The epidemic failure in common approaches to fearful dog work is the belief that fearful dogs will just get “used to” things, either by passive or active overexposure or variations of force and coercion. Just as humans don’t “get used to” spiders or other phobias these ways, our dogs don’t get better that way either.  Instead, the way to achieve true success is to learn all the best practices for helping them feel safe while building skills and resilience. If you want to be part of the solution, whether for your own dog or for the rescued, adopted, and other dogs of the world, you are in the right place with The Fearful Dogs Project. We’ll walk you through turning patterns of suffering into patterns of comfort, dramatically improving quality of life for everyone involved, including: