Dogs Life

14/08/2024

When you tell Milo he is a very handsome boy 😎😍🫶🏼

14/08/2024

The wee nutter that is little boy Blue 🤪🤣💗

14/08/2024

As sleepover buddies have to go home Ash was delighted to see new buddies arrive 😊

Zeke has returned to us for his big summer holiday bringing his wee brother Ed for his first Dogs Life holiday 🐾💗

12/08/2024

Happy Monday! .secret.dog.walker

12/08/2024

Sleepover crew 🐾

Holiday buddies Casper, Blue & Loki were joined by Harper then Ollie when they came for an overnight stay 🥰

Then my gorgeous cousin Ash arrived for a holiday with us 💗

09/08/2024

09/08/2024

Netflix‘s latest documentary, Inside the Mind of a Dog, explores what makes our furry friends tick, revealing how dogs connect and communicate with their owners while attempting to tackle the all-important question of whether they truly love their humans. 🐾

As the title suggests, Inside the Mind of a Dog comes from director Andy Mitchell following his earlier venture into the world of cats with 2022’s Inside the Mind of a Cat. This time, we are let into the minds of humans’ best friends and the various scientific and emotional insights about their relationships with their owners.

According to Dr Vanessa Woods, the director of the Puppy Kindergarten at Duke University, both humans and dogs rely on eye contact as a means of communication while also sharing what’s called the “love hormone.” When dog owners question what it means when their dogs stare lovingly at them, it often means that they’re experiencing a feeling of excitement and appreciation, or in scientific terms, a rush of oxytocin.

“There is a lot of what we call convergence between dogs and humans,” Woods explained to Salon. “Basically they’ve hijacked this oxytocin loop. When your dog stares at you and you stare back at your dog, it increases your oxytocin and it increases their oxytocin. They’ve taken over this neurological loop that we developed between our children and ourselves. And for another species to do that is quite extraordinary.”

The documentary, which is narrated by Rob Lowe, whose pets are also featured, explores the various ways owners can better understand their pets, including knowing which barks indicate a higher level of stress than others. For instance, if a dog is barking at a high pitch repeatedly, it is in a high state of distress. If the barks appeal higher in pitch but with pauses in between, the dog still has some cognitive ability.

The documentary also shows that dogs communicate with their tails to let owners know if they are agitated, anxious, curious, or excited. Despite dogs only having 16 facial expressions, as opposed to humans’ 27, they rely on their eyes, barks, and tails to communicate the emotions and messages that their faces can’t.

According to Dr Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, the documentary teaches viewers that, although dogs are commonly mistaken for simple pets without complex minds, the opposite is true.

“We now have overwhelming evidence that dogs have multiple intelligences — these different types of cognition already emerge in puppies but first appear at different times,” Hare explained. Adding: “Some cognitive skills appear early, like the ability to read human gestures, and other cognitive skills, like self-control, come online a bit later. Understanding how the puppy mind develops helps us manage our expectations of what puppies can do or learn while they are growing up.”

Inside the Mind of a Dog is currently streaming on Netflix.

08/08/2024

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After missing for one week from his Ballymena home, much-loved family pet Baloo, a seven-year-old Newfoundland, was sadly discovered dead today.

07/08/2024

Baloo missing from his family home in Ballymena from 31st July 😢

This is devastating. Someone must know something 🙏🏼

Baloo has unique markings on his tongue that distinguish him from every other dog on the planet

06/08/2024

Our wee mate Nacho came for a mini break 🐾🫶🏼 He was joined at the weekend by Casper and Blue who arrived for their summer holidays before he had to go home to his mummy and daddy 💗

02/08/2024

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27/07/2024

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26/07/2024

19/07/2024

When your walk buddies follow you so you put your phone down to take pics of what’s going on behind you and see this 👇🏼🐾🥹🫶🏼

The wee babies 🐶 💗

19/07/2024

Yesterdays walk buddies and holiday sleepover crew as we welcome the gorgeous Harley back for her big Dogs Life holiday 🐾💗

19/07/2024

Wednesdays Dogs Life walk buddies enjoying The Dog Paddock 🐾😍😎

18/07/2024

Sleepover buddies at the beach yesterday morning ☀️ 🐾💗

18/07/2024

It’s a Dogs Life 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

15/07/2024

Lauren Millsy Seawright how is this 3years ago 🥹💗

14/07/2024

The gorgeous Copper arrived for his Dogs Life mini break so we took him to The Dog Paddock for some Sunday fun with his new buddies before settling down to watch the final of UEFA Euro 2024 ⚽️🍻😜🐾💗

13/07/2024

Our holiday babies 🫶🏼

Poppy, Charlie, Ruby & Benji 🐾🐻💗

13/07/2024

Walk rascals 🐾🐕💗

13/07/2024

Walk buddies and sleepover crew 🐾🐕💗

12/07/2024

We collected Benji Boy for his big Dogs Life holiday on Tuesday afternoon 🐾💙. With Whitney and Buddy we got to join Andy and his holiday crew Theo, Franky and Otto at The Dog Paddock for some summer camp fun 🐾💗

10/07/2024

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10/07/2024

Monday and Tuesday morning Dogs Life walk crews 🐾☀️🌧️

Slight difference in weather conditions between the two days 🥴

10/07/2024

Then wee Ruby joined her pals for her big holiday 🫶🏼

08/07/2024

Poppy and Charlie arrived for their big Dogs Life holiday and got to catch up with their mate little boy Blue before he went home 🐾💗

08/07/2024

As we said goodbye to our holiday buddies Ralphie and wee Charlie we said hello to the little mad man that is our Blue who joined us for a mini break 🐾💗

08/07/2024

We have to give this wonderful new dog park a mention ⭐️

We booked The Dog Paddock for the second time on Friday. Based in Dundonald just past
Streamvale Farm you can book online for your doggies to have safe play time in this big, private fully enclosed park. There is a shelter for the humans on rainy days, a picnic bench in the park area and lots of fun things for the dogs. A hydration station and hose in the small private carpark just outside the park itself. The dogs love it 🐾 we love it and have already made more bookings 💗

Some pics of Barney and Ralph and our two gangsters Buddy and Whitney loving The Dog Paddock 🐕