Threshold: Reactive Dogs

Months of training. Thousands of dollars. And no way to tell whether any of it is working. Progress in behaviour work is slow and non-linear, which makes it invisible day to day. Threshold makes it visible. ONE QUESTION, ANSWERED Open the app and it tells you one thing: is your dog improving, holding steady, or going backwards, and by how much. Not a wall of charts. A verdict. FIFTEEN SECONDS PER ENCOUNTER What the trigger was, how far away it was when your dog reacted, the response on a fixed 0 to 5 scale, and how long it took to settle. That is the whole form. Nothing else, because an encounter you do not log is worth nothing. THE TWO NUMBERS THAT ACTUALLY MOVE Reaction distance and recovery time. As a dog improves it copes with triggers closer and settles faster, so both numbers come down. Threshold trends those two using a method that a single terrible week cannot distort. SLEEP,…