Dog Walker and Co

14/08/2024

13/08/2024

🐾🐾

13/08/2024

Someone was enjoying the sun!☀️

12/07/2024

❤️...!

21/06/2024

Two very happy Lunas ❤️

18/03/2024

A perfect bed idea 😍

20/02/2024

Having a good run today, so nice to see these having such a good time 😊❤️

10/02/2024

So very true x

09/02/2024

🤣🤣🤣

14/01/2024

Beautiful girl ❤️

05/12/2023

Think Luna broke her own record today 🤣🤣
I had to take it off her as I’m convinced she would have tried to carry it all the way home, felt like a real killjoy, she was so proud 😔❤️

02/12/2023

Loving life ❤️

01/12/2023

🦝😍🦨

17/07/2023

Tried to swap it for a smaller one but no it had to be this one 😂😂

31/05/2023

The fallout from aversive methods. Coercion has a cost.

Logan has lived with me for 6 and a half years now. I have never shouted at him around food, every time I put his bowl down to him, he is free to take the meal without any requests from me, he doesn;t have to sit, give me eye contact etc. I never bother him when he's eating, I don't take his food bowl away from him to show him I can do it or anything else.

6 years later and there are still times when I put his bowl down and he looks at me to ask if it's ok for him to eat. This is the fallout from being told to leave it, pushed away, shouted at, told no, or otherwise reprimanded for taking food without being told to.

A few months ago, I left a glass of milk on the coffee table. I went back into the kitchen to get something and when I came back, he had his face in my glass of milk. I said nothing to him, the mistake was mine. If I had shouted at him, I'm further telling him that eating and drinking around humans is unsafe. It shouldn't be. There are ways to do things without resorting to coercion.

Remember that boss you didn't like from 20 years ago who still pops back into your mind after all these years? That's the fallout from coercion. Are you reluctant to answer questions in front of people for fear of getting it wrong? Same. Coercion has consequences for the learner. They show in external behaviours, such as Logan's occasional reluctance to eat his dinner despite 6 years of it being safe. They show internally through illness.

We can do better with our dogs. We must do better. For them and for us. The science is on this, it's tiresome to have to keep discussing it but as long as there are people out there thinking aversive treatment of dogs is ok, then I'll never stop educating about it.

For more information on this read

The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel van der Kolk
Coercion and It's Fallout - Murray Sidman

29/05/2023

Camping with golden retrievers! 😂🥰

26/05/2023

Doesn’t get much better than this ❤️

11/05/2023

This video is why I prefer to remove a dogs collar whilst your dog is alone 😔😔

08/05/2023

Dogs all over England are smiling today. As of Feb 1st 2024 remote electric (shock) collars will be banned in England. Thank you to everyone who campaigned for 10 years to get this done! The dogs thank you!
https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/media-centre/2023/april/cruel-electric-shock-collars-banned-in-england/

12/02/2023

❤️❤️❤️❤️

14/01/2023

Slight change from the the dogs but watching these starlings amazing

04/01/2023

This little one enjoying a great New Year’s Day walk ❤️

04/01/2023

First walk together since before Christmas, think they were very pleased to see each other 🥰