Last week Blu and I went to see a local dog trainer to talk about his reactivity around other dogs, and how to help him work on greeting other dogs in a friendly way. I'm pretty happy with a lot of what she recommended, and we talked about how a lot of what I've been doing already is already along the same lines, but one thing she recommended left me a little unsure.
She's suggested a special order food called
Breakthrough, which apparently acts in a similar way to an SSRI in controlling seratonin levels, leading to a less stressed (and hopefully less reactive) dog. It's pretty pricey at £70 for a 12kg bag, nearly 2.5x his current food, and I'm not sure if this is snake oil or genuinely worth a try. FWIW, she doesn't sell it directly which makes me think it can't be
that shady.
Have any doggy folk of yacf heard of or used this stuff before?