The American Dog Epidemic

Why is your dog still barking, pulling, lunging, panicking, ignoring you, or falling apart - even after more training than ever before?

Owners are trying harder than ever - and giving their dog more than ever.

Classes. Positive methods. Stricter methods. Tools. Routines. Endless advice.

Yet frustration continues.

The American Dog Epidemic confronts a difficult truth:

The problem isn't effort or love. It's that we are trying to train our way out of instability without understanding why it exists.

After more than twenty years working hands-on with behavior cases in everyday homes, Jackie Eckert began noticing the same problem show up again and again. She explains why modern dogs are increasingly anxious, reactive, overstimulated, demanding, or shut down - and why many widely accepted approaches fail to create lasting change, not because training is ineffective, but because the real cause of behavior is never addressed.