I notice that an American organisation, FLexPetz, has just launched a Dog Rental service in the UK.
Apparently, for a fee, a busy family is able to rent a pet dog for a week or whatever time period they require. The aim is to provide the companionship of a pet dog to busy people without them […]

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According to Wikipedia, ‘alpha’, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, denotes the first of a series of items or categories and in the case of a group of animals it means ‘the socially dominant individual’ or leader.
In other words ‘Alpha Dog’ and ‘Leader of the Pack’ are the same thing really aren’t they? In […]

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This is the method we’ve been using to train Kylie to stop pulling every time she’s out on the leash. It’s really helped me as Kylie is much stronger than me and will only get stronger as she matures.

It’s quite simple really, all you need to do is keep your dog an a short leash […]

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Hi there fellow dog-lover,
It never ceases to amaze me the reasons that callous dog owners give for abandoning their pets… if they give a reason at all that is.
In the current economic turmoil abandoned dogs (and other pets) are being found in record numbers. I have recently read harrowing reports from America where home-owners who […]

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Hi there,
This is the final article in the series on dog aggression. In the previous article we outlined aggression toward family members and discussed ‘Resource Guarding’ in detail. Today we are going to cover the other major type of aggression toward family members, that is:
Aggression Due to a Perceived Threat
Very often this type of […]

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In the previous article I mentioned that there were two main types of aggression in dogs. We dealt with one type in that article - namely dog aggression toward strangers - and today we’ll talk about a common problem with quite a lot of dogs, that is:
Aggression towards family members
A dog is aggressive towards […]

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Dogs are aggressive creatures by instinct. In the wild aggression is necessary as it helps dogs to hunt, defend themselves from other creatures, and to defend resources such as food, mates and a place to sleep.
Over the centuries though, selective breeding has minimized and refined this trait somewhat but, even still, dogs of all sizes […]

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