24th September

Angel's session with Dog Behavourist David Egan http://www.livingwithwolves.co.uk/

Angel is 5 years old. We originally took her in just over 3 years ago from a home where she had been allowed to rough play with a male dog all day without any intervention or other stimulation. She chased her tail so badly it was damaged requiring antibiotics.
She then went to a couple who trained her to a high standard but they could not overcome her dog aggression when passing other dogs on the lead and returned her to the rescue after 2 years.
Her tail chasing stopped within weeks of going to them but has returned to a lesser degree whilst in rescue.
David had come to help with the aggression when passing other dogs.



Greeting Angel

 David began the session by explaining the three options open to dogs when meeting othe dogs.
Flight, freeze and fight.

By having dogs on leads we take away two of the options. He also said that dogs in the wild never meet nose to nose as that is attack mode, but prefer to arc round to each other.









David taught the 'look at me', command.







'Look at me'

Other dogs were introduced to see how close Angel could tolerate other dogs before reacting and so David could assess the severity of her reaction.












Introducing another dog



Angel flying!

 We ended with some play.

..With a little more control.