❗️Dog Owners Struggling With Reactivity, Excessive Pulling, or a Dog That Won't Listen❗️
How to stop the reactivity, the pulling and the ignoring without sending your dog away or paying for a $22,000 board & train, even if nothing you've tried has worked.
Get both handbooks for $81 less than buying them separately.
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Be honest. Does this sound like your walks?
You check the street before you open the door. You walk at 6 AM so nobody's out. Your shoulder hurts from the pulling. Your dog hears you say "come" and looks right through you.
And it's already costing you. The trainer who didn't work. The harnesses in the closet. The friends who stopped coming over. The worry that one day your dog gets into it with another dog, or a neighbor gets bitten, and someone tells you to rehome the dog you love.
It's not you. It's the order.
A tip from one video. A tool from another. That's not a system, and that's why it never sticks.
Every dog in my board & train goes through the same order: boundaries first, then leash and obedience, then the reactivity work. Skip a step and the next one falls apart. These two handbooks are that order, written down and filmed, so you can do it at home.
You don't need more random tips. You need the right steps in the right order.
Here's everything you get, and what each piece fixes
The Board & Train Handbook
The week by week structure of my 4 and 6 week board & train programs, with 356 minutes of real training footage.
"My dog drags me down the street."
✅ The 3-Step Leash Method I use to stop the pulling.
"My dog only listens when it wants to."
✅ Sit, Down, Stay, Place, Come, Heel and Leave It, taught the way I teach them, then proofed around real distractions.
"I don't know what to work on next."
✅ A detailed 6-week obedience training plan, so you always know today's step.
"I'm scared of using the tools wrong."
✅ How to pick the right tool and introduce the slip lead, prong and e-collar safely.
The Reactivity Handbook
My full reactivity process, with 512 minutes (more than 8.5 hours) of footage.
"My dog barks and lunges at every dog it sees."
✅ The 5 objectives I take every reactive dog through, from foundation to real-world neutrality.
"I don't even know why my dog does this."
✅ The 4 types of reactivity and how to tell which one your dog has.
"I correct it and nothing changes."
✅ How to correct the reaction, then reward calm, plus my 7 step training session recipe.
"Even when it gets better, it comes back."
✅ The long-term maintenance plan that helps keep your dog neutral.
You save $870 when you order before Dec 1 at 11:59 PM ET.
You save $773.
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This is my brand new 73-page guide to the whole NCA system, from the first day home to off-leash life. It sells for $97 on its own. Get the Handbook Bundle before the deadline and it's yours at no extra cost.
The 11 chapters, in order
- The NCA Philosophy. Relationship first, motivation plus obligation, black and white rules.
- How Dogs Learn. Markers, the four quadrants, and why "stubborn" usually isn't.
- Leadership and the Structured Home. The household ground rules, The Great Reset, and the home-freedom ladder.
- Play and Engagement. Play comes before obedience.
- Reading Your Dog. Posture and stress signals, the skill under every skill.
- Tools and Conditioning. Pick the right equipment and teach pressure before the first correction.
- Loose-Leash Walking. How to end pulling, usually in one 15-30 minute session.
- Teaching Commands. Sit, down, place, recall and heel, until a command once given is not optional.
- Fear and Confidence. The Wall Builder framework for nervous dogs.
- Leash Reactivity. From barking and lunging to real neutrality.
- Off-Leash Life. The e-collar as an invisible leash, plus road boundaries.
✅ Plus the glossary and the "top owner mistakes" page: the refrigerator-door list of what to stop doing and what to do instead.
After Dec 1 at 11:59 PM ET the guide goes back to $97 on its own.
YES! I WANT THE FREE GUIDEWatch the method on real dogs
These are my board & train and private lesson dogs. The handbooks teach you the same steps, in the same order.
Domino: 24 hours into his board & train
Reactive his whole life. Barking and lunging at any dog that passed. One day in, I said it on camera:
"This is a night and day difference in 24 hours of training."
Bruno: one private lesson
Barked and lunged at dogs and pulled hard on the leash. About an hour and a half in:
"I'm not saying Bruno is fully neutral... But we are 95% of the way there."
A rescue puppy from Texas: one private lesson
He lost it at dogs in his condo hallway and in the elevator. My read: "All this is is you guys having lack of boundaries." By the end of the lesson:
"You can already tell there's a very different reaction now."
Tap a video to play it here. Each one starts at the moment I'm talking about.
YES, I WANT THIS FOR MY DOG4.6 stars on Google from 22 reviews
★★★★★
"Before employing those tactics, our girl would bark and lunge at any dog she saw at any distance... Within 3 weeks, reactions reduced considerably, and we were able to get within a 25 foot bubble of dogs about 80% of the time."
Rescue dog, using the techniques from my videos at home before her lesson
"We've been using Ethan's program for our senior rescue and have had the best results. In just a month of consistent training we've seen our man show significant progress on his dog reactivity and overall manners."
Senior rescue, Google review
"We had worked with three different trainers, watched countless YouTube videos, and spent years trying just about everything... Seeing Loki calmly walk past other dogs without reacting was something I honestly never thought I'd experience."
Loki, European Doberman, 1-on-1 lesson
"Our veterinarian couldn't believe the transformation; he said Klaus seemed like a different dog."
Klaus, board & train
Google reviews of NOVA Canine Academy. Over 2,000 dogs trained. The handbooks are the same system, written down and filmed.
Do the math
Here's what it costs to get this system from me any other way.
Board & train and private lesson prices are on novacanine.com.
That's less than $14 for every hour of footage, and $81 less than buying both handbooks separately.
My private lesson clients get these two handbooks to prepare for a $1,000 session. You get them for $197.
GET BOTH HANDBOOKS FOR $197Order before Dec 1 at 11:59 PM ET and The NCA Training Guide ($97) is FREE.
Want to watch me do it, start to finish? Add the Reactivity Lesson Vault for +$147 (regularly $999)
Seven full, unedited private lessons with seven different dogs, about 15 hours. You see the first reaction, the fix, and the homework I give the owner.
Pick Yes in the Vault box at the buy button. Bundle plus Vault: $344 (regularly $1,797).
ADD THE VAULT TO MY ORDERYou have two choices
❌ Keep doing what you're doing. More tips. More harnesses. More walks at 6 AM.
✅ Or follow the same system my trainers and I use with every dog, from crazy to calm, starting tonight, for less than buying both handbooks separately.
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