How To STOP Any Leash Reactive Dog In 1 Session! 

Thanks again, Tom! We had Jax at Phoenix’s dock diving competition this weekend and he did great! Over the past 72 hours he’s been in close proximity to over 40 different dogs and dozens of people and not a single uncontrollable lash out at all! One small instance where he lashed out once but it was triggered by two other dogs going ballistic about 20’ from him but we brought him into heel and he snapped right out of it! A little over a week ago we wouldn’t have even been able to take him, thanks again!!!

ecollars are gamechangers for hyper reactive dogs!

As a fellow dog trainer who went to the Tom Rose school. You are hands down the best on RU-vid.

So cool that Burleigh gets to help and learn too. Must be so good for him.

Tom, we are so grateful for all your training last weekend! I am still in shock of how far you helped Jax come in such a short period of time. I am able to walk out my front door and not have to stress about him reacting to a person or dog walking by. We are able to get out and do more with Jax because of the knowledge and tools you gave us. It was so great working with you and we can’t thank you enough!

Best trainer I’ve ever seen. Thank you for helping everyone. Free videos like this are a gift. 🎁

It's amazing what can be done once the owner knows the art of control.

The e-collar was a game changer for us. My pup would just loose her mind, so excited, jumping on people, practically mauling them. Ecollar training changed that. Then she started barking like crazy for no good reason, again becoming overly excited. The ecollar fixed that too. I understand that a dog will bark, and that is OK, but it is not OK to bark just to bark. It saved us and her a lot of frustration. I am using a prong collar for walks & training and just ordered the plastic pinch collar recommended here. She is doing very well not pulling and walks are actually enjoyable for both of us. I hope the new collar offers the same success. Thanks for this great video.

What a difference. I love how you explain things in human terms. I also see the owner changed her shows from flip flops to real shoes. ( it's a pet peeve of mine)

I'm in two different 'positive reinforcenent only' group classes with my two dogs. I trained then with the balance training method, and we are there to practice. One is still reactive in some situations, but we never have any issues in the class so far. It has reactive dogs in each class. The trainers only redirect them or take them for a short walk. My dogs perform very well, and we get so many compliments from the trainers and other owners. They ask my secret, and it's so frustrating not to tell them anything about Tom.

Good boi Jax! 💖 He is a fast learner, that was awesome to see!

This is just great! Love to see big baby Burleigh learning the ropes!

Wow, what an incredible transformation! It's amazing to see such a reactive dog become so calm and responsive in just one session. The techniques used here are truly effective. Thanks for sharing this valuable training method. Keep up the great work, Tommy! 🐾👍

I've been using the Starmark collar for years. I'm happy you're using it.

I'm so disapointed that most of the trainers whithin my province (Canada) are anti correction/tools and are purely positive reinforcement and don't believe in holding accountable a dog. I haven't found a single trainer that will use those tools and support my dog and I in our training, they always wanna remove everything and put my reactive sensible dog on a harness. I don't understand why I gotta explain why my dog has an e-collar and 98% of the people think I abuse my dog by using that. Having an European Doberman that was bred in Poland from award winning and multi-titles lines, I cannot afford only positive and gotta let my dog knows that there is limits that can't be crossed. Yet, all the looks I get when out and about. I wish I was closer to you!

That was a good session … I really like that plastic pinch colour … didn’t know they existed.

Thank you Tom and team🙏

Man bureigh is a pro

Fantastic video! I am trying to train my two puppy Dachshunds 9 months and 1 year old. It has been a long winter with them. These videos have been beyond helpful in explaining every aspect of how to handle the behaviors that come up. I’d love to come up to train for 3 days with you guys! ❤

Cute Baby Burly! 🎉

I've been dog sitting for a lady who is fostering an EXTREMELY dog aggressive pit bull. I think that I will try this on her, hopefully it will improve her behavior, she desperately needs training! Thanks for showing us these techniques!

I love your training. Period

Thank you, I will try it with my rothie🥰

Thank you for the information on dog parks.

with my dog due to not being able to afford an e collar I did the observe and wait to treat method. basically he only got treated for being calm and observing but not fixating. it also helps that I trained him to give eye contact periodically. if he deviated he got a leash check since he responds o leash pressure pretty well. nothing aginst the ecollar just sharing a glimmer of success that I had.

