Paws of Wisdom: Support for Dysregulated and Over-The-Top Dogs

Paws of Wisdom: Support for Dysregulated and Over-The-Top Dogs 💜 Support for dysregulated dogs (+ overwhelmed owners)
📥 Fetch The Detox Protocol + my other resources from my bio 🐾
🎯 Regulation before expectation, always.

Change with your dog often looks invisible...until suddenly it isn't. Keep going 💜🐾
22/09/2025

Change with your dog often looks invisible...until suddenly it isn't.

Keep going 💜🐾

🗣️ The work you’re avoiding with your dog is often the work that changes everything...Yes, doing the work is hard. But n...
21/09/2025

🗣️ The work you’re avoiding with your dog is often the work that changes everything...

Yes, doing the work is hard. But not doing the work and living with the same chaos, frustration, and setbacks is bloody hard too. 💥

One kind of hard leads to progress. The other keeps you stuck.
Which one you choose is up to you. 💜

Just remember when times get tough that progress isn’t found in comfort...it’s built in the moments we’d rather skip. 💪🏾

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated, over-the-top, and reactive dogs. 💜

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

👀 So many owners rush to get their dogs socialised with dogs, with people, with the whole world...but here’s an unpopula...
20/09/2025

👀 So many owners rush to get their dogs socialised with dogs, with people, with the whole world...but here’s an unpopular opinion ⬇️

🚫 Your dog doesn’t need to say hi.
🚫 Your dog doesn’t need to play.
🚫 Your dog doesn’t need to “make friends”.

What they need first is the ability to just exist. 🐶✨

That's what neutrality is about; being around triggers without reacting, lunging, or needing to engage.

A neutral dog isn’t:
🚫 Dragging you down the road to force interaction.
🚫 Throwing temper tantrums when it’s not allowed.
🚫 Kicking off at every dog in sight.
🚫 So focused on the world that they can’t even enjoy the walk.

Neutral dogs reap all the benefits of walks AND they come back fulfilled and ready to settle because of it. 💜

Because without emotional regulation, interaction often backfires. Stress stacks, arousal spikes, frustration builds, bad habits form. 💥

So remember:
✅ Existence before interaction.
✅ Calm before connection.
✅ Neutrality before socialisation.
✅ Regulation before expectation.

🐾 This week, try it: Can your dog simply sit near the world and breathe?

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Neutrality starts with regulation. That’s exactly what the Detox Protocol is designed to do — reset your dog’s nervous system, build structure, and create the baseline calm you need before interaction.💜

📥 Fetch the FREE 7 Day Detox Protocol through the link in bio 🐾

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ You can’t train a dog out of stress...Because stress = dysregulation.And a dysregulated dog isn’t in a place to learn...
18/09/2025

🗣️ You can’t train a dog out of stress...

Because stress = dysregulation.
And a dysregulated dog isn’t in a place to learn. 🤕

That’s when you see:
⚡ Faster reactions to triggers
🙉 Ignoring cues they normally know
🏃🏾 Pacing, whining, struggling to switch off
🤯 Making poor, impulsive choices

It’s not that they don’t know what to do.
It’s that their brain is too overloaded to actually do it.

Training sticks when the nervous system is calm. That means focusing on meeting needs and rebuilding regulation:

🌀 Decompression walks
💤 16–18 hours of real rest
🎯 Outlets that meet their drives
📅 Structure they can rely on.

Calm first. Training second.
Regulation before expectation. Always 💜

🎯 Want a step-by-step plan to reset your dog’s baseline and kick-start regulation?
Download the FREE 7-Day Detox today.

🔗 Fetch the link in bio

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ A mood isn’t forever…unless it is. 🧠I hear it all the time...don't mind him, he's: ..just overexcited..a bit nervous....
17/09/2025

🗣️ A mood isn’t forever…unless it is. 🧠

I hear it all the time...don't mind him, he's: ..just overexcited..a bit nervous..just doesn't like other dogs

And a lot of people believe that’s it, that their dog is trapped in that personality or temperament. 🤷🏾

But with the right work, it can change. Dogs don’t have to stay stuck.

