Around The Block Dog Supplies

30/01/2025

Just arrived as a sample, come in and take a look 👀 Bring your 🐕🐩 to check it out and pop your name down on the list to be sure to get one from the first delivery RRP £19.99

The first 10 customers will get 10% off, that makes them just £17.99! ONLY IF you share this post! Collection in store only.

Hours of fun and not just for dogs! Cats, horses and hedgehogs have been filmed playing with them too...Google it!

Play, engage and reward!

PLAY9 thank you! I am really looking forward to taking this one home this evening 🐾🧡

24/01/2025

Wow! There's a lot of yummy natural treats in those boxes! Great for dental health, joint care, and mental stimulation. Natural dog treats are prepared by dehydrating or air-drying the leftovers from the human food chain. No chemicals or additives.

Unlike the rawhide you often see in the discount stores, that stuff comes from the leather trade and has been through quite a journey before it reaches the shelves... Chemical hair removal, bleached, shaped, coloured and glued... Not easily dissolved in a dogs stomach acid and it has the high potential to cause a blockage when large pieces are swallowed.

Natural treats give dogs an appropriate outlet for their natural need to chew and are easily digested.

Always choose an age and size appropriate natural chew, supervise and make sure that clean drinking water is available. You may even see some evidence of the calming effect of the release some lovely happy hormones.

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24/01/2025

EDIT: free tastings from 10am
Saturday 25th January - Burns Night
An extra treat for any 4 legged tartan wearers when buying a Haggis Pate 😋😋

If on your wanderings you find yourself in Bognor Regis with your 4-legged friend we would love to welcome you to our natural dog food, treats and supplies shop.

Try some Anco Haggis Pate as a treat for your Furry friend this Burns Night, it can be diced, grated, sliced or sprialised (yes I did try that out) 🐾😊. You can spread it on a lick mat, grate it onto a snuffle mat or use it to hide tablets in, feel free to get creative! 😊

Ingredients are: lamb 95%, minerals 2% and some parsley, sage and peppermint (3%)

Pop in and pick one up whilst stock lasts!
Get 10% off if you show me this post on your phone, that will make them £2.70/200g 🐾🧡

15/01/2025

This is coming up soon! What would you do if your dog was choking, unconscious, bleeding? Do you know how to perform CPR on a dog? Could you bandage a paw or ear? Book now to ensure that you know what to do in an emergency 🐾 🧡

Please can I ask you to share on any dog groups that you may be on and with your friends and family. Thank you

Exciting in-depth course, learn living saving first aid, taught by a vet. Also covers common health conditions. Feel confident in understanding your pets health and wellbeing. Covers day to day and emergency first aid.

09/01/2025

We sell this in the shop, check out colloidal silver as well. Fantastic stuff! 😊🐾🧡.

Comment below to share your successes with either Leucillin or one of the colloidal silver products that we stock.

I'm spraying my reptiles with acid! Leucillin is a wound disinfectant spray that uses hypochlorous acid. Its 300x more effective than bleach and is 100% anim...

08/01/2025

A well written, thought provoking piece whether you have welcomed a street dog into your home or not, it is always good to have a think about the breeding history of any dog before you consider offering it a place into your home and heart.

Doing your very best to research as much as you can before bringing a dog home can save a lot of heartache for the dog as well as you and your family. 🐾🐾

✨ Wisdom Wednesdays ✨

Today is one for the adopters of ex street dogs amongst us. Let’s have a chat about these often complex dogs and why they aren’t as straightforward as they may seem.

I’m gonna get a bit nerdy to start off with and talk about epigenetics. Put VERY simply, epigenetics can be behavioural traits passed down family lines. There was a study done on rats that showed that fear can be passed down as many as five generations and the same likely goes for dogs. So if your dogs great grandfather was beaten by a man wearing orange with a stick, your dog COULD carry this fear too, despite never having encountered a man with a stick wearing orange before. Epigenetics are POWERFUL. This is of course a gross simplification of the process but it holds true. Epigenetics exist to aid the survival of the animal, and if ancestors can ‘warn’ you about danger, you’re more likely to survive.

So what does this have to do with street dogs?

Street dogs are vastly different to pet bred dogs in many ways, but the main thing is that even if your street dog was born in captivity or ‘rescued’ early on, their parents, grandparents and great grandparents and so on will likely have lived a semi feral life where survival was a much higher priority than your pet bred golden retriever.

These genetics DO pass down. I see many street dogs adopted from Romania, Cyprus, Turkey, Portugal and many more places. I recently worked with a dog from the meat trade. All of these dogs have two things in common:

- A strong dislike of being on a short lead.
- A hypersensitivity to change in environment.

This is epigenetics at play. You cannot escape threat when you are trapped and you must be aware of your environment in order to survive.

Training CANNOT and WILL NEVER change genetics. It’s a bitter pill to swallow. Your dog ‘saved from the streets’ will likely NEVER be the same level of social, relaxed and easygoing as a Golden Retriever purposely bred and raised for generations to be those things.

If you’ve got an ex street dog. You are possibly experiencing;

- Lack of lead skills
- Sound sensitivity
- Fear of people or other dogs
- Resource guarding
- Generalised anxiety

These things, for a dog living on the streets, are NORMAL. If your dog lived on the streets for a while, these ‘behaviour problems’ kept your dog alive. They were repeatedly reinforced by the very act of surviving another day and all of their grandparents genetics are laid out to aid that survival. They aren’t ’bad dogs’ or ‘problem dogs’. They are exactly what they are meant to be and when they were shipped to a two bed town house in a different country, the comfy sofa did not immediately erase everything the dog is.

