Trigger Stacking

🐾 2am Dog Questions: Why did my dog suddenly react?

“They were absolutely fine five minutes ago!”

And they may well have been.

But the thing immediately before a reaction isn’t necessarily the whole story.

Maybe there was a noise earlier.

A difficult interaction.

Poor sleep.

A frustrating moment.

Something uncomfortable in their body.

A dog staring from across the road.

Then another little thing.

And another.

Until one seemingly tiny event becomes the moment when their system says:

That’s enough.

We tend to notice the final drop because that’s when we see the behaviour.

But behaviour has a history.

Sometimes that history spans years.

Sometimes it spans twenty minutes.

🐾 Rather than only asking “What triggered that?”, try looking at what came before it too.

Context matters. 🩵

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