Here’s how it works:
➡️ A dog gets stuck in a mood for a few days — over excitement, nervous, stressed, frustrated.
➡️ If it repeats for a few weeks it becomes a temperament — always on edge, pulling, vocalising.
➡️ If it sticks too long (for months), it starts to shape a personality — “reactive dog”, “anxious dog”, “over-excited dog”.

The good news?
We can interrupt that cycle. By stopping dogs from rehearsing the same moods and behaviours, we can break them out. ⛓️‍💥

✨ One of the best ways to do this is through regulation. Regulation resets moods before they spiral into temperament and personality.

And yes, regulation can even bring dogs back from an unwanted personality. Dogs aren’t trapped there.

📥 Want to learn how to break the chain? Grab the FREE 7-Day Detox (link in bio).

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🤔 Does anyone else have those days where it feels like your dog is just off? 😮‍💨⚡ Barking, lunging, reacting faster than...
16/09/2025

🤔 Does anyone else have those days where it feels like your dog is just off? 😮‍💨

⚡ Barking, lunging, reacting faster than usual
👀 Constantly scanning the environment
🙉 Ignoring cues they normally know
🏃 Pacing, unable to settle
🤯 Making frantic, impulsive choices

These are all signs of a dog who is slowly becoming overloaded.
And when stress stacks up, regulation breaks down. 💥

That’s why training doesn’t stick.
That’s why they struggle to listen.
That's why no matter how much you walk/run them around, it doesn't seem to scratch the surface.
That’s why your dog feels stuck in a cycle of chaos. 🔁

💡 The fix isn’t doing more....it’s slowing down.

👉🏾 Less stressful exposure
👉🏾 More decompression + enrichment
👉🏾 Prioritising sleep, rest, and nervous system support
👉🏾 Outlets that meet their needs without sending them over the edge

Because sometimes the best way forward…is giving your dog the space to reset.

🎯 Want a step-by-step plan to reset your dog’s baseline and kick-start regulation?
Download the FREE 7-Day Detox today.

🔗 Fetch the link in bio

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 💜

🗣️ It’s no coincidence that frustrated dogs often have frustrated owners. 👀We’re the ones quick to react ⚡We’re the ones...
15/09/2025

🗣️ It’s no coincidence that frustrated dogs often have frustrated owners. 👀

We’re the ones quick to react ⚡
We’re the ones bracing for the next outburst 🧨
We’re the ones carrying the tension 🫠

And dogs feel that. They notice when we’re dysregulated, pressured, or stretched too thin...and they mirror it back.

But this doesn't need to be a blame game...it means awareness 👁️

✨ Awareness to interrupt our own frustration.
✨ Awareness to notice when we’re carrying stress and tension.
✨ Awareness to make better choices, build better habits, and shift the pattern.

Because when we interrupt our spiral, we give our dogs space to interrupt theirs. 🐾💜

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ Sometimes we have to help our dogs before we can train our dogs...If they’re constantly stressed, anxious, dysregulat...
14/09/2025

🗣️ Sometimes we have to help our dogs before we can train our dogs...

If they’re constantly stressed, anxious, dysregulated, or just constantly “too much”…they need support before we can expect anything from them. 🐾

They need regulation. Without it, they can’t learn, they make poor choices, and they stay stuck in survival mode. 👀

Sometimes our job is to focus on creating that regulation first. Only then can we place expectations on them. 💜

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ “You just need to socialise them more”...It’s a line every reactive dog owner hears. 🙄But more socialisation doesn’t ...
14/09/2025

🗣️ “You just need to socialise them more”...

It’s a line every reactive dog owner hears. 🙄

But more socialisation doesn’t always help....for dysregulated dogs it can actually make things worse. 👀

Because every reaction isn’t just “a bad moment”...it’s stress added to the system.
And the more stress stacks, the easier reactivity becomes until it turns into an automatic cycle. 🔁

✨ That’s why neutrality matters more than exposure.

💡 Your dog doesn’t need to meet every person or play with every dog. They need to learn that the world can happen around them without needing a reaction at all.

