Lead The Way- Canine Behaviourist

07/01/2025

🐾BERTIE🐾
Reactivity on walks meant that Bertie’s walks became less frequent and enjoyable for both him and his owners. During his session we worked on building on a new calmer behaviour when he sees other dogs. During his follow up session it was great to hear that he is making so much progress! Most of his walks are now reactivity free! Our next steps are working closer to the more excitable dogs and preparing for when unfortunately loose dogs run up to him on walks which can be so frustrating during reactivity training and can set your training back. So please, if you can see someone is training or even just got their dog on a lead recall your dog to enable the other owner to work with their dog. It doesn’t matter if your dog is “friendly” this doesn’t help the other dog and can set training all the way back to the beginning. 🐕

03/01/2025

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02/01/2025

🐾MONTY🐾
One of the many perks of this job is working with adorable puppies 😍 Monty has been learning about building his confidence, toilet training, lead walking and we have even started on recall in his garden! Next session we take on recall in the big wide world so watch this space 🐕

01/01/2025

Start off the New Year by getting a kickstart with your dog training 🐾
As a behaviourist and trainer I can help you and your dog overcome a whole variety of behavioural issues or even set you on the right path with a new puppies basic training.
Does any of these issues sound familiar?
•Jumping up ⬆️
•Mouthing
•Pulling on the lead 🦮
•Anxiety 😧
•Reactivity
•Aggression 😡
•Sight & sound phobias 💥

If you are feeling like you are ticking any of these boxes with your dog then I can help. Let’s start the New Year on the right track and set up our dogs to succeed in their training ✅
🌟Fully qualified Canine Behaviourist & Trainer
🌟Training that comes to you!
🌟Member of the Guild of Dog Trainers

https://leadthewaylincs.com

24/12/2024

❄️MERRY CHRISTMAS❄️
I hope all my old and new customers have a lovely Christmas and your dogs are truly spoilt. We are spending the day watching Christmas films until the big man comes tonight 🎅
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year.
🐾Lead The Way will be back open 02/01/2025🐾

23/12/2024

🐾What are your training expectations? 🐾

It is important that when thinking about this you keep it realistic.
If you require your dog to listen, work, engage of focus in areas with lots of distractions or stimulation it is important to teach them the behaviour you expect in an area with none of this first. This helps to prevent your dog from being overwhelmed.
This overwhelmed dog loses focus, trust and confidence in the owner which in turn will lead to the dog failing and possible frustration from you as the owner.

Keep training achievable to ensure you set your dog up to succeed, always moving forward at a pace to suit them, as remember, each dog is different and learns in a different way and at a different pace 🐕

15/12/2024

‼️JANUARY IS FILLING UP FAST‼️
If you are wanting to get booked in for a behaviour consultation or training after Christmas I would recommend securing those slots sooner rather than later as January is already filling up with bookings.
Please drop me a message to get booked in so we can get the ball rolling for you 🐾♥️

14/12/2024

Christmas fun 🎄
The last puppy socialisation class of the year 🐾 We even made some Christmas cards and the usual puppy chaos ended the session ⛄️♥️

13/12/2024

🐾ZIGGY🐾
A lovely festive photo of the handsome Ziggy! Resource guarding and a mixture of over excitable behaviours were starting to become a problem in the home for Ziggy and his owners. Lots of changes in routine had taken a knock on Ziggy’s confidence which had caused these changes to his behaviour. Having always thought he was an anxious boy it’s clear he just gets so over excited his behaviour gets lost in translation. We are now wanting to build him back up and help his independence and take away his need to resource guard by building on positive associations to help mould a new behaviour. 🐕

12/12/2024

🐾 SUCCESS IN TRAINING 🐾
So many owners forget that the successes and accomplishments in training are not solely down to me. As your dogs behaviour or training improves this is mostly down to your commitment to follow through with the training program.
Setting your dog up to succeed by remaining consistent is so important and each improvement is a sign of your dedication to helping your dog on that path.
So, remember to give yourselves credit too! ♥️

11/12/2024

🐾CHALKY🐾
Over excitement in a variety of situations were becoming an issue for Chalky and his owners. Excessive barking when guests come over and when people come past the house along with lead pulling out on walks and lead reactivity. We have started work in the home with Chalky to help him choose calmer behaviours over the excitable barking. Small steps to make big changes. Rather than over stimulating him when guests come to the door and escalating his excitement prior to a walk we are calming everything down so he can handle each step. 🐕

11/12/2024

🎄DECEMBER PUPPY SOCIALISATION CLASS🎄
‼️UPDATE- ALL SPACES HAVE NOW BEEN TAKEN‼️
There is a very rare space for 2 puppies on my December puppy socialisation class. Please drop me a message if you are interested.

➡️18:00 13/12/2024- Sibsey Village Hall⬅️

Puppies must be 12 weeks - 1 year! All puppies MUST BE FRIENDLY. These would not be purely obedience classes, instead focus on socialising your puppies in the most beneficial way.
🎄This class will have some Christmas fun as well🎄
Booking onto this class is ESSENTIAL! If you are not booked onto the class you will not be able to attend. If you would like to secure your place you can do so with a £5.00 deposit. This will be used towards your payment for the session and can be returned if you cancel with more than 2 days notice. The class is £15 in total and the final £10 can be paid at the class itself.
🐾ALL PUPPIES MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED 🐾

10/12/2024

🎄Christmas Reminder 🎄

➡️Lead The Way is Closed from the 21/12/2024 and will reopen on 02/01/2024 ⬅️

🌟Please ensure all payments are made on time.

🌟Any messages over the Christmas period may take longer to get a response but I will get back to you when I can.

10/12/2024

🐾 OREO 🐾
Pulling on the lead and over excitable reactions when he sees other dogs on walks was making walks a chore. We are changing the excitable routine for lovely Oreo to build on a calmer and more engaging experience both in the home and on his walks. He responded so well during his initial consultation by making a collection of simple changes and calming down the whole walk experience. This enabled us to start them important building blocks for loose lead walking and more focus on his owners on his walks. 🐕

08/12/2024

Nearly 7 years doing what I do but it’s been 2 years since I got accepted into the Guild of Dog Trainers 🎉 I have to say this was such a big accomplishment and highlight in my career as a dog behaviourist and trainer 🐾

🐾 IT’S OFFICIAL🐾
I have been accepted into the Guild of Dog Trainers! This being Britain’s top organisation where all the trainers within it are committed to offered the best dog training.

The Guild represents dog trainers and being accepted as a member reflects my commitment and dedication to my role as a dog trainer.

I honestly could not be happier right now! The most perfect Christmas present 🎁

Charlotte Barnes
CIBDT cert MGoDT

05/12/2024

05/12/2024

🐾BELLE & COCO🐾
Random aggressive outbursts in multi dog households are no easy fix. Changing this type of behaviour requires huge amounts of patience and time. Especially where a high value resource such as owners attention is involved. It’s a hard road but not an impossible one. These two girls are a perfect example of this. They can go from being perfectly settled in each others company to a full on aggressive fight. It’s going to take time to change this reaction and feeling towards each other but again with lots of consistency and patience her owners will start to see the rewards. 🐕