Pets LOST AND FOUND AND REHOMING
New year, new home These cats at the Blandford and Sturminster Newton Branch Cats Protection are all looking for new homes, can you help?: Milly (11) tabby/ white is a timid, fluffy girl looking for a quiet home with no children Can you give a home to Milly? Pepper (1) is a tortie who’s a sweet but very lively girl looking for a home in safe location with no small children Dora (18mths) - a sweet b/w girl needs a stress-free home with someone who is there most of day. Lost cats: This is their most recent lost cat - please check their Facebook page or give them a call Gillingham - Black 6-mth male kitten missing since 17/12 Found cats: If you are regularly seeing a cat in your garden or down your street that you don’t think has an owner please give them a call- it might be a lost and could be reunited with its owner. Tarrant Rushton - Black cat, been around since Christmas. Cats Protection are still offering neutering and micro-chipping for £5 in postcode areas DT10, DT11, SP5, SP7, BH21 and now also in SP8 call 01258 268695 Or Dora?
BEHAVIOUR TIPS Helen Taylor BSc (Hons) is a qualified, accredited behaviourist and is a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist and a Registered Practitioner with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council and is a member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors and the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (no 881). help@helentaylordorset.co.uk www.helentaylordorset.co.uk. In this series of short articles Helen offers bitesize tips on training your dog using effective, safe and humane methods. Tip #7 Growly? Most people’s response to a dog that growls, snaps or nips is to reprimand or punish, or to ignore it and continue. This is the worst possible thing to do. The purpose of “aggression” is to get rid of a perceived threat. This may be a threat to the dog himself or to something he values such as a person, dog, location, food source etc. Dogs will start with non-aggressive signals if they are uncomfortable. If these are missed or ignored and the “thing” continues to happen, most dogs will progress to some form of aggression. He is saying “I’m very uncomfortable, please don’t make me bite you”. If you punish a dog for growling, not only are you ignoring the real problem (the fact that the dog is feeling threatened by something – something he now hates even more as it’s associated with punishment). But worst of all, it may also teach him to suppress his warnings to avoid the punishment. So now you have a dog that gives no warnings that he is uncomfortable - until he can take it no more and bites (without warning). Next issue: So what should you do?
Or Pepper?
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