Great video, my shepherd is sweet and loves people, but reactive because he wants to just run up to people. Will be applying these tips, we also have the dogtra collar, great tool

Great video much learning helps to train my doggie

Great video.

Thank you so much for your videos, your techniques are very similar to my trainer’s and are of great help to me as additional information/perspective while working with my dog Olive, a bouvier. Now, question for you. Is there a benefit to using the plastic pinch as opposed to the traditional Herm Sprenger training collar?

Love your videos! I am using a Herm Springer prong for my reactive dog (Steve). Is the plastic prong used here more for flat coated dogs or is it less pressure on the neck?

Hello! Our dog is so great on the leash and outside the home but absolutely loses his shit when someone comes to the door or enters the home. Do you have any videos on specifically reactively when entering the home? He has an e collar but he really ignores it during this specific occurrence. Thanks in advance, absolutely love your videos!

Why are some utterances of shit getting bleeped, but others aren't? It's so weird, and, I dunno why, but I find that hilarious.

Well I have to try this. We have had our dog for a year now and he is soon 3 years old. He has gotten better with people but not at all with dogs. I really hope this can work. What I know of, in Denmark we only have trainers who use positive reinforcement. That's great for some things but with other dogs... it seems hopeless.

So, e-collar might be good for very reactive dogs? I've been working on my Mals reactivity for almost a year now. She's definitely better, but I would definitely like a clearer signal than just leave it. Leave it works to lessen the reaction, but that's only to dogs/people/ vehicles that are pretty far away. Used to be lunging, snapping, barking, kinda like this dog. We've been working on exposure therapy, impulse control, and a few other things as well. Prong doesnt work and only heightens her reactivity due to misuse before I got her. She redirected every time she reacted. So I put that away and started using a slip lead. Still redirected but less. Through a lot of patience and going out daily, she no longer redirects, but reactivity is still an issue even though I do everything I can to prevent it.

He looks a lot like my Zelda, except my Zelda has those lab ears. That's the problem with Zelda. She READS BIG SCARY ATTACK DOG, and she loves sprinting up to people and then wait for pets. She's a very special girl. Her opening move at the shelter when I brought Trapper with me, was to eat another dog's poop. Not Trapper's, another shelter dog. Trapper had an equally bad first impression, he defiantly peed when I was in the meeting area with him. That's when I knew he was perfect for me. Also since he wasn't a reactionary dog during the walk around the kennels. Zelda wasn't a crazy dog when I met her, she was more excited but respectful. Tail wagged and showed signs of curiosity. I got her since she looked cool, same with Trapper. LOL... They were both 100% IMPULSE BUYS, did everything you shouldn't do when adopting, but got two amazing dogs.

Great video! I had just finished yelling at my Yorkie mix for barking at top pitch through the window at another dog. Unless I close the blinds, he does this all day. And we walk very early in the am to avoid all other dogs. When there is another dog walking, I try to hide him behind a car tire or brick mailbox so he can’t see the other dog. He is pulling my 73 yr old arthritic hand too hard and I’ve been thinking of getting him another home. I reduced him 3 yrs ago from a shelter. They think he was about 9 then. So 11 now, and his nurturing was right before I rescued him. He may have been a street dog before. Where do I start?

Wonderful! In your videos I found what I have been missing in dog training. Thanks!

How often do you restock your online store?

Great job!!! so for an 80 pound lab who has leash reactivity would you also use this collar? Do you like these better than prongs? If yes why? And I guess you would use a large star mark?

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My 5 year old female GSD is extremely fearful, very reactive, and dog aggressive (adopted her 7 months ago from the shelter). I've heard that using e-collars on dogs with fear based reactivity is not appropriate. Is this true? Will be consulting with a local trainer soon. I want to make sure that I have as much accurate information, and know what to look for, regarding the trainer, as possible in order to know if he's someone I can feel comfortable working with. I'm going to need more training than Lucy.

