Health

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?...

Teaching your canine friends a few tricks can provide fun for dog and owner alike and gives loving dog owners another mechanism to interact positively with their four-legged friends. Many tricks can also have a truly practical purpose, such as...

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...

Our dogs’ food must supply the nutrients our canine needs for growth, energy, and body repair. The basic nutrients needed alongside vital water are; protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and minerals - all of which are involved in a wide variety of...

For many of our pets, visiting the veterinarian is not their destination of choice! We, their owners are often stressed and the experience, unless a routine visit, normally occurs when our dogs are feeling under the weather. Scientific Nutritional Products...

Advances in canine nutrition and progression of veterinary science has ensured many of our dogs are living for longer. This is great news for dog owners meaning that often they will have a few more years with their beloved pets....

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...