Lee Lunt Professional Dog Advice & Training

10/05/2026

So another little update with Toro. I’m not even gonna say anything just watch the video from start to finish. The first bit is when he first came to today.

Real behavioural work, not theories, not reading from AI or courses and studies just doing, REALITY IS NOT THEORY. No stupid games, throwing food on the floor, distracting, redirecting to a toy, snuggle mats, lickimats, ecollars or prong collars. Not coming up with my own made up system. Just plain simple understanding the dog and learning to be.

If you need help with your dog please get in touch we can help.

08/05/2026

I’ve just seen this on a page, spouting more misinformation, the so called studies and science is just getting worse. Look at the bit I’ve circled, tell me what’s wrong with it, and this is the argument people are making and to be fair some people at the other end of the dog training scale saying positive reinforcement doesn’t work. Apparently M.I.T has shown this, I thought M.I.T was very intelligent university/college. Again I’m not going on about what people do just pointing out the so called research and quote not a debate about rewards and corrections. If you don’t know what I’m pointing out ask.

06/05/2026

Little update on Toro, while everyone is arguing on Facebook I’m fixing real behaviours and showing the results and progressions, not like most of them with the same dog showing nonsense, he’s coming along nicely, as you can see in the clips in the video. Getting more confident around people by him seeing them in a different way and that hands coming to him starts to mean something else. His head space is changing. He’s now also letting us pick him up, which is a game changer as I can now easily pick him up put him in the crate in the van and get him out to go places, as you can see he’s been to watch some cricket, a walk around Ormskirk and then just being with me while we have a brew and watch the world go by, the works doesn’t not only exist on the ground. No fancy stupid games, throwing food on the floor like so many trainers and wanna be celebrity ones, shouting like a demented ferret “well done etc” lick mats, tiring the dog out, where that one has come from I don’t know, it’s just learning to be calm and clear leadership and subtle language between us. Leadership isn't about dominance.
It's about direction, guidance, protection, and consistency, why because the dog has come into the human world so it needs leadership from us, it doesn’t understand the consequences of something or unless they experience it and that can lead to dangerous or harmful consequences.
It's not about being harsh-it's about being clear.
When a dog feels uncertain, it often steps into a role it was never meant to carry. That's when fear, reactivity, and overprotection begin to surface. It’s about principles and having to adapt at any given moment and pushing little micro stresses and the dog learning how to cope, too many people won’t cross the threshold and stay stuck, a little bit of flooding at the right time for the right amount of time is important, but only when I’ve done the prep work. As I always say you’ve got nothing without timing 🥰. Timing is in every interaction even rewards. Check out his his cheeky pose at the end.

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02/05/2026

Just a reminder that classes are on as normal tomorrow even though it’s bank holiday.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

01/05/2026

I’m now going to be offering pre school puppy home visits. I already offer home visits, which I don’t think many people realise I do. As a fully Qualified level 4 Behaviourist in advanced canine through a very reputable and well know company and over 10 years experience with all sorts of issues and training, the amount of issues I’m already seeing before pups come to their first class and a lot of mis or confused information out there is causing big problems and I can see the frustration in people. People say when should you start training your dog, the answer is as soon as you pick them up. What you do in the early stages and in the house is crucial to the pups learning path. Again the amount of pups that are stressed, anxious or completely the other end of the scale by over excitement is on the rise and people are wondering why the pup doesn’t listen. I won’t tell you any nonsense but I will put you on the path to help achieve a dog that you can take anywhere and it can cope, isn’t that why we all got a dog to take out and be part of our lives but most importantly they must be able to cope, not crying for you when you leave the room for a second. Getting things right in and around the house is where it all starts, you should be gearing it right ready to go into the real world. The home visits aren’t just for pre school pups either, but I’m gonna push it, ready for them starting puppy classes.

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30/04/2026

This says everything. Maybe if they swapped it for a piece of cheese it would have left the fish alone. Understand animals before getting involved. Animals live by a code just because you don’t recognise it or ignore it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or will come out at any given moment.

29/04/2026

To all the people who come to me does this sound familiar. Without the calm nothing will work, your dog won’t listen, it will keep jumping over everyone or react to keep them away, the art of doing nothing, this is how dogs should greet, meet etc if you can’t do it in the house then you wont do it anywhere, the dog only gets good at what it practices or rewarded for. We aren’t saying dogs can’t be stroked etc it’s what the state of mind is about and can the dog cope and be chilled and calm around things too.

