So you have been doing amazingly with your dog training but suddenly your dog is being naughty again, or even aggressive. It’s SO disheartening, you have done everything right and have worked so hard so why do you now have a devil dog on your hands? Firstly, stop...
Is telling your dog off the best way to get them to make the best choices? Is is really important that they know that they have done something wrong? How does my dog know if they’ve done something wrong if I don’t tell them off? There are quite a lot of angles to this...
Is it OK to Use a Slip Lead? When I was at a large dog event recently I noticed an increase in the number of people walking their dogs on slip leads. The scary fact is that every single one of those dogs was at risk of injury or worse as a result. Now, there is a...
It’s so scary as parents to hear in the news about children getting bitten by the family dog – evidence suggests that these incidents are on the rise! But we also know that dog ownership is so beneficial for the development and mental health of our kids. This...
Alpha dog? Dominant dog? Dominance theory in dogs is based on a study of captive zoo wolves conducted in the 1930s and 1940s by Swiss animal behaviourist Rudolph Schenkel, in which the scientist concluded that wolves in a pack fight to gain dominance, and the...