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CANINE ADVOCATE
What are you to the pup you chose to live with? An Owner? A Guardian? An Advocate? A Friend? A Leader? A Pack member? A Fur parent? Our Crazy Human World is hard enough for us to live in, consider the pup in your life and how they make heads or tails from our ever...
2018 SEASON’S GREETINGS TO ALL OUR BEST FRIENDS
THANK YOU for your loyalty, and heartfelt referrals in 2018. What an amazing journey we have had, so much fun putting our Dog Hats on together. We are grateful to you for choosing Best Friend Dog Care Behaviour and Training and look forward to continuing to bring...
DOG CONSTANTLY JUMPING UP
The questionnaire was returned with "HELP needed calming Charlie, so the kids are not scared of him"! Charlie the Labrador now displays impulse manners. Charlie was introduced as the ‘ pushy, jumpy, child knocking over 1 and a half year old who will not lay down’...
DEXTER LEARNS TO WALK WITH MANNERS
Meet Dexter a radiant Red Heeler who loves going for walks with his best friend who is a cat and his guardians! Problem has been that Dexter has only been able to go for walks when the sun has gone down so as not to come across bikes or random people who he...
DYNAMIC DUO! PUPPY SOCIALISATION MEANS…
Spending time socialising your puppy and training them will set you up for the rest of your life time together.Pino’s guardians have taken her out socialising from the day they picked her up at 7.5 weeks old. https://youtu.be/R5qshwVTED8 Socialising in Dog terms...
CAIRN TERRIER BILL’S TRAINING TO ‘WALK WITH MANNERS’
Bill is a two and a half year old Cairn Terrier needing assistance with some behavioral issues. Annie his guardian contacted Best Friend Dog Care for coaching and training. Annie's expectations of our visit was to know how to have Bill calm and confident. I...
ANGAS’S HOME STAY
We are very much enjoying Angus the Cairn Terrier staying with our family. Did you know a Cairn Terrier has front paws that are well padded and larger than their rear ones! These are the traits that gave them an advantage when digging in their pursuit of rodents...