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Your Dog Gut Health Impacts Their Behaviour and Mental Wellbeing
As dog owners, we often focus on physical health when it comes to our furry friends. However, did you know that there is a strong link between your dog’s gut health and their brain and mental health? The link is called the Gut-Brain Axis. Recent research and studies have shed light on the fascinating connection…
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5 Behaviourist Tips To Bring Fresh Feeding Into Your Dog’s Training
As if you didn’t need more encouragement to try Master Bowie’s meals! Guest blog by Lauren Hewitt-Watts BSc MRes CABClinical Animal Behaviourist, Founder of Dog Mum Mindset®️ In 2023, positive + ethical training is the vibe. We often use food for training, and so what better way to reap the benefits of this than to…
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5 Fun Games That Will Improve Your Dog Walk
Walking (with) your dog can be a fun and engaging physical and mental exercise. It’s also the time for you and your dog to bond. Yes it means take a break from your phone and just talk to your dog – by talk I mean engage with – though I do often converse with my…
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Is Selective Hearing In Dogs Real?
My dog listens well at home but not away from home. My dog comes running when I whisper the F-O-O-D word but completely ignores me when I shout his name at the top of my lungs. Can you relate to this? You may think that our dogs have selective hearing but they simply just do…
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Sniffing Games for Your Dog’s Mental Exercise
Sniffing is such an important and natural behaviour for our dogs. That’s how they gather information, interact with their environment and communicate. Allowing our dogs to sniff and explore is one of the best mental exercises we can do to keep their brain sharp, prevent boredom, decrease hyper-activity and lower stress level. A mentally stimulated…
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Teach Your Dog To Be A Sniffer Dog
Did you know that dogs have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in humans. And the part of a dog’s brain that is devoted to analysing smells is, proportionally speaking, 40 times greater than ours. To put it plainly, they can smell 10,000 to 100,000 times better…
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Look Beyond My Disability: Meet Diesel
Diesel is one hell of a superdog. He’s been on TV, pet and animal expos, a mascot for a vet clinic, and he even appeared on his very own dog food label at one stage. When Diesel was 6 years old, he was diagnosed with an illness known as Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA). PRA is…
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Look Beyond My Disability: Meet Alma
Like humans, dogs don’t choose to come into this world with disabilities. However some dogs were born with it, some inherited it then became disabled later on in their life, and some sadly had it due to accident, neglect or mistreatment. Sometimes you can see the disability, but other times you can’t. These dogs adapt…
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Look Beyond My Disability: Meet Marilyn
As Ann (Marilyn’s mum) said, ‘Her megawatt smile should have been enough to get her adopted in a flash!’ – but she was waiting for 2½ years at Hear No Evil Deaf Dog Rescue before finding her forever home with Ann and Richard. Marilyn is deaf and blind because of her double merle gene. Other…
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How to Introduce a Rescue Dog to Your Family
You have a cat or dog already, and you’d like to foster or adopt a rescue dog, but not sure how to go about or to introduce them to the family? Master Bowie asked Dr Jo Righetti A renowned animal behaviourist and Rescue Awards ambassador, who also adopted her 10 year-old dog Chilli. Cathy Beer…
