Health

For dog lovers there’s nothing better than taking your four-legged friends on a UK holiday, but on the flip-side there really would be nothing worse than losing your dog when they’re away from home. Sadly, each year a number of...

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...

Do you love walking your dog but sometimes wish you could walk in a group or socialise with other dog walkers either for your dog’s benefit or your own… Did you know dog-walking groups are becoming ever more popular? Dog-walking...

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...

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...

Have you heard of medical detection dogs? The pioneering organisation has the slogan ‘dogs saving lives’ and truly does just that by orchestrating the training of dogs to aid their owners. These clever canines help those that are suffering from...