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Should your dog go to doggie day care

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Helping your reactive dog part 2

Training a reactive dog can be a challenging task, but it is possible with the right approach and consistency. Here are some tips to help you train your reactive dog:1.    Understand your dog's triggers: Observe your dog closely to identify what triggers their reactive behaviour. This could be other dogs, people, bicycles, cars, children, loud noises, or anything else that causes them to react.2.    Manage the environment: When you know what triggers your dog, you c...

Reactive dogs

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What is the most important thing to teach your dog

What can you teach your dog. There are so many  things that it would be great our dog could do. We want to have funplaying with our dog, we may want them to come on adventurers with us, be polite to visitors, and be calm when we want them to be. But where do we start. What do you think is the most important thing to train your dog - sit - come - dont jump up - dont run away - walk on lead - lie on a bed - no barking etc These are all important but.. What do you train or teach first Non...

Loving my naughty dogs - my journey into training

I thought for my first blog I would talk about my dogs and how I got into training. I have always been attracted to animals with all my earliest memories are of animals even if they werent mine. I always knew where the local animals were and if I went missing I would be located with the local horse, sheep , dog,,, I wasnt allowed pets so I used to sneak caterpillars, bees or shrimps from the local pond in and keep them. Later on I spent alot of time working in the science labs where I ...