Oh My Dog • Luxury • Doggy • Day • Care • Devon

29/08/2024

Everyone welcome Geoffrey! Such a happy boy.

26/08/2024

Find someone who looks at you the way Ms Bear looks at Eugene 🖤🤎🖤

23/08/2024

Babis & Smutz. Greek rescues. The sweetest🧡🤎

22/08/2024

Gus 1 and Gus 2!! Silly billies 💛🤎

17/08/2024

Our Ms Bear...she is perfection🖤🤎🖤

16/08/2024

This is very exciting!

16/08/2024

Well this is exciting!!

11/08/2024

Good boy Beacon. Good job. 🧡
Official therapy dog for TeamUSA gymnastics 🥇

09/08/2024

Look at the transformation for this doggy and her humans. Do get in touch with Speak Dog with Ruth Haynes if you feel this could help you.

09/08/2024

Working on a project & I can't cope with the cuteness 🐽❤️

09/08/2024

ELLA

07/08/2024

‼️everyone ... please try to empty your doggy prior to arrival or collection🚼

25/07/2024

Fluffing love this ... having got out of the hospitality industry who knew the canine professional industry was worse?!🙄 There are wayyyyy more doggies that need our help than there are gentle, force free trainers.

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25/07/2024

We fully believe in this ... we are never physically or emotionally unavailable for the dogs in our care.
Credit to Dogs Disclosed

25/07/2024

SUKI❤

24/07/2024

These girls ... 🧡

24/07/2024

Nola🧡

23/07/2024

When you've got the ball they've all decided they'd like! Goodest girls and boys🤎🖤🤍🧡

12/07/2024

Can confirm - it is hard being beautiful 🤣

On a serious note, this is why I won't let anyone touch your puppy, I look miserable as sin and I walk them with my doberman!

The lament of the ‘beautiful dog’.

Don’t get me wrong, all dogs are beautiful, but there is something we have to talk about and that’s the exceptionally good looking dog. The dog with unique markings, the one with the long flowing coat, the blue merle dog, the one blue eyed dog, the dog with the spotted coat like in the movies, the so tiny and cute you wanna squeeze it dog, the dog that everyone wants to stare at and touch.

When I first got Aalto my Toller, as a puppy he was impossibly cute. Small and orange with bright amber eyes. I quickly realised that everyone would reach out to grab at my puppy because of how he looks. I started to walk him exclusively with my Stafford who wears a muzzle and people would visibly cower away once they spotted him. It gave my puppy room to breathe.

I’ve had people reach out to grab at my dogs, adults and children alike (adults are actually the worst offenders) I’ve had people crouch and push their faces into my dogs faces. I’ve had people stare hard right into my dogs eyes. I once had a small child pull my dogs tail?!

Here’s the thing. If you got a new car tomorrow, a top of the range super car, people would show it, an inanimate object, more respect than they’d show a dog. They’d look for sure, but they’d ask before touching. They’d ask you about the specs. They’d ask you before sitting in it.

If you got a designer handbag tomorrow, no one would just reach out in the street to touch it. No one would grab at the handles and rummage inside.

Why do people give more respect to objects than they do to dogs? Why do people believe it’s their right to touch your dog, to stare at them, to pull at them, to push their faces into theirs?

Meet Mabel. I met her for her first lesson today and it’s fairly obvious she is a Dalmatian. She finds children very spooky and will bark to try and get them to move away from her. Children have ran at her, stared at her, yelled ‘it’s a Dalmatian!’ At her. Parents have mostly intervened but many haven’t.

This is the lament of the ‘beautiful dog’. The knowledge that whenever you go in public with them they will be seen as public property to be touched, grabbed and ogled at. Can you even imagine if every time you stepped outside EVERYONE stared at you?

Please, give ALL dogs you see out and about some respect. All of them. Give them the respect any sentient being deserves. Even if they are beautiful, it doesn’t mean they are yours to interact with. Don’t stare, don’t shout at them, don’t grab at or touch them. Leave them the hell alone unless you’re invited to interact directly by the owners.

Signed, every beautiful dog on the planet

12/07/2024

Meet Daphne. Sweet enough to eat!! 🤎

12/07/2024

Meet Reggie. Sweetest baby boy with extraordinarily long leggies!

11/07/2024

And his beautiful sister, Smutz! Very playful, very gentle 🤎

11/07/2024

Meet Babis. The prettiest Greek streetie. 14/10 gorgeous boy. His eyes are incredible🧡

09/07/2024

This says everything we believe...

I said it before and I will say it a million and one times again

"Empathy above all else."

Truly seeing the world through your dog's eyes changes everything.

It's like fumbling in the dark and then turning on a light.

Having empathy not only fosters higher welfare for your dog but also enriches your emotional intelligence.

You will start to become more attuned to your feelings and reactions, gaining many insights into your own behavior—not just your dog's!

Traditional ways focus on teaching the dog what to do, but I focus on you.

Coaching, supporting and guiding you.

The biggest changes in our dogs happen when we learn WHO our dogs are.

Only then can we shift ourselves to meet them where they are at.

This allows us to grow together.

If you are looking for someone to guide you on your journey of growth comment HEAL to get the link for my private coaching platform.

I can't wait to meet and empower you! 💜

09/07/2024

05/07/2024

But Mamma I'm BLIND🤣
The dramatic doberman.

03/07/2024

Thank you again Dogs Disclosed for this.
Your dog cannot feel guilt, display pride or act out of spite. These are human emotions (sometimes to our detriment). If you'd like to learn what their body language is saying - ask me!

29/06/2024

Two guests this weekend💙 MIL & Mana.

13/06/2024

Spending so many hours with so many dogs has taught me this - there's a huge difference between needing you & neediness. If a dog looks to me for comfort I will never not offer it.