Fags and Fido: Another Reason to Quit
As New Year’s Resolutions abound, many people are attempting to quit smoking. That’s obviously great news for them, their family and...
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Steph Rousseau
- Feb 5, 2020
- 3 min
Dog-friendly or dog-owner-friendly?
Over recent years, the number of dog-friendly events and places has exploded. I’ve heard tell of dog-friendly cinema screenings and...
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Steph Rousseau
- Dec 20, 2019
- 4 min
Christmas Puppies
When I was working in London, January through to March was always one of my busiest times for puppy classes. These first few months of...
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Steph Rousseau
- Oct 9, 2019
- 3 min
The Importance of Chewing
When I go to meet client dogs, I usually cause their humans a degree of disgust by producing, at some point in the consultation, a dried...
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Steph Rousseau
- Sep 17, 2019
- 3 min
The Gift of a Growl
‘He growled at me the other day!’ This is something I hear commonly from clients. It is always uttered with a tone of shocked and...
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Steph Rousseau
- Aug 22, 2019
- 6 min
The Great Crate Debate
‘Whether you’re beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage’ - Anne Bishop...
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Steph Rousseau
- Aug 20, 2019
- 4 min
Motivation
When I started out in dog training, one of the buzzwords was ‘motivation’. I heard how a dog has got to be motivated to work with you/for...
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Steph Rousseau
- Jul 29, 2019
- 5 min
Let sleeping dogs lie, but never let puppy dogs cry...
Amongst free-ranging dogs, over 50% of puppies never leave their canine family group. Of those who do leave, the average age that they do...
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Steph Rousseau
- Jun 6, 2019
- 5 min
Celebrate 'Bring Your Dog to Work Day' with Happy Office Dogs
Here at Happy Office Dogs, 21 June is a very special day in our calendar…and that’s because it’s international Bring Your Dog to Work...
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Steph Rousseau
- Apr 18, 2019
- 4 min
False Friends of Canine Communication
Does anyone remember learning languages in school, and learning about ‘false friends’? Words in a foreign language that look like a word...
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