I definitely appreciated the managing arousal 2.0 course. I knew a good bit of it, but it didn’t truly register to me that my dog is a 4-10/10 level of arousal at all times outside. He has a very high prey drive and just started catching and killing squirrels. I realized in the course that he associates the backyard with hunting and it’s the only fenced area we have for him. He’s also barrier reactive to primarily other dogs but will bark at neighbors from behind the fence though not on walks. He’s also leash reactive to other dogs on walks. We do religiously walk him twice a day for 30 minutes each, but if he sees another dog on leash he reacts. He has become more desensitized to dogs in their own yards/homes even if they are barking at him but he’s definitely always aroused by them. I don’t know how afraid he truly is but he’s been attacked by off leash dogs in the past. Inside the house he has much better manners. He can follow basic commands, understands thresholds, and waits for an “ok” to eat his food. So I know he can learn but I’m just not sure how to teach him outside manners when he gets aroused the second we go outside. I had kind of hoped the course would go into more specifics of “how” to manage not just “what” you need to manage, even though that was helpful. Can you offer any direction for what might help us?
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Have you taken Managing Arousal 3.0?! That one goes more into the “how” of it all!❤️