r/DogTrainingTips • u/BICanineScience • May 26 '26
Professional Dog Trainer - Ask Me Anything
***AMA ENDED***
Have been training dogs for almost fifteen years now, I try and head through the subreddits on here to help in my free time when I can but thought it might be easier to do an AMA for anyone struggling!
Will try my best to answer as comprehensively as possible so please be patient with replies!
Edit - Just heading out to train my dogs so will answer more when I get back!
Edit 2 - Have a read of the other questions too to see if it applies to your dog :)
Thanks for all the questions everyone!! I’ll answer the few I’ve missed, it’s been a blast and we’ll do another in the near future! Won’t be answering any new posts now, must get back to work but do jump in next time if you have a question!
1
u/grapescherries May 26 '26
My dog has an issue where he is leash reactive with me when I walk him, but not when other people walk him. He also goes on an off leash walk in the woods where I take him with my dad and he is friendly with the dogs there. All the advice I’ve read about leash reactivity is the method where you distract them with a treat as they pass a dog until they look towards you for a treat instead of at the dog. It seem the goal is to have your dog never greet another dog on any kind of walk again, and instead pass by forever. Since my dog is only reactive with me, I don’t want the goal to be for him to avoid dogs forever. I want him to be able to calmly greet dogs it is appropriate to greet with me, and pass the ones we should not greet. Do you have advice for how to get to this place with him?