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A new pet joining the fold and coming into our lives is a fun and exciting time for animal owners. However for our existing four-legged friends sometimes introducing a new canine can be a time of uncertainty and an unsettling...

Many non dog owners often think that dogs innately know how to walk on a lead but in actual fact this is something which needs to be taught to our four-legged friends. It is an important part of your canine’s...

One of the most exciting things about picking up a new canine friend joining the family is choosing a name. Deciding on a name can be great fun, but not always easy so how do you pick? Scientific Nutritional Products...

Gun dogs are types canines which have been developed and bred to assist man in hunting activities such as finding and retrieving game, typically birds. Gun dogs are divided into three primary types retrievers, flushing dogs, and pointing breeds. There are a wide variety of breeds which are...

We love traveling with our dogs on UK holidays— but sometimes we know it’s just not possible if we are journeying further afield on your travels. So when your dog can’t accompany you on a trip what are your options?...

We, as humans relate to the world around us and our dogs do too! The difference is, whilst we primarily communicate verbally through language, our dogs mainly communicate via body language and secondarily through vocalisation including barking, growling and the...

Using dogs to help with task rewards could be useful for parents of autistic children, says a Texas Tech University behavioural analyst, who works with therapy dogs. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most widely and deeply researched...

A new study published by a PhD student on open access journal ‘Plos One’ examines our canines’ communications with humans. “The ability of canines to cooperate with us might be the result of selection pressures during domestication,” ponders study author...

According to the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC), a British society for the study of animal behaviour, growling as a form of aggression is a part of a range of canine behaviours that dogs use to deal with life’s...