Why do dogs dig?
While it may drive you mad and seriously damage your garden, digging is a perfectly normal and natural doggy activity – especially for certain breeds
While it may drive you mad and seriously damage your garden, digging is a perfectly normal and natural doggy activity – especially for certain breeds
Does your dog like to chase things? While this strong prey drive is natural in dogs and can be channelled into games of fetch, it’s not so good when you’re out for a walk and your pup tries to tear after everything that wanders into his peripheral vision
Carol & Claire Lawrence chat about the habits you and your dog may have gotten in to – some good and others not so good. And what you can do to change a cycle of behaviour that your dog may be doing that they shouldn’t!
What was that you said about having a perfect pet? Is your puppy suddenly giving you a bit (or a lot) of attitude? Won’t do as you ask? Ignoring all that basic training you worked so hard on last year? Yes? Sounds like you have an adolescent in the house!
It’s so important to think carefully before getting a new dog – and so many people don’t. We can guide you through that early, essential socialisation and in training your puppy.
It’s hard to find the time (and the enthusiasm at times) to train regularly. Despite my best intentions, I find days can go by without me doing the practice or the dog training I’d planned to do.
Dogs are creatures that accept change as a new normal and adapt fairly quickly to it – though not always in ways we want. But we know things will change again as we start to come out of lockdown. Our dogs don’t. So it’s important to prepare them for the change, whenever it comes.