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- Patience is a virtue and virtue is a grace…..
- “My Dog Won’t Listen”
- Stepping Stones to Calm and Confident Walks. A Chaining Game for Reconstructing Walks
- Silence is Golden
- Ten Proven Ways to Achieve Aggression in Your Dog
- A Behaviourist? What should that word really mean?
- You and Your Dog’s Uniqueness. (A word in the ear of first Time Dog Owners)
- “Are you a Cesar Millan or a Victoria Stilwell?”
- Mental Health and Wellbeing is for dogs too.
- Scared of the Car. Will he ‘just get used to it?’. Maybe. Maybe not.
- How do we ‘Socialise’ our puppies whilst either in lock-down or social distancing?
- TV – Do our dogs love it or do they endure it?
- Stress causes dogs to go grey too.
- ‘Me Too’ for Dogs?
- Shameless anthropomorphism – and why not?
- Distraction ain’t Counter-Conditioning
- Dog Behaviour Reality Check
- Old Person Young Dog
- If they don’t understand English – SHOUT
- Does ‘training’ alone really resolve unwanted behaviour?
- The ‘Uh-uh’ Tick
- A leftover from the dark ages of dog training?
- Old Owner, New Tricks?
- Say Hello Nicely.
- I’ve Hidden the Ball Thrower. A Cautionary Tale
- Your Choice – or is it?
- Cleanliness Next to Dogliness?
- GET ME OUT OF HERE!
- My Invisible Dog
- Forcing Square Pegs into Round Holes
- Always Look on the Bright Side Of Life…
- Pawing our Pets
- We Exhale, Our Dogs (and Cats) Become Smokers Too
- Sensory Overload – Dogs Also?
- “I Never Feed my Dog Human Food”
- ‘ Command Your Dog to Sit’
- Fear of Men – Why are some dogs more wary of men?
- Stubborn Dog? Dogged Dog?
- Working Wage for Dogs?
- Snakes and Ladders
- Practice? Liszt or Chopsticks
- Silence Really IS Golden
- I Yelled ‘NO’! I Admit it!
- Education, Education, Education
- Why Pick on the Pit Bull?
- Habituation and Desensitisation. The Difference?
- A Second Fear Period?
- The Rucksack Walk
- Control the Environment or Control the Puppy?
- Being Bothered
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Brain Damage – It’s not me, it’s a problem with my dog’s brain.
The problem with your reactive dog may actually be not only behavioural but a problem with his brain. You think you must have done something wrong, because why else would your dog have so many problems? Sometimes this is simply … Continue reading
Reverse Sneezing – Is your dog having an asthma attack?
It can look like your dog may die at any moment and if you’ve never seen this before it can be a frightening experience. My own Lurcher, Pip, does it from time to time and I did find it alarming … Continue reading
Negative Events – more harmful than positive events are beneficial.
As a Russian saying goes: ‘a spoonful of tar can spoil a barrel of honey, but a spoonful of honey does nothing to a barrel of tar’ (Rozin & Royzman, 2001). Why are unpleasant experiences so much more lasting than … Continue reading
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Tagged negatives experiences, positive experiences
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Tail Talk
Deborah Bird in EarthSky writes: A dog wagging his tail to the right is happy, but a dog wagging to the left is stressed. To see the science behind this, a report is in ‘Current Biology’. Not only does the … Continue reading
Dental Chews – Are we bad dog owners if we don’t buy Dentastix?
In volume, a small dog consuming a daily Dentastix is like you or me eating several doughnuts for breakfast and just about as nourishing. Take a look at the ingredients of Pedigree Dentastix. We want to keep our dogs’ teeth … Continue reading
Littermates – Let’s get TWO puppies!
Getting two puppies at the same time seems like a great idea says Sara Reusche in a blog about littermate syndrome. Dogs are social animals, and a dog who will be alone all day can easily turn to destructive behavior … Continue reading
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Tagged litter mates, littermate syndrome, littermates, siblings
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Sense of Smell – You Might Be Embarrassed at What he Can Detect!
In an article by in Psychology Today, Stanley Coren poses the question: Why do dogs like to sniff crotches? You may be embarrassed if you knew how much information a dog can get! There was a case in the US … Continue reading
Asleep – Why is it that some dogs snap when touched?
To quote http://www.doggies.com: ‘When your dog is lying quietly and breathing deeply and rhythmically during sleep, he or she is likely experiencing slow wave sleep, called the SWS phase. During this phase, blood pressure and body temperature drop, as does … Continue reading
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