L.W Canine Behaviour & Training

10/11/2025

This is Rufus, a Coton de Tulear who used to find walks completely overwhelming and would send him into reactivity towards stimulus. Through careful behavioural modification and gradual exposure, working with Trainer Matt, he’s now learning to stay calm and connected on his walks, taking in the world with new found confidence 😀 🐕

09/11/2025

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04/11/2025

Some of our scentwork progression gang went to work at a factory unit with Trainer Emily , having now progressed from the sterile indoor training environment 🐕😀

31/10/2025

Spaces left on the Bronze Obedience Course, starts tomorrow - 0900 @ The Ickwell Field.

Puppys & Adults welcome 😀

Bookings:
https://LWCanineBehaviourTraining.as.me/?appointmentType=83796444

27/10/2025

A short video from this weeks Saturday Circuits group class with Trainer Emily 🐕🙌🐕

20/10/2025

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11/10/2025

Highly prey driven Jurahound, on her final ecollar session now making all the right choices and recalling despite distraction and competing motivators being present 🐕😀

Fantastic little dog, Highly driven hunting breed now free to stretch her legs and run in total safety 😀

01/10/2025

Spaces still remaining 🐕😀

October Bronze course- still some spaces- starts next Saturday the 4th of October- 0900 @ the Ickwell Field 🐕😀

Suitable for ALL ages!

Bookings- https://LWCanineBehaviourTraining.as.me/?appointmentType=82864074

OBEDIENCE COURSES INFO

Our group class courses are mixed puppy and adult ( we feel it works well this way)

There are 3 courses of progression- Bronze, Silver, and Gold.
These courses are all 4 weeks long ( Saturday mornings , at our training field in ickwell)

Each course rotates to start the first Saturday of the month and run concurrently.

They cover lots of things- basic Obedience, recall, lead walking, some advanced commands, correct socialisation, confidence building, and progress in difficulty.

After completing gold, we have a large Saturday training club that gold passes can attend to keep up the training 🐕

28/09/2025

Trainer Matt has been working with this extremely anxious, fear aggressive GSD.

Something that has become apparent over the years to me certainly, is trainer's lack of ability to identify the causality of a dogs reactivity , and to just rigidly stick to a methodology regardless, wether it be avoidance, correction, or trying to convince the dog with reward.

Train the dog and the issue in front of you. Lack of fluidity shows a lack of understanding.

Reactive dogs who are driven by fear don’t get better by being wrapped in cotton wool and hidden from the world.

The reality sits with safe, gradual, controlled exposure.
You cannot correct fear out of a dog.

It’s not glamorous, its repetitive, it’s not instant, and yes sometimes they will react or fall back into an old habit. That doesn’t mean you’ve ruined them. It means you’ve found the point of intolerance where the work needs to be concentrated.

Progress shows as small shifts. These are the signs of a dog learning to cope, not collapsing under pressure,and learning new associations.

Pretending that any exposure is harmful is not only unhelpful, but extremely unkind.
If we avoid everything forever, the dog stays stuck. The process should be safe, controlled, and consistent.

That’s what changes behavioural associations for the long term betterment of the dog and owner.