Overcoming Fear Reactivity: A Dog's Journey to Socialization

Bale overcame fear reactivity through socialization, muzzle training, and building a supportive community, now having 40 friends and an Instagram following.

### Overcoming Fear Reactivity: A Dog's Journey to Socialization and Community Support
* 🐕 "He was terrified of people. He would get spooked by dogs, noises, inanimate objects, **literally anything that was new or he hadn't seen before**."
* 🐶 Bale, a rescue dog, had fear reactivity due to **lack of proper socialization**.
* 🏠 His owners started muzzle training him and introduced him to people when **other dogs were around**.
* 🐾 They discovered that Bale was fine with people if they had a dog, which **changed everything**.
* 🎉 They threw a party for Bale to **say goodbye to all his friends** before moving to a new country.
* 📱 Creating an Instagram account for Bale connected them with others going through similar challenges and **provided support**.
* 👥 "It has been amazing to have people here who would **literally drop anything to help**."
* 🌟 "When you don't have any other people in your life who know what you're going through, sometimes it's nice to have **strangers on the internet kind of validate that for you**."

the world was just so scary for him. Hello, Chicken. The first time we went Bale, we were visiting the shelter, and they told us that he had been abandoned in the desert. The early days with B were pretty choked until one day we just lost it. We realized B was reactive to pretty much everything. It's okay. He was terrified of people. He would get spooked by dogs, noises, inanimate objects, literally anything that was new or he hadn't seen before. He was terrified of it. We got a trainer involved, and she just said that he had fear reactivity because he hadn't been socialized properly. To help him kind of overcome this reactivity and fear of new people specifically, we decided that we were going to muzzle train him. So we started to introduce him to people when there were other dogs around. Try it. No, come. Good boy, B. We also realized that he was fine with people if they had a dog. And once we learned that, it just changed everything. Eventually, we realized if

there's a dog there. It's no problem, so we haven't needed to use the muzzle recently. We have made so much progress, and now he has like 40 friends. Yeah, this year we're going to move country, and we're leaving the community that we've built here. We threw a party for Bale so that he could say bye to all of his friends, dogs, and because they have helped us so much. It has been amazing to have people here who would literally drop anything to help. The else [Music] yeah happy you [Music] be. I think the main thing that made me not want to give up was creating the Instagram. I would get people messaging me like, Oh, we going through the same thing. It's your best friend. And then I could see other people literally making progress with their dog, and I was like, You know what? I'm going to start talking. I'll look back, I'm like, Wow, I forgot he was like that. When you don't have any other people in your life know what you're going through, sometimes it's nice to

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Overcoming Fear Reactivity: A Story of Progress

A dog named Bale struggled with fear reactivity, being terrified of people and new things due to a lack of proper socialization.

Muzzle training and introducing him to people with dogs helped him overcome his fear and make progress.

Building a community of supportive friends and starting an Instagram to share his progress were crucial in not giving up and helping Bale improve.

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