Bella is the most adorable, soft, cute, friendly and totally scrumptious Beagle puppy of six months old. She greeted me with lots of jumping up. She jumped up at the counters. Bella jumped at and onto the table. Bella is told NO. She’s told GET DOWN. When I arrive I usually Read more…
The three Lurchers I have just been to live in Dog Heaven! In a fairly small environment they are allowed a great deal of enrichment in terms of things to chew and explore with no owner panic if they make a mess! I have to persuade many people to give their dogs things Read more…
How does one really define biting? Is it engagement of teeth or is it to do with the intent behind the engagement of teeth? From what I had been told on the phone I was going to a dog that repeatedly bit people, especially the man, and I was expecting Read more…
Because Pug-Jack Russell mix Freddie wasn’t being ‘controlled’, he was all over the place. He was waiting to be told what to do – or more what not to do. Like so many people, they do their best to control his behaviour by using NO and constant commands like ‘Get Read more…
Yesterday I visited a 9-month-old Cocker Spaniel called Willow. Wonderful! My own irrepressible Cocker Spaniel, Pickle, has given me some good practice. Here is a list of things Willow does: Jumping up on people, excessive licking of people’s faces, jumping at the table and sides, barking (answering) back when told off, Read more…
Stress takes dogs in different ways. Mungo finds relief in humping. Old-fashioned views would simply write humping off as ‘dominance’. He’s three years old and probably a Springe/Pointer cross. He came over from Ireland as a puppy, was adopted for a while and ended up at The Dogs Trust in Read more…
The three beautiful dogs gave me a polite greeting when I arrived and it would have been hard to guess there were any problems. Fourteen-year-old Border Collie Dizzy is no trouble at all, Yorkie Waffle, age 4, does more or less what he wants but that causes no problems really Read more…
Six-month-old Cocker Spaniel Buddy’s problem was unruliness, flying about and grabbing clothes – pulling on lead and generally lacking control. I went to see them yesterday because the lady has just taken on Ollie, a beautiful Golden Retriever ‘free to a good home’ whose family were out at work all Read more…
I visited Monty 18 months ago and he was something of a puppy nightmare – see here for his story back then: http://www.dogidog.co.uk/?p=2778. Following instructions, Monty and his family were doing so well that bit by bit they departed from our plan, thinking it no longer necessary. Gradually his old Read more…
The only way to get a photo of Bella was to wait until she was lying down! She is a small seven month-old Staffie who isn’t a bad dog really, but in most respect she is just ‘too much’. She is particularly ‘too much’ for their other, older Staffie Marvin Read more…