What happens when a dog’s growling warning is ignored?
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. (more…)
Laser lights, usually cat toys, are DANGEROUS to dogs! They should come with a written warning on the packaging.
Could everyday corrections and ‘time-outs’ be making Banjo more anxious and reactive? 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 Read more
Why do some intelligent dogs become obsessed with shadows, lights or movement? 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. Read more
My arrival stirred him up. He did a lot of jumping up.
Then he started looking for shadows and reflections. He obsessively chases shadows. He growls and barks at them. He was very restless all evening. He even had to be held still so I could take a photo of him.
Toffee is a beautiful fifteen month old Vizsla – quite petite for the breed. She is a nervous dog – and has been since she was a puppy. An obsessive shadow chaser, she was (very unusually) already doing this at eight weeks old when they brought her home. Her mother Read more