Reactivity & aggression · Ottawa–Gatineau
BetterDog is the in-home solution for your dog. Front door, hallway, fence, windows, your usual routes. No shock collars. No fear.
30 days of phone, email, and text support included. Further in-person training requires a pass or pay-as-you-go booking.
Luna, at heel. The work holds on the path.
The problem
Consent-based. Communication. Structure. Stress reduction. Practice on your real Ottawa and Gatineau routes — not a neutral hall where the problem doesn’t exist.
Tell us what you’re seeing. The explanations below will follow your answers.
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Your dog is scanning, anticipating, and reacting before anything even gets close.
They react, the trigger moves, and their brain logs that as a win.
We interrupt the reaction and teach your dog to check in instead of explode.
Your dog reacts to certain people, certain movement, or certain types of approach.
Your dog has started treating people as a safety problem they need to solve first.
We lower the pressure, clean up the message, and put security back on your shoulders.
The door, the windows, the hallway — they all kick your dog into security mode.
No clear boundary often becomes open responsibility. Open responsibility creates stress.
We show your dog they don't need to supervise the whole house anymore.
Your dog stiffens, blocks, hovers, guards, or gets weird around valued space or things.
They think protecting access is their job — and nobody has convincingly taken that job back.
We rebuild clearer rules around access, space, and leadership without making the home feel tense.
Snapping, stiffness, touch sensitivity, or tension around movement keeps showing up.
Pressure builds when your dog doesn't trust the structure or predictability around them.
We create clarity so your dog can stop carrying tension through every small moment.
Growling, snapping, biting, or long recovery time — the nervous system is staying elevated too long.
The behaviour has been rehearsed enough that it now shows up faster and feels bigger.
We step in early, clearly, and calmly so the pattern finally stops getting rewarded by repetition.
The trigger is already in the house. We start there.
The route you already walk. Not an empty path.
We record in audio. A guide that feels like the session, in the app.
Kitchen, door, walk. Not a neutral room where none of it actually happens.
$500 tax-in. No per-head surprise. Everyone who lives with the dog is in the session.
We record in audio so you can stay focused on the learning. The guide lands the same day in the app.
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All I can say is WOW, I was sceptical of some reviews saying they’ve seen monumental changes in under 24 hours but they are all 100% factual. Jon is very knowledgeable and clear and direct with communication and what needs to be done.
This has got to be the best trainer ive come across, we had Jon for our four dogs, two of which we're highly problematic. He came in super well organized with a plan for each dog already which he can tailor further.
We took our reactive Aussie to BetterDog and by the end of one session he was a model citizen. We were absolutely speechless at the results.
Not a class
| BetterDog | The class. The gadget. The other trainer. | |
|---|---|---|
| Where | Your kitchen. Your door. The walk that actually falls apart. | A hall where none of the real problems exist. |
| Who | Jon or Nancy, with you throughout the session. | Whoever’s on the schedule. A different instructor next week. |
| How | Calm. Never a shock collar. Treats aren’t the method. | A collar, a clicker, or a bag of chicken. |
| The dogs | The whole household. One fee. $500 tax-in. | Per dog. Per class. A package to decode. |
| What you leave with | A custom manual that feels like the session you just had. Same day, in the app. | A handout. Or nothing. |
| After | 30 days. Phone, email, text. Jon or Nancy. | See you next Tuesday. If the class still has a spot. |
The Life Changer Session is $500 tax-in — one household fee, every dog in the house. About three hours in your home. The Unlimited Training Pass is $1,200/year or $125/month on a 12-month commitment, if you want follow-ups and Pack Walks after that first session. No packages to decode.
Yes. Your dog’s world is your kitchen, your door, your street. That’s where we work. Not a studio where none of the real problems exist.
Treats are not a crutch and not the lead. We use Emotional Marking: verbal praise, touch, play, and food used strategically — a crate that needs to feel safe, the end of a hard nail trim. Your dog listens because the communication is clear, not because you’re a walking snack.
Everyone who regularly lives with the dog. Adults, kids, the sitter, the walker, Grandma if she’s in the rotation. The first session is mandatory for the household. Mixed signals are how training dies.
Block three hours. One hour on how dogs think and communicate. Two hours hands-on — we do it, then you do it, until everyone in the house is confident. We record the session in audio, so you can stay focused on the learning. Every question and answer is recorded. The little hints. The tidbits you share — recorded. Then we prepare a comprehensive guide that feels like the session you just had. A custom manual for your dog. Same day. In the BetterDog App.
Not as a drop-in. Pack Walks are for BetterDog members — especially households who’ve been turning around at the sight of another leash. Start with the in-home session. Members on the Unlimited Pass walk free. $60 per walk otherwise.
(613) 316-6473 · ottawa@betterdog.ca
30 days of phone, email, and text support included. Further in-person training requires a pass or pay-as-you-go booking.
BetterDog
In-home dog training
41 CH DU BOISE
LOCHABER-PARTIE-OUEST, QC J0X 3B0
