Lancashire Dog Training UK

28/06/2025

30/05/2025

The old boy getting his well-deserved monthly spa session 🧡
Acupuncture and laser therapy from our trusted retired vet, Liesbet, to ease the nerve impingement in his rear leg.

Stanley might be retired, but he’s still going strong — barely a limp these days, and it’s all thanks to Liesbet’s expert care and holistic approach.

Grateful beyond words for the work you’ve done keeping him moving after the injury he picked up on duty 🙏🐾

09/05/2025

You give this charity millions and this is the best they can do????

Let it never be forgotten, that the RSPCA in England shot 10 German Shepherds in the head with a bolt gun.

Why? Because their owner had died and within the space of one visit to their home, an RSPCA Inspector evaluated all 10 on the spot as being too aggressive to attempt to rehome.

The RSPCA justified this barbarism by saying that the dogs had a skin condition, and that shaving their leg to insert a needle would have caused them more suffering than firing a bolt into their heads. One after the other.

Please remember that when they next come begging for your money with their sob stories.

Read the RSPCA’s own admission …

[pic for illustrative purposes only. Not a GSD involved]

13/02/2025

We need to stop routinely drugging dogs as opposed to addressing the problem behaviour. It’s so wrong.

For years, fluoxetine (Prozac) has been pushed as the answer to behavioral problems in dogs. Veterinary behaviorists and force-free advocates love to cite “science-backed” studies to justify long-term medication use. But here’s a big problem, most of these studies are flawed, biased, and rely almost entirely on owner-reported data.
Take, for example, the 2009 study on fluoxetine for compulsive disorders in dogs (Irimajiri et al., J Am Vet Med Assoc). It claimed fluoxetine helped, yet the only improvement came from owners’ OPINIONS, not actual behavioral measurements. When researchers looked at objective data the dogs’ actual behavior logs they found NO SIGNIFICANT difference between the medicated and placebo groups. But guess which result gets cited?🤫
How about the 2007 study on fluoxetine for separation anxiety (Simpson et al., Veterinary Therapeutics). The conclusion? Fluoxetine was effective … but only when paired with a structured behavior modification plan. And yet, thousands of dogs are medicated without any meaningful training, as if a pill can replace actual learning.
Sad reality is that Dogs are being drugged, not rehabilitated.
Ask any serious trainer what happens when they get a dog that’s been on fluoxetine for years. They take the dog off the meds, implement a sound training plan, and SHOCKINGLY the dog improves.
Not because fluoxetine “worked,” but because the dog finally got what it needed: clarity and proper training.
Yet, the AVSAB keeps pushing these medications while dismissing legitimate training as “aversive” or “outdated.” They’d rather chemically suppress behavior than actually address it.
The real question isn’t whether fluoxetine has some effect but why so many dogs improve when you REMOVE the drug and train them properly?!!!
Behavioral change comes from learning, not sedation. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise.
I know I am not the only one noticing that dogs on fluoxetine don’t get better - they just get dull.
The dog isn’t learning or adapting, just becoming more passive.
This can actuallY DELAY proper rehabilitation, because the dog’s emotions and responses are chemically suppressed rather than modified through learning.
Thinking about making a solo podcast to talk about the dog I have in training right now, one of the many that end up euthanized after YEARS of being on SSRI’s and the pandemic of prescribing psychotropics like flea medication

14/12/2024

For anyone collecting food from Kelly in Euxton these are her opening hours over Christmas. Only a few slight changes in the hours.

08/12/2024

For those customers that collect food from Toogood Farm shop please note Helen and family will be enjoying some family time after Xmas. During that time our raw food can be purchased from Euxton Check out their page for Xmas opening times 🐕

07/12/2024

Storm what storm? Barney didn’t mind the rain, the wind and obviously not the mud. Labradors are made of sterner stuff 🥰

06/12/2024

For anyone buying food from Kelly at the unit over Christmas and New year there are some slight changes but still plenty of days to go and grab your food.

Our Christmas opening ours at our Unit on foxhole road.

There are a few small changes to opening hours and these will also be posted on the door. There’s still plenty of times to come and shop between Christmas and new year 🎄

Please note the stall on the MARKET will be CLOSED after Christmas Eve until the 2nd.

04/12/2024

Why don’t I use treats to train my dogs❔

My training sessions famously lack the use of treats so I get this question a heck of alot.

The simple answer is that while treat based training methods have their drawbacks PLAY is a much more effective training method.

🧬 For dogs and humans alike PLAY is a developmental need on a biological level - it’s quite literally in our DNA!!

It’s critical to a number of developmental factors.
🧠 Fulfilling instinctual drives
🧠 Mental Stimulation
🧠 Emotional Wellbeing

Healthy treats certainly have their place but not at the foundation of a companionship which is where all successful training journeys must begin.

In the words of my mentor “if we do things right we are never training, we are just two friends having fun.“

🤩Coming Soon: I will explain in more detail why PLAY is a more effective method of training.

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