Get all your Seasonal prep guidance in one place…here! Check out our Christmas Bites for the 2024 festivities. Get ’em all in one go here and follow along on our socials for guidance, one day at a time. Start practicing now to set your dog up for Seasonal success ..read more

‘Tis the Season for Christmas Bites to help get you and your dog ready for the Howlidays Calm & comfortable canine behaviour doesn’t happen by Christmas magic…it happens with sensible management, realistic expectations & meeting your dog’s needs. We can all find the Season stressful & overwhelming, including our dogs. As part of planning for ..read more

Our last From Paper to Practice webinar of 2024…and it’s free! We are talking about trauma-informed care and this paper, Potential Benefits of a ‘Trauma-Informed Care’ Approach to Improve the Assessment and Management of Dogs Presented with Anxiety Disorders, with one of the authors, Dr Claire Corridan. Join us on Monday 25th November at 8pm ..read more

I post about it pretty much every year and that’s because every year the same signs are there that the effects of seasonal fireworks, on the behaviour & health of dogs (and other animals), have become normalised. Rather than posting videos of terribly distressed pets and commenting how awful fireworks are, we need to have ..read more

We’ve officially come to the end of this years enormously successful series of Pay-What-You-Can webinars so I’m definitely going to run another series in 2025. Our Think Enrichment…for Puppies webinar was postponed as I developed laryngitis and lost my voice so there was no way I could present on that day. So I’ve reschedule this ..read more

Bringing you more goodies! Join IVBA and Dr Eduardo Fernandez to discuss LIFE! In our From Paper to Practice series, we take an informal but in-depth look at the literature and how best to apply it in our day-to-day interactions with animals. This time we are looking at this paper: Fernandez, E. J. (2024). The ..read more

Lucky for me I get to share a new project that’s very important to me, at the same time as I lament that such a project is needed. Dogs In Society is a new stakeholder group made up of experienced dog behaviour professionals and educators. I and some colleagues have been brought together on this ..read more

Let me just start this piece with a brief disclaimer. At no time here or anywhere else am I making light of or downplaying the trauma, the terror, the pain, the fear relating to dog bites or “attacks”. I work with people who have experienced just that, usually in interactions with their own dogs, every ..read more

When faced with a loved one’s mortality, perhaps they are getting on in years or perhaps there’s been a particularly damming diagnosis, it’s pretty natural to think of all the things we might want to pack into the limited time we have left together. Bucket lists for dogs have become a social media staple. Videos ..read more

Because we had a massively popular response to our PWYC webinars last year, we are bringing them back with even more!  We want to get the best education, that’s evidence based and focused in critical evaluation of the status-quo, to as many of you as possible. And the best bit? You can pay what you are able to pay. No questions asked. each webinar is 2.5-3 hours long be ready for lots of detail & content! slides will be sent afterwards live attendance and participation is encouraged & recommended Find out more about this webinar program here and register for your chosen eve ..read more