I couldn’t believe how calm and confident Sketch was when I arrived. She was interested without being pushy. It was only a couple of weeks ago that the ten-month-old Wirehaired Pointer had arrived with my clients. Previous to that she had been turned out onto the streets with her siblings Read more…
It’s sad when a dog that has been so conscientiously reared from a puppy, well-trained and socialised, starts to develop antagonistic behaviour towards other dogs. What could have gone wrong? I feel really sorry for the young couple with beautiful Hungarian Vizsla Mac. They took him to classes and training Read more…
Poppy attacked a Whippet for ‘no reason’. Out of the blue. It usually takes a crisis of some sort to make us face up to a gradually worsening problem. Monty the Viszla is four, and Poppy on the right is two years old. Over the past few months Poppy has Read more…
A couple of months ago I visited Viszla puppy Lola, then age just 5 months. A series of circumstances had quickly transformed a confident and friendly puppy into a nervous wreck. This is her story. They have worked so hard at building her confidence back and I have just received Read more…
From the start, Lola’s lovely people have been soaking up information on the positive way to bring up a puppy. They knew how important it was that she should be introduced to all sorts of people, dogs, traffic, machinery and places in the first few weeks they had her – Read more…
Zoli, the Hungarian Viszla puppy I first went to when he was ten weeks old, is now seven months! What a handsome boy! This is him at ten weeks old: http://www.dogidog.co.uk/?p=9375 His people have followed a lot of my advice and he is becoming a well-mannered dog with great progress Read more…
From my iPhone photo you really get no sense of the silky smoothness of Zoli’s coat and the loose skin waiting to be grown into! He is a ten-week-old Hungarian Viszla who now lives with people who’ve not had a dog before. This is the message I received last week: 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…