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wolfandwhippet
- Jul 28, 2019
Canine Wellness
Suzy and Fran came back from both weekends studying, learning and being inspired by Dr Isla Fishburn on her 4 Day Canine Wellness course. Not only was the course informative, balancing science, theory and Isla's vast knowledge, but also important to us re canine emotions and well-being. Isla, taught us to see each dog as an entire well-being wheel, to look at the whole animal, not just one part when working and living with canines. Likewise, ourselves and our well-being as a


wolfandwhippet
- Jul 28, 2019
Dog Training
As we have moved forward into 2019, so has science and scientific study. This means for dog professionals keeping up to date, reading studies and new books. Reward based training has had a new literature consisting of various papers supporting rewards based training. Within the review Dr Gal Ziv writes; “Despite the methodological concerns, it appears that aversive training methods have undesirable unintended outcomes and that using them puts dogs’ welfare at risk. In additio