š Halloween š With a week to go to Halloween, I’ve been getting lots of requests for how to prepare young dogs especially for this week. š» If you have an adult dog already terrified there’s not a lot of time to change how they feel but I would speak to your Vet to see if your dog could be prescribed any medications that may help. š With midterm starting now, It might be an idea to walk dogs very early in the morning before anyone might be messing around with bangers and fireworks to avoid any one trial learning that may have life long affects on how your dog feels about fireworks. š» If your dog is already sound sensitive this week is probably going to be hard so prepare as best as you can. It might be an idea to chat to your vet as there are strong links between pain and sound sensitivity in dogs. If your older dog is more fearful this year, pain might be one thing you want to rule out with your vet. š If your dog or puppy wants comfort because they are really scar
Imagine you are walking to work and a stranger going past hits you, no bruises or marks but you get an awful fright. A few weeks later, a different person jumps you and knocks you over and says they were only messing and stop being such a snowflake. Another few weeks later and another stranger going past comes shouting in your face and leaves a scratch and minor bruise but you can’t see them under your coat anyway, so no damage done...right... Or maybe wrong....how would you feel about walking to work? Would strangers make you nervous? This is what our dogs are suffering over and over and I get several emails PER DAY about confident, happy social dogs confidence damaged by untrained off lead dogs sometimes friendly, sometimes just inappropriate and occasionally aggressive. ⚠️ If your friendly dog runs up to other onlead dogs to play, you need to teach them to recall and stay focused on you or else leash them while you pass. ⚠️ If your dog is not friendly and is going to scare anot