PRINCIPLE 9 OF 10
You can’t train your way out of an incident that’s already happened. Preventing the rehearsal of unwanted behavior, not just reacting to it, protects your dog, the people around them, and the community you share.
Prevent Rehearsal
Manage Before You Modify
Priority in Every Aggression Case
This means proactively managing situations, leashes, gates, distance, muzzle conditioning where appropriate, so a dog isn’t put in a position to bite, fight, or bolt in the first place.
Every rehearsal of an unwanted behavior, like lunging or resource guarding, makes that behavior more likely next time. Safety management isn’t separate from training, it’s the foundation training is built on.
Every rehearsal of a bad behavior makes it more likely next time.
Our dog aggression and behavior modification programs start with a clear management plan to keep everyone safe, then layer training in gradually as the dog’s skills and confidence grow.
Safety and management come first, always, before behavior work begins.
The same dog, the same walk, two very different approaches.
BEFORE
AFTER
If safety is your first concern with a reactive or aggressive dog, that’s exactly where we start too.
Serving Sausalito, Marin County & the Bay Area since 1999.
