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I see posts by so many dog pros across the board and none that leans into learning from free living dogs. I see courses ...
29/09/2026

I see posts by so many dog pros across the board and none that leans into learning from free living dogs. I see courses and conferences offered with 0 conversation about free living dogs except making them a footnote at best.

Dog industry, do better.

Most dog professionals are taught to be fixers.We're taught to look at a dog and ask: What's the problem? Why is this ha...
26/09/2026

Most dog professionals are taught to be fixers.

We're taught to look at a dog and ask: What's the problem? Why is this happening? What does this behaviour mean? What should I do? How do I change it? How do I prevent it from happening again?

And then we spend years accumulating knowledge that makes us better and better fixers. More theory. More frameworks. More behaviour knowledge. More strategies. More interventions. More things to do when the dog does this.

Eventually, we can become incredibly skilled at managing, modifying, redirecting, and intervening in dogs' lives.

But here's the question I keep coming back to:

What if you don't want to become a better fixer anymore? What if you want to become an observer?

You need a different knowledge paradigm about dogs—one built from dogs and with dogs.

And that knowledge doesn't come only from knowing what a behaviour means or what to do when it happens. It comes from having the capacity to stay with dogs long enough to notice what they are doing when you're not immediately trying to change it. To notice what happens when nothing dramatic happens. And perhaps most importantly, what becomes visible when you're not constantly trying to fix something.

We have become so comfortable being the fixer that when nothing needs fixing, we often stop looking.

The dogs are just walking around. Sharing space. Sniffing. Pausing. Changing direction. Moving towards one another. Moving away. Returning. Doing things that don't immediately require our intervention.

And we think: Nothing happened.

So we move on.

This is where I think you need to make a very deliberate choice.

You can become a better fixer. There is no shortage of places that will teach you how.

Or you can develop the capacity to become an observer. Someone who can sit with what is happening without immediately needing to diagnose it, manage it, redirect it or change it. Someone who can encounter dogs before turning them into a problem to solve. Someone who can build knowledge with dogs rather than only applying knowledge to them.

And very few places teach dog professionals how to become that person.

There are courses that teach you theory. Courses that teach you behaviour. Courses that teach you what to do.

But where do you go to actually practice being an observer?

That's why I created The Dog Observation Practice.

This isn't another course where I give you more information about dogs. It is a four-month practice space where you learn to observe dogs differently — through non-judgmental observation with reflexivity, repeated practice, real field observations, footage of dogs (primarily free-living dogs living a sovereign life while coexisting with humans), and collective, co-created learning.

You practice staying when nothing needs fixing. You practice noticing what you would normally overlook. You practice questioning your own assumptions. You practice observing without immediately turning what you see into a diagnosis, intervention or answer.

And over those four months, the intention isn't for you to leave with another observation framework sitting in your head.

You become an observer.

You start showing up with dogs differently. You start noticing differently. You start thinking differently.

And eventually, non-judgmental observation with reflexivity can become less of something you practice and more of how you show up with dogs — and perhaps with the world around you.

Because if you want to learn from dogs, you cannot spend your entire professional life being taught to fix them.

You need to become the observer you've been waiting to become.

That's what The Dog Observation Practice is for.

Comment or DM “OBSERVATION”, and I'll send you the details.

PS - The application closes on 30th September.

Female rage during these times manifests in existential crisis combined with resolve for revolution.
25/09/2026

Female rage during these times manifests in existential crisis combined with resolve for revolution.

I used to think intuition was something you were either born with or you weren't, especially when it came to dogs.You kn...
24/09/2026

I used to think intuition was something you were either born with or you weren't, especially when it came to dogs.

You know the person I'm talking about. They walk into a situation and somehow know what to do. They notice something changing before anyone else does. They know when to step in and when to wait. They seem to read the situation almost effortlessly and respond to the dog in front of them.

I used to watch people like that and think, "God, they're so intuitive." And, honestly? "Why am I not like that?"

I thought I had to compensate for my lack of intuition with more knowledge. More theory. More frameworks. More things to remember.

But the more I practised non-judgmental observation with reflexivity, the more something changed.

I became better at staying with what was actually happening rather than immediately reaching for what I already knew. I became more comfortable noticing when to act and when to wait. And, perhaps most importantly, I stopped making such a big deal out of getting things “wrong.”

Because there are no perfect moves in a dynamic interaction.

I might do something that doesn't quite work. The dog might respond differently than I expected. And instead of treating that as a mistake, I could treat it as feedback.

I did something. The dog responded. Now I had more information. The interaction itself became part of figuring out what to do next. And I think we miss this when we imagine intuition as always knowing the right thing to do.

Intuition isn't about getting nothing wrong.

It's about not constantly evaluating your actions through the lens of right and wrong. It's about being present enough to notice what happened, take in the feedback, and stay responsive to what comes next.

The more I experienced this, the more I realised that what I had once called “intuition” wasn't a mysterious ability to predict the right response.

It was something much more grounded: a way of knowing that had become embodied through attention, experience, feedback, reflection and repeated engagement.

And that changed how I participated in interactions with dogs.

The dog wasn't simply giving me a situation that I had to respond to correctly. We were continually influencing one another. My actions affected what happened next, their responses gave me new information, and what happened between us could change my understanding.