Is the prong collar more effective than the pinch collar you recommended, the one you use with your pup? My mastiff is over 70 lbs at 4 months and he is well trained in most circumstances but sometimes he sees another dog and his training goes out the window. Is 4.5 months too young to start e collar training with a pup? He is in dog training 3x a week and i work with him 2-4 hrs a day at home, but my trainer doesn’t do e collar, and he knows his commands but if he gets a trigger, the prong had zero effect and I’m a very small female.

Do you not use herm sprenger anymore? I've noticed you using more of the starmark collars.

When you coming to Montreal bud

I've tried the e collar my dogs crazy she actually bit me

Hey Tom, I have a rottweiler of about 9 months and she's amazing and gentle around family but reactive to people when on walks. I have her on a slip lead and when I try and correct the behavior I have no response. In my country South Africa prong and e-collars are illegal , do you have any advice on how to overcome this?

And is there a place for playing with your dog and building trust?

Do you have any videos on how to stop regression? My dog's regression is bad and has been ongoing for over a year. One moment he is trained and does well, considering and listens, and the next minute he gets 'extra' affection, outing, etc., it's back to day one of training. Help? TYIA.

Tom, I find your videos very helpful, and am grateful for the help. However, I find the background music in this one nothing more than a somewhat irritating distraction. It adds nothing to the lesson. Thank you for your understanding

Don't do videos like this. They are extremely good, and this is now common knowledge, yes, but Zak George and similar fruits will have a fit. 😂😂😂 On a serious note: thank you for the good content!!!

I don't know why my dogs became reactive with age. Trapper was RARELY reactive to other dogs, like EXTREMELY RARE. I remember the first time he was, I was at the grocery store and there was a rottweiler doing guard dog things in a shop yard. Trapper did not like that dog. THEN I GOT ZELDA, who was cool for the first year, but recently has been reactive to everything. And Trapper the now 6yr old (foxhound/catahoula) has adopted Zelda's (2 year old dutch/mal/lab) bad behavior. Zelda's bad for almost any dogs. I mean she wants to play with them, Trapper will only speak up if it's a "PROTECTION BREED" (Pits, germans, etc). BUT Zelda and Trapper have now been reacting to elderly, homeless and minorities. Then the other day, I was driving with my dogs in the car, and a father was going for a walk with his downs syndrome 5yr old, and the kid saw Zelda in the car and excitedly exclaimed "DOG!", and she just went off on the poor kid. In an oddly aggressive barking manner. More so than she does for the three groups I mentioned. That was and has been the only time she's really disappointed me. Since she's normally a sweet girl. She plays with the kids in the neighborhood. I feel like Trapper became more reactive with age since he's being more protective of Zelda (whom he broke her leg three weeks into owning her... LOL... yikes, both are shelter pups, both abandoned at 6m; trapper was 1yr old when I got him, Zelda 8m) and me. I tell him, I don't really need protection, since I am quite capable even for a short guy, and I'm strapped to the nines in a very self-defense friendly state.

Been seeing this plastic pinch collar more than the slip lead lately, is this a better option now?

IS IT WRONG TO USE THE VIBRATION FOR TRAINING

Mine ignores the vibration completely 😩

Dry designer 14

What kind of dog is this

CAN I USE THE VIBRATOR ALL THE TIME OR DO I USE THE ECOLLAR

I have watched a buncha vids. I don't get it I have never had a dog act like any of them in the videos. From my grandpa's hounds to my huskies. No create training. No obedience. The only issues I've ever had is how they love to find dead animals and bring them to me. They run around the property with no leash and never run off. They stay right next to me at all times, they both go out fishing with me on the boat and never have any issues.I Don't get how dogs come to behave like this l.

So why wouldn’t you address the issue as to leash pressure first? That’s what’s causing the reactivity. She is obviously not leading this dog consistently., and my worry is that she’ll take this direction as not on her, and this tool by itself solves the issue. The only time I’ve ever used Electric stimulation collars ( E collar is an Elizabethan collar) is when I’ve been out with my buddies dogs retrieving fowl. He doesn’t even have batteries in the remote., they became collar wise, and follow instruction. Martingale and prong should be sufficient added with your advice you gave her as to directives.