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Emotion- Behavior - Training Help your dog feel safe, calm & confident.

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Fear * Aggression * Predation * Excitement  * Frustration


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Emotion- Behavior - Training Help your dog feel safe, calm & confident.

Emotion- Behavior - Training Help your dog feel safe, calm & confident.Emotion- Behavior - Training Help your dog feel safe, calm & confident.Emotion- Behavior - Training Help your dog feel safe, calm & confident.

Fear * Aggression * Predation * Excitement  * Frustration


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About Dog Expert Cyd

Behavior comes from emotion.

Behavior comes from emotion. Lunging, pulling, barking, hiding, snapping, jumping, drooling, panting - these are all the last steps in the expression of their big feelings. Fear, anxiety, aggression, frustration, and hyperexcitement underlie your dog’s unwanted behaviors. Let’s work together to identify what is making your dog feel such big feelings, make changes to reduce them, and help them learn to feel safer, calmer, and more confident in any/all situations. 

Learn to process, cope with & regulate big feelings.

Your dog’s unwanted behavior stems from emotions they do not know how to process, cope with, or regulate. And I bet both of you are experiencing overload, overwhelm, confusion, and frustration because neither of you knows how to change things for the better in the long term. Our relationship with our pet(s) is based on shared sensory and emotional experiences: if your dog is stressed, you are stressed, and vice versa. This can become a never-ending snowball that rolls into the chaos you are sometimes experiencing now. and develop positive associations.

Learn what to do before, during & after big feeling events.

Changing your dog’s fear, anxiety, aggression, or hyperexcitement is about changing how they feel before, during, and after interaction with the thing that stimulates these big feelings. And your dog is likely feeling some level of these big feelings all day, every day, only to explode when confronted with the trigger. Think of these feelings on a scale of 1-10, and your dog is stuck between 5-10 most of the time, 24/7. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is sensory overload leading to chronic stress - too much noise, movement, novelty (even good novelty) creates overwhelm. 

Communication, connection, cooperation leads to new behaviors.

Our pet dogs live in busy environments with surprising and startling noises, objects, people, movement, smells, touch, and so on. They went from living in mostly quiet, vast landscapes to our modern urban environments over 400 years, and evolution has not kept up. But we can help them and, in doing so, help ourselves! We can reduce sensory overload while building trust and deepening our relationship with our dogs. If all of this sounds like it is going to take a lot, don’t worry, it doesn’t - mostly because we simply convert the energy you and your dog are using in frustration, stress, and overwhelm to energy used for communication and connection that will begin to transform both of your experiences of life together. 

Why what you are doing isn't working.

When a dog is overwhelmed, they are not in their think & learn brain. They are panicking and doing what they think they need to do to survive in that moment. Even the “really friendly” dog is feeling way too much stress and needs help. Asking our dogs to perform a behavior in these moments often adds to their sense of overwhelm and makes them feel that we do not understand their panic. 

Even if it’s working and they “look at me” or “sit”, we are containing and controlling their emotions, rather than teaching new, helpful ways to process, cope with and regulate them.  If we focus on obedience behaviors, we are focusing on the trigger, not what our dog is feeling about it, and this will inevitably backfire because the dog has not learned to feel differently about the experience. And it might actually make them MORE scared, frustrated, and aggressive because they don’t feel seen and heard and are in fear for their life. 

Will your dog learn new behaviors?

Most likely, they will. But our focus is not on obedience or “do this behavior, and you’ll feel less activated” - it’s about helping our dog learn to feel more safe, calm, and confident in any environment. And that is more about emotion and relationships than about “do this”. 

It’s like relationship therapy for you and your dog, where you can both learn what the other is experiencing and work together to help each other feel safer, calmer, and more confident as you learn and grow together. 

Let's get straight to answering your questions!

WHAT TO EXPECT!

I use force-free, errorless learning whenever possible. This means we set your dog up for success so they learn by getting it "right", not by making mistakes. It also gives your dog agency and choice, and you will be surprised at how this expedites learning while fostering trust and resilience. 


Initial Consultation (75 Mins): $275

60 Min Follow-Up Sessions: $225 ea

Three 60 Min Session Package: $600

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Miles proving fear can change to joy!

Miles proving that a dog really can learn to feel confident and joyful around things that used to scare him! Miles had a bad experience in this park, at sunset, when coyotes were nearby. Miles displayed fear and reactivity on every evening walk. Through structured training walks in the same park, at sunset, using exercises and games we have rebuilt his confidence. He can now encounter dogs, children, runners, cyclists, anything and everything with calm curiosity! See for yourself! 

Dead Seal RECALL!

Shepsky listening to me!

Calling your dog away from a dead animal IS POSSIBLE!

99.9% RECALL WITH R+ METHODS!

Calling your dog away from anything more exciting than you is always a challenge. I have used 100% R+ methods to train my Shepherd/Husky mix, Balto, to listen and respond to me when I call him - even away from a dead animal!!!! No collars, no corrections, just fun, treats. and love. AND IT WORKS! 

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All dogs I share time with learn some basics: Recall, Taking Turns, Leave-It, Drop-It and play regulation. These videos show this in progress and provide some useful stuff for you to know!

Dogs who need more training can purchase customized, structured 1:1 sessions catered to your specific training needs and goals!

A Leave-It and Drop Cue are SO USEFUL!

"Nope" (Don't put that in your mouth)

"Drop" (Drop what is in your mouth) 



And RECALL

Away from the all you can eat seafood buffet!!! And The Name Game for teaching multiple dogs to TAKE TURNS! 

Reactive to Relaxed Canine Coaching Success Story! Fifi 🚴‍

alt="Handsome Goldendoodle pup Miles  Sitting Pretty instead of leash pulling during Dog Training"

"Prior to Cyd’s classes, I never felt comfortable enough to walk our Goldendoodle Miles without my husband, but am now able to using her training methods. We learned so much in such a short period of time!" Allie Antes, Las Vegas

"Harley (our 8 month old Doberman) is able to stay in a sit or a down and there is a lot less jumping on people. Cyd helped teach Harley how to walk on a loose leash and stay in step with us. She keeps her stay when greeting people or dogs. and when people enter the house." Olivia & Ben R, Las Vegas

alt="Harley showing us her new calm self during a True Training 101 Dog Training session"

"Benji started showing fear behaviors out-of-nowhere and was cowering and darting around on walks. He would freeze up and not want to move. He ran to avoid his harness when he saw us get it out.  


I am a kindergarten teacher and Benji once LOVED coming to class with me. But he even started showing fear and barking and lunging at kids during and after the SIP, after not being around them for months. 

Our once easy going, fun loving pup was scared of everything and it was heartbreaking. 


Cyd helped show us how to help him feel safe and confident again on walks as well as even how to help him feel ok around things like the vacuum cleaner! 


Since our work with Cyd in SF, we moved to LA and the move sort of re-triggered his anxieties. Per her suggestion, we sought out the help of a Veterinary Behaviorist. The combination of his puppy prozac and Cyd's behavioral modifications has brought Benji back to the joyful dog he as before he started hiding in his fear!"


Addie Johnson, Los Angeles 

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