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Cavalier King Charles vs. King Charles: what is the difference?
Article about the difference between King Charles and Cavalier King Charles spaniels. By Laure-Anne Viselé, June 2010. Re-released and updated on 3 May 2019 Photo credits at the end of the post I am often surprised to see that that a lot of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels owners think it is the same breed as […]
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OhMyDog is now a partnership
I am happy to announce that, as of April 2019, Stephanie Neijts is officially co-running the school as partner. I got to work very closely with Stephanie when she was completing her BSc in Animal Management, when she chose us for her internship. We worked together daily and I got a fantastic companion and sounding […]
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Dog training school safety management
#hondenschool #hondentraining #dogtraining #dogtrainingschool At OhMyDog, we don’t kid around with safety: We have strict screening rules for acceptable dog behaviour for group class. We have clear, often repeated and diligently implemented policies about distance between the dogs. We have a compulsory team safety guide. Our First Aid boxes are in order and always in […]
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Littermate syndrome (nestgenoot syndroom)
We sometimes get a mail in our inbox asking to register 2 pups at once. Instead of filling us with joy, we dread the moment that we’ll have to explain littermate syndrome to the unsuspecting owner. Littermate syndrome: what is it? Littermate syndrome is a phenomenon that we often see, whereby littermates who are raised […]
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A look at SATS training in practice – SynAlliance Training System
Today, we started working on the ‘go-to-your-basket’ exercise, on the request of the dog’s owner. Easy – peasy, right? Not so much in this case, because there’s a twist. The dog in question has Generalized Anxiety, and one of the symptoms is neophobia (fear of unfamiliar situations, persons, animals, locations and objects). How do we […]
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Dog behaviour therapy behind the scenes: chasing the cat and dog-dog aggression
Allow me to lift the veil on behaviour therapy and share a typical progress report. This is one I’ve received this week. These reports illustrate the peaks and troughs of behaviour therapy: rare are the quick solutions and smooth sailing cases. It also illustrates how much we rely on management, particularly at the beginning, when […]
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9 November 2018: Letter to Parliament about high-risk dog breeds
Minister of Agriculture Carola Schouten wrote a letter to Parliament informing them of the current state of affair regarding the proposed legislation on High-Risk Dogs on 9 November 2018. OhMyDog! has studied the document and is summarising it for you below. In short: The municipalities, the police and the government will collaborate to tackle the […]
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Dog training: How do I get my dog to ignore skateboards? (and horses, and mopeds, and kids)
[pictures shared with explicit owner permission] ‘Check!’ dog training exercise: the steps The ‘check’ exercise features in nearly every puppy lesson at OhMyDog!, where we stage different real-life situations for the pups to learn to deal with. When it’s been practised to death, it looks like this: You spot a horse/skateboard/moped/screaming child/fast cyclist/whatever has the […]
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Scientific discovery by one of your dog nerds in The Hague
As you know, OhMyDogs aren’t just dog trainers, we are dog nerds. Most of us have a scientific degree in an animal- or behaviour-related field. Iva (Dr. Njunjic to give her her full title), for example, is not only a dog walker in Leiden (https://www.facebook.com/petsittingleiden/) and a behaviour coach in training with us, but she […]
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Dog behaviour seminar in The Hague: Zoologists’ secrets to a happy dog (March 2017)
On Wednesday 29 March, we are giving our seminar on dog behaviour again, a science- and fun-packed two hours by Zoologist Laure-Anne Visele, sharing little known but useful secrets behind your dog’s behaviour. Book now Location: OhMyDog Den Haag, Wijndaelerweg 12. Directions here. Presenter: Laure-Anne Visele, Zoologist and Dog Behaviourist. Date and time: Wednesday 29 March […]
