Sit Happens

Basketball with Nala has been just as mentally exhausting as it is physical. Still making mistakes but its getting better with every session!

Milo isn’t just a staff dog—he’s also a work in progress.

Now, despite being in the dog training industry, he still comes with some quirks—and that’s important to talk about.

He’s 5 years old and only started his training journey last year. His main struggle has been reactivity towards other dogs, rooted in low confidence, poor impulse control, and uncertainty in himself.
Over the past year, we’ve been working with him consistently. This has looked like controlled exposure to other dogs, always in a structured and supervised setting, while gradually increasing his threshold and ability to stay neutral.

We still have setbacks and reactions—and that’s part of the process. The difference now is that we’ve learned how to handle them much better. We can read him sooner, support him faster, and recover the situation without letting it escalate or derail the session.

For Milo, progress wasn’t about forcing interactions or “socializing” in the traditional sense—it was about teaching him how to exist around other dogs without feeling the need to react.
We focused on:

📌Building clarity through structure
📌Reinforcing calm, neutral behaviour
📌Advocating for him in situations he couldn’t handle yet
📌Creating successful repetitions at a level he could process
📌And most importantly—going at his pace.

He’s not “perfect,” and that’s not the goal. The goal is a dog who can make better decisions, recover faster, and feel more confident navigating the world around him.