{"product_id":"the-reactive-dog-owners-playbook","title":"The Reactive Dog Owner's Playbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot another training guide. There's no protocol in here for teaching your dog to walk past a Labrador. That's what \u003cem\u003eThe Reactive Dog Reset\u003c\/em\u003e is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis one is about you. The four seconds when a loose dog is coming and you have to say something. The neighbour. The relative who says your dog is just being dominant. The evening after a bad walk, when you sit on the sofa and run it back forty times. Month six, where the training is working and you still feel like you're failing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a 2025 survey of 565 owners living with dog behaviour problems, what predicted their anxiety and low mood wasn't how badly the dog behaved. It was guilt. Nobody sells a fix for that half of the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's in the 38 pages\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe charge.\u003c\/strong\u003e What to do with your body, your leash and your voice when an off-leash dog runs at you, in that order.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFive word-for-word scripts.\u003c\/strong\u003e The stranger whose loose dog is running at you, the hostile one, the neighbour, the relative, and the partner who has quietly stopped doing the walks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA route audit.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sightlines, timing, and the three variables that decide whether a walk is a coin flip.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe evening protocol\u003c\/strong\u003e for after a bad one, so one walk doesn't cost you the week.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe six-month chapter.\u003c\/strong\u003e Progress you can't feel, burnout, and the point where you stop reading PDFs and hire someone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour printable worksheets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it won't do\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrain your dog, diagnose anything, or treat your anxiety. We're not trainers, veterinary behaviourists or therapists, and we say so on the second page rather than in the small print at the back. Every claim is cited in full at the end, so you can go and check us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe nearest paid equivalent is a $250–500 six-week reactivity class, where the human half of the problem gets about one evening's discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstant PDF download. US Letter, print-ready.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"pocketplaybooks.com","offers":[{"title":"Digital PDF","offer_id":58762283057477,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1078\/2326\/8165\/files\/ReactiveDogOwnersPlaybook_Listing_Cover_20260804.jpg?v=1785851605","url":"https:\/\/pocketplaybooks.com\/products\/the-reactive-dog-owners-playbook","provider":"pocketplaybooks.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}