👀 Neutrality looks like this:
🐕 Other dogs = background noise
🧍 People = no big deal
🌳 Environments = safe, not overwhelming

🛠️ And you build it by:
✔️ Working at a distance your dog can cope with
✔️ Rewarding calm non-reactions
✔️ Ending sessions while they’re still regulated
✔️ Balancing exposure with decompression + real rest

💜 Neutralise first. Then socialise.

📘 Want help building neutrality or struggling with reactivity?
Download the Reactivity Starter Bundle + the Dog Owner’s Guide to Socialisation free inside the Paws of Wisdom Resource Vault — link in bio.

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ Sleep is one of the most underrated training tools. 😴Dogs need 16–18 hours of sleep a day!! But many reactive, anxiou...
13/09/2025

🗣️ Sleep is one of the most underrated training tools. 😴

Dogs need 16–18 hours of sleep a day!! But many reactive, anxious, or over-the-top dogs don’t even come close. And the less they sleep, the more dysregulated they become. 🫠

That looks like:
⚡ Constantly “on edge” at home
⚡ Overreacting to the smallest things
⚡ Training cues not sticking
⚡ Crankiness in the evenings

👉🏾 More sleep = more regulation.
And more regulation = a calmer, more focused, balanced and more resilient dog.

📥 Want help resetting your dog’s routine so sleep actually happens? Grab the FREE 7-Day Detox Plan (fetch the link in bio).

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ We expect dogs to come home from a walk and crash out...but many don’t.They pace. They bark. They steal things.It’s l...
13/09/2025

🗣️ We expect dogs to come home from a walk and crash out...but many don’t.

They pace. They bark. They steal things.
It’s like the walk never happened. 😮‍💨

🌉 Dogs need a bridge to move from arousal and stimulation → into true rest...a sort of wind down routine.

Without that bridge, you see chaos at home...with it, you see calmer lifestyles, faster recovery, and a dog that can actually switch off.

⚡ But here’s the part most owners miss (me included)...

⚠️ The more a dog practices not settling after walks, the more normal that state becomes.
⚠️ High arousal turns into their baseline.
⚠️ And when you finally try to enforce rest, it feels uncomfortable...even wrong because they’re addicted to the spiral so we start filling their day up with more activities that take away prime sleep time.

Sometimes we even walk them right before work hoping it’ll “wear them out” while we're gone...but instead, we leave them in a peak state of arousal. 🌋

That’s when you see crate struggles, whining, barking, sound reactivity, even destructive behaviour.
Because they’re still switched on…and now you’re gone. 💥

💡 That’s why decompression isn’t optional.

Scatter feeding, massages, safe havens, place training, a simple sleep routine…
These aren’t “extras.”
They’re the bridge that tells your dog it's time (and safe) to rest.

Because walks don’t end at the front door.
They end when your dog can actually settle. 😴😴😴

✨ Want more practical resources on decompression, sleep, and outlets?
Check out the FREE Resource Vault — fetch the link in bio. 💜🐾

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Fetch the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

🗣️ When routines are inconsistent, rules are fuzzy, or expectations shift daily, dogs end up feeling confused and overwh...
11/09/2025

🗣️ When routines are inconsistent, rules are fuzzy, or expectations shift daily, dogs end up feeling confused and overwhelmed.

✅ Structure isn’t about being strict. It’s about giving your dog predictability.
✅ Predictability lowers stress and helps them settle.
✅ Predictability and routine allows better habits and decision making to develop.
✅ And when they start developing the better habits, that’s when true freedom starts to show up — calmer walks = more trust off-lead...learning to settle at home = more liberty...calmer around people = more outings around people

📌 Remember: consistency isn’t a cage, it’s a safety net and it isn't forever!

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Want to learn more? 🕵🏾
📲 Follow for daily insights, motivation, and support on living (and thriving) with dysregulated and reactive dogs. 🐾✨

📥 Click the link in my bio for my resource vault, blog and more for reactive, dysregulated and over-the-top dogs. 🐾✨

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