Commonly asked dog behaviour questions

Choosing the rght dog

• Owner expectations
• Owner image
• Space and exercise requirements
• Appearance
• Breeds
• Purebred
• Mongrel or crossbreeds
• Male or female
• Where to buy
• Examining your puppy before purchase

Normal dog behaviour

• Senses
• Communication
• Territory
• Hierarchy

Coping with the new puppy and young dog

• Challenges and surprises
• Surviving the first few nights and days
• Your bed or their’s?
• Living indoors
• Living outdoors
• Food bowls
• Moving the puppy
• Socialising
• House training (house breaking)
• Vaccinating
• Worms
• External parasites
• Coat care and hygiene

Food and feeding

• Greedy dogs
• Fussy dogs
• Carnivores, omnivores and herbivores (vegetarians)
• Pregnant bitches
• Puppies

Activities and dog training

• Dog centred toys and activities
• Owner directed toys and informal training
• Standard dog training (obedience)
• Sit
• Come (recall)
• Fetch (retrieve)
• Heel
• Other basic obedience
• Down (drop)
• Sit stay and down stay
• Stand
• Preventing jumping up at people
• Special training

Behaviour problems

• Aggression
• Pain induced aggression
• Maternal aggression
• Predatory aggression
• Fear induced aggression
• Dominance aggression
• Barking
• Digging
• Chewing
• Sexual
• Rubbish bins
• Washing lines
• Noise uhobias
• Stealing food
• Coprophagy

Moving house and holidays

Maternal behaviour

Emergency first aid

• Vomiting
• Drowning and electric shock
• Emergency muzzles
• Fractures
• Bleeding
• Burns and scolds