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.
We love perky, bright and quick little dogs but because they are so reactive to things their stress levels easily rocket. This high state of arousal spreads tentacles that can adversely affect many areas of the dogs’ (and their owners’) lives.
The lady went to the back door with Monty who sat as usual. She bent down to attach his lead to his collar.
Monty went for her.
He was hanging from her hand as the lady screamed for help. The injury was so severe that the hospital feared she may need plastic surgery.
A friend came to the fence – someone who Finley knows. He looked happy and friendly as she said ‘Hello Finley’ and ran over to her, trailing the lead. As soon as she put her hand out over the fence however he leapt up and bit the sleeve of her coat. She narrowly missed a damaged hand and it took me by surprise also.
The reason I was called to meet and help Hugo was his aggression to dogs on walks. They now feel they can’t walk him anymore. However, I soon realised that this was just one symptom of a much wider issue than being aggressive to dogs on walks. The six-year-old Jack Read more…
People often feel, if they are out all day, that their dogs need a lot of space along with access to the garden. I frequently go to dogs that spend a lot of the long day barking. This often this results in complaints about barking from neighbours as is the Read more…
I suggested they start all over again just as though Vinnie had never been walked before while he settles in. They have had the young Jack Russell for just over one week now and he is a rescue dog slowly finding his feet. It’s very likely that he had seldom Read more…
Many humans feel it’s the right thing to do to play wildly exciting games (‘but the dogs love it’) or give manic greetings to dogs. They don’t understand that they may be pumping them up to such a degree that something eventually will have to give. It’s hard to convince people that it’s kinder to wait and respond to the dogs only when they are reasonably calm.
It can seem unfriendly and embarrassing when meeting a person with their dog if you simply walk away from them. For this reason I suggest a ‘dog in training’ yellow vest for Rags. This may help a little too with those off-lead uncontrolled dogs whose owners give one an earful when our own on-lead dog responds to being approached!
Jack Russell Bella constantly nibbles, sucks and chews herself – or scratches.
She has many seasonal allergies and allergies to food, but the nibbling and sucking was something else. The intensity and manner in which she chews herself looked to me like she was deliberately shutting out the world.