In the nicest way possible the adolescent Mia needs to be brought down a peg or two without the use of confrontation. If a command (or I would now prefer to call it ‘cue’) is used and she is defiant and refuses, what next? If they back down they have lost, and if they try to insist they risk making her angry.
My arrival stirred him up. He did a lot of jumping up.
Then he started looking for shadows and reflections. He obsessively chases shadows. He growls and barks at them. He was very restless all evening. He even had to be held still so I could take a photo of him.
She uses her mouth too freely! She grabs, nips and bites. She grabs trousers, she grabs arms and she bites hands. She chases and bites shoes, and when the little girl is sitting at the tables she goes for her feet which starts a commotion with screaming and scolding which winds her up even more. ‘Discipline’ is lost on Dashi and only makes her worse.
The puppies were upstairs in a bedroom. The family did not meet the mother dog. It’s obvious the puppies had little or no socialisation or encounters with everyday things, people or dogs outside that environment. Inadequate exposure to everyday life before eight weeks of age can contribute to a dog being temperamentally fragile.
In the past, resource guarding Chip has very likely been taught respect for a male owner through fear, and lack of cooperation would end in punishment. Now he is with a man who is gentle, who wants to spoil and cuddle him and who is constantly bribing and treating him with food.
It’s ‘Last Chance Saloon’ for Border Collie Flossy. She was not happy with my looking at her to take her photo. She was yawning, licking her lips and her nose; her ears were back. Flossy has bitten her male owner about six times – once so seriously he had to Read more
He has them up and down opening the garden door, and then may decide he doesn’t want to go out anyway. He takes them his food bowl when he wants food, and obediently they fill it. Whenever he brings them a toy, they will always play. When he wants to be fussed or touched, they always oblige.
When you come home, do you welcome your teenagers with ecstasy, kissing them and fussing them while they jump all over you so that the whole thing becomes almost unbearable with excitement?
Henry is a confused fifteen-month-old Shar Pei. He has been loved and indulged by everyone in the family, but recently has become increasingly snappy and unpredictable. The problem seems to have come to a head when his family moved house a short while ago. Grandad moved in and older daughters Read more
Here is Leonberger, King Leo, making sure even larger Irish Wolfhound Pluto knows his place – beneath him! Leo is another example of people who chose the bravest and pushiest puppy in the litter and then find him hard work. At two years of age he has grown into his Read more