He'd have to have his muzzle on and he'd want to just react towards you, but yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, definitely.

And then look at him.

Was there anything that surprised you during boot camp?

I think how quick you guys enforced, I think, everything on us and how quick he accepted it.

It's very simple techniques. Yeah, but with the use of tools used correctly, because he would go from 0 to 10 like that into red zone and there was no bringing him down. But straight away I was, I was just Shocked at how quickly he's just— his whole demeanour and everything changed. But even now, I would say he's a completely different dog. Even at home, he's happier, he's, he's more chilled. Your relationship?

Yeah, definitely, definitely. Yeah, it was at his last straw with him, to be honest with you. And it's something, of course, I'd have regretted immensely. But yeah, it's changed our world and his. And yeah, he's, he's a better dog in every way possible. So huge congratulations to you guys.

Yeah.

Was there anything that almost stopped you coming to ICA?

No, being honest, no, not really.

We'd try anything. I'm that person.

We'd watched enough videos. It ticked all the boxes, didn't it? And then I think for me, the week before we was due to come on boot camp, you gave us the— you invited us all in the chat and gave us the homework to work through. And the Newton's cradle was a game changer as well. In all fairness to Bodhi, from a young age he's been quite sort of obedient, but That was a real sort of game changer, the Newton's Cradle technique. So when we then got to boot camp on the first day, we was fairly confident. He did us proud, didn't he? Did us proud.

Obviously pre-boot camp, I was like, in 5 days, change this, this dog that I thought, what the hell can we do with this?

But it worked. And it was so nice to see not only Bodhi, but everybody's dog on the boot camp. They all just changed From the get-go to the end, they was all different dogs. So it's credit to you all for what you do with these dogs.

And it's almost like witchcraft.

But it's life-changing, and it has been life-changing for us. Yeah, because we've now got a dog that we can actually do stuff with because we couldn't go cafes, we couldn't go pubs. He was too scared to take him out in public because he'd just make a scene.

What would you say What would you say to someone that was thinking about coming to ICA? Do it.

Do not even hesitate, just do it. Best money I've ever spent.

Yeah, yeah, it's— if you can get over the initial cost, it's, it's well worth it because you've got to think of your relationship, his quality of life. Your dog's your best friend and they're not here just for, you know, a long weekend. They're here for foreseeable. Definitely worthwhile investing into, and, um, I would highly recommend Anybody, irrespective of how small the dog is, how big, anything. It doesn't matter the temperament. Just do your research with Yorkshire Canine Academy, look at their videos, and just don't hesitate in getting in contact with them. Do an online one-to-one call, speak to one of the trainers, and just, just go for it. Like I say, it will change your life and your dog's.

We then regrouped with the whole pack and said our goodbyes And said thank you for Yorkshire Canine for putting on such a great day. And here we are back at home with such a tired, tired boy. What a fantastic day.

4 months ago, Bodhi had a bite history and his owners were living around the next problem. Now they are telling you he's a completely different dog, calmer at home, happier, more chilled. They're taking him to cafes, pubs, and they're getting to enjoy their dog again. They called it life-changing. They said it was the best money they had ever spent. This is what the work is for. A big change during boot camp matters, but it needs to be built on clear communication, owners who understand what they're doing, and the confidence to keep living that way when they get home. If you're walking your dog at stupid o'clock or late at night just to avoid other dogs, if you can't have people around without shutting your dog away, if every walk starts with you scanning the road, crossing over, hoping nothing comes around the corner, that is not just a difficult dog, that is a whole life getting smaller. If you stopped going to the pub, the beach, or on family trips, or anywhere you used to enjoy because the dog feels impossible, you don't have to keep living like that. Apply for our 5-day boot camp. The link is in the description. I'll see you in the next one.

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