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13/11/2024

24/08/2024

Does your pooch suffer with car sickness? 🤔

We know this is a common problem for puppies and dogs so here are our top tips to help:

- Restart travel training - stop travelling for a short time and start retraining your dog to give them good experiences in the car.
- Don’t feed them a big meal before you start travelling.
- Keep them cool, roll the windows down or put the aircon, ensuring they’re safely restrained.
- Bring a toy from home to comfort them.
- Provide them with a secure and comfortable space for the car.
- If needed use anti-anxiety or anti-sickness products.

[Visual description: A Border Terrier puppy, standing in a crate in the boot of a car.]

30/07/2024

With children and pets spending more time together over the summer holidays, it's super important to watch dogs closely and listen to their body language ⚠️

Dogs' stress signals often get misunderstood or missed, with some owners not realising their dog is unhappy until they growl, snap or even bite.

The canine ladder of communication is a useful guide, showing the different signals dogs show through their body language to communicate. As a dog gets more upset, their body language may change according to the steps on the ladder 🚦

It’s important to note that all dogs are different - not every dog will show every behaviour on the ladder and might not follow the same order.

Find out more: http://pdsa.me/rfce

[Visual description: An infographic explaining Kendal Shepherd’s ladder of communication and how to recognise stress in dogs by the signs they show in their body language. This is a traffic light system with red signals being the worst. Green signals are: Yawning, blinking, nose licking and turning their head away. Yellow signals are: Sitting and turning their body away, walking away, creeping and having their ears back. Orange signals are: Standing crouched, tail tucked, lying down with their belly exposed in a submissive way, stiffening up and staring. Red signals are: Growling, snapping and biting.]