learn the essential dog training techniques for controlling your dog on a walk and recalling back to you. If your dog exhibiting behaviours like these though: Lunging towards other dogs Barking on sight of dogs Hackles raised Fearful or anxiousness behaviours These are some of the indicators that your dog has more deep seated issues…
It is nice for our dogs to bark and let us know when people are near the property. This provides us with security and a feeling of being protected. Dogs will bark for numerous reasons territory, protection, fear, for attention, a threat and often during play or on command. If you have lost the ability…
Often owners will get a dog after they have already got another pet animal like a cat for instance. Depending on the age of the dog or its history, some dogs can quickly develop a prey drive and chase the current pets in the house, or livestock out on the dog walk. This is extremely…
Sibling rivalry is where two dogs from the same litter cannot work out their hierarchy position, using dog aggression towards each other to try and stake their position who is higher. This can intensify with age, resulting often in high veterinary bills. Most common way of dog owners find themselves with sibling rivalry is when…
Dog separation anxiety is where a dog cannot bare to be left by its owner or human pack through feeling abandoned. The obvious indicator for this is being informed from your neighbour on your return that your dog is barking when left (neurotic extrovert.) This just isn’t pleasant to hear and can immensely make you…
Signs when your dog was at puppy stage, going into adolescent, reaching maturity as a adult dog may have been there. The subtle signs can be so minor and often so overlooked. You probably only was worried amount quantity of food not communications? It’s often so overlooked that your dog wasn’t accepting of any human passing or attempting…
Owning more than one dog can be difficult at the best of times, but it can become difficult and stressful when any of the dogs within a dog pack takes a dislike to each other using dog aggression. When this happens, often other members of the pack will join in causing a heightened frenzy of…
Dog aggression towards owner is where the dog has decided to have either have exhibited a bite or where the dog is showing signs of aggression like growls, lip curls and nips to family members. Building up to the aggression there might have been signs that all may have not been very balanced, or even…
Dog aggression is not for amateurs to cure, but should be left to a fully accredited dog behaviourists to handle. Dog aggression requires a high level of expertise, knowledge and understanding before any attempts be made to rectify it. Dog aggression has lots of supporting triggers. These triggers have to be determined and acted on or dog owners could easily make…