Overview
Owning a dog who shows aggressive behaviour can make everyday life stressful, particularly when it comes to walks, visitors or social environments. Your dog may be anxious around other dogs, wary of people, or reacting in situations that feel increasingly difficult to manage.
Our Aggression Training Programme provides specialist 1:1 support to help you understand why your dog is behaving this way, not simply how to stop the behaviour when it happens.
This programme is led by our Head Behaviourist Anthony, who has worked professionally with 1,000s of dogs across over a decade of practical experience and is the author of Reactive to Regulated, which explores his approach to understanding and working with reactive behaviour.
We begin by identifying the triggers, emotional state and circumstances surrounding your dog’s behaviour. From there, we’ll develop a practical plan focused on safety and management, emotional regulation, and helping your dog become calmer and more neutral in situations they currently find difficult.
Training takes place 1:1 in carefully controlled environments, progressing at a pace appropriate for your individual dog.
Initial Assessment (90 minutes)
£99
What’s Included
- Assess your dog’s aggressive responses and thresholds
- Identify triggers, stressors, and environmental patterns
- Discuss safety considerations and management strategies
- Begin calm behavioural foundation work
- Provide initial exercises to begin reducing reactivity and tension
Outcomes
- Understand what is driving your dog’s aggressive behaviour
- Know how to keep your dog and others safe
- Have a personalised plan to address the behaviour
- Be prepared for the structured programme that follows
Aggression Training - 10 Sessions
£500
What’s Included
- Modifying emotional responses to triggers
- Improving handler timing and communication
- Introducing controlled exposure techniques
- Teaching calming, focus, and disengagement behaviours
- Building safer strategies for real-life scenarios
- Trigger desensitisation and counterconditioning
- Controlled exposure in real-life environments
- Emotional regulation and frustration management work
- Development of neutral or alternative behaviours
- Handler confidence-building and response planning
- Weekly homework to reinforce progress between sessions
Outcomes
- Show reduced intensity in aggressive responses
- Are able to disengage more effectively from triggers
- Display improved handler focus and communication
- Reduced aggression intensity and frequency
- Greater emotional resilience around triggers
- Improved handler confidence and clarity
- Increased safety during walks and social encounters
- A calmer dog who can better cope with everyday life
Aggression Training can also be booked in blocks of 3 at a cost of £180
*a surcharge may be applicable if your trainer has to travel far from central Oxford for sessions