0 of 17
Controlled trial: 0 of 17 named protocols — a controlled trial tested this specific protocol.
Source · per-protocol grades and citations
Dog training statistics · 2026 · computed from library v0.3.1
That is the whole field, not a complaint about it. We encoded every named separation-anxiety and leash-reactivity protocol we could source into a typed library — attribution, evidence grade, cadence, sources — and these are the counts that fall out. Every number on this page is computed from that library, not written into it, and each record’s underlying citation is public on the graded protocol list.
17 protocols graded
0 of 17
Controlled trial: 0 of 17 named protocols — a controlled trial tested this specific protocol.
Source · per-protocol grades and citations
4 of 17
Authority-grade: 4 of 17 named protocols — a position statement or clinical text from a veterinary or behaviour body backs it.
Source · per-protocol grades and citations
13 of 17
Practitioner-grade: 13 of 17 named protocols — a named, credentialed practitioner teaches it, but no trial has ever tested it.
Source · per-protocol grades and citations
0 of 17
Disputed: 0 of 17 named protocols — credentialed sources actively disagree about it.
Source · per-protocol grades and citations
Who the protocols come from
14 of 17
14 of 17 protocols trace to a named practitioner, author, or veterinary body — Overall, DeMartini, Naismith, Donaldson, McDevitt, Stewart, ASPCA, VCA among them.
Source · the attribution on every record
3 of 17
3 of 17 protocols are trainer-community lineage with no single credentialed author identified — labelled exactly that way rather than laundered into an authority.
Source · the attribution on every record
16
16 distinct attributions across the 17 protocols, carried on 22 protocol-level source citations.
Source · the graded protocol list
The rest of the library, counted
9 of 33
9 of the library's 33 red flags are absolute refusals to sell — a bite that broke skin is refunded and referred to a veterinary behaviourist, never coached remotely.
Source · what is sold and what is refused
7 of 8
8 recorded disagreements between credentialed sources; 7 are shown to buyers with the side we take and why.
Source · the separation-anxiety guide
5
5 quarantined folklore claims — held only so they can be recognised and corrected, never emitted as instruction.
Source · the separation-anxiety guide
18
18 documented owner mistakes, each with the mechanism by which it backfires.
Source · the leash-reactivity guide
3 of 16
16 pieces of equipment carry an explicit stance; 3 are graded "never" — tools we will not build a plan around at any price.
7
7 named places where the published field has no data at all — no separation-anxiety dropout rate, no "% of cases needing medication", no reactivity treatment-timeline research. Recorded so nobody here is tempted to invent one.
Source · the graded protocol list
Method
The library encodes published protocols from their original sources — clinical texts, position statements, named practitioners’ own programmes. Every record carries its citation; escalation and refusal copy may only rest on documents we read ourselves, enforced at build time. The counts above are computed from the library on every deploy, and this page is refreshed each January. Read the protocols themselves in the separation-anxiety guide and the leash-reactivity guide, or the full graded list at /protocols.