Layla really is the near-perfect little dog for her lady owner, particularly at home. She stable, confident and can be taken anywhere. When off lead, Layla won’t come when called. The one and only area where she is less than perfect is that, once she’s free, she may run off Read more
It’s not unusual how the fixation started. They have had the little Bichon Frise for just a few weeks – he came over from Ireland with an unknown past. The young lady quite unwittingly bought him a laser light thinking that he would enjoy chasing it. Just a few minutes Read more
All the usual things like toilet training and jumping up, the best sort of nutrition for the puppy and walking happily on a loose lead, but also preempting future possible problems from ever developing like guarding behaviours, fear of other dogs and running off.
Lola spends long periods of time in her crate in the dining room, mainly because she may otherwise toilet all over the place. It’s also because she may run around the house and they don’t want the dogs loose anywhere but in the utility room.
I suspect it is ‘puppy see, puppy do’. If in their young lives their mother had the same habit, the puppies may have copied her. They will have seen her cleaning up after her puppies as well.
From her owners’ perspective, adorable Bichon-Maltese mix Charlie is given everything a dog could possibly want for a happy life. They always thought that the more excited she is the more joyful she feels. From Charlie’s perspective, she is living a life punctuated by extreme stress and chronic anxiety. She Read more
What a lovely time I had today! Sally is a five-month-old Bichon Frise/Westie mix, and as her lady owner says, her coat looks like a fluffy dandelion seed head. She is a well-adjusted, independent little dog, with puppy exuberance and sometimes, naturally, pushing her luck! When people come to the Read more
Here are Frazer and Spencer. Frazer (the nearer one) is a Poodle/Bichon Frise mix – a Poochon! Spencer is a Bichon Frise. It’s easy to see why little curly haired white dogs are spoilt. Their mannerisms are so endearing and they just look and feel so irresistible. These two little boys Read more