Essential Gear for Large Reactive Dogs – 2024 Buying Guide

Your choice of equipment is incredibly important when it comes to large reactive dogs.

Any time we take our reactive dog out in public we’re exposing ourselves to a risk that a ‘normal’ (quoted, because there’s no such thing, but let’s deem that to mean “Socially acceptable” for the purposes of this blog) dog parent is not.

Any time out dog may choose fight over flight, or escalation over de-escalation we know that our dog represents a more significant risk. And the larger the dog? The more significant the risk, right? Bigger teeth, stronger dog, more likely to do more damage with a lot less work.