Category: Dog Behaviour

If your dog trails you from room to room, sits outside the bathroom door, or gets up the second you do, you have probably wondered why does my dog follow me everywhere. It can feel like clinginess, but most of the time it is something else entirely. The reasons vary depending on the dog, the…

It is easy to assume a happy dog needs new toys, expensive treats, or a trip somewhere exciting. I know better now, that how to make your dog happy really doesn’t need to be about that. What makes most dogs consistently happy really comes down to your presence, routine, attention, and letting them behave like…

Dogs show affection constantly, but most of it happens in ways that are easy to walk past without noticing. The signs your dog loves you are not always the obvious ones like tail wagging or jumping up when you get home. Many of them are smaller, quieter, and easy to miss if you are not…

Living with dogs for any length of time means regularly watching them do something completely baffling and wondering what on earth is going on in their head. Why are you eating that? Why are you rolling in that? Why are you barking at a corner of the room where there is absolutely nothing? Why are…

For a long time I thought a stressed dog was obvious. Shaking. Cowering. Clearly unhappy. The kind of thing you couldn’t miss. But when you start to really look you see clearly signs your dog is stressed in the way they act. Stress in dogs shows up in small things that are easy to write…