Don’t touch me!

Firstly, dogs rarely bite out of the blue unless it’s a medical condition like a brain tumour or thyroid imbalance. Usually after a fact-finding conversation and observations from a trained profession

Q I’m so concerned about my Labrador getting arthritis. Our previous Lab had it and spent the last couple of years of his life taking medication; I think he also experienced a lot of discomfort. Our c

Why does training slip? Why do the behaviours we thought were good become intermittent and then they fade into a distant memory? This can happen for a number of reasons – the technique we thought we h

Our resident trainer, Tony Cruse, has allowed us to be a fly on the wall of an online consultation. He is helping Phil, an owner whose Poodle X German Shepherd, Obi, is very excitable and wants to jum

One of my favourite jobs is health checks on litters of puppies before they go to their new homes. Both breeders and buyers find it useful for any problems to have been identified in advance of the pu

Just as our lives have changed dramatically over the past 50 years, so too has the existence of our dogs, says Carolyn Menteith