The Space Between Dogs - Canine Behavior Counseling

Healing Reactivity Through the Moore S.C.A.L.E.™ and the Let’s Talk Process™

A Framework for raising dogs who connect, not react

About the Book

What if your dog didn’t have to react—but could learn to connect?

In The Space Between Dogs, I introduce the Moore S.C.A.L.E.™ and the Let’s Talk Process—giving you a clear, practical way to understand your dog’s behavior, choose the right social matches, and create calm, confident interactions.

This is for dog owners who are ready to move beyond confusion and finally understand what their dog is trying to say.

Professional endorsement:

For decades I’ve been asking people to truly see the dog in front of them. Not the dog they hoped for, not the dog they’re trying to fix, but the actual animal communicating in every flicker of posture and glance. Judy Moore has done something genuinely valuable: she’s taken the complexity of canine social behavior and made it navigable without making it simple. The result of her work offers handlers real tools for reading what dogs are saying to each other. Carefully considered, compassionate, and grounded in deep observation of what actually happens when two dogs meet, The Space Between Dogs reflects how profoundly our choices in those moments shape everything that follows. For those working with and loving the dogs who’ve been overwhelmed, over-faced, or simply not understood, this book is long overdue.

Wishing you the greatest success with this book!

cheers

Suzanne

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Why is your dog friendly with some dogs…

but reactive with others?

In The Space Between Dogs, canine

behavior consultant Judy Rapp Moore

reveals the hidden language dogs use

during social interactions. Drawing on

decades of experience evaluating

canine behavior, Moore introduces the

Moore S.C.A.L.E.,™ (Social

Confidence and Adjustment Level

Evaluation) a framework that helps

dog owners understand why some dogs

greet calmly while others struggle with

fear, pressure or conflict.

READERS WILL LEARN:

• Where their dog falls on the social

confidence spectrum, and what that

means.

• How posture, movement and space

reveal when a dog is becoming

socially overwhelmed, before barking

or aggression occurs.

• How to guide healthy dog-to-dog

Judy Rapp Moore

is a certified canine behavior

consultant and creator

of the Moore S.C.A.L.E.,™

a framework used to

evaluate canine social

communication,

emotional regulation,

and greeting behavior.