Fear and Reactivity:
Getting The Right Help For Your Dog.
Experiencing growling, snapping, biting, lunging, freezing, hiding behaviours from your dog is extremely upsetting. It can significantly affect and alter the quality of life you and your dog share together.
You want things to change and you may have searched the internet for solutions.
Unfortunately, some of the advice and "fixes" are potentially damaging and could make an already difficult situation much worse.
- Reactivity and aggression, in my opinion, is best left to Clinical Animal Behaviourists.
- Get expert guidance for your particular dog and your particular circumstance from someone educated to level 6 (degree level).
- Behaviourists assess the WHY's, i.e why is the behaviour(s) there? This is a very complex assessment.
- If you don't know the "WHY" then you just might get stuck, and not be able to progress beyond a certain point or, your dog maybe come worse.
- As a dog trainer I can then help you implement the "how" of the behaviour modification plan if you want extra support.
Being referred to Clinical Animal Behaviourist might initially seem like an expensive option BUT imagine how much money you could spend on numerous well-intentioned, but under-qualified people? You could still be no further forward in helping your dog, or find yourself in an even worse situation than you were before.
- My advice is to save up your hard earned money and spend it wisely with on a suitably qualified Clinical Animal Behaviourist.
- Be careful! Unfortunately, anyone can call themselves a behaviourist. Look on the ABTC practitioner list.
- I can provide details of the Clinical Animal Behaviourists I recommend.
- I can work with you (and your Clinical Animal Behaviourist) on the practical training once you have had you expert consultation and behaviour modification plan.
- If you want additional training support from me, please discussed this with your Clinical Animal Behaviourist.
- I will only work with appropriately qualified behaviourists.
