Are you struggling with your dog’s reactivity, aggression, or fear?

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When there are some triggers, maybe your dog barks or growls.
When someone approaches them, maybe they lunge, snap, or behave aggressively. Or maybe your dog freezes, shakes, or tries to hide when someone comes close.

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Do you ever feel lost, not knowing what to do in those moments?

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Because of these behaviors, do you struggle with daily challenges in your life:

• Your dog is so afraid that you can’t invite friends or guests into your home

• During walks, your dog suddenly becomes aggressive

• You or any family members cannot relax and move freely in the house

• You constantly have to manage your dog’s behavior

• You wonder whether past or current training programs are actually improving the dog’s behaviors

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This kind of life is stressful for both you and your dog.
If left unaddressed, these problems can get worse — sometimes leading to injuries, hospitalization, surrendering to a shelter, or even euthanasia.

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But the good news is:
With the right way of understanding these behaviors and how we approach them, we can solve these problems at their root.

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To everyone living with dogs who are reactive, fearful, or aggressive —
To the trainers working so hard to help them —

There is another way forward.
There are real solutions.

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Let’s shift how we think!

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What if your dog’s “reactivity,” “aggressive behavior,” or “fearful behavior” are not problems to stop, but messages to understand?

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Dogs communicate through their behavior.
What if we start listening to what they’re trying to say?

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This is where the science of behavior — Behavior Analysis — comes in.
With behavior analysis, we can understand not just what a behavior looks like, but why it’s happening—its function.

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By using scientific methods, we can ask the dog:
“When you behave like this, what are you trying to get or escape/avoid?”

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Once we understand what the dog wants (the function of the behavior), we can use that to teach new, desirable behaviors. This is called function-based training.

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For example, if a dog becomes reactive, fearful, or aggressive to get:

• More distance from people: we can use “distance” to build the dog more appropriate behaviors

• Interaction with people: we can use “human interaction” to build desirable behaviors

• Interaction with other dogs: we can use “dog interaction” to build better responses

• And of course, there are many more other things dogs want that we can use to build desirable behaviors!

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When we understand what the dog wants through these behaviors and use that to teach better behaviors, we can solve problems at their root.

• The dog learns behaviors that actually get them what they need

• They no longer need to do these behaviors that are risky and costly for them to do 

• The dog gets what they want, and humans get the behavior they want — a true win-win situation!

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To assess behavioral functions and apply function-based training correctly, you first need solid knowledge of the concepts and procedures. That’s exactly what you will learn from this CAAWT Online Class.

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CAAWT founders Dr. Sean Will and Maasa Nishimuta have used behavior analysis for years to uncover the “why” behind various problem behaviors and solve them through function-based training.

In this 10-session class, we will share the theory, the step-by-step process, and real cases showing how behavior analysis works in practice.

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By the end of the course, the way you see behavior will completely change.