12/06/2026
🌳We have recently added a new dog field to our list of places to visit.Canine Country Park.
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It is fabulous.
🐾Dog notes- adolescent theme....
Orla is an enthusiastic greeter and has dive bomber characteristics.Very much the happy greeting style of her breed. However, in dog language jumping on another dog can be rude/ overwhelming/ scary and may lead to the start of overarousal in play with our girl.Also can be upsetting to another dog.
Add in outdoor environments and this can escalate any patterns of behaviour that lead to over enthusiastic greetings.
Orla as an 8 month old adolescent needs support and kind experiences to make good socially safe decisions around other dogs. Mum and her family are supporting her to learn to make choices, and sometimes we have amazing moments and other times life is just too exciting. Risks are adventures in her brain and therefore she needs our help to receive positive learning experiences and avoid getting in situations where she could get an unpleasant telling off.
Her brother and sister are fabulous teachers and are developing their strategies to tell her enough is enough.
What is beautiful and a little overwhelming is that i am observing us all turntaking with our support to Orla.I know i am not explaining this very well, but we are in a dance with intervention timings worked out each time between each other.Always with love and kindness.Humbled by the wonder of doghood.
