Here is our Clinical Animal Behaviourist Kate Ellam with some advice and tips for alternatives to throwing a ball.

Tips on Scentwork with a ball

What do you take on a walk with you?

Engage & Disengage Tips For Your Dog

Dog Road Safety

Dream Breeds and Avoiding Breed Stereotyping.

The Benefits of Varying Where to Walk Your Dog.

Calm Toy Time with Doofer the Dog

Self-Care and DVBP Love!

Kate has put together a helpful video on managing arousal levels, desensitisation, and counterconditioning with techniques to help your dog feel calmer and more confident around scary stimuli.

Preparing Food Enrichment for Dogs

Cats – Tummy Tickle or Social Roll?

Physical Fuss with Dogs:

How can we be sure our dogs are enjoying the interaction? Look out for signs that they are nice and relaxed and that they want you to continue, as we can see from Doofer in this video. Also, watch out for things such as lip licks, yawns, ears back, tail lowering, a full body shake, and so on, which can sometimes be signs that our dogs aren’t fully comfortable with an interaction.

Protect yourself and your pets from ticks and the associated disease risk.

This video from PDSA shows how to safely remove a tick:

You can purchase a ‘Tick Twist Remover Tool’ from our shop by clicking here.