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10/10/2025

🔥Huge congratulations 🥳My Brother Solo Wan Ampomah Gh Dog Blogger on such an amazing milestone, the world is not yet ready for what you have in store. Your love and commitment to “ The Man’s best friend “ 🐶🐾is amazing and truly inspirational.Keep on keeping on! UP 🆙⬆️

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03/10/2025

03/10/2025

🐾🚨 THE 2ND EDITION OF ALL BREEDS- DOG FEST TRAINERS SHOWDOWN🚨🔔 November 8th 🐾

🎃All Breeds Dog Fest proudly brings you the most exciting Trainers Showdown of the year!
☀️A day packed with fun, learning, and amazing dogs. 🎉

✨ Competition Classes ✨
• 🐶 Puppy Class – Male & Female (up to 12 months)
• 🐕 Best Small Breed – Male & Female
• 👧 Junior Handlers
• 🐩 Scruffiest Dogs – Maltese, Poodles, Havanese, and other long-haired pups
• 🐕‍🦺 Best Large Breed – Male & Female

🎤 Guest Speakers:
• Dog Socialization
• How to Reduce Fatal Dog Attacks

⭐ Main Event:
The ultimate Dog Trainer Showdown!
Watch trainers and their dogs perform the best tricks yet.
🏆 The winner will take home the 2025 Best Dog Trainer Trophy!
And here’s the twist… YOU, the audience, will be the judges of this exciting category!

🎁 Loads of prizes to be won!
🚫 Say No to Drugs

🐾 Come spend the day , with your fur babies for the fun, and celebrate the love of dogs with us!

02/10/2025

02/10/2025

🚨UNDERSTANDING WHERE BREEDS COME FROM 🚨

PART 2️⃣: BEFORE THE VICTORIAN ERA

🎥Before the Victorian era, the focus was on what a dog was able to do, not what the dog looked like. Thus, a dog that spent its days chasing hares was called a harrier and any dog that was large and intimidating was a Mastiff, etc.

⏰Over time, however, dogs began to take on certain appearances. In some cases, this was tragic or unthinkable, to most of us. For example, in the 18th century, it was
common for butchers to tie bulls out and use dogs to kill them, before the butcher separated the meat.

😈These dogs were low to the ground, had strong jaws, flared nostrils and a jaw that protruded - what we know of a modern Bulldog.

PART 3️⃣: UPWARDLY MOBILE

🚚As the Victorian era came into being, the middle class, for the first time, were upwardly mobile and they wanted to show off their social standing and wealth by what was on the end of a lead. The easiest way to do so was to choose dogs that had a certain appearance.

PART 4️⃣:LOOKS OR BEHAVIOR

⏳Today, we are still quite focused on looks over behaviour. For instance, you might have a Golden Retriever that doesn’t retrieve. So, this raises the question of how closely a dog’s breed relates to its behaviours, including communication.

🧸Are toy breeds really more attached to their owners? Are sporting dogs all very impulsive? There is a lot of research going on about this - and the findings are
quite interesting.

IN PICTURES 📸📸::MARCHUQUAR HAUS📍

02/10/2025

🚨EPISODE 6🚨: A DOG’S BREED AND ITS BEHAVIOUR

🤖There are a number of stereotypes associated with a dog’s breed. For instance, you might have heard that Border Collies are the smartest breed, or that a Beagle always will find its home, if it becomes lost.

👨‍🏫Though these might be true in some sense, not every Beagle that gets lost will come home, without help - and every single Border Collie in Zim is surely not smarter than every other dog.

🐕 Despite these opinions, however, what is on the outside, or the appearance of the dog, might not have any bearing on its behaviour, intelligence, or even personality.

🚨*UNDERSTANDING WHERE BREEDS COME FROM*

PART 1️⃣:Our Fascination for Breed

🤝Imagine that you meet a person, who has a dog. One of the first things that the person will tell you about their dog, or one of the first things you might ask, is what kind of dog it is.

👻We are fairly breed crazy, in fact - and though there are certainly dogs of mixed breeds, there is still an element of perfection, class and even awe, when someone obtains a dog of a certain breed.

👸We have the Victorians to thank for this, as during this period of history, is when the focus on breed became “a thing”.

IN PICTURES 📸📸::MARCHUQUAR HAUS📍

20/09/2025

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18/09/2025

🚨EPISODE 5B🚨: DOG BREED SPECIFIC COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORs

🌝*FACIAL*

😈Dog facial expressions are also a way of communicating. However, as you have now likely come to expect, breed differences can come into play here too.

😏Let’s look at the “submissive grin”, a concept that has already been brought up several times during this course. This grin is often mistaken as a snarl. This expression is not common in interactions between dogs, but it is fairly common in doghuman interaction.

😷*SUB GRIN *

👺Submissive Grin: This is important, as researchers believe that dogs who use this expression, which looks similar to a smile, are saying that they are friendly and like the human, they are smiling at.

👻In fact, there is a well-known theory that dogs who use this expression are mimicking the smiles of humans.

🤖*EXPRESSION AND STANCE *

🎃Some dog breeds, however, such as sheepdog breeds, have hair that cover their mouths, so it might not be easy to see this expression.

😸If you do happen to see a “submissive grin”, take note of the rest of the dog’s body language. If it seems relaxed, you can be sure that the dog is friendly. If this expression is indeed a snarl, the body language will support this too.



IN PICTURES 📸📸:: M2 @ SHUPI CHIMHINI

18/09/2025

🚨EPISODE 5A🚨: DOG BREED SPECIFIC COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORs

🧍‍♂️*STANCE*

🫠The stance of a dog is always a way in which they communicate. As we have discussed, dogs that are attempting to communicate aggression will often lean forward, with their body weight in the front
of the body.

👨‍🏫However, some dog breeds are naturally built in this way. English and French Bulldogs, for example, are dogs that have a naturally wide stance - and they lean forward a bit, when walking.

👍This stance alone can indicate to other dogs that this is an aggressive dog.

👽* FACIAL EXPRESSION *

🙂‍↔️Dogs also express facial expressions, with their brows and mouths, but, again, some breeds are simply not made to utilise these expressions.

🙃For example, a dog that is calm will not have brow lines, unless, of course, the dog is a breed that is known to be wrinkly, such as a Pug or a Shar-pei.

👄The same can also be said about the mouth. A dog who is afraid, aggressive, or tense will have lines around their mouth. A dog that feels relaxed will have flat lips, which are free of wrinkles.

🍀*NATURALLY *

😏However, the personality of bulldogs is far from aggressive. Fortunately, dogs know that they must look at the whole picture when trying to determine if another dog, such as a Bulldog, is being
aggressive, or not.

🐶Even small dogs that don’t seem too dangerous, such as a Chihuahua, have
wide, broad chests, compared to their body size and tend to have a natural aggressive stance.



IN PICTURES 📸📸:: M1 @ SHUPI CHIMHINI

27/08/2025

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