Deer birthing is now over. We can walk our dogs off leads again in the Royal Parks, deer birthing season is now over. That doesn’t give free rein to lets your dog(s) run out of control. Female deer will still aggressively defend their fawns, what they see as aggressive behaviour from a dog may well …

It’s something which, if we’re honest, we all wish we were better at. It can make the difference between a really enjoyable walk and a difficult experience. Remember any skill needs to be trained. You wouldn’t expect a dog to learn any other skill without training it, like any other skill you need to train …

They’re horrible aren’t they?. But we need to chat about ways to keep their numbers down and to keep our dogs free from them, or at least as free as we can. Ticks love warm, damp weather. A bit like we get lots of in the UK so ticks are fairly prevalent. If you walk …

Is that even a word? If it is or isn’t it’s an important concept for our dogs. In all areas of our dogs lives the little cues (& not so little) often dictate how they interact with us, what they expect us to do and their behaviour as a result is often prompted by them. …

From the 1st of May until 31st July Richmond and Bushy Parks both become all dogs on leads. This is to protect the deer who are giving birth and the fawns. It’s also worth remembering the female deer are vert aggressive in their protections of fawns. They often leave their fawns safely hidden while they …

Way back in November I wrote a blog post about Canine Body Language – it’s taken me much longer than I’d intended to write part 2. On current form I guess part 3 will land around September, I do intend to write it sooner though.Time will tell if that will happen or not. What is …

You’re picking up your new puppy and bubbling over with excitement. It’s such a great feeling. But how do you introduce them to your older established dog? Its a problem many of us are lucky enough to face. Most dogs will cut a new puppy some slack, simply by virtue of their age, but it’s …

Without a doubt ensuring proper socialisation is the single most important thing you can do for your dog & you haven’t got that long to do it. By the time they’re 16 weeks old you’ve left it too late. A puppy’s brain is a little sponge. It soaks up as much information as you and …

It’s an exciting time. A new puppy home for the first time. I can’t think of much better. But as well as exciting remember that, for them, it’s overwhelming and often a little scary. If we understand the reasons why that is then we can help them to settle in. As big a day was …

Every dog needs bombproof recall. There’s little more frustrating then a dog who chases uncontrollably while you want to go home, its dangerous if they do it near a road (for example) and often, if our pet gun dog has gone self employed and is making their own entertainment they’ll often do so by not …