Dogs are placed into rescue centres for many and various reasons. These dogs do not necessarily have behaviour problems. Sometimes a loving owner may have died or cannot keep their pet any longer for other reasons. However, there is no question that even putting a balanced dog into a rescue centre will cause it stress, […]

That’s all very well to say but if you are a keen gardener or even a mildly interested one, it’s extremely frustrating to find a scale model of the World War 1 trenches trailing across your garden when you want to mow the lawn or simply relax! So why do dogs do it? It’s instinctual […]

Recently I told a tale of how the mood and assumptions of a dog’s owner affect the way a dog feels. It put me in mind of a situation I came across not so long ago in which I was asked to help a young couple with their dogs. They had been married a few […]