Allen Wags & Woolies

02/19/2025

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WHY LOVE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH

This is a very belated Valentine’s related post, but still falls within the month of love!

Dogs need so much more than just our love.

I would presume that we all love our dogs, but just loving them is not enough.

Love is far from just the name of an emotion or feeling – a noun.

Love is a verb – a “doing” word.
It’s the doing word of building relationship, trust, understanding, patience, acceptance, communication, consent, respect, nurturing and a commitment to ongoing wellbeing.

Love is asking – What can I do to meet my dog’s needs? Instead of asking - How do I make my dog behave? When a dog’s needs are met, behaviour problems often solve themselves.

Just like one person loving another, loving a dog is a “doing” word, not just something that we feel.

02/16/2025

02/09/2025

I NOSE HOW YOU FEEL
One of the most incredible things about dogs is their ability to recognize and respond to our emotions, but just how do they know how we’re feeling?

They may not understand the emotion we are feeling, but their brains are wired to understand whether that emotion makes them feel safe or not.

From an evolutionary perspective; for their survival, it was and still is, important for dogs to know which humans were safe to be around and which were not.

Dogs recognize the different chemical scents we produce through our skin or breath, our facial expressions or body language and our tone of voice.

Although we’re not aware of it, we emit different scents when experiencing positive emotions compared to when we experience negative emotions. Dogs have an amazing ability to recognize these different scents.

A dog's sense of smell is incredibly powerful and far superior to ours. Dogs have +/- 300 million olfactory receptors in their nose, sometimes more depending on the breed, compared to +/- 5 to 6 million in humans. In addition to this, the part of their brain that processes scent is around 40 times bigger than ours.

Dogs also recognize our facial expressions and body language. Just like we might stay well away from or not want to interact with someone who looks really angry and be more drawn and responsive to a happy, relaxed looking person.

Tone of voice – more info on this in my previous post.

Dogs can be such a comfort to us when we need emotional support or aren’t feeling well, but some of our emotions many have a negative effect on them.

Working with or interacting with a dog when we’re feeling angry, stressed, frustrated or having a bad day is not a good idea. It’s far better to wait until we feel more relaxed and calmer.

Dogs have rich emotional lives – just as we should try to be aware of their emotions, also be aware of how our emotions may affect them.

01/31/2025

Male dog found near Shook Farms in Sparta MO. (Linden Lure area) Very skinny, wet, cold and needs a rescue asap. He is shivering and has a VERY bad infestation of fleas.

If owner is not found can someone foster please!?

Brandi cook

01/30/2025

SETTING THE TONE
The tone of voice we use when speaking to a dog matters!

When someone is talking to us or asking us to do something, are we more likely to respond and want to connect with them if they’re using a specific type of tone than if their tone is harsh, shouting or domineering?

The more we use positive tones of voice with our dogs, the more they will want to connect with us and be more interested in doing what we are asking.

Some examples of why tone matters –

Calling your dog to come back to you in a happy, excited, high-pitched tone is far more likely to work than using a stern, loud, angry tone. Would you want to return to someone who sounds really angry?

Yanking on a leash and shouting at a dog for reacting to another dog or situation is far less likely to work than saying “lets go this way!” in a happy tone and creating distance to where a dog feels comfortable.

Saying “Yes!” when a dog has done what you ask will increase the behaviour you’re looking for instead of yelling “No!” in an angry tone when they don’t get it right.

Although these examples are based on positive reinforcement training, a study has also shown that dogs respond and pay more attention when we speak with a higher pitch and more variation, similar to how we would talk to a baby.

Given that a dog’s emotional capability is similar to that of a young child, this all makes sense and fits together, in my opinion.

Here’s a link to the study if you’d like more information -

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05217-y

01/29/2025

==>>> PLEASE VOTE FOR WEATHER! (It’s free today)
She is from our Baloo + Anikka litter.
Please, pretty please, vote for our princess! Thanks so much!

My name is Weather Davenport ! I’m 2 1/2 years old and I’m a Great Pyrenees! I live in beautiful S.D. I love pillows and big raw bones!

01/28/2025

Posting for a friend. (These are not AW&W pyrs)

Pyrenees pair looking for new family. Four yr old female (spayed) & 1.5 yr son. Excellent with children & proven with livestock. Prefer to keep together as they are a bonded, working team.

Serious inquiries only to https://www.facebook.com/share/15Zd9nzXLq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

01/28/2025

01/28/2025

FOUND DOG

I found a dog near 215 and AB pleasant hope area,

rainy dornan
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007034261398

01/28/2025

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The Great Pyrenees is a large, thickly coated, and immensely powerful working dog bred to deter sheep-stealing wolves and other predators on snowy mountaintops.

Why do you love the breed?

01/28/2025

UPDATE: REUNITED

Hello, I am trying to help my mom find her two dogs that ran off in the Saddlebrooke area around 1pm today. Jasper is a large black and white mix breed. Flint is a brown and black beagle. They are very likely together. Sending pictures

Robin ball-mcvay

01/28/2025

FOUND DOGS
Found in our shed Lawrence 2059 and 96 very friendly
Marie Ponce
https://www.facebook.com/marie.white.560

01/28/2025

REUNITED

FOUND DOG IN SPRINGFIELD

I found this dog over by Fulbright street and high street he almost got hit by a truck so I stopped because he kept running up to cars. Someone has got to be missing him my name is Jessica you can contact me at 417-430-1244

redden jessi

01/27/2025

Chateau+Chief pups are 9 weeks old!

01/25/2025

SAD UPDATE FOUND DECEASED
RIP:(

MISSING DOG
Ava, MO
Our dog went missing a few days ago in Ava, Mo area. His name is Jacob. He is a Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepard mix and he is a super sweet dog.
Mesha Dobson
https://www.facebook.com/mesha.dobson

01/24/2025

SAD UPDATE, LANCE WAS FOUND DECEASED
RIP:(

MISSING DOG
$350 REWARD

2 year old male corgi
Lost in Forsyth. Reward. His name is Lance.
Rachel Brown
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004819745081

01/24/2025

REUNITED
LOST DOG IN CASSVILLE

Missing dog:Reba, a female Irish Setter, missing from the Junction of AA and Farm Road 1120 in Cassville, MO.
She is very friendly, and should be wearing her collars like pictures

drake thomas
https://www.facebook.com/drake.thomas.7