Your cases, not my slides.

The blind spot

You have a reactive dog on your caseload. You are doing everything right: distance management, emotional work, reinforcement. And it stalls, with no clear reason why.

In a fair number of cases, the answer is in the food bowl. The dog has a relationship with food that is part of the problem, and the tool being used to help him is the very thing that keeps the mechanism running.

The treat is the reward, in a dog whose symptom is the treat.

This overlap is poorly documented, rarely taught, and it accounts for a surprising number of cases that go nowhere. It is the thread running through this mentoring. It is not the whole of it: we work on your reactivity cases and your food-related anxiety cases, separately where they are separate, together where they intersect.

How it runs

You bring your own cases. Up to five, chosen by you. The ones that are stuck, the ones that worry you, the ones you are not sure about.

We take them back to the start. What the dog is expressing, what keeps it going, what has been tried, why it did not hold. No generic protocol applied blind: one reading per case.

We follow them over three months. That is the minimum needed to see whether a hypothesis holds. A case that shifts in two weeks proves nothing. A case that shifts over three months is data.

You leave with more than notes. A way of reading this kind of case that still works on the next one.

Who it is for

Trainers, behaviour consultants and vets in practice. Not owners: if you are looking for help with your own dog, the place to start is a free 15-minute call.

There is no requirement on years in practice. There is a requirement on honesty: come with real cases, including the ones that are not working.

To vets in particular: you do not need to be a behaviour consultant to get something out of this. Part of what we work on sits exactly in the area where your consultations stall, when the presenting reason is behavioural but the medical lead has already been ruled out.

Why a group of six

Because beyond that, you are no longer working cases: you are attending a lecture. Six is the number that lets every situation brought in be properly dug into, and keeps the group a place where you can say “I am stuck”.

And because the group is not a cost constraint in disguise: it is the method. I have seen the same thing in every setting where I have had people work on behaviour together. They progress faster in a group of six than one to one. Someone else’s case is easier to read than your own, because you are not emotionally invested in it. And what you understand on a colleague’s case, you carry back to your own the following week.

Six professionals, five cases each: thirty real cases over three months. You will not only see your own.

Why an application

This is not a prestige filter. The format is simply narrow: if what you need lies elsewhere, better to find that out before you pay. I look first at whether it fits, and I say so plainly when it does not.

Audience

Trainers, behaviour consultants, vets

Focus

Reactivity and food-related anxiety

Format

Closed group of 6, up to 5 cases each

Duration

3 months

Access

By application