Why does a young dog become wildly over-excited around people?
It’s as if Willow, the over-excited one-year-old Wirehaired Vizsla, is driven by rocket fuel!
All their efforts are understandably around trying to stop Willow jumping up at people, flying all over them, grabbing feet and so on. (more…)
Why did Barney panic and attack when people walked away from him? People walking away from him causes Barney to lose it. Barney’s lady owner had been so sure that due to his odd behaviour he had something either wrong with his brain or a chemical imbalance in his body, that 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. The best life possible They took him 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 Vizsla is four, and Poppy is two years old. Other dogs when out Over the past few months Poppy Read more
From the start, 5-month-old Vizsla 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 experience all sorts of people, dogs, traffic and places etc., but only at a non-scary positive distance. It was Read more
When people call me about their dog, they nearly always, feeling disloyal, first list their dog’s good points. They tell me that their dog is ‘perfect dog in the house’, or a ‘very loving dog’…..BUT…..and then they tell me about the difficulties they are having and the distress it is Read more