COMPETITION: Share a photo of your #poochpassenger and win!

Do you have a dog which is the perfect driving companion? If you do, the #poochpassenger campaign from The Car Buying Service is something you should definitely give a go!

All you have to do is share a fun photo of your four-legged travel companion enjoying a car journey on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #poochpassenger to be in with a chance of winning a £50 Pets at Home voucher.

The Car Buying Service are also donating £1 to Manchester Dogs’ Home for every entry that gets submitted so regardless of whether you win you will also be helping out a worthy cause by entering the competition. For more details on the campaign, full terms and conditions and to see all the entries so far, visit www.thecarbuyingservice.co.uk/pooch-passenger

November 2014

Recently, the Naturally Happy Dogs team were delighted to meet innovative Dog Trainer Claudia Fugazza and learn more about her amazing new training technique based on social learning. This month, we are thrilled to share what we learned about the Do As I Do method with you.

We also bring you other advice from top trainers: Nando Brown tells us How to Socialise Puppies, Dima Yeremenko tells us about the Benefits of Hand Feeding and Brenda Aloff talks to us about Being the One in Control.

We learn more about the sports of Canicross, in particular Harnesses, and how to teach the Push in Treibball.

Angela Cavill tells us about the work of Dog Show Secretaries, and finally, we find out about the Socialisation element of the Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme.

Scootering and Bikejoring

The day was glorious when we set off for Colchester to meet Kerstin Dimond. She is a keen fan of Bikejoring and Scootering and runs www.dogucation.co.uk.

For anyone who’s not come across either of these sports, they are, like Canicross, a harness sport where dogs and their owners can keep fit together. However, whereas in Canicross the person runs, in Bikejoring and Scootering the person is either on a bike or scooter.

Kerstin told us all about the sport, its history, rules and regulations etc and showed us the equipment. Finally, she introduced us to her Pointer Prussia and gave a quick demo of the sports in action. If Prussia is anything to go by, the sports certainly seem to conjure up plenty of enthusiasm and keep the dog fit. He bounded about with endless energy clearly in love with life.

Oh, to be a dog!

We hope to see the whole group in action sometime in the next few weeks.