What happens when a young working-bred dog has lots of energy but no real job to do? 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 Read more
Over the last few weeks, for some reason Gonzo has become what the ladies describe as ‘hyper-vigilant’ at home.
He is now barking a lot and has becoming increasingly jumpy and alert. In the evenings he can’t settle.
Instead of correcting him and constantly trying to train him out of it, they will now show him what they do want him to do when he sees a person or a dog. This will empower him and themselves.
Why did Barney panic and attack when people walked away from him? People walking away from him causes Barney to lose it. Barney’s lady owner had been so sure that due to his odd behaviour he had something either wrong with his brain or a chemical imbalance in his body, that Read more
It’s hard to see where the tension, eyeballing and snarling between the two dogs has come from. It seemed to be out of the blue – but was it? Both dogs had been happily living and playing together since they took on Poppy, now three years old, as a puppy. Tilly is ten years old.
Whilst harsh training methods may well work in the moment, there is usually future fallout of some sort. And is it ethical? I may well get some people’s backs up, but here goes! Gun dogs Dogs that are specifically trained and used as gun dogs for sport are to my Read more
Little Lakeland Terrier Whisky is seriously reactive to other dogs. As soon as she sees a dog she begins to scream, and if she can get to it she will attack, grabbing its neck and holding on. Whisky lives with a lovely 2 year old Labrador who is being trained Read more
You can see Poppy the black Labrador felt uneasy having her photo taken! She lives with Ellie, a Jack Russell. The dogs have two very separate and different lives. During the day they go to work with the male owner to his workshop. He walks them off lead only in Read more
Using force, pushing him into scary situations he’s not ready for and even using a spray collar for when he barks at people on walks as ‘a friend said’, will have the very opposite effect to what they want him to grow up to be. A relaxed, friendly and confident adult dog.
I met Ozzy today, a beautiful one year old black Labrador of gun dog pedigree. When I used my flash. Ozzy looks like a ghost! Humans get “red-eye” from the reflection off of our blood vessels in the retina. Dogs have a reflective layer of cells at the back of Read more