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IMPACKT Accredited Behaviourist
🐾 For Reactive • Complex Dogs
🆘️ Behavioural Assessments
🧩 Reactivity • Aggression
🎯 Recall • Lead Work • Prey Drive
🚶‍♀️1-1 Training Walks for Reactive Dogs
📍 Lincolnshire | Stay & Train Behaviour Reset Days

17/06/2026

A STAY for Maggie, while we walked this bit of headland. Its alive with wildlife, so not an easy stay, lots of self control required. She shuffled about a meter, so not perfect on this occasion. Just goes to show, as trained as she is, by not keeping up with these foundations, assuming she's solid but not practicing regularly, mistakes will happen. That's not her fault, that's mine. Ill do better 🥰

On a side note, how guilty did Roo look. Obviously on watch duty while Winnnie forages on nature's delights! Rumbled you pair of monkeys 👀🙊

If you want to know how to develop your dogs impulse control, learn solid stay command or any other behavioural obedience, WhatsApp me!

16/06/2026



This is social exposure, learning to be neutral around triggers.

No on lead interactions with other dogs or people.
No continuous climbing on me for safety. Just settle on their own by my side.

👌

16/06/2026

Why bring your dog to Neutrality Classes?

Neutrality is not about your dog ignoring other dogs and people, its an opportunity to strengthen the relationship between you and your dog.

✅ ️Your dog learning to check in with you.
✅ ️Your dog learning that you are relevant when the environment is exciting.
✅ ️Your dog learning to focus, listen and make better choices around distractions.

Many dogs struggle around other dogs and people because excitement, frustration or uncertainty takes over.

Neutrality classes give you the chance to practise these skills in a controlled environment.
We work on:
✔️ focus
✔️ engagement
✔️ impulse control
✔️ calm behaviour around distractions
✔️ handler communication

The aim isn’t for your dog to greet every dog.

The aim is for your dog to see another dog and still be able to think, check in with you, and move on.

That’s what makes everyday walks easier when you have a fizzy or reactive dog.

Breakthru Behaviour holds neutrality class every Monday at 11am.
Cost: £12
Booking essential
📲07817 407218

I've been talking building resilience in dogs this week. Raising confident stable dogs must be an aim for every owne...
15/06/2026

I've been talking building resilience in dogs this week. Raising confident stable dogs must be an aim for every owner! If you got your dogs as a puppy or are considering getting a puppy - this post draws attention to the early phases that challenge confidence, stability and resilience.

A brief story on Maggie.

She came home the usual age of 8 weeks as a bouncy, playful and full of life puppy. Her early training went well, and she was already showing the steadiness we wanted to have as the next gundog in line from Winnie. She was use to many different sounds, exposed to many things. She was breezing through it all.

One day, when she was around 8 months old the other half decided to take her out whilst he went pigeon shooting. He got everything set up, and waited patiently for the first shot. Maggies steadiness had pulled him into a false sense that she was 'trained' enough to stay by his side. He took his first shot, Maggie s**t herself, and ran 3 fields away. I got a panicked phone call to come help get her back. She must have heard my car pull up as she was already hot footing it back my direction. She dived into the car, and I took her home to rest.

This was Maggie entering her second fear period.
Fear periods are normal developmental stages where puppies and adolescents can suddenly seem different.
A dog who was previously confident may suddenly:
• react to sounds they’ve heard before
• worry about places they used to be comfortable in
• become unsure around new things
• appear to have “forgotten” their training
It can feel like they’ve gone backwards.

On that day, the sound of the gun sent Maggie straight into fight or flight. Her brain wasn’t thinking about enjoying her time with her Dad — it was focused on survival.
We could have looked at that one moment and decided gundog work isn’t for Maggie. She’s gun shy. And that would have been the end of the story. But one reaction on one day doesn’t define who your dog is.

Fast forward, three decent shooting seasons and countless pigeon days, Maggie loves to work, she lives for it.

To get her to the stage of accepting noises, being calm in the presence of noise, all manner of noises we had to keep exposing her! So noises became normal. It didn't take long before she went on her second outing on the pigeons, and that time, she loved it and the rest is history!

So if you have a puppy or adolescent dog, remember there are stages where they may wobble.
Roughly around
(1) 8–11 weeks and again around
(2) 6–14 months (with individual variation)
(3) 10-12
(4) 18 months - 2 years

Don’t let one difficult moment make you decide who your dog is.

Keep giving them appropriate experiences. Keep building their confidence. Keep helping them understand the world.

That’s how we create resilient, stable dogs. 🧡

15/06/2026

The Reality of a dogs Instincts - this may offend some people!

​We love our dogs like family, but we must remember that they are apex predators!

​Today on a walk, my dog caught, killed and ate a baby rabbit. It was a cold reminder of the raw, predatory drive that exists beneath even the most well-behaved dogs.

