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From street dog to house dog. Outside world is overstimulating

Sasha finds the outside world overstimulating.

A street dog by birth, eighteen-month-old Sasha has adapted amazingly well to life in a house. This is a tribute to both her basic temperament and to her new family’s own efforts.

She finds the outside world overstimulating

She started life on the streets in India. They think she has Pointer in her. I see possibly Labrador and German Shepherd. A beautiful mix, she doesn’t look like the typical street dog.

At five months old, along with her brother, she was caught and placed in a pound where she stayed for another seven months until the couple adopted her six months ago. (more…)

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Fear of harness. Fear of lead

Fear of harness is overshadowing his otherwise perfect life. Little Reggie is a delightful, friendly little Border Terrier, ten months of age. He has a lovely life in every way bar one. In order to go out for walks he has to have his harness and lead put on. As soon as Read more

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Enjoyable walks begin at home

Enjoyable walks with Izzy can be better if she’s calmer before leaving Izzy, a stunning 14-month Old English Sheepdog, is extremely friendly, very bouncy and perhaps a little overwhelmed by the all the attention she gets. When I arrived she came to the door and gave one Woof. Thinking she may have been uneasy Read more

By Theo Stewart, ago

Walking two dogs together

The young lady had been walking them individually in order to work on Cooper’s pulling and Wilson’s cat-chasing. The thing that sapped her confidence to the extent that she feels she can’t walk them at all now was that on her last walk with Cooper, Wilson suddenly appeared.

Instead of just crying as he watched Cooper and the lady walk off down the road from an upstairs window, he leapt out of it.

By Theo Stewart, ago