Givvy and Angus are beautiful chunky Black Labradors, four year old brother and sister. They do what a lot of Labs (and other dogs) do – jumping up and pulling on lead. Imagine how a dog would feel, already very excited before leaving the house, pulling madly down the road, Read more
Lexie is eighteen months old. It seems that the show dog didn’t have a normal home life. Her new family of six picked her up about four weeks ago, and it became evident that apart from ring craft she hadn’t been for walks – with traffic, people and dogs, nor Read more
Then very unfortunately to my mind, they enlisted the help of a dog trainer. They advocated spraying water at her, shaking a bottle of stones at her, shouting at her, intimidation and domination. The wrong kind of training. Already more sensitive than the other dogs, Autumn is now really nervous.
The rescue centres themselves have not been told the full true facts. It is massively disappointing to have to return the dog or in one case he was put to sleep because of a severe bite to one of the children. These little dogs, already disturbed, need special handling in a calm environment – preferably with a useful job to do and controlled stimulation.
My photo doesn’t do justice to stunning German Shepherd Caesar at all. Caesar is a 16-month old GSD with a wonderful temperament. He is a good example of a dog that is well-trained. He knows and obeys many commands and hand signals. However, when it comes to something important like Read more
They are going to tone down the ‘controlling’ of Monty and keep commands to the minimum – try to cut out the word NO as far as they can. They will find other ways, positive ways, to get Monty to cooperate and to work things out for himself.
Out of over 850 clients and thousands of dogs, I had never visited a Keeshonds until yesterday when I visited two, Betta and Tilly. What beautiful looking dogs. They were originally bred in Holland as barge dogs – watch dogs and for catching rats. Consequently, one would expect them by Read more
Jasper and Poppy are Beardie/German Shepherd mixes. They look entirely different though, and their personalities are completely different too. Poppy is dark and largely Shepherd, and Jasper is pale and much more like a Beardie to look at. Poppy is just eight months old, and Jasper is eleven years old. Read more