Your dog is fine at home. He’s fine in the garden, fine with people — fine right up until another dog comes round the corner. Then he’s barking, lunging, front feet off the ground, and you’re hanging on to the lead apologising to a stranger.
So the walks move to six in the morning. You cross the road before you have to. You stop going to the places you used to go.
Leash reactivity isn’t disobedience, and it isn’t your fault. It’s a dog who has learned that the sight of another dog means trouble, and who rehearses that reaction on every single walk. Six Weeks to a Calm Walk is a program for unlearning it: fifteen minutes a day, one person, one lead, on the streets you already walk. No training partner, no decoy dog, nothing to hire.
You start by finding the distance your dog can still think at, then take it off a step at a time — management and an emergency U-turn in week one, the marker and the 1–2–3 count in week two, real repetitions in week three, disengagement in week four, closing the gap in week five, ordinary walks in week six. Reward-based the whole way through: no corrections, no prong or e-collars.
74 pages, 11 diagrams, a log for every week, a troubleshooting section, and a one-page emergency card for the day it all goes wrong.
If your dog has bitten a person or injured another dog, this is not the right tool. You need a qualified behaviour professional, and chapter three tells you how to find one.