How To Train A Fearful Dog And Help Dogs Over Come Their Fear 

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I have seen hundreds of these videos and no one is speaking to my dog. My dog is afraid of EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING except other dogs.

Hi..just adopted a 5 yr old Papillon. 1st 2 yrs of his life he lived in a puppy mill. Then went to rescue..then private home..given up again to rescue. Now I have him. He is very fearful especially of sudden hand movements. I have been working with him using your method and he is slowly improving. Thank you for this vid!!

i really like the way you explain in detail and not just show videos of you working with your dog, because this way we understand better how much time and patience it takes.

Goodness!!! I've messed up over and over again! I wish I had found you FIRST before I adopted a fearful Dog!!! I hope I have time to fix all of my mistakes! Thank you for your video!

The only technique that makes sense !! THANK YOU !

this is amazing I wish I would've seen this sooner

I really like how you explain things. I'm going to use this technique. Thank you for the videos.

I found you're channel when I was having a problem with my new chihuahua play bites all the time and that video helped me and he's not doing play bites any more and now that he's 17 months old I noticed that he's becoming skittish and get so afraid to things that he sees moves to the point that he would run and jump to get away from that object. It's affecting him more because he couldn't sleep right away and it's causing him to sleep all day and tired. I will definitely try this to my chihuahua. I wanted him to be confident and be brave even if he's that small of a dog. I know it's hard not to baby them but I would stop doing that because it's not helping him. Thank you for this video

Yes u r right

Great tips fearful dog aggression so true

It's the same with trauma therapy for people. If you force, you reinforce. It has to be voluntary. So with dogs we don't force, we just wait calmly. Then continue as [if] it's no big deal. I can confirm this from experience. My dog has a lot of fear and anxiety and this approach is the only one that's yielded progress. Thank you for the guidance 🙏

Thanks for the info. I have a little rescue dog, Yorkshire terrier, that was kept as a breeder. He is afraid of most things outside and even outdoor space in general. Any tips you have for me would be greatly appreciated. I love your clear and understandable way of explaining. Thanks a bunch.

Super helpful! I have an 8 month old Formosan Mountain dog who is afraid of people (with the exception of me) I've only had her for two weeks and don't know how fast or aggressive I should be in her people socializing.

Very valuable information. I definitely made mistakes to my pup. Thank you!

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It's so nice how u really took the time to understand your dog, there's a lot of "abuses" I don't even think about that seem small but are actually horrible from there pov

You made some really good points. The only thing is you cannot reinforce fear. It's a feeling. Just like if someone were to comfort you or even give you somethings nice if you were scared you would not be more scared of that thing.

I have a GSD from a rescue and he is super fearful and shy. We think he was beaten by the previous owner and attacked by other dogs because if someone yelled at him on accident he would pee himself and let the other dogs dominate him (we have three including him) We have been socializing him and the other dogs have been teaching him to play, but I’m trying to find ways to get him to want to learn to train. He has a ton of energy and I’m trying to find ways to work that energy out and work his brain. Any tips?

What would you recommend for thunder? We live in a military base close to the ranges where they do loud demolition training excersice and they can get so loud that they sound like thunder and shake up the house. He is terrified, any advice on thunder?

What if my dog is just focused on it and doesnt just occasionally look at the fear trigger? Should I move back or reward him being tense and looking at the object?

My 17 week old Rottweiler puppy is really scared of traffic. He’ll start walking on the footpath and then after one car goes by he’ll sit and then the second car will go by and that’s when he just wants to go back and get back home. I take him for a walk to my local parks in my car all the time and it working amazing with socialisation and all but this traffic situation is so difficult and I don’t want him to keep this going and become a scared dog...would this work the same with traffic or would you say add a few different things when I’m getting him comfortable with this?

What about a puppy I have a dog that is about 3 years old she is a blue healer and just got a new puppy and all she does is run from it or when the puppy get's close she will try to bite her because she is scared what can I do?

My dog is exremely afraid of loud noises and plastic bags cause she heard them bang. She goes into full avoidance. If she can’t get away she will do everything to get as close to me as possible. Definitely gonna try this cause it’s really bothering her.

And what if your dog is afraid of everything but our house and my mom, dad, and I

How will this work if your dog is afraid of visitors that come to the house?

My dog is 2yrs old we rescued her from a family when she was 8 months old. She wasn’t potty trained, she has food aggression, she wasn’t socialized at all. We got her potty trained, but her food aggression has been a struggle. Now we have a new puppy and she is not happy. She growls and snaps at the puppy....my 2yr old dog is a toy poodle mix, the puppy is a golden doodle, and I have an Australian Shepherd mix who he is fine with. The Australian Shepherd reacts to puppy like you explained with the puppy license....but the 2yr old toy poodle has lashed out and went after puppy. So I intervened. What would you recommend us to do?

I need help my puppy cries when i put a leash on her what do i do

Usually l really like your videos. But l wonder what's your response to the modern assertion that you cannot reinforce fear?

Theres a stray dog at my camp and the dog is scared of people. When i approach the dog the dog run away. But when i try to give food shes trying to smell it and only way i can feed her is throwing the food to her. i feel pitty for her cuz shes hungry and i want to help her. How to help a dog from running away? I dont see any agression from the dog the dog just run away.

