Billy guards his personal space – mostly from the young girl. It’s hurtful when he growls at her. She does a lot of the work of looking after him and training him. They have a great bond. Billy is a friendly and affectionate 8-month old Show Cocker Spaniel but with Read more…
Trevor’s story is all about relationship, the relationship between the three-year-old Cocker Spaniel Beagle mix and the man. All was fine until Trevor began to growl when the man approached the dog when he was in their bed. Their relationship went downhill They then employed a trainer and the relationship Read more…
An online consultation. The young man has a Sprocker called Obi, five years of age. They live with his parents and their dog, but Obi is very much the young man’s dog. He is an extremely conscientious dog owner. Twin toddlers A couple of times a week his sister, her Read more…
Young working dog without a job. I have just met Sam who is seven months of age. Sam is so very like my own Working Cocker Spaniel, Pickle. I have had over five years with Pickle, learning how to give my alert and energetic working dog a sufficiently fulfilled life so that he’s Read more…
Baloo is born to guard. His entire life centres around guarding his family. He’s ‘on duty’ all the time.
I sat down at the kitchen table and they opened the door. The most enormous dog charged towards me giving a giant rumbling WOOF.
He stopped short of me (fortunately!). He’s a lot bigger than he looks here – they say he weighs about 11 stone. (more…)
There really is something so endearing about a Cocker Spaniel! Cockers haven’t been put on this earth to be ignored. My own Cocker, Pickle, is totally different to Toby in that he’s not a guarder, but he, too, can be a handful. He is a working Cocker and keeps himself, Read more…
Unpredictable aggression? Unpredictable only because they can’t see inside Banjo’s head. If they could, and if stress was visible, they might see a little pressure cooker in there; they would see how over the past five months or so things have simply become too much for him. Unpredictable also because Read more…
They had been told her guarding behaviour couldn’t be fixed which is pretty unbelievable really. They were told nothing would stop her picking up and guarding anything that was lying around. The two main problems with beautiful and mostly loving Cockerpoo Nell are that she will steal things, run off Read more…
Ollin is a Xoloitzcuintli. I have never even heard of a Xoloitzcuintli before let alone visited one. Where did the possessive behaviour come from? Ollin has been perfectly happy with her humans touching something she’s eating should they need to. She lets them take her toys. She’s having none of it however Read more…
Things are a whole lot more serious when children are involved. This is from the original email the lady sent me: “Alfie has started growling around his food, toys and bed since June. He is very possessive and he bit me once as well. We have been trying to stop him Read more…