Jonny is a gorgeous, friendly dog – looking and behaving a lot younger than his supposed ten years. The elderly couple who had him previously could no longer keep him.
He has a lovely home now with activity and enrichment.
His two problems are around guarding, growling warning and chasing shadows – or just charging about chasing nothing.[divider type=”white”] (more…)
Laser lights, usually cat toys, are DANGEROUS to dogs! They should come with a written warning on the packaging. I went to a gorgeous little Cavapoo yesterday, called out because the people couldn’t understand her odd behaviour. They showed me this video. The six-month-old puppy runs about frantically looking for something, highly Read more…
What exactly is punishment? This is not the place to get all technical with semantics and the definitions of punishment. It’s enough to say here that it’s anything the dog doesn’t like, done by us, in order to stop him doing something we don’t want him to do – correction. Punishment Read more…
I regularly go to see Border Collies who are so very unfulfilled in what they have been bred for – herding and stalking – that they substitute sheep with shadows, lights, joggers, traffic, children or anything that moves. These two are both much-loved rescue dogs.[divider type=”white”] Obsessing over shadows Two-year-old Read more…
During the whole time that I was there, poor little two year old Cairn Terrier Charlie never settled. First of all, my arrival stirred him up. He did a lot of jumping up. Then he started looking for shadows and reflections and was obessively chasing them barking and growling at Read more…
Toffee is a beautiful fifteen month old Viszla – quite petite for the breed. She is a nervous dog – and has been since she was a puppy. She is an obsessive shadow chaser and (very unusually) already doing this at eight weeks old when they brought her home. He Read more…