My family and I were lucky enough to spend a week on safari enjoying the peace and quiet of nature and being surrounded by wild animals. My time spent in the bush really got me thinking about just how whizzed up my brain gets and how has a culture we are running around busy a lot of the time. In man...

Scanning the horizon while out on your dog walk is a subject that came up recently in my Peaceful Paws Course & Community and I thought it might be something that could help every dog owner no matter where they are on their Dog Listening journey. It's so simple yet can make such a difference to how ...

YOU KNOW YOUR DOG BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE, am I right?

Of course it's true, but this knowledge is often drowned out by the noise in your head, telling you otherwise.

it goes something like this:

• this dog's behaviour is not acceptable
• every walk is really stressful, I must get this sorted
• othe
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This is one of the most common questions I get asked and often people have already tried a few gadgets like a halti to help the situation but it just doesn't work. 

I am going to suggest 2  things to stop doing, 3 things to start doing and point to the mindset issue that I see most often prevents p...

If you have done everything you know to do and your dog's behaviour is still not improving, or even getting worse. Maybe it feels like they are becoming more reactive, more vocal, or growling.  You can be very sure that whatever you are doing is not enough for your dog. All our dogs are different an...

It is very common for dogs to become reactive. By that I mean that as young pups they have displayed very little signs of reactivity but as they have got older their reactivity increases and it can seem very arbitrary as to what triggers their reactivity and why this happens. 

This can be explained...