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Category: Dog Behaviour

Part 2 Of Understanding Your Dog’s Senses!

Welcome to Part 2 of my 5 Part Series – Understanding Your Dog’s Senses! Incase you missed Part 1 – Eyesight, click here for a read!  In this 5 Part Series, I’m taking a look at our fur kid’s senses, Sight, Touch, Smell, Taste…

5 Part Series – Understanding Your Dog’s Senses!

Have you ever wondered whether your dog can see in colour or whether they just see in black and white? Well wonder no more, I have the answer for you!!! I’ve decided as part of my Dog Anatomy 101 category, to take a good look at our dog…

How to Read Your Dog’s Tail!

Okay so most of us know that a wagging tail means a happy dog, right?  But what does it mean if it stops wagging and does something else? In the first part of this series of understanding how our dog’s communicate with us I want to go straight…

4 Ways Dogs Communicate with Us!

  Have you ever wished you could have a conversation with your fur kid/s???  I know I do, I mean I do talk to Billy all the time but I find he just doesn’t answer with language I understand too well!! According to Cesar Milan (in his…

Why Does My Dog Eat Grass?

  To answer this, I did turn to Billy (who is sitting under the desk as I type this) and I asked him straight out, ‘Why do you eat grass?’  His head turned my way and his ears pricked up and I’m sure through the stare…

Interview with Noodie & his Cushing’s Diagnosis

    It wasn’t until  I started my Dog Grooming Career (being exposed to many fur babies) that I came across Cushing’s Disease, and it took me a while after that to realise that humans can get Cushing’s as well.  Then, a few years…

Interview with Chopper The Apartment Pug!

    I recently interviewed my friend who owns Chopper my reasoning  behind this was to give you a first hand idea of what it’s like having a fur baby in an apartment. HOW CUTE IS CHOPPER??   1. Living in an apartment, what made you decide on…

6 Ways to Safely Restrain Your Fur Baby in the Car!

    Now we know that , yes we do have to restrain our fur babies from distracting the driver, how do we go about this and what do we use? I prefer not to put Billy in the front passenger seat of the RAV4 purely because of the air bags…

Does My Dog have to be restrained in the Car??

    Did you know that, according to RSPCA statistics, around 5,000 dogs are either injured or killed in motor vehicle accidents per year? How bad is that?  I was gobsmacked when I read that and thought hhmmm just what are the laws regarding restraining your dog in the…

14 Tips on Keeping your Dog Cool this Summer!

  I’m not sure what the weather is doing right now where you are but here in Australia it’s heating up, right up to 40 plus degrees (104 farenheit)!!!!!  This brings my attention to the importance of keeping our fur babies cool this summer, whether they…