I know, we’re a bit late to the virtual party. I had never been convinced to turn what we do into something virtual. I’d go as far as to say I was 100% anti the idea and my mind had been made up. I was chatting to someone about delivering a session
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It’s been a while, hasn’t it?! I know that I promised you all the dog training and behaviour shizzle now that I’m no longer working in that area and I’m sorry it took longer than expected to make it all available to you. It has been an interesting couple of years what
It’s a triple whammy on the ‘weeks’ with National Storytelling Week, Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week and Children’s Mental Health Week landing at the same time. Throw a dog into the mix and it’s a week that’s perfectly designed for us! It was a story that started everything we do
Working with dogs offers a unique insight into the process of recovery from abuse. For humans, it is understood and respected that abuse profoundly affects how a person feels, how a person thinks, how a person behaves and how a person responds to triggers, not only while they are experiencing the abuse
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
‘I don’t really like dogs,’ said Gwen, an older woman who slowly entered the room to join our Canine Hope programme. As I stood with my friend and canine co-tutor, Bruno, a three-legged Staffordshire Bull Terrier, I wasn’t 100% sure how to respond. I mean, the clue’s in the title, right? ‘Ok,