Should I leash him close to me ? Is it necessary to not allow him to walk front of me at the street? What should I do with water, I know he really love water, he usually go to the river by himself, but when we are at the lake where are a lots of dogs and people, he doesn't want go came in..I really wanted him to came in by himself, how I should do it? He also barking when we are home, and he wanted to protect his place..its really weird, because if anyone try to come in he run away..I don't want to him barking, because of the neighbours. Sorry for that many question. He is my first dog from the shelter...He is 6 years old big dog.

hi , what should I do if the dog too fear or excited to take the treats when they are barking

my chihuahua is terrified of bicycles...I live in Berlin, bikes are everywhere all the time day and night...it's a nightmare I really don't know how to help him

Question: do you have to give your treats forever? Like once they've shown no fear at a skate park?

Hi there My dog is rescue bolognese, he was kept without human socialization, I took him when he was 9 month old, he is very scared of people on walks and scared to explore the whole flat, only stays on the sofa or next to it. Can you give me some suggestions please . Thank you

Wow best tips got my teen new pup cuz my min pin female died got same breed calvelier Owen now fearful i guess now and aggressively Fearful to puppy only knew my min pin goes to pup no gonn try ur tips n tell u

Good advice, i will try this. I've got a 6month old cane corso bitch, who's scared of other dogs when they bark at her.any advice please? Thanks

If it is a sound, how do I manage it?

I love the instructions without having a dog in the room. In other dog training videos I get so distracted by the dog. This is great! I have a question though, I am taking in a rescue that is fearful of ME. So how do I handle this? I am not using a baby voice or reinforcing their behavior, I’m just there. But they growl at me even if I look at the dog. Any help would be great!

I have a question i hope you can answer 😭 I have a Siberian Husky and i personally think i have a great relationship with him anyways. I love him to death but of course he's not perfect haha He is scared of the most random things for example a parked car or people walking with strollers. I couldn't even get him into Pet Smart to get him groomed because he is scared of the floor lol I don't know how to deal with my dog being scared of a different color floor 😅 any advice? 😅

Need help please, my dog is super fearful of everything

I have a 8 year old dog I got her when she was 6 months old but before I got her she was abused, the guy throw her on a drive way of rocks and when I got her she had to go throw 3-4 surgery's. Now my dog is nice to me and 80% nice to my boyfriend. The issue is that 20% of the time for no reason my dog snaps at my boyfriend. How can I get my dog over that?. The 2nd issue is that when my dog eats she is cool with my touching her food but if another person touches the food she snaps at them, How can I fix that?.

I hate how scared my dog is :( It's worse at night and it was WAY worse when I first got her. But it's still tough. When she has to go potty before bed, if people walk by, she's terrified! We go to the dog park most days of the week so she's a lot better with dogs. And she's better with loud noises, big machinery, random objects. One day we saw a bike. She got scared of it and ran away. Almost got hit by a box truck. I'm trying to socialize her but at the same time I don't want her to just go up to random people.

How to I train my dog to allow people to pet him?

I'm in desperate need of someone's help! My 9 month old Rottweiler puppy needed his nails cutting so we paid for a groomer to come over and clip them, however the women never introduced herself to my dog and just walked up, grabbed his paw and started clipping them (bare in mind my mum who he is very dependent on was out at the time and I was watching him and this was his first ever time having a groomer clip his nails) he kept trying to pull away and started to growl. The women then tried to continue and he ran away into the living room and she went out into her van and brought a muzzle back and attempted to put it on his face which he disliked a lot and tried nipping at her and growling and running away. I calmed him down and attempted to put it on myself and he didn't let me so I gave up and told the groomer that it's probably best to wait for my mum to return as she would be able to put it on him but she didn't listen and tried to put it on his face (while he was in the corner) and he continued to growl however she didn't back off she carried on and therefore he bit her arm (not breaking skin but ripping her top) me and my mother are now afraid that because he has had a bad experience with groomers he's going to become aggressive towards them and therefore never being able to be groomed and not knowing whether or not a groomer will even attempt to groom him. If anyone has any ideas on how to help then it would be so so appreciated!! I don't think it would be right to euthanise him as it wasn't unprovoked, he was just afraid.

I adopted a 2 year old dog. He used to live with his mother, 2 brothers and 2 other dogs. The owner put them in adoption because they were too many dogs for them. When we got home, he started to acknowledge the house and after that, he has been really fearful. He just wants to be on a corner and when I try to approach he starts growling and has tried to bite me and my husband. What can I do? How many times should I try to approach him?

She's 6 months

What about if you’d dog eats food and takes it back to his house because he’s scared to eat in public

My dog is afraid of laundry baskets and the bathtub and the broom and the cheese bag

And now people with skateboards can rob your house, good boy! And in actuality your dog wasn't responding to the skateboard but a sketchy person. Now you've taught your dog to accept shitty people, rather than people rather than protect you from them.

As a dog trainer myself, this guy lost me when he said you should never comfort a fearful dog. He is 100% wrong!!! Fear is an emotion and you can not reinforce an emotion. Comfort your dog all you want! You will not make the dog more fearful! This guy needs to go back to school and keep his education up to date.

If your dog is fearful it is because you are not a strong alpha and your dog knows it.

how about fear over someone carrying a stone wanting to throw at it

If it is a sound, how do I manage it?