‘It’s the month of love, Luna, the time of year when we shower our favourite people with cards and gifts so that they know how much they mean to us.’ That’s odd, thought rescue dog, Luna, safe in the knowledge that her humans know exactly how much they mean to her and
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I don’t know about you, but I see a lot of articles, posts, tweets and all that jazz about how wonderfully therapeutic dogs are, how they enhance our wellbeing by lowering our blood pressure and creating a calm environment in which we can relax. Yeah, except when they don’t! Firstly, I am
Yesterday, I was told that our Canine Hope programme is ‘controversial.’ You’re damn right it is! The word ‘controversy’ was coined from the Latin ‘controversia’, as a composite of ‘controversus’, which means, ‘turned in an opposite direction.’ You bet we’re turning things in the opposite direction! The reason I wrote my first
Back in the UK after an awesome event in Barcelona, we’ve had the chance to think about the whirlwind adventure that was the Purina BetterWithPets Forum 2018. Being told that Canine Hope, the signature programme from Canine Perspective CIC working with survivors of rape and rescue dogs, had made the final was
We talk a lot about the relationship between you and your dog being at the heart of teaching, training and generally learning to live together. If you’re involved in any way with working with people, you’ll know that finding out what motivates them, supporting them as they learn and utilising their strengths