I use Anti-Avoidance techniques more than I do anything else nowadays!! Undoing untold damage to dogs who are not allowed to experience anything anymore…it’s pretty much the majority of my work now! This gorgeous young lab has been following a programme of avoidance due to her lead reactive behaviour which, as you can see at the start is pretty awful for her and her owners who have previously been to 2 other behaviourists. Follow the assessment through as I introduce my dogs and a slight change

❌I hate avoidance and distraction as a method for working with reactive dogs!! And I have the antidote!! ✅ The antidote is exactly the opposite and it works!!! Avoidance and lack of exposure to life is a major cause of damage to dogs in lockdown… so why are trainers using it as the cure?? Here is Kobe the Labrador on his 3rd session with us at a social play…he’s observing and being calm around the dogs playing (which he would never have coped with in his first session) So what have we done? Expo