They have had Jake since he was a puppy. He’s now four years old. The couple have theories about why he’s quite so noise sensitive. As a puppy a closed crate crashed down beside him and sent him running and hiding. It’s very possible this happened during a fear Read more…
Laddie has always been a sensitive dog but he loved going out, he loved his walks and he also was happy to meet people and most other dogs. That has now all changed. It took just one careless firework set off behind their fence in an afternoon to terrify the Read more…
Poor Border Collie Sweeper does not feel safe. In some areas of the country automatic bird-scarers and those fired like rockets are going off like fireworks throughout daylight hours. At each bang Sweeper panics. He can hear them even when we can’t. A dogs hearing can be up to 40 Read more…
Stunning Flo is nine months old. She was rescued from Romanian streets at 5 months old – an Akbash – a Turkish sheep guarding dog. I believe a series of unfortunate events has most likely coincided with a particularly vulnerable period in Flo’s life – a fear period. Had these Read more…
.A big bang started it all. Millie is no longer the carefree and happy dog that she was. Already sensitised last November, an unexpected and close firework explosion at New Year when out on a walk did the rest. Now the six-year-old Collie Corgi mix spends most of her time Read more…
Ten days ago a bird scarer detonated and if he’d not been on lead Bob would have legged it home. He has now become reluctant to walk again – as he had been a year ago when they first got him. The Staffie Labrador mix is now four years old. Read more…
I had a lovely greeting from Staffie Rio. Too lovely, really, considering he had never met me before. Exaggerated welcomes, particularly with people the dog doesn’t know, may not be pure pleasure but involve some anxiety. Rio went back and forth, wagging his tail and sitting between my legs. He Read more…
The dear little Lhasa Apso Jack Russell mix seems to have a near perfect life. Why is she so easily scared and spooked? They have had her since she was a puppy and she has always been nervous. It must surely be genetic. Celeste is ‘living on the edge’. The Read more…
Little Jessie’s otherwise perfect life is blighted by fear of the sound of gunshots, bangs and certain other sounds. It was rare for me not to hear a bark when I rang the doorbell. She was very friendly without being over-excited and didn’t appear to be a nervous dog at all. Read more…
They have had Max for nearly four weeks now. After a life where he was alone for many hours a day followed by several months in rescue kennels, the five-year-old Border Collie has a great deal of adjusting to do and his new owners, knowing already some of the problems Read more…