Pain has a profound impact on a dog's behaviour, with D. Mills (a leading veterinary researcher) et al (2020) stating that at least 80% of behaviour cases that they see in clinic have undiagnosed pain. Why is this important? The International Association for the Study...
Case Studies
Case Study (Bobb): Why we must assess separation anxiety dogs for pain
This is lovely little Bobb - one of my wonderful separation anxiety clients. Isn't he sweet! Bobb is a 2.5 year old rescue cross breed, who came to live with his absolutely brilliant mum at just over 1 year of age I started working with Bobb on his separation anxiety...
Separation anxiety & the impact of pain – Wallace the Cocker Spaniel
Meet the lovely Wallace! Wallace is an approximately 2.5 year old English Show Cocker Spaniel who I have, at the time of writing, been working with for 3 weeks. I was contacted by his lovely humans to help them with his separation anxiety. This is Wallace below -...
Separation anxiety case study – Lenny (Cavapoochon)
This case study with Lenny the Cavapoochon and his absolutely lovely humans will be in two parts, and is a good indication of what I mean when I say working through separation anxiety takes time.....but is also a very good example to show you that it DOES work and you...
Separation anxiety case study – Alfie (Cockapoo)
I worked with Alfie the Cockapoo and his lovely humans on his separation anxiety for a month from 14th February 2023. They had previously worked with someone else who was not a separation anxiety specialist and sadly the methods he used did not result in any...
Separation anxiety case study – Milo (Cockapoo)
I worked with Milo and his lovely humans for 3 months, from 14th September 2022 until 1st February 2023 (with a couple of breaks inbetween for holidays!). In our initial assessment on 14.9.23 Milo became mildly anxious when he realised that his people were getting...