Two books. One mission. A calmer life — for both of you.
Tilly Vallance writes with warmth, honesty, and hard-won experience about living with — and truly understanding — anxious and reactive dogs.
Your dog is having a hard time — not giving you a hard time. The behaviours that are driving you to distraction are not choices. They are symptoms.
— The Dog Who Worried
The map you read before you set sail. For anyone bringing a rescue dog home — or struggling in those first overwhelming weeks. Read this before the panic sets in, and you'll have the tools to handle whatever your dog's past has left behind.
Buy on Amazon →For owners already in the deep end — living with a reactive, anxious, or fearful dog and running out of answers. This is the compassionate, practical guide that finally makes sense of the barking, the lunging, the destruction, and the exhaustion.
Buy on Amazon →I'm Tilly — a dog owner who spent years feeling judged, exhausted, and completely alone. My dog was anxious, reactive, and the world had no real answers. Every training class, every well-meaning piece of advice made things worse.
Eventually, I found a different path — one built on understanding, compassion, and science. I wanted other owners to find it sooner than I did.
"I cried reading the introduction. Someone finally described exactly what our life looks like. This book gave us our walks back."
"We'd tried three trainers before finding this. The visitor protocol alone transformed everything. I actually let people come to the house again."
"I wish I'd had this before we brought our rescue home. The 'first 72 hours' chapter alone saved us from so many mistakes."