28/04/2026

Little update on Toro, we’ve gone from the first video to now, as you can see he’s now starting to let me touch and stroke him, he’s still not fully accepting of it but he’s starting to see the picture. I’m not overwhelming him, just little micro stresses and giving HIM the opportunity to cope and see another positive outcome because yes him biting anyone that comes near him is a positive response to him, no chicken will be a higher value than him biting. I hear all the time about high value rewards, but where does that stop, because if the act is more valuable than you or the reward then you won’t fix anything, if the reward works on its own then great. We all in life have to push that little further out our comfort zone and experience what happens to grow. This is why you can’t just keep throwing rewards and praise or just corrections, you have to progress to real world and the what if. If everything goes or went perfectly all the time then you wouldn’t have to do anything. You can set anything up in certain conditions but that’s Disneyland, there is always a what if and if a negative is needed then you’ll find it cements the positive even more. Everything has an opposite and it does for a reason, for balance, but balance can change in any situation balance doesn’t always mean 50/50. Too much egos now in dog training that there is only one way etc, when the method is actually the dogs method, why are we trying to say that dogs have done it wrong since the day they were created, but now humans know best. If corrections are needed in fixing dog behaviour it don’t mean abuse, it doesn’t mean fear, it doesn’t mean punishment it simply means there is a consequence for that action at that moment, it doesn’t stop there though to rectify a behaviour there is a process and the process can change from dog to dog, but above everything TIMING is crucial.

If you need help with your dog please get in touch we can help.

27/04/2026

He’s absolutely spot on and something I keep preaching and banging on about.

We have an epidemic of stressed out, neurotic, ill-behaved dogs. And the answer most often given by professionals and online “experts” is to do more stuff—‘cause that’ll help ‘em relax, find peace, and make better decisions.

No. No fu***ng no.

Your problem dog almost certainly doesn’t need more snappy obedience, more brain puzzles, more aimless wandering around the house or yard, or more exercising them into oblivion.

Your dog already has a full, non-stop plate of sensory inputs coming from a very noisy human environment—that includes you and the rest of the world—which means the last thing their overwhelmed brains and bodies need is more “stuff” to process and contend with.

Of course this requires the obligatory qualifiers. I’m not saying don’t obedience train your dog. I’m not saying don’t include brain stimulating activities. I’m not saying your dog has to be shackled to a place cot. I’m not saying you shouldn’t exercise your dog.

What I am saying is that we’ve gotten so far away from a more natural, lowkey, relaxed, less input, less activity, less go-go-go world… that our dogs are mirroring much of the same problems we see in modern human life… and are doing about as well.

There’s simply too much input, for all of us.

Seeing as this is a dog training page, I’ll leave the human coaching to others—but let’s tackle a few things you can do for your dog. And maybe you’ll learn something valuable as well.

You CAN train a more relaxed, natural, strictly functional obedience without it becoming an activity that creates edgy, overly-aroused, anticipatory, adrenaline junkies. Avoid aiming for and conditioning only high-speed reactions—slow things way down. Avoid constant amped releases to high rewards. Avoid prioritizing motion over stillness.

You CAN engage in activities that your dog finds extremely rewarding, enjoyable, and beneficial. Off-leash excursions are truly the greatest reward and an incredible healthy way to fulfill your dog’s need for mental stimulation. Relaxed, structured, often slower than what you think is best walks are also fantastic. Play, not just throwing a ball, but actually engaging in back and forth between you is a fantastic and truly enriching outlet.

You CAN allow your dog the freedom to wander freely. But constant and often anxious wandering, following, hyper-vigilance is bad news. If you’ve conditioned duration down or place, you’ve taught your dog how to relax—which they will often happily choose on their own, and IF they do need help, you can offer it.

You CAN—and of course should—exercise your dog daily. And doing so without leaning excessively on exercise as a crutch to create good behavior. A well trained dog is well behaved whether they’ve exercised or not. And excessive exercise creates 1/ an athlete you can’t out work, 2/ an adrenaline j***y, 3/ obsessive focus on the next session.

Stop making this stuff so fu***ng complicated, and destructive. Have your dog properly obedience trained to a high standard—but with a focus on calm. Teach your dog how to be still and relaxed in a busy world—dogs don’t know how to do this until we teach them—duration work works wonders for the body and mind. Learn to prioritize (and value) downtime to the same degree you prioritize (and value) activity. Plenty of crate time and just chilling out (without you having constantly touch, talk to, treat) will work wonders. Have fun and exercise your dog in a healthy, natural, balanced, non-obsessive fashion.

PS, if you saw the amount of “less” we do with all the training dogs who come through our program, and transform from the wildly challenging cases who initially arrived, into the calm, relaxed, well-behaved, happy and healthy dogs who leave… you’d likely be shocked.

PPS, it’s counterintuitive, but if you’ll do less, you’ll see far more good come from it.