Wülfgang Dog Training

06/06/2026

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Join us for our TTouch Community Webinar
Sunday, June 7, 2026 11:00 AM Pacific | 2:00 PM Eastern

Calm Through the Storm: Simple TTouch Strategies for Fireworks, Thunderstorms, and Startling Events

Summer can bring many challenges for our animal companions. Fireworks, thunderstorms, and other sudden noises can leave animals feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and unable to recover easily from the experience.

Join Robyn Hood as she shares a practical Tellington TTouch® approach to helping animals become better equipped to cope with startling events before they happen. Rather than focusing only on managing fear in the moment, we'll explore simple ways to support balance, confidence, body awareness, and emotional resilience so animals can stay more relaxed and recover more quickly when faced with unexpected stress.

In this webinar you'll learn:

• Simple TTouch techniques to support relaxation and emotional balance
• How body wraps can help animals feel more grounded and secure
• Ways to prepare before fireworks season or summer thunderstorms arrive
• Practical tools to support recovery after a frightening experience
• How small changes can help animals move from reacting to thinking and coping

Whether you share your life with dogs or other animals, you'll leave with easy-to-use strategies that can make a meaningful difference during stressful summer events.

As always, the live session is free to attend and a recording will be available in the TTouch Community Library afterward at www.ttou.ch

To join the recording live, sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I4wTJjV0TpS9L5Rli_fphw

06/06/2026

What is Predation Substitute Training? 🐾

Predation Substitute Training (PST) is a kind, force-free approach designed to help dogs who are interested in wildlife, chasing, hunting and other predatory behaviours.

Rather than trying to suppress natural instincts, PST works by giving dogs safe and appropriate ways to express those behaviours whilst teaching them how to stay calm, connected and responsive around triggers.

PST is built around four key areas:

🐾 Management
Setting dogs up for success and preventing unwanted rehearsal of behaviours such as chasing wildlife.

🔨 PST Tools
Skills that help channel your dog’s natural instincts in a way that is rewarding and practical in everyday life.

🎾 PST Games
Fun activities that tap into different parts of the predatory sequence, allowing dogs to use their natural behaviours in an appropriate way.

🛟 Safety Net Cues
Reliable cues that can be used when needed to help keep your dog safe and connected in challenging situations.

One of the things I love most about PST is that it doesn’t ask dogs to ignore their instincts. Instead, it works with them. By understanding what motivates our dogs and meeting those needs appropriately, we can help them make better choices around wildlife and other moving triggers.

The goal isn’t a dog who never notices wildlife. The goal is a dog who can notice it, stay calm, stay connected and make good decisions.

If you have a dog who struggles with chasing, fixating on wildlife or becoming difficult to disengage from things in the environment, PST can be a fantastic option. 🐕

06/06/2026

Yesterday I crossed a road to try to avoid someone with two dogs, I kneeled down and fed Gobi treats to allow her to walk past on the other side of the road, but she crossed over and told her dogs “aww look it’s another baba, go say hello” without even asking me if it was okay for her dogs to say hello to mine.

I don’t want him meeting every dogs we see especially two dogs at once and when all dogs are on lead.

Two minutes later we were on a narrow path and I spotted another dog, I knew Gobi’s arousal was still high from the first two dogs so I picked him up to let them path. They assumed I picked him up because I thought his dog would hurt Gobi, but I just didn’t want him meeting another strange dog that I don’t know, on a narrow path and whilst his cortisol and adrenaline was still high🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

A few days ago heading into pets at home with Gobi and another dog was coming out, I picked calmly picked Gobi up then too because I didn’t want him meeting this dog in a busy place, he’s just seen geese for the first time and so again his arousal was high. She asked “is he not friendly”

No he’s just a puppy who’s brain is a sponge, he is constantly learning and I have no idea what an encounter with your strange dogs is going to teach him😅

05/06/2026

05/06/2026

Just a little heads up that I only have 3 spaces left for new 1:1 training and behaviour for the next 2–3 months.

I keep my diary fairly small so I can give my clients and their dogs plenty of support between sessions, which means I can only take on a limited number of new cases at a time.

I can help with things like reactivity, recall, lead walking, puppy training, predation substitute training, and general training and behaviour support.

If you’ve been thinking about getting help with your dog, now would be a great time to get in touch🐾

My 1:1 packages can be found here https://www.wulfgangdogtraining.com/services-4

04/06/2026

Pawsome news! 🎉

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have won our planning permission appeal! 🥳

This simply wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible support from our Explore By Paw community. To everyone who has written letters of support, visited us, and shared kind words, thank you 💚

To celebrate, all appointments booked from now until Monday evening are 20% off! 🐾 Use code PAWSOME at checkout ✨

04/06/2026

Dogs that learn positive things quickly, learn negative things just as quickly, if not more so.

Yesterday evening I had a delivery call with someone who has a dog, human and car reactive herding breed.

Everyone knows that herding breeds are often seen as the highly ‘trainable’, with border collies being described as the easiest dogs to train, which isn’t necessarily wrong.
They do often learn the things we teach them super fast, but what about the things we don’t teach them?

Many studies suggest that dogs learn through negative experiences quicker than they do through positive experiences, and unfortunately we don’t always get to decide what a dog finds negative or not, it could be a strange person wearing sunglasses and a hat, it could be a car driving past in the rain causing more noise and vibrations, it could be a thunderstorm, an emergency vet visit, things that are out of our control.

And for dogs that learn quickly, these things that they perceive as negative or have learned are unpleasant could impact them for a long time, because we’re not just dealing with teaching a dog something new, we’re changing an emotional response in a positive way to something that they have already learned is negative.

This is why behaviour modification isn’t as simple as a quick fix to change the behaviour itself, behaviour is communication and so we first need to look at the underlying emotions that are causing their behaviours.

03/06/2026

REACTING TO REACTIVITY

When a dog reacts, it's natural that all the focus is on the behaviour we see in that moment, but the reaction itself is not where it begins — it's where it ends up.

Reactive behaviours like barking, lunging, snarling, growling is often the final behaviour in a much longer chain.

The reactive behaviour itself becomes the primary concern. It’s what we focus on and try to stop or “fix”.

By the time a dog reacts or explodes, the nervous system has likely already switched over to survival mode. In this state, the brain's ability to listen, learn, respond, process information or make appropriate choices is switched off.

Reactive dogs are struggling to behave differently because they no longer have access to the part of the brain that allows that to happen.

When we only focus on stopping the behaviour when it happens - we're just reacting to the reaction.

This is why working with a reactive dog often looks really boring. It's not about dramatic interventions during the explosion. It's about noticing what came before it.

When we understand why a dog is reacting, rather than simply reacting to the behaviour itself, we can start addressing the cause instead of just focusing on the symptom.