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    Fear of thunder

    I was wondering what people would suggest for a six year old male dog who has recently become frightened of thunder. He now shakes and shivers whenever it rains heavily. What sort of thing can be done to help him and how did this come about??
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    Hundreds of dogs die a year here...

    I have a friend who runs a tiny charity called European Animal Welfare from the UK. She basically runs it singlehandedly. As often as she can a year she drives to Spain and picks up as many dogs as she can to bring to the UK to help find them homes. Most of the dogs she gets are ones she...
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    i am a pro dog trainer

    My puppy was biting very hard and not responding to whats worked for me before (saying oww loudly, a rare tap on the nose) but Ive found some advice that seems to be working on the board (: Thanks anyway
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    saved a cat from being euthanized... have a few questions

    I have six cats and every time we've introduced a new one into the home, we've kept it in just one or a few rooms for about 2 weeks to get it used to the fact that this is its home now, and then we put them in a cat basket in another locked room, then get the other cats to sniff around, so they...
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    i am a pro dog trainer

    Id apretiate some help with a slightly boisterous puppy with which normal methods I've used before are not working. Also Id be very interested in your personal work background, Im studyign toward becoming a domestic animal behaviourist at the moment.
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    Daschund/whippet mix

    Thank you for all the lovely compliments!! Sadly Poppy isnt with us anymore but Compo is a lovely dog who can run like the wind!! I'll never know if the litter were truly an accident or a BYB type thing but it doesnt matter very much to me anymore as I ended up with 2 fantastic dogs, one of...
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    Daschund/whippet mix

    My mum is obsessed with daschunds and has been hounding a standard puppy for years. She decided to get one advertised as a litter of 2 in the Friday Ad about 18 or more months ago. We decided to get two and we ended up getting a dog and a bitch. The woman who sold them to us said that the mother...
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    Training a puppy to get used to going out socially

    Im going to be getting my second puppy in 2 weeks time and Im fairly confident in general training for her as I trained my last puppy well enough. However I always used to have a few problems taking her out into town or to peoples houses, once at someones house she was fine but going on the...
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