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Canine Consultant - Emma
- Aug 8, 2020
- 9 min
Stress Reduction & Building Independence
Todays blog is brought to you by Errol, now our eldest dog, who is seen here advertising his latest favourite treat, Scrumbles Calming Ni...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- Apr 5, 2020
- 8 min
Preventing Separation Related Anxiety/Frustration
Currently, we are all supposed to be staying at home, remaining at home, going out as little as possible, and it is tempting to think tha...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- Mar 19, 2020
- 5 min
Crufts... Oh that's not for me!
I hear that statement so many times. Crufts... it's not for me. It's for posh show types, it's for prancey dogs that never play outside i...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- Feb 6, 2019
- 12 min
TV Dog Trainers - Part 2 WWYD?
So the previous blog got some criticism, mainly along the lines of 'well what would YOU do?' and after a week of deliberation I have deci...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- Jan 23, 2019
- 10 min
TV Dog Trainers Aren't Magicians
Every so often, a TV channel brings out the latest animal training, animal behaviour based reality program. Sometimes it’s a competition,...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- Jan 4, 2019
- 14 min
Separation Anxiety - Fact vs Fiction
Separation anxiety is something of a hot topic, something many trainers and behaviourists avoid like the plague and something widely misu...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- May 24, 2018
- 4 min
What's Stressing Your Dog?
'But my dog isn't stressed! My dog has an amazing time every day, chasing the ball, chasing the kids, going to the park and chasing ducks...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- May 24, 2018
- 3 min
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie...
It would seem, as old as this adage is, (circa 1380 if you really needed to know) it seems we've been ignoring the importance of sleep fo...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- May 8, 2018
- 3 min
Let dogs BE dogs, please!
What exactly is it we want from our dogs? I was watching some training videos the other night and ended up sidetracked into watching a we...
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Canine Consultant - Emma
- May 8, 2018
- 2 min
Tales from the Showground...
Having not been overly Busy this weekend it sadly gives us the opportunity to observe really bad dog handling from Joe Public and it ma...
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