Hev's Dog Hotel

16/11/2024

!!Kitten alert!! We accidentally got a kitten. Our regular dogs have been great with her so far, under careful supervision. We will honour all confirmed bookings so far, as we have contingency plans for dogs who are not so compatible with cats. However, we are now less likely to be renewing our dog boarding license in May

08/11/2024

Awww look at these girls. So beautiful and get on so well together

07/11/2024

Koa looking for a good back scratch

02/11/2024

The schnelfie- selfie with a schnauzer.... Cuddly day today enjoying the start of cosy season

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween 🎃👻

26/10/2024

Lovely bunch of monochrome dogs

24/09/2024

Nice walk today with my beautiful assistant

23/09/2024

We've had a lovely time with our good friend Ziggy, but he's not so impressed with the weather today

28/08/2024

28/08/2024

Some August highlights

13/08/2024

DON’T TOUCH MY STUFF!
Resource guarding – also called possessive aggression

We all guard our resources, it’s a natural reaction to a threat of something we value being taken away.

It’s essential for survival and dogs or other animals would not survive in the wild if they didn’t guard their resources.

We also don’t get to decide what’s valuable and what’s not – different things have different value to different dogs and at different times.

Food is usually the most common, but toys, furniture, different items, places, or even a certain person are all things that may be seen as a valuable resource.

A dog turning their head away, freezing, a hard stare, whale eye, moving away, growling or snapping may quickly escalate into a serious bite in an attempt to protect that valuable possession.

Punishing or forcing a dog to give something up is probably one of the worst things to do.

Resource guarding is rooted in the emotion of fear – the fear of that resource being taken away.

Punishment and force further increase that fear, which only increases and reinforces the need to protect that resource.

When a dog is guarding food or an object, we can change the negative emotion of that fear into a positive one by swopping or trading something that has a similar or higher value than what the dog has.

This is one of the most effective ways to address resource guarding of objects as it works at the root cause of the behaviour by changing the emotional response.

A dog resource guarding a person is more complicated to address. A full history of the individual dog, family dynamics, attachment styles, situation and environment all have to be assessed before planning and working on a solution.

Resource guarding can usually be prevented, managed and addressed and by starting early, understanding why dogs feel the need to resort to this behaviour and doing what we can to prevent it from happening in the first place.

08/08/2024

Summer holiday time is here!
Pencil 🗓️ our dog show into your diaries on the 25th of August, we have family fun including..
A Bouncy Castle 🏰
Hook a duck 🐥
A Face Painter 🎨
A Toy Tombola 🧸
A bucking bronco 🐮
As well as soooo many cute dogs to see in the arena.
Tag your friends in this post & we can’t wait to see you and your little ones at the show 🐾

01/08/2024

Keeping the dogs cool with frozen toys, ice cubes and paddling pool. Walks only early or late in the day

15/07/2024

11/07/2024

Enjoying some bubbles in the garden this afternoon

09/07/2024

The black pack

03/07/2024

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25/06/2024