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Have you got a noisy dog?
My book ‘Barking’ looks at the subject of excessive barking – with your dog’s wellbeing at the heart of the strategies and advice, rooted in both first hand experience and science. Here’s a brief extract. Barking is often associated with high arousal situations, so for many dogs the oft-given advice to calm everything down is…
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Is this “good” for my dog?
There’s quite a lot of areas of training and behaviour we get involved in that we believe we know are “good” for dogs. Like scentwork (in its various forms) for example. The oft cited figure that a dog needs “10 hours” of sleep is another. And we could be right – without any science to…
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Using food treats – have we gone wrong somewhere?
I was chatting to an old friend today about using food treats in training and she was lamenting the fact that food seems to be so overused in training these days – and that often dogs can’t/won’t do anything unless the owner is clutching food in their hand. I get it! It’s one of the…