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- Getting your deaf dog’s attention with a remote control
- Cryptorchidism? The Lost Ball
- Esperanto for Dogs?
- Anticipatory Barking
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- 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 some merely have to 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?
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- GET ME OUT OF HERE!
- My Invisible Dog
- Forcing Square Pegs into Round Holes
- Always Look on the Bright Side Of Life…
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- 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’
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Bones – Good or Bad?
Here are four of my dogs chewing their bones in a companionable sort of way. They will soon be swapping them. One Christmas a bit later, when I had five dogs, I bought cooked bones from a reputable pet shop … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Health
Tagged bones raw bones, canine teeth, chewing bones, cooked bones, digestion, dog teeth, edible bones, recreational bones, Teeth
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Exercise – Is it Always a Good Thing?
Recently I had an unresolved discussion with a couple of dog trainers about a chronically stressed small dog and they suggested that he needed more exercise and more training – agility perhaps. My view is that the dog’s stress levels … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Health
Tagged exercise, exercise benefits, jogging, joints, over exercise, over stimulation, pulling, running, running by bike, stimulation, stress, walks
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Marking – Your Dog Has the Last Word?
We all know marking isn’t about merely emptying the bladder, it’s about ‘saying something’ and that where also has relevance. A recent study is about countermarking – both ‘overmarking’ or’ adjacent marking’ previous scent marks. It sounds a bit like … Continue reading
Posted in behaviour, Science & Health
Tagged adjacent marking, countermarking, marking, overmarking, tail, tail position, urine over marking
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