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Jo Webber

Jun 16, 20234 min read

Fun in the Sun

In the UK, we’re having a warm spell right now, with the temperatures hitting 26-27 Celsius most afternoons. This has sparked the usual...

Jo Webber

Jul 15, 20222 min read

Is your enrichment enriching?

Enrichment activities are a great way to fulfil a dog’s need to display natural behaviours and an absolute godsend when your dog is...

Jo Webber

May 22, 20223 min read

Do you really know what fear looks like?

At one time in our lives, we’ve all experienced fear, whether it’s through being in a truly dangerous situation such as a road traffic...

Jo Webber

Apr 3, 20223 min read

All or nothing!

Social media and the internet in general are a great way to get information to people and a great resource for finding information when...

Jo Webber

Jan 21, 20224 min read

Are we anthropomorphising or are we empathising?

In a nutshell, anthropomorphising is ascribing uniquely human characteristics, behaviours, emotions or value systems to other things,...

Jo Webber

Sep 4, 20217 min read

Dominance - does it exist? It's a bit more complicated than that....

Ever since the original description of the peck-order in chickens by Schjelderupp-Ebb in his dissertation of 1921, the idea that social...

Jo Webber

Jun 17, 20212 min read

Stop staring at me!

Dog love to watch things – they silently scan for critters in the fields, they watch people go by on the pavements and they watch other...

Jo Webber

May 23, 20213 min read

What socialisation really is and why I don't run classes.

Socialisation as a word is usually taken to mean "the activity of mixing socially with others" and this is the correct primary...

Jo Webber

May 14, 20212 min read

Why meeting your dog's emotional needs is more important than ever.

For many years training dogs has focused solely on the behaviour we can see; a good dog walks to heel, obeys all your commands, sits...