How and When to Play the Engage–Disengage Game with Your Dog
How and When to Play the Engage–Disengage Game with Your Dog
Mar 1, 2022
preventivevet.com
Engage–Disengage Game 🐶✨ Why you won’t see me doing dramatic “before & after” videos… The second a dog comes into my care, I’m already painting a new picture for them. My goal isn’t to show how “bad” a dog was — it’s to start shifting how they feel about the world the moment they arrive. 💛 I need them to trust me 10000%. When a dog struggles with reactivity, fear, or over-arousal, it’s not about forcing them to “look at me” or suppressing their feelings. 💚➡️ It’s about changing their emotiona
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Engage–Disengage Game 🐶✨ Why you won’t see me doing dramatic “before & after” videos… The second a dog comes into my care, I’m already painting a new picture for them. My goal isn’t to show how “bad” a dog was — it’s to start shifting how they feel about the world the moment they arrive. 💛 I need them to trust me 10000%. When a dog struggles with reactivity, fear, or over-arousal, it’s not about forcing them to “look at me” or suppressing their feelings. 💚➡️ It’s about changing their emotiona
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You may have heard me mention this game before – the engage/disengage game?! I use it a lot. I use it with reactivity to dogs, vehicles, prey, people – anything the dog finds triggering, you can use this game for. It’s a great way to help the dog change his perception of what is triggering. But what I really love about it is we are not preventing the dog from looking at things they’re concerned with. This is so important because forcing anyone to NOT look at what they find concerning does not ma
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You may have heard me mention this game before – the engage/disengage game?! I use it a lot. I use it with reactivity to dogs, vehicles, prey, people – anything the dog finds triggering, you can use this game for. It’s a great way to help the dog change his perception of what is triggering. But what I really love about it is we are not preventing the dog from looking at things they’re concerned with. This is so important because forcing anyone to NOT look at what they find concerning does not ma
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Reactive dogs don’t need to be forced to focus, they need to learn how to choose it. In this lesson, we’re playing the engage–disengage game. We allow the dog to notice the environment, take information in, and then we reward the moment they decide to check back in with their handler. That choice matters. Because when dogs learn they can disengage on their own, calm starts to replace reactivity. This game builds confidence, clarity, and trust. If you have a reactive dog, this is one of the most
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Reactive dogs don’t need to be forced to focus, they need to learn how to choose it. In this lesson, we’re playing the engage–disengage game. We allow the dog to notice the environment, take information in, and then we reward the moment they decide to check back in with their handler. That choice matters. Because when dogs learn they can disengage on their own, calm starts to replace reactivity. This game builds confidence, clarity, and trust. If you have a reactive dog, this is one of the most
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Creating engagement with a puppy is a great thing to do. A puppy who is engaged with you will be easy to give direction to vs. a puppy that cares about everything else but you. Using food is a great way to create engagement but far too often I see people not using food the most effective way. They show the dog they have food (eyes), give a command (ears) and then pay with the food (positively reinforce). The issue with that is a dogs best sense is his sense of smell through the nose. The nose co
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Creating engagement with a puppy is a great thing to do. A puppy who is engaged with you will be easy to give direction to vs. a puppy that cares about everything else but you. Using food is a great way to create engagement but far too often I see people not using food the most effective way. They show the dog they have food (eyes), give a command (ears) and then pay with the food (positively reinforce). The issue with that is a dogs best sense is his sense of smell through the nose. The nose co
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Want your dog 🐶 to have the power of disengagement? Learn this simple game. | absoluteDOGS
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Want your dog 🐶 to have the power of disengagement? Learn this simple game. | absoluteDOGS
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Is Your Dog Reactive? We Hope So! 😂 Everyone throws this label at your dog like it is a BAD THING 😮 But if your dog wasn’t reactive, you should probably be checking their pulse! 👨‍⚕️ To Sign Up for Free for the Online Teaching (and Get Your Downloadable Workbook when the Class Starts), Simply Hit the Link: game.absolute-dogs.com/workshop It’s only a bad thing when your dog is more reactive to the ENVIRONMENT rather than YOU - And that’s totally changeable! We’ll show you how in the FREE onlin
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Becki Lawrie - Livingston Dog Training on Instagram: "It’s well trained dogs! 👀 🐾 Dogs who can disengage, re-engage, and choose their handler even when other dogs are around. This is Willow responding to her marker word, coming back into me, and staying connected despite distractions — not because she’s being “controlled”, but because the training has been built thoughtfully and consistently. This is what I get excited about. Not flashy tricks. Not perfection. But well-trained dogs paired with
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Amelia | Dog Trainer on Instagram: "The power of disengagement is SO under utilized in human-dog communication. I could have said ‘back up’ (and sometimes I do, there’s nothing wrong with that🙃) I also could have put my arm up and gently pushed him over. But instead, I simply looked away, faced my body in a different direction, and he immediately moved over and made space for me. Engagement (even saying ‘excuse me!’ or putting my hand up) often creates energy in the dog and in such a narrow spa
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Jenna Pellerito CDBC | Dog Behavior Specialist on Instagram: "The Engage Disengage game by Alice Tong is popularly used to help dogs overcome behavioral issues such as reactivity, however this game has become a staple in my puppy socialization programs as well. Here’s why⬇️ This skill teaches a dog to associate certain stimuli(distractions) in the environment with high value reinforcement. Once the association is made, the dog learns to see the distraction and then check in with the handler(beca
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