It’s never too late, or too early, to start training your dog, so what better time to make a training plan and set some goals than the...

Following on from our New Puppy blog, we also have to consider those who have started the year with a new rescue dog. Whether your...

Who doesn’t love to start the year with a new challenge? Maybe it’s a New Years resolution … get fit, eat healthy, dry January … it’s all...

We all know the infamous slogan ‘A dog is for life, not just for Christmas’ but it doesn’t stop people continuing to buy puppies around...

The phrase “Ditch the Bowl” has become a popular term in the world of dog training and enrichment, with the idea to make mealtimes more...

You know that feeling when one day it feels like everything is going to plan, that problem you’ve been trying to solve is all starting to...

How do I Teach My Dog to Settle in Public? Do you ever sit in a café and look around to see several dogs lying calmly and quietly next to...

Dogs bark. It’s a fact. It’s their way of communicating with us so as much as we find it annoying, it’s only fair that rather than...

Are you getting it wrong? Where we’re at risk of getting socialisation wrong is when we teach our dogs that they have a right to engage...

Assistance Dogs help people who have physical, medical, psychiatric or developmental disabilities. Did you know, you can train your own...

Many dog owners believe that the Dangerous Dog Act only applies to dangerous dogs. But did you know, it actually applies to all breeds of...

Lead walking is a vital skill for our dogs, without good lead manners walks can become stressful and even dangerous. It’s easy to forget...

Trying to work out what our dogs need isn’t always easy, it doesn’t help that many behaviours which suggest our dogs have excess energy...

Daily life can get boring for our dogs sometimes. Sadly, not all of us can dedicate all hours of the day to keeping them entertained, and...

Understanding our dogs isn’t always easy, they do things which annoy us and we can’t always work out why. There are also so many...

There are a few simple rules to stick with which will make your training successful. Dog training isn’t an exact science, it’s not a...

How long does it take to train a dog: Setting realistic goals and ‘fixing’ problems Our dogs are a huge part of our lives, so when they...

People often think they’ve survived the hardest part of dog ownership when they’ve cracked toilet training and got their puppy sleeping...

Having one dog is great, but how many people soon start thinking about the prospect of adding another dog, or maybe two doesn’t seem...

The word ‘dominance’ will be taken in different ways by different people when it’s used in context of our dogs. Some people will be...

How many people avoid having visitors into their home because of their dogs’ behaviour? There’s probably a surprisingly high number of...

If there’s one thing most dog owners want from their dogs, it’s to be able to let them run freely off lead and be able to trust them to...

“Adopt Don’t Shop” has become a popular slogan in recent years, and for good reason. There are an estimated 600,000 dogs given up to...

Management is quite a buzz word in modern dog training (or reward-based, force-free, scientific, whatever you want to call it). In the...