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IMPACKT Accredited Behaviourist
🐾 For Reactive • Complex Dogs
🆘️ www.breakthrubehaviour.co.uk
🧩 Reactivity • Aggression
🎯 Recall • Lead Work • Prey Drive
🚶‍♀️1-1 Training for Reactive Dogs
Neutrality Class/Pack Walks
📍 Lincolnshire | Stay & Train

18/10/2026

I really do love working with owners and their pups in puppy class. ❤️

Puppy class is just one hour a week, and my role is to guide and teach owners how to train their dogs in a way that builds understanding and a meaningful connection between them. There are no magic wands! We introduce skills, practise them and fine-tune techniques, but the real progress happens at home, through those little bits of practice, day after day.

Some days are easier than others, and that's OK! Puppies aren't robots, and they all learn at their own pace. We celebrate every achievement, no matter how small, because it's the consistency of those little things that helps shape the adult dog you want.

🐾 Meet Xavi, now 6 months old! 🐾

At six months, Xavi is entering adolescence, a stage when all that early learning and practice really starts to matter. He's going from strength to strength, and he's a wonderful example of what can be achieved when owners put in the time, patience and consistency.

Xavi is a real testament to the effort his mum and dad have put into him. So, when they shared this video with our puppy group, I just had to showcase it!

Well done, Xavi, on reaching this level of control out in the real world, and a huge well done to mum and dad, too! It's lovely to see all those little bits of practice adding up. Keep going! 👌👏❤️⭐️

All the pups in class are fabulous and making great progress. 🥰🤩

Do you have a small - medium breed, super friendly, playful dog who would like to make new friends at a weekly get toget...
17/10/2026

Do you have a small - medium breed, super friendly, playful dog who would like to make new friends at a weekly get together this side of winter?

If so, get in touch.

I have had the pleasure of working with Kaiser and his wonderful owner over the past 6 weeks. The assignment was more co...
16/10/2026

I have had the pleasure of working with Kaiser and his wonderful owner over the past 6 weeks.

The assignment was more confidence in walking, handling and recall.

I have never met such a large breed Rottweiler as Kaiser. I learnt so much about his particular lineage - I think I would like to meet his breeder one day. She sounds like a fantastic breeder by all accounts. Practising what good breeders should be doing. 👌

For our final session, I took Kaiser and his mum for a completely new experience. Well actually a few new experiences. A trip to the beach and a day of firsts. Walking him in a busy, public area, sand, sea and stopping for coffee! We were able to put his mums handling skills to the test, put Kaisers recall skills to the test and finish off with coffee shop etiquette, helping understand where to position Kaiser in order to keep his arousal low and protect him from well meaning people who are taken by him and can't help but want to fuss him.

He did amazing on all tasks and so dogs his mum.

Love this pair 🥰⭐️

15/10/2026

Mondays neutrality class is where you can help expose your dog to other dogs, people and real world distractions whilst receiving guidance on how to support reactive dogs manage their emotions and you can build confidence walking your dog.

14/10/2026

Dogs should be allowed to sniff another dog's butt! 🍑🐶

You may have heard some dog professionals advising against letting dogs sniff each other's butts. While there are situations where an interaction needs managing, butt sniffing is a completely natural and valuable part of canine communication.

It's one of the most natural ways for dogs to greet each other and find out who they're meeting. Through their incredible sense of smell, they gather a wealth of information, including clues about identity, s*x, reproductive status and physical condition. It's an essential part of how dogs investigate and understand one another.

Some dogs look really uncomfortable! Others make it very clear they want the other dog nowhere near their butt! If it's natural communication, why?

Often, it comes down to a lack of appropriate social experience. Dogs who haven't had enough opportunities to interact with other dogs may be unfamiliar with normal canine greetings or uncomfortable with close contact. Others may have had unpleasant experiences with dogs who rushed them, crowded them or ignored their signals. And some dogs simply prefer more personal space.

And some dogs are just plain rude!

They become so focused on sniffing that they fail to read the other dog's body language. They follow, persist and overstay their welcome, ignoring signals such as turning away, moving off or becoming stiff. A lack of social experience can contribute to this, leaving a dog without the skills to navigate these interactions appropriately.

When those signals are ignored, a dog may resort to growling or snapping to make themselves heard.

This is why we need to distinguish between allowing natural behaviour and recognising when its plain bad manners. Both dogs should be comfortable, and either dog must be free to walk away. If one dog won't respect the other's signals, take charge and step in.

Butt sniffing itself isn't the problem.

Preventing dogs from engaging in normal canine communication because we find it awkward, or assume another dog won't like it, can deprive them of valuable opportunities to gather information and develop social skills.

Let dogs sniff, investigate and communicate when it's appropriate. Watch their body language. Can they read and respect each other's boundaries? And humans, intervene when necessary.

The goal isn't to stop dogs behaving like dogs. It's to understand their behaviour well enough to help them get it right.

Perfect example from Honey and Kali. 👌👍👏

12/10/2026

Baby pups are making really nice progress with basic skills. Leia is patterning already, clever girl. Maisie is wonderful on and off her lead, tuning in to her mum beautifully. And Moose who arrived a little late learned down this evening and we found out he does like to play with toys after all, we just had to find out what floated his boat. Turns out he loves to chase and tug. Flirt Pole at the ready. 👌

11/10/2026

Contentment right there! 👌💤😴🐶

Neutrality Class – where owners of reactive dogs can gain the handling skills and emotional confidence to navigate real-...
11/10/2026

Neutrality Class – where owners of reactive dogs can gain the handling skills and emotional confidence to navigate real-life situations calmly, while helping their dogs learn to focus, settle and move through the world without needing to react.

10/10/2026

Could a life always on lead be why your high-drive, working-line dog is reactive?

Meet Winnie, Roo and Maggie, along with Barny & Zara, who aren't mine (but i love them like they are ❤️).

Winnie is my older, golden Lab. These days, she's happy to stay close to me and rarely wanders far.

Roo is my Labradoodle. She has less drive than my working-line Labs and was super easy to teach to walk nicely on a loose lead.

Then there's Maggie. My four-year-old, working-line black Lab.

Both my Labs have been hard work to teach to walk on a loose lead or heel. Not because they can't learn, but because their natural interest lies in the environment around them. They want to explore, move and do things, not plod along beside me on a lead.

Maggie can now heel both on and off lead. It took time and maturity for her to understand what it means to be tethered to me and walk at my pace.

But even when she's heeling, she's following an instruction, not choosing to stay close. She's waiting for the command that releases her to go and be free.

Can you imagine how frustrating life would be for a dog like Maggie if every walk meant staying tethered to me?

Always walking at my pace, restricted in where she can go and suppressing her natural drive to move, explore and engage with her environment.

She'd be like a coiled spring!

Maggie isn't lead-reactive, but my work has shown me that denying a highly driven dog the opportunity to run freely and engage with their environment can cause increasing frustration, which may eventually develop into lead reactivity.

For Maggie, running free within safe, appropriate boundaries is what she lives for. That, and shooting!

This is why we need to look beyond the lead when working with lead-reactive dogs, particularly those from working lines.

If you have a high-drive working dog who is never allowed off lead, ask yourself what you're working towards.

If your dog is lead-reactive, and they're a working-line dog who never gets to run free, perhaps off-lead freedom is what you should be working towards, rather than more lead walks down familiar roads.

Lead skills, recall and control are important. So is giving your dog the opportunity to move, explore and engage with their environment in a way that fulfils their natural drives.

Don't just teach your dog to cope with being restricted, yes we work on neutrality but can and should work towards giving them the freedom to do more.

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