Reducing on Lead Reactivity to Wildlife

From lunging, barking & squealing, to calm, connected & responsive around wildlife. A structured process to calmer walks for you & your dog.

Course Summary

Does this sound all too familiar to you?

🤦‍♀️Your dog barking, lunging & squealing at the end of the lead as you struggle to hang on.
🤦‍♀️Being dragged into bushes, across roads & down muddy tracks.
🤦‍♀️Having your arm yanked & shoulder wrenched out of it's socket


All at the mere sight, sound or smell of a small furry creature (or large furry creature)

On lead big reactions to wildlife are a common challenge for many adopters of Romanian rescue dogs (and other overseas rescue dogs & dogs in general of course!) and as many of these dogs often have to stay on a lead or long line for safety reasons, it can mean rather a lot of unpleasantness on your walks.

I hear you! I've been there! I had my very own 37 kilo's of barking, lunging, screaming dog at the slightest hint of a furry critter in the vicinity!

Pheasants, partridges, mice, rats, squirrels, rabbits, hares, muntjac, deer, even birds in the sky! Tramp had very big feelings about them all. 

So I know firsthand just how frustrating and unpleasant it can be, walking a dog who is hugely activated by wildlife. I received a fair few injuries from Tramps insanely quick reactions to wildlife when he was younger and it's not fun I know.  

Which is why I am more than excited to have put this step-by-step program together for you, walking you through the whole process I have used personally with Tramp to reduce (and if you stick with it) eliminate those big explosions to our fabulous countryside creatures.  

Now don't get me wrong, this is not a magic wand, there is no quick fix here - let's face it, we're trying buck mother nature!  

But if you work through the steps in this program, apply what you learn and commit to being consistent & practising at every stage, then you can learn how to teach your on lead wildlife triggered dog to remain calm & self-regulate when they see wildlife out on walks.  

Whilst this isn't a program that goes into great detail in addressing off lead prey driven chase behaviour, I have included some of my top tips on that at the end for you as well, but, this on lead overreactive behaviour to wildlife is the first thing you need to master if you ever want to stand a chance of preventing chase or prey drive behaviour when your dog is off lead.  

Course Pricing

Reactivity to Wildlife Course

£45

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Meesh Masters

Meesh Masters is the founder and business owner at The Dog's Point of View and specialises in working with Romanian & Overseas Rescue dogs, providing educational resources for their adopters via remote one to one consultations, home study courses, webinars, training programs and her popular Adopters Coaching Group - The number one resource anywhere on the internet for Romanian and Overseas rescue dog information and support.

After becoming involved with Romanian Rescue dogs in 2015, both as a support advisor to new adopters and a fosterer herself, she was led to look deeper into the thinking, feeling, emotional depths of these dogs when things began feeling different about them.

She soon realised how the Romanian dogs were different to British born dogs, that their genetics and bloodline, being from street dogs and dogs that had evolved through more natural selection, meant they seemed to be more in tune with their instinctive nature's. She went on to learn that she needed to adjust the ways she interacted with and worked with these dogs, to accommodate their more instinctive and cautious characteristics. It became very evident that these dogs responded differently to 'training' in the conventional sense at times.

And so it became her passion to share everything she was learning, and is still learning, about the Romanian Dog's Point of View with as many adopters as possible. Today she is Patron of two Romanian Rescue Charities, Cloud K9 Rescue and Annie's Trust, she is also advisor to various other rescue organisations. She runs a course for qualified trainers, The Romanian Rescue Pro Trainers program, to help other canine professionals understand more about working with Romanian & foreign rescue dogs and their families, as many of them can be quite complex compared to working with British dogs.  She has also launched an invaluable education & resource program for rescue organisations rehoming Romanian & Eastern European dogs, to help them & their volunteers to understand how to correctly support their adopters if they encounter basic problems. 

Meesh is also now a certified Dynamic Dog Practitioner which qualifies her to complete detailed assessments of dogs in the areas of biomechanics, gait, movement & posture to determine whether there are any potential pain or discomfort issues that could be contributing to behaviour.  This is an invaluable qualification to have given that her entire business focuses solely on supporting and working with adopters and canine professionals of predominantly Romanian but also other European street, rescue & shelter dogs.  With the poor start many of these dogs have in life, along with the potential for them to have sustained untreated injuries, abuse and trauma prior to adoption, being able to assess for pain in a totally hands off, non-intrusive way is often the only way they can be assessed.