My book Charlie, the Dog Who Came in from the Wild comes out through Hubble & Hattie publishers in August 2015. Today I was interviewed on Talk Radio Europe about the book, life with Charlie, and the difference between feral dogs, street dogs and ho... read more
The ISCP is involved in several fundraising and welfare awareness events over the coming month. Charity Auctions The ISCP has donated two places on the Emotional Healing for Dogs course to two charity auctions that are raising funds for rescue dogs. Oldie... read more
I got to thinking just how simple it should be to have a cooperative dog, so why do our dogs so often ignore us? The other day, as I watched one of my clients call her dog and as he sat looking up at her expectantly, I had a flashback to many years ago. W... read more
According to Defra’s latest figures 93,424 dogs were imported to the UK in 2015. Of this staggering number, many were street dogs and feral dogs who were taken from their previous free-ranging lives and transplanted into home environments. Fear issu... read more
A kind of magic can happen when you bring together a group of people who are passionate about helping dogs, three behaviourist tutors whose skills include complementary therapies and emotional intelligence, a veterinarian, and three handlers whose dogs ha... read more
The first of a series of blogs from ISCP student Rowena about her experience of adopting Cauta, a Romanian street dog. Becoming. Post #1 On 14th February this year, my path crossed with a being who, although I did not know it then, would become intertwine... read more
Our competition for a free place on the ISCP diploma course and goodies for the dogs has now ended. Drum roll, please! The winning number, via a random number generator, is 403, Pawprints Dog Rescue in Rugby. Congratulations from all of us at the ISCP, an... read more
Episode 10 in the story of Rowena and Cauta’s journey together. Cauta is, in Romanian terms, a ‘medium sized’ dog. Which means he is nearly German Shephard size. But not quite. And every few steps whilst out, comments will revolve around ‘oo, ... read more
Many thanks to Andrew Hale for giving permission for us to share his thesis. Introduction I intend my thesis to be making the argument that often we are spending too much time trying to ‘fix’ behaviour rather than recognise the limitations and sensiti... read more
An Investigation into Gender-Specific Fear of People in Canines Hannah Walker Although dogs in general do not show a bias towards one gender, it is often anecdotally-reported that dogs, particularly rescue dogs, more frequently show discomfort or hostilit... read more
