Little & Large Dogs

21/03/2024

Let’s talk dominance. The term dominance is thrown around usually in the form of describing aggressive dogs.
Among the scientific community, this is how a dominant animal can be described in a relationship of 2 individuals, in simple terms:
When one animal is continually the recipient of agnostic behaviours from another, they can be described as the dominant one. Nothing to do with how often they display aggressive behaviours. It can also be measured as those who have least frequently been involved in aggressive interactions between 2 individuals. These individuals can sometimes direct others but never escalate events within a group.
Behaviours like dominance are just a representation of measured behaviours within the scientific discipline of ethology (animal behaviour)

Follow the links to learn more but please understand your aggressive pet dog is not ‘dominant’. Dominance has no place in training and behavioural modification. It is pattern of repetitive behaviours, a phenomenon that can (not often) be observed, measured and labelled by ethologists studying animals in nature.
Don’t let a trainer who can’t handle your dog without the use of tools like an e-collar, grot, prong collar, corrections or a slip lead - make you think you need to be an alpha pack leader to control your dog.

References:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4535117
https://youtu.be/-KD8NzMkg9s?si=iXEBt1Req4tDubmP

09/03/2024

05/03/2024

Dog training and behaviour institutions to get trained and certified (non university) that are worth your money (IMO):

COAPE
Pact
Dogenius
Canine Principals
Compass
BHARCS
IAABC

24/02/2024

24/02/2024

Pain is whatever the patient says it is. If you know a dog struggling with hyper-arousal - check for gut discomfort and imbalances, do blood tests and book a vet physio or some scans with your vet to see actually your dog is in pain.
Note to trainers and behaviourists - Bull breeds will often show pain in hyper-arousal, it could even look like ‘gameness’. Grabbing is often a big indicator of discomfort for me and sadly this is often mistaken as a ‘genetic need’. The grabbing behaviour we see often in Bull breeds was developed through a trauma response as a mechanism for subduing the bulls they were pit against. So when they are in pain or feeling under duress this is often the behaviour we see, the dogs who showed more gameness through pain survived and were bred from.

Check out Littlelargedogsldn's video.

23/02/2024

Check out Littlelargedogsldn's video.

23/02/2024

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘄 -𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀?

I hate to think of people struggling with their animals and that support is out of reach. So if my prices are genuinely problematic for you please just get in touch and we can discuss it. Ultimately I want to help and I understand what an isolating feeling it is to need support and not being able to access it truly is. So please don't struggle alone

23/02/2024

Hello any behaviourist friends - I’ve been asked if I know a behaviourist who can dog test a dog in Nottinghamshire? The dog has a possible home and came from a multi dog house hold but the rescue want further assessments. For a bull breed.

14/02/2024

As a pet parent, and anyone who interacts with dogs, its our duty to learn the signs and signals our dog is showing us when they communicate. It is when we ignore these signs that the bite risk escalates.

Children are particularly at risk of bites as they are rarely taught the safest ways to interact with their four legged friends.

But who's responsibility is it to teach children about dog behaviour?

A recent study from the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University demonstrates how important this is.

Read the snippet below:

Understanding dog behaviour and educating about risk.
Respondents had strong opinions when it comes to educating children about whether and how they thought children should be taught to interact with dogs. The vast majority (95.5%) of respondents agreed that children should be taught how to interact with dogs. As to where children should get this information, most (93.8%) thought that parents should teach children and 69.1% of the sample thought that children should be taught how to interact with dogs at school.

You can read the full study here:

https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/68888209/Dangerous_Dogs_Report.pdf

Our book called "Why Don't You Listen" aims to educate about the early signs of pain.
You can purchase the book via
https://www.camonlineshop.com/why-dont-you-listen-book/