The Honest Dog Guy

08/12/2023

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07/12/2023

Currently have a little bit of time on my hands. I will be focusing on dog walks in the north Lowestoft town area. Specifically for Vulnerable » Romanian » COVID dogs. There are plenty of fantastic dog walkers in Lowestoft, but not many vulnerable/rescue dogs can trust just anyone. Very happy to meet and greet.

If you or anyone needs help with a dog that is just struggling. Whether it be confidence building, road side rules, heel work but you just can't find someone the little one can trust, even if it's just for new stranger socialisation opportunities give me a shout. 🐾 I have time for dogs that need time. 🤗

02/12/2023

Facts

18/11/2023

Superb evaluation ✅

09/10/2023

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This is a black and white photo of Morris Frank and Buddy disembarking from a ship. It is thanks to Morris’s efforts that guide dog handlers are permitted the same right to travel as anyone else.

On November 5, 1927, the Saturday Evening Post published an article written by Dorothy Harrison Eustis about a dog training program she had visited in Potsdam, Germany, where dogs – called “blind leaders” – were being trained to guide blinded veterans of World War I. Dorothy, a breeder and trainer of German shepherds, was initially skeptical that dogs could be trained to guide a blind person. But she came away a believer.

After the article was published, she received numerous letters from people who were blind, asking for guide dogs. A letter from a 19-year-old college student and traveling salesman named Morris Frank stood out:

“Is what you say really true? If so, I want one of those dogs! And I am not alone. Thousands of blind like me abhor being dependent on others. Help me and I will help them. Train me and I will bring back my dog and show people here how a blind man can absolutely be on his own.”

Dorothy, who was born in Philadelphia, was living in Switzerland at the time. She told Morris she would train a dog for him – if he could get to Switzerland.

“Mrs. Eustis,” Morris replied, “to get back my independence, I’d go to hell!”

But it was no easy task for a person who was blind to travel from the United States to Switzerland in 1928. He booked passage on a ship, not as a passenger, but as a “package.” Kept locked in his room except when escorted by a member of the crew, Morris said he felt like a prisoner.

“At ten, he exercised me as if I were a horse, methodically trotting me around the deck,” Morris wrote in First Lady of The Seeing Eye. “Then he deposited me in a steamer chair. If some friendly passenger invited me to take a stroll, we got only a few feet before my keeper ran up breathless, grasped my elbow, and steered me to my seat again where he’d keep an eye on me.”

Morris never forgot what it felt like to be treated like cargo. “The experience angered and frustrated me and made me all the more determined to undergo any hardship to overcome dependency on others,” Morris wrote.

After being matched with Buddy and returning to the United States, Morris would spend the next 50 years not just promoting Seeing Eye dogs, but advocating for the right of a person with a guide dog to go anywhere a member of the public is allowed to go.

07/10/2023

😂🙏

Have a lovely weekend 🤗

27/09/2023

Always an interesting question

29/08/2023

Sorry from all the homes that wish they could

14/08/2023

He's not wrong

07/08/2023

Loving this page. Some amazing food additions that often get missed out. 🤌🏻

31/07/2023

Honestly agree with all of them. Be safe 🐾

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17/07/2023

Good boy Marcus 💯

This is the side of rescuing that people don’t see, and just don’t realise how hard it is for us behind the scenes.
Strap in guys, while I explain.

This is Marcus.

His owner contacted me to ask me to rehome him, because….
‘He barks at other dogs and people when out so needs rehoming ’

Marcus is a 2 year old patterdale x Labrador.

He had been owned by said owner for… 5 weeks.

He’s just settling in, learning his new environment and family, and at only 2 years old he will be rather overwhelmed as well as adjusting to everything new.

Barking is how dogs communicate, and express their fears, and also excitement.

When I asked his owner what training she had been doing with Marcus to help him overcome his possible nervous behaviour, the answer was ‘he’s had none’

I explained I am full at the moment but I will let her know when I had room to fit him in.

2.5 hours later I receive a call from a vet practice.

Marcus had been taken to the vets to be EUTHANISED.

Put to sleep.
To end his life, because his owner could not be bothered to put any time or training into him.

THANKFULLY, the vets refused and called us.
They spoke to their behaviourist while they were there, and offered the owner sessions to help Marcus- the owner declined.

Killing him was the easy way to end her problem.

So, of course, with fear the owner would then just go to another vet and put him to sleep- I made room.
I don’t have room, but I’m not having it.

Marcus has been with us less than half an hour.
He has sat, taken a treat very gently.
Has met 6 dogs- enjoyed a sniff and his tail hasn’t stopped wagging

He hasn’t barked yet.

Too many people are getting pets without any consideration to the time they need to adjust, and expecting them to be ‘perfect companions’ without actually putting anything into them.

Take some responsibility and invest the time into them, you chose them to be part of your family. Stop destroying them just because you cannot be bothered to help them.
It’s not their fault.

You are safe Marcus, and loved.
You will never be treated so badly again, and that I can promise.

10/07/2023

🐾 hand on video. Lovely to see. Great advice

01/07/2023

Balto 🙏

Good boy ❤🐶

20/06/2023

Nice review 😁

19/01/2023

Please be careful. Not an easy thing to see when a dog gets obsessed. Frustrated and hyper fixated.

03/12/2022

What in the Karen!

26/09/2022

Absolutely. Heartbreaking to see

21/07/2022

Spot on

It seems harmless enough to have your child take a quick walk around the block with an itching-to-get-outside dog until you stop and consider the potential for what can go wrong. Use this handy infographic to gauge whether or not your child is ready to go solo and walk the family dog!

11/07/2022

Absolutely 🤗

Those who know me know I used to be an army dog trainer. I learned two things while I was in the army working with dogs, both are still a daily part of my life.

First: you always sort your dog out before you sort yourself out.

Are they thirsty or hungry? Do they need anything at this point? Every day without fail, I follow this rule that I learned so many years ago. Dogs’ can’t just fill up a water bowl, they can’t stop a griping hunger in their stomach on their own, but we can. So I choose to meet their needs before I work on my own, and I always will.

Second: you always move at the slowest man’s pace.

This lesson taught me everything about living with older, slower dogs. As dogs get older, they run less. Older dogs sniff more. They sniff everything. Senior dogs might be stiff and achy and need to cover less ground, but they cover that ground at a slower pace.

Please consider their needs and go at their pace.

It’s not fair to leave them behind or pull them along.

16/06/2022

NHS for pets!

09/03/2022

A dogs potential is almost limitless. Great story 🐕💯

09/03/2022

Great read thank you Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.

Want to join me in doing research on your dog’s food preferences at home? Check out this week’s blog post replicating a study described in Linda Case’s great new book, Feeding Smart. Maggie and Skip, bored as they are, were very happy to play along! https://bit.ly/3HVbLkn

06/03/2022

Absolutely 💯🐕 It's true, but keep in mind nobody does it to harm their dogs ... we just need to educate more so it becomes less common practice :) thanks to SpiritDog Training

04/03/2022

Steeevieeee 🐕🥰

29/09/2021

Interesting

  Dr. Hal Herzog, a PhD psychologist specializing in behavior and human/animal relationships (see Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat), recently wrote an article for Psychology Today that got my attention. Before publication, he talked to me about it briefly, with the following question: Did I ...