For readers of Be Right Back!
You’ve read the book. Now let’s put it into practice.
The book gives you the method. These resources give you the structure, the support, and Smart Percy to make it work for your dog.
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Your free downloads
These worksheets and training plans accompany the book. Download any or all of them — they’re free.
Training plans & worksheets
Baseline Assessment Plans
Complete baseline assessment training plans (Appendix A) from the main Be Right Back! book. Your starting-point map for all departure durations.
Puppy Book Training Plans & Handouts
Master file with all training plans and handouts from the Be Right Back! Puppies book in one download.
See the exercises in action
These short videos show exactly how to run three of the key exercises from the book.
Step-by-step walkthrough of a departure exercise — building your dog's confidence to stay calm when you leave.
A step-by-step walkthrough of how to introduce the crate positively — showing what good progress looks like.
Watch the Magic Mat Game in action — how to build a relaxation anchor your dog will seek out on their own.
Recognizing separation anxiety
Your dog doesn’t have to show all of these. Sometimes it’s just one.
Excessive barking, whining, crying, or howling
Chewing or destroying floors, walls, and doors
Frantic escape attempts, sometimes to the point of self-harm
Soiling — especially if otherwise house-trained
Getting anxious and restless well before you leave
Velcro behavior: following you from room to room
8 myths it’s time to leave behind
Things people believe that aren’t true — and that slow down training.
01 Myth: You caused your dog’s anxiety
02 Myth: Getting another dog will help
03 Myth: The “guilty look” means he knew he did something wrong
04 Myth: A crate will fix it
05 Myth: If you let him “bark it out,” he’ll eventually stop
06 Myth: A stuffed Kong or food toy will stop the anxiety
07 Myth: Your dog soiled or chewed to get back at you
08 Myth: Puppies don’t have separation anxiety
It does get better. Here’s proof.
Two very different situations. Same outcome: a dog who can be left alone.
Lucy & Bobby
Champion flyball trainer & her dog
The situation
Lucy is a certified flyball trainer who has trained 30+ dogs. Bobby was crate-trained, obedience-trained, and had more enrichment than most pets ever see. He still developed separation anxiety.
Rather than blaming herself, Lucy recognized this was outside her comfort zone, worked with a specialist, stuck rigidly to the plan, and stopped leaving Bobby unsupervised.
The result
Bobby is now fine while Lucy’s at work. He chills until the dog walker arrives, then settles again until she’s home.
If Lucy — a seasoned trainer who thought she caused it — could get Bobby through it, there’s a good chance you can too.
Jo & Max
An exception to the crate rule
The situation
Jo wanted to crate Max to stop him accessing windows where he’d bark — but wasn’t seeing progress with training.
Jo compared Max’s anxiety levels in the crate vs. out of it, and discovered — unusually — that Max was actually calmer inside. She invested serious time building positive crate associations before using it during absences.
The result
After months of work, Max can now be left comfortably in his crate for 2.5 hours while Jo is out.
Crating can work — but only when you do it right, and only when your dog genuinely settles better inside than out.
What the app does that the book can’t
The book teaches you the method. The app does the maths. It generates your training plan every day based on how your dog did yesterday — the durations, the warm-ups, the scenarios. You don’t have to figure out what to do next. You just open it and train.
And then there’s Smart Percy. Trained on the world’s largest separation anxiety dataset — 1.6 million training steps from 9,000 dogs — Percy knows your dog by name, knows your entire training history, and has seen every pattern that exists. When you hit a plateau, when your dog regresses, when you’re not sure if that session went well — Smart Percy knows.
9,000 dogs have been through this program. More than half of those who follow it reach one hour or more of alone time.*
*Based on dogs and families who trained consistently a minimum of three times a week for six months and achieved one hour or more alone time.
The Be Right Back book and app was a godsend. We started out doing Door is a Bore and now we can leave our pup home alone for almost 5 hours. The journey is by no means easy, but there is hope if you can commit to the training plan.
Konlly He
Three ways to go further
Free
Community & self-guided
Join the free peer community, use the book alongside these resources, and explore the separation anxiety guide. Good for those who want to go at their own pace.
One-on-one
Work with a certified trainer
I’ve certified over 500 dog separation anxiety trainers worldwide. They use the same method you read in the book — and most work remotely.
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Join the Be Right Back program
The app turns the book into a daily training plan. Smart Percy adapts to exactly where you are. Plus a community of families doing this alongside you.
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A thank-you for reading the book
If you’re ready to go beyond the book, here’s a small welcome gift.
Book reader offer
15% off your first 3 months of SAH.
Use code BEAHERO at checkout to get 15% off your first 3 months of Separation Anxiety Heroes membership.
- Personalized daily training plans based on your dog’s data
- Smart Percy — your AI coach, trained on 1.6 million training steps
- Invitation-only community of families working through the same thing
Offer valid for new SAH members only. Cannot be combined with other offers.
Want to keep reading?
The book’s RESOURCES section pointed you to books, research, communities, and tools. We’ve gathered them all in one place.
5 recommended books
Research papers & articles
Communities, services & training tools
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Ready to start training?
You’ve got the knowledge. The program gives you the structure, Smart Percy, and a community of guardians who get it.