For dogs who lunge at other dogs
He isn’t disobedient. He’s over threshold.
There’s a distance where your dog can still hear you — and a distance where he can’t. Find the first one, and walks stop being something you dread.
Three printable cards. No corrections, no special equipment.
The method
You cannot teach a drowning dog to swim
Past a certain distance, another dog stops being information and becomes a threat. Adrenaline rises, hearing narrows, and food stops mattering. That’s not disobedience — it’s a body preparing to run.
This is why being firmer failed. At the moment you were being firmer, he wasn’t capable of receiving anything at all. And if the firmness involved a leash pop or a prong collar, his brain quietly built the equation other dog = pain — the exact association driving the barking.
That’s the whole method. Everything else is how you build it — a marker he understands under stress, an exit that works on a word, and a rule that stops you moving faster than he can handle.
Read the full explanation →The only test that matters, and it’s free. Offer a treat when another dog is in view, then watch how he takes it.
The plan
Fourteen days, ten minutes each
Week one happens in your kitchen, your hallway and your driveway. Almost none of it looks like the problem — which is exactly why it works.
Week one — foundation
Week two — the street
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Three printable cards
One for the fridge, one for your pocket, one to read twice. Nothing held back — each works on its own.
- 01The threshold card — your dog’s number and the eat-test
- 02The emergency card — scatter, turn, walk
- 03The body language ladder — six signals before a reaction
My dog’s number today
42 feet
No corrections
No prong collars, no e-collars, no shock. Pain paired with the sight of another dog is what created many of these cases.
Honest timelines
Visible change in two weeks. Real change over two to three months. Anyone promising days is describing suppression.
Knows its limits
If your dog has bitten, is escalating, or reacts to people — the book tells you to see a professional instead.