​If you have children, understand this: a baby’s high-pitched crying and jerky, erratic movements can trigger that exact same instinct. Dogs are not furry humans. They are animals driven by biological impulses that can switch on faster than we can react.

​Never be complacent. Supervise every interaction between your dogs and children. Acknowledge their nature so you can keep your babies, toddlers children safe.

Is your dog’s reactivity limiting your life?❌️​Stop relying on avoidance, late-night walks, or staying at home. The Solu...
15/06/2026

Is your dog’s reactivity limiting your life?

❌️​Stop relying on avoidance, late-night walks, or staying at home.

The Solution

I provide behaviourally led, 1-1 training walks designed to build the stability, focus, and impulse control your dog needs to navigate the real world.

​The Process

✅️ ​Behavioural Assessment: Every case begins with a comprehensive review of your dog’s history, health, and behaviour to identify the root cause and build a targeted plan.

✅️ ​Structured Training: I work directly with your dog to systematically condition calm, reliable responses to triggers across diverse environments.

✅ ️​Owner Coaching: Once your dog masters these skills, I transition the training to you, teaching the handling techniques required to maintain progress and walk with confidence.

​Program Focus

🔸️​Emotional Regulation: Establishing calm, controlled responses.

🔸️​Threshold Tolerance: Increasing your dog’s ability to cope in real-world settings.

🔸️​Handler Focus: Improving your dog’s responsiveness and connection to you.

​Your dog doesn't have to live in isolation—and neither do you.

​Message or call Breakthru Behaviour at 07817 407218 to discuss your dog’s history and schedule a Behaviour Assessment.

Weather looks good tomorrow - let socials and neutrality class commence 🙌
14/06/2026

Weather looks good tomorrow - let socials and neutrality class commence 🙌

14/06/2026

Building in dogs — whatever their age
Resilience is one of the most valuable things we can develop in our dogs.
It’s not about creating a dog that never feels uncomfortable, never worries, or has to accept everything we throw at them.

It’s about helping them develop the ability to cope with everyday challenges, recover from stress, and feel confident navigating the world.

If you have a dog which lacks confidence, is uncertain of the world, of people, of dogs, sounds, movement etc

The most important part of how we respond to their response in any given situation

✅️ is always with confidence, an aura of 'I've got this!'

❌️Never with the same anxious energy your dog finds itself with.

So you have a dog with low self esteem, so what do you do?

Ill tell you what you don't do....

❌️ Avoid the things that worries your dog most!

✅ ️Resilience is built through experiences — not by avoiding everything that might feel difficult.

Building resilience is about giving dogs the skills to navigate life — not protecting them from life.

Remember Rodney? (Search my page to get his story) his owner took everything onboard to help build resilience in Rodney. She sent me this update this week on a recent walk through a busy town. Pay particular attention to his calm, settled and more confident demeanour. Rodneys owner is bluddy fantastic. They can now stop and have a conversation without Rodney barking his head off. Want to know how that use to go, find the first session video on my page! How far they've both come 👏

13/06/2026

Stranger Danger 🐾
Some dogs can respond to unfamiliar people by barking, lunging, or charging forward. This is George! His behaviour is his way of creating distance and communicating that he feels unsure and uncomfortable.
The plan for George is going to be building his confidence around new people, environments, and experiences to help him develop resilience to teach him that he can cope with the world around him with out having to bark every new person away. Support him, build trust, and help his nervous system regulate.

11/06/2026

If you have a puppy, young adolescent dog - this is for you! This video is Maggie during recall class earlier this year.
In this one video, Maggie is showing the result of years of consistency and foundations:
• impulse control
• focus under intense distraction
• settling around activity
• obedience and connection with her handler
• duration stay (she had already spent almost an hour in this environment, with a few breaks in between, before returning to this spot)

Maggie wasn’t always this dog.
Maggie was once a puppy too — full of the normal puppy and adolescent behaviours that challenge every owner at some point.

There were times I felt frustrated. Times where it felt like progress wasn’t sticking. Times where I wondered if all the hard work was actually paying off.

But I kept going. Found pockets of time in the day to train. Repeated the basics. Built the foundations. Kept showing up.
Then, as Maggie matured into adulthood around the age of 2, all that dedication, repetition and patience started to show.

A balanced, reliable dog isn’t created overnight. It takes months (and often years) of small, consistent moments:
✔️ something every day
✔️ new experiences regularly
✔️ building confidence and resilience
✔️ practising skills in different environments
Maggie will still make mistakes occasionally — usually a reminder that humans are part of the equation too — and when needed, we go back to some tune-up training.

The journey of raising a well-rounded dog with solid foundations takes time, patience and commitment.
And then you get a Maggie 🥰
Keep training everyone.

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