Ds’ fun4dogs

25/12/2024

Would like wish everyone a very Merry Christmas 🤶
And the year 2025 brings you health wealth and happiness ###

15/12/2024

With Different Dog – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

14/11/2024

30/10/2024

27/10/2024

My newly adopted 12 year old deaf dog doing amazing with his visual cues. Thumbs up for Georgie!

20/10/2024

With Victorious Dogs – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

16/10/2024

With my older dogs It’s always their choice if they want to come on a walk! This is ben sign to me he’d rather stay at home! 🥰

04/10/2024

04/10/2024

21/06/2024

We all love Fridays

15/06/2024

A dogs neck is a very delicate part of their body!

The neck and cervical spine contain the spinal cord, this is where the nerves of the front legs originate. Excessive paw licking is quite often misdiagnosed as allergies when it is in fact pain.

Putting stress on the neck can cause painful disc damage and shoulder problems

A dog has the same number of vertebrae as a giraffe (think about that before choking a dog)

One of the most important structures of the nervous system "The Vagus Nerve" originates at neck level and this controls life essential organs like lung, heart, stomach, and intestinal tract.

The Thyroid gland is located in the neck. If this gets inflamed the immune system trys to remove the inflamed cells.
The destruction of the Thyroid gland cells can lead to hypothyroidism

Increased pressure put on the Jugular vein can cause seizures
Ear and Eye issues are significantly increased

Being je**ed on a lead causes whiplash and bruising.

The epidermis of a dog is only 3-5 cells thick
A humans is 10-15 cells thick

So WHY would anyone want to use a noose ....sorry I mean a slip lead?

A well fitted Y shaped harness is the safest and kindest peice of equipment to use.

26/03/2024

It's not just a word, it's about our attitude.

There are 170k words in the English language. Let's teach our dogs what we want them to do without the baggage of this word and attitude.

Same goes for "eh eh, oopsie and tssst"

A cultural change is needed

Edit - for those new to this page, this isn't a discussion forum. I've heard all the excuses/reasons for using "no." I'm not interested in a discussion on why anyone thinks it's ok. I'm inviting you to consider why it's not and how to change it.

I also understand that people won't like that it's not a discussion page, I make no apologies for that.

16/03/2024

after first 30 min practical session.

Dogs pull for many reason but mainly because the reinforcment is infront of the dog, the park people dogs, smells, they learn the feeling of pressure on the body gets them to their desire. The more the dog pulls of course we have to pull against it becomes a tug of war.

Showing the dog that reinforcement is by your side
By food rewards praise sniffing and forward movement will turn this problem around very quick.

No tugging on a slip lead, prong collar, stop start method should ever be used it really isn’t needed.
All this is doing is damaging to your relationship and frustrating and confusing your dog.