by Jenni | Nov 21, 2020 | Checklists & Forms
Signals & Vocals Worksheets to help you understand your dog better. I’ve written about and provided resources for calming signals in my previous posts. But as with anything, it’s no good knowing something if you don’t do anything with that...
by Jenni | Nov 14, 2020 | Body Language & Signals
Barks & Growls Understanding “aggression” and vocalizations in dogs. Dog language and communication is about so much more than subtle body language. If their subtle body language, i.e. their calming signals, are not heeded they will often have to...
by Jenni | Nov 8, 2020 | Checklists & Forms
Observing Instincts Observe, understand, foster. My previous post on “Instincts” already covered some of the most common instinctual behaviours in dogs in some detail, so I won’t go into those details here (but go and read the previous post from the...
by Jenni | Nov 1, 2020 | Psychological & Social Needs
Instincts Knowing and understanding dog instincts. “In the minds of dogs behaviour is not categorised as “good” or “bad”; they are just being dogs, acting on their instincts.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides the following...
by Jenni | Oct 25, 2020 | Checklists & Forms
How “Street” Are Your Dogs? Provide your dogs with the best parts of “street life”. We make so many decisions for our dogs; we choose when they eat, what they eat, when they get to go to the toilet, how long their walks last, when they sleep,...
by Jenni | Oct 18, 2020 | Body Language & Signals, Decisions & Freedom Of Thought, Psychological & Social Needs, Walks, Exercise, Activation, & Rest
The Secret Lives of Streeties What street dogs can teach us about our pet dogs. Street dogs. They break my heart. They break my heart because I would like every dog to live as part of a caring, loving family. Isn’t it funny though how we humans think that we are...
by Jenni | Oct 10, 2020 | Checklists & Forms
Calming Signals What are they, and how you can recognise them. Calming signals, mystery to some, misunderstood by many. Learn to notice and respond to dogs’ calming signals though and you’ll find a completely different level of understanding and...
by Jenni | Oct 6, 2020 | Psychological & Social Needs, Walks, Exercise, Activation, & Rest
Walk This Way The art of dog walking. You wouldn’t think there would be any need for a blog post about walking dogs, but here I am writing one anyway. Dogs and walking are synonymous with each other; many people get a dog in the hopes that it will get them out...
by Jenni | Oct 3, 2020 | Body Language & Signals, Links & Resources, Other Inspiration
Dog Language Can Dogs Actually Communicate? Some of the greatest sources of stress and worry for me used to be situations where I thought something might be bothering my dogs or where I wasn’t sure how my dogs would react in certain situations. The stress and...
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