When a friendly young dog tips into over-excitement at the smallest trigger, is the answer to stop the excitement — or to deliberately teach calm instead? Ozzy is 22 months old. He has a wonderful nature for a family pet and is friendly to people and dogs. There is one Read more
Why would two young dogs react with frantic barking to almost everything in daily life? I walked in the door to be met with frantic barking. Brave Luna, with frantic barking, came right up to me. Her sister backed her up but with less enthusiasm. Luna and Bear are same-sex Read more
What happens when a young working Labrador has nothing meaningful to do?
She is a thirteen-month-old beautiful fox red Labrador.
I alw
ays ask my clients what their aim in having me would be if I had a magic wand. Which of course I don’t!
Bonnie’s owners said simply, ‘Happy walks with a happy dog’.
One would think that Bonnie had everything in life a dog could ask for. However, the most important thing, apart from food and keeping safe, is missing.
A job. (more…)
Why does a dog that runs happily with others still react to them on walks? They had two German Shorthaired Pointers, Douglas and Gracie with which the couple did Canicross. Sadly, Gracie developed cancer, had to have a leg amputated and can no longer run. Four months ago they adopted Read more
‘Commands’ learnt in traditional training classes don’t always transfer to real life. One reason for this is arousal and another is distraction. It’s hard to keep a young dog like Leia sitting still somewhere, under control, when with her whole being she wants to fly all over the place in wild excitement!
One-year-old Pointer, Chase, is a working dog without sufficient outlets to exercise his brain. With a dog like this, a daily walk simply isn’t enough. By getting attention in any way that he can, bored dog Chase is giving himself work to do. Mixed messages and confusion He must also Read more
Sometimes life just doesn’t go according to plan. The gentleman had an emergency operation three weeks ago and will take some time to fully recover. He was the main dog walker as the lady is not strong enough to manage her alone. She can’t walk Pip. Energetic Pip is a Read more
I don’t remember, out of all the Labradoodles I have been to, going to a black one. Audrey is gorgeous (the lady joked on the phone that the name was so that her husband would have to call ‘Audrey’ on walks!). Funnily enough, not coming when called until she feels Read more
Milo is quite unusual – a Dalmatian Collie cross (called, I think, a Dolly). Here he is in my demo harness which fitted him so well I left it behind. His lady owner works from home with people calling frequently. Milo is polite and extremely well socialised. He loves people. Read more
From her owners’ perspective, adorable Bichon-Maltese mix Charlie is given everything a dog could possibly want for a happy life. They always thought that the more excited she is the more joyful she feels. From Charlie’s perspective, she is living a life punctuated by extreme stress and chronic anxiety. She Read more