That's very different from needing to have the answer before the interaction begins.

Maybe that's why some people seem to simply know what to do.

Not because they were born with a special ability to read dogs, but because they have developed a way of being in relationship that allows them to respond to what is unfolding.

And maybe that capacity isn't something you're born with.

Maybe it's something you practice.

This is one of the things we practice inside The Dog Observation Practice — a space for dog professionals who want to deepen their observational practice, slow down their thinking, and become more attentive to what unfolds in real interactions with dogs.

We practice non-judgmental observation with reflexivity, work with real observations and footage of dogs (primarily free living dogs) and use conversation and reflection to examine not only what we see, but how we come to know what we think we know.

Because the goal is to develop the capacity to stay curious, responsive and engaged enough that the interaction itself can shape what you notice, what you understand, and what you do next.

If this is the kind of learning you've been looking for, The Dog Observation Practice is for you.

DM me “OBSERVATION”, and I'll send you the details.

In one of our Dog Observation Practice calls, we watched a dog and a peacock share space.And what initially looked like ...
23/09/2026

In one of our Dog Observation Practice calls, we watched a dog and a peacock share space.

And what initially looked like nothing became a conversation led by questions like:

What if communication isn't only signals?
What if movement through space is communication?
What if coexistence doesn't always look like interaction?
What if the things we dismiss as “nothing happened” are actually where some of the most interesting canine sociality is happening?

The conversation that followed took us into communication, space, influence, coexistence, negotiation, pace, interpretation — and more.

That's the kind of learning we do inside The Dog Observation Practice.

Not “here's what this body language means.”

But:

What did you actually see?
What are you assuming?
What else could be happening?
What can the dogs teach us if we stay with the questions and allow ourselves to be led by curiosity?

If you're a dog professional who is hungry for this kind of learning — where dogs can genuinely disrupt what you think you know — I want you to experience one of our conversations before deciding whether The Dog Observation Practice is for you.

Comment or DM “OBSERVATION” and I'll send you the snippet from this call.

When you have questions, the best thing to do is go to dogs and observe them. The answers are hidden there.If this is ho...
22/09/2026

When you have questions, the best thing to do is go to dogs and observe them. The answers are hidden there.

If this is how you think and want to build your learning about dogs, about yourself and about life in general, step into The Dog Observation Practice program.

What if you’re not actually observing your dog as much as you think you are?One of the participants in The Dog Observati...
21/09/2026

What if you’re not actually observing your dog as much as you think you are?

One of the participants in The Dog Observation Practice came in believing:

“Of course I observe my dogs. I’m with them all the time.”

And then she started doing the work inside the programme.

She came to the realisation that being in the same space as a dog is not the same as being present with them.

Even being good at noticing the big moments doesn't necessarily mean you're fully present in your physical world.

She was on her phone.
Watching television.
Thinking about something else.
Moving through familiar routines on autopilot.

And all the while, her dogs were living entire moments she wasn't really seeing.

That realisation changed something much bigger than her observation skills.

She became more aware of when she wasn't present in her own life.

Because observation asks something of us that our everyday lives rarely do:

Slow down.

Put the phone away.
Give something your full attention.
Stay with what is actually happening instead of moving automatically through what you already expect to happen.

And perhaps that's why The Dog Observation Practice has very little to do with becoming better at spotting a dog's body language.

It is categorically not another place to learn about dog body language or canine communication.

It is about cultivating the capacity to be here.

With the dog.
With yourself.
With the living world around you.

And then something begins to shift.

You stop only asking:

What did I observe, and what does this mean?

And start asking:

What becomes possible when I am actually here to see it?

What might I notice if I stop rushing towards an answer?

What kind of knowledge becomes possible when I show up differently?

Because perhaps learning from dogs begins with learning how to be present—to resist the forces that keep pulling us away from our own lives and from the world around us.

And perhaps the first step towards learning from dogs isn't learning more about them.

Perhaps it's learning how to actually be here with them.

That is what we are practising inside The Dog Observation Practice.

If you are interested in applying, comment or DM OBSERVATION and I'll share the details!

Your life with dogs will not be the same after 4 months if you enter this program. I can assure you that!If you are read...
18/09/2026

Your life with dogs will not be the same after 4 months if you enter this program. I can assure you that!

If you are ready to step into this new reality for you and all the dogs you ever meet, then comment or DM OBSERVATION and I'll share details of the 4-month container, The Dog Observation Practice.

(Dog professionals, dog behaviourist, dog trainers, free living dogs, human dog relationships, human dog interactions, Anthrozoology, ethnography, non judgemental observations of dogs, street dogs, learning from dogs, decolonial human dog relationships, decolonising dog industry)

We spend so much time asking: “How can I teach this to the dog?”But when we watch dogs navigating cities, relationships,...
04/09/2026

We spend so much time asking: “How can I teach this to the dog?”

But when we watch dogs navigating cities, relationships, changing environments and everyday problems without us deliberately teaching them each step, I think there's another set of questions worth asking:

What does this dog already know?
How are they learning?
And how do they use what they know?

That's what the Dog Wisdom masterclass is about.

DM me to know more about the masterclass. 🐾

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