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Brilliant Christmas Present!

Brilliant Christmas Present idea right here!!! T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, Nothing was stirring, not even a mouse ……. well, nothing that is apart from […]

Flatulence (Farting!) – Rhodes 2 Safety

Flatulence (Farting!) – All dogs suffer with excessive wind or “gas” from time to time, just like humans do.  For the most part it’s a bit whiffy, funny or possibly […]

Swallowing things they shouldn’t

Swallowing things they shouldn’t – and things “hanging out” the other end! Dogs do tend to wolf down anything and everything – and not all the things they try to […]

Cut Paw Pad – Rhodes 2 Safety

Cut Paw Pad:  It’s not always obvious when a dog cut’s his paw and often it might not be unless you actually see him limping or spot blood on the […]

Poisoning – Rhodes 2 Safety

Poisoning is scary and it’s serious.  There are five entry routes by which a poison can enter your dog’s system: * Ingested (swallowed) It might be that the poison is […]

Ocular Compression for Fits

Ocular Compression is a technique hoped to help dogs with epilepsy. We have covered fits and epilepsy in a previous blog (here’s the link to it:- Fits & Seizures) Many […]

Undescended Testicles – Rhodes 2 Safety

Undescended Testicles is also known as Cryptorchidism. When a male puppy is born, his testicles will still be within his abdomen.  As he developes and grows, they will slowly start to […]

Eating Poo – Rhodes 2 Safety

Eating Poo (or coprophagia to give it its medical term) causes an awful lot of revulsion for the owners of dogs who, for whatever reason, like to eat poo.  Because […]

Is Your Dog Too Fat?

A  lot of problems with our dogs can be caused or exacerbated by our dog’s weight so, Is Your Dog Too Fat? As a rule, people who show their dogs in […]

Licking the Paws – Rhodes 2 Safety

Licking the paws …….. Why? . This is one of the most common questions I get asked and in all honesty, there is no simple straight-forward answer.  First we need to […]

Drooling – Rhodes 2 Safety

Causes of Excessive Dog Drooling As the owner of a very “drooly” dog, I can tell you for sure that ALL dogs drool (its just that some do it a hell […]

Bad Breath – Rhodes 2 Safety

There’s not much of a worse insult than the term “dog breath”, but your dog really shouldn’t have bad breath just because he’s a dog.  Bad breath may be a sign of […]

Hot Spots & Wet Eczema

Hot Spots & Wet Eczema are the same thing.  Dermatitis is “doctor-speak”.  If you break down the parts of the word you get derm which means skin and itis which […]

Irene Ford

Please please don’t ever think it will never happen to me with dogs and balls

Louise Hart

Another perfect example of how the simplest of actions can make all the difference in the world. Shock IS a killer and recognising it is so very important. Buster is very lucky to have you.

Ann-Louise

I was walking my two Ridgeback males along a beach who were only 18 weeks old at the time and both were on leads as they hadn’t quite grasped the leave command.

Nicola J Wilkinson

Yesterday, one of our past students got in touch to share her recent experience with me and she has kindly said I can share it with you all too. I just want to say a massive WELL DONE to Nicola for keeping calm and giving this dog and owner a lifeline to cling to when they must have been so incredibly frightened.

Irene Ford near Southg Cerney

The following story comes from one of our Scottish followers, Irene, who was called upon to use her knowledge just 5 days after she attended one of our courses on the 2013 Autumn tour.

Is doggy first aid worth it?

Click the image to read Sox’s story. This is one to read, Toni is an absolute LEGEND for doing what she did in what must have been a very scary situation indeed. Hat’s off to one hell of a groomer!

Paula Downs

Click the image to read Columbo story. Columbo likes to dig, and on Thursday he dug up a bit of lethal looking glass that cut his snout.