A few years ago I received a call at 9pm with an older lady desperate for help immediately. Her family had adopted a street dog for her to ‘guard her house’. Yes, some questionable ethics on all counts there especially the rescue organisation! The dog had been driven in a van over days, and deposited in her house in the middle of a town. She had never met the dog, the dog had never met her. She had read that a stuffed Kong can help dogs relax and suddenly the dog was ferociously guarding the Kong and she couldn’t get into her own sitting room. She was distraught. The dog was explosively stressed. None of what played out was surprising. I did that emergency visit that night and took the dog out of her home and took him to a kennels where the rescue then re placed him. I don’t know what happened to him after that and I wonder often.

So what can we do? This isn’t about whether I think rescuing from abroad is appropriate or not and I want to keep that out of this discussion. What do we do if we find ourselves living with such a dog?

We honour them. For who and what they are and what their generations before created. Honouring them means seeing exactly who and what they are and not trying to force them to be what they aren’t. It’s a humbling process.

The first thing is that they need a lot of time. Space to just be. They often don’t want a person up in their grill trying to drag them down the street on a lead on day one. They need often weeks or months just to acclimate to the home environment.

Typically ex street dogs do not do well with the family trip to the park on a busy Sunday. Everywhere there is threat. This stacks up. Even if they don’t react to everything on the walk, they get home and guard their food bowl with incredible intensity because it’s all they CAN control now. Or they bark at anything that looks suspicious because that’s what kept them alive (or their parents alive) for years.

My favourite, really simple thing to do with street dogs, is a harness on, long line walk and explore of grotty back alleys, industrial estates, wasteland and environments like that. Mimicking that environment they came from and survived in is a real key to their hearts. When you explore those environments together and delight in the discovery of gutter snacks or an interesting p*e smell with them, that’s where they come alive.

Street dogs were not born in the UK. They were not born to run around the park playing with everyone. They were born to survive. Of course there are exceptions and I’m fully waiting for the comments of ‘my street dog isn’t like that’. Many are though.

The single biggest thing we can do is to honour everything that they are and stop trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. Meet them where they are at, and accept that they may not be what you expected. They are still very much trainable, but the process is likely to look very different to a ‘normal’ dogs progress.

Do you have an ex street dog? How has your experience with them been?

- Kahla

08/01/2025

Brrrr! Stay warm everyone and don't forget that we have dog coats in store, including Dryrobe for dogs and humans 🐾🧡

06/01/2025

We have some Anco Haggis Pate in stock, if you like to celebrate Burns Night on 25th January why not come and grab a pate for your dog to try... 200g for £3 :-)

Don't forget we are officially closed on Tuesday's, thank you for your support 🐾🧡

05/01/2025

We have a fantastic range of natural treats in store, no nasty additives, chemicals or sugars from Anco, Pure and Natural, Nova Dog Chews, JR Pet Products Ltd, Doodles deli, Fish4Dogs and Pet Munchies... We also stock Mak's Patch fruit and vegetable treats from Miro & Makauri and Betty Miller Biscuits that are made in Hampshire. Come and take a look!

Please note that we are closed on Tuesday's and Sunday's, all other days we are open 10am-5.30pm. 🐾🧡

02/01/2025

Happy New Year!
We have been very busy moving the shop around, Space has now been made for a new freezer, temporarily filled with a shelving unit...

What frozen do you want to see in store alongside Nature's Menu? Please comment below...

Dominic Jones frozen sprats are definitely on the list 😊. Thank you for your patience and continued support 🐾🧡

30/12/2024

Hello everyone, I hope you have all enjoyed Christmas with your lovely dogs 🐾🐾

Just a reminder that we are closed until Thursday. If you happen to walk past, you might see the lights on, as we are busy inside making some changes.

Can't wait for you to see what we've been up to! 🐾🧡🐾

Whilst we are closed for a few days I would really appreciate it if you could help let people know about us, it will take less than a minute and it would help to get the word out there... Please 😊

1. Go to my business page - Around The Block Dog Supplies

2. Go to the 3 little dots on the side of page, Hit “invite friends”

3. Select "invite all" & done

You've SUCCESSFULLY supported my Small Business for £0.00 and less than 15 seconds of your time.

Thank YOU all for supporting my small and local business 🐾🧡

Happy New Year to you all 🎉

29/12/2024

This first aid course is highly recommended by me :-) It is by far, the best one I have attended. If you have any questions please pop in to see me or drop your question in the comments below.

Knowing what to do in an emergency situation can save the life of any dog that finds themselves in a bit of bother, and let's face it, some dogs are pretty good at scaring the living daylights out of us!

Start your New Year resolution's with booking this course. Make sure that you know what to do if a dog gets poorly or injured whilst in your care.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Comment below if/when you have booked.

Exciting in-depth course, learn living saving first aid, taught by a vet. Also covers common health conditions. Feel confident in understanding your pets health and wellbeing. Covers day to day and emergency first aid.

27/12/2024

Please note our opening times for next week. Make sure you pop in to collect anything you will need.
Many thanks, Tracy

27/12/2024

Good morning, just a quick message to say that we will be open 10am - 4pm today and tomorrow. We are then closed until 2nd January.

Thank you for your support this year and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Tracy 🐾🧡

21/12/2024

Look at the gorgeous Elizabeth, she got a collar and lead from our new larger dog range. All ready for her photoshoot at perfect arrangement in her Christmas Jumper.

Practicing her smile 😃

Merry Christmas! 🎄