Why does the Border Collie become fixated on one spot in the garden? Border Collie Oscar lives with a young couple who love him dearly. They do everything they can think of to give him the best life. One thing they have been unable to overcome. Fixates. Frozen Oscar, in Read more
Is something wrong with him — or is stress quietly building beneath the surface?
Maybe it wasn’t such a sudden behaviour change after all. Perhaps there were already signs.
Earlier when we spoke on the phone I heard this story:
It began about three months ago. Ambrose was spending hours just sitting and staring.
He wasn’t looking for shadows or lights. In the lady’s words, he stared obsessively and becomes very distant. When they called him out of it he came, but went straight back.
Coinciding with this there was a sudden change in the two-year-old Cocker Spaniel’s attitude towards the family’s other four dogs. One, four month old Vizsla pup, Hector, he had ‘attacked’ several times – not yet drawing blood but very negative experiences for Hector at a vulnerable age.
What happens when a simple laser toy triggers an obsession that takes over a dog’s life? 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 Read more
She is not a naughty dog. She is a BORED dog.
The family is on the back foot, trying to ‘field’ the things that Willow throws at them rather than themselves being proactive. She is a clever, working dog with insufficient appropriate stimulation so she is constantly finding ways to fulfil herself. She spends quite bit of time in the ‘naughty’ room.
Why do some intelligent dogs become obsessed with shadows, lights or movement? I regularly go to see Border Collies who are so very unfulfilled in what they have been bred for – herding and stalking – that they substitute sheep with shadows, lights, joggers, traffic, children or anything that moves. Read more
Is your dog trying to control people because she feels frightened and unsafe? Little Lottie is a sweetie. She is a very small Border Collie mix, eighteen months of age. She lives with a couple and their two teenage sons. She is a stressy little dog, highly reactive to things Read more