He’s never been happy being left, but now something has caused young Huxley to flip when the lady gets ready to leave him. PANIC! Why now? Probably this has something to do with him being an adolescent, and could also have something to do with a second fear period They Read more…
Poor Border Collie Sweeper does not feel safe. In some areas of the country automatic bird-scarers and those fired like rockets are going off like fireworks throughout daylight hours. At each bang Sweeper panics. He can hear them even when we can’t. A dogs hearing can be up to 40 Read more…
When I arrived he was very frightened though, unusually when someone new comes to his house, he didn’t bark at me. I had choreographed my entrance carefully.
These first two photos show his anxiety. One with the lifted leg. The other in the way he is lying, kind of hugging himself.
Feels unsafe
Looking at me anxiously
Little Jack Russell Jasper, age two, has been in his new home for six months. One half of the couple he lives with is off work just now but goes back in a month.
Being left alone terrifies Jasper. (more…)
Millie is a Beagle, a Lemon Beagle, ten years of age. She has lived with my lady client for eighteen months. She is a sweet and gentle dog but she carries some baggage. Three things in particular make her very distressed. Her bedtime behaviour, her panic when left alone and Read more…
The Beagle can’t be left all alone. When they adopted Libby a couple of weeks ago, they had no clue they wouldn’t be able to go out to work and happily leave her. She had previously been fostered out by the rescue – to a home with several dogs. Her Read more…
The dear little Lhasa Apso Jack Russell mix seems to have a near perfect life. Why is she so easily scared and spooked? They have had her since she was a puppy and she has always been nervous. It must surely be genetic. Celeste is ‘living on the edge’. The Read more…
Tilly was picked up from a barn in Wales six days ago. She is the most beautiful two-year-old Chocolate Labrador that you can imagine, beautiful both in looks and in temperament. Although she has had very little contact with the ‘real world’, if it were a puppy farming outfit then Read more…
This British Bulldog is only seven months old and is scared of everything. He’s also very brave. Facing fears takes a lot of courage. When I came to the door his flying all over me and humping was fuelled not only by friendliness but also by anxiety, I’m sure. There Read more…
Suddenly a large fly was buzzing around the room and Jasper lost it! He barked, flew all over the place and jumped at us all. When the lady goes to open the window to let a fly out he has a panic attack – after barking and leaping about, he Read more…