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has the issue – they need to build their own process of understanding their dog better.
knowledge and skills to better meet their dog’s
“We have loads of expertise to offer including
needs.
best practice in training, how to understand
“Nobody wants a badly behaved or unhappy your dog’s behaviour and other useful practical
dog and people will strive to get positive results advice.
because they want their dog to be happy. This
“We want to share our knowledge and skills with
in turn makes dog owners happier because it’s
as many dog owners as possible so they can
upsetting when their dog is unhappy or unwell.”
enjoy the experience of working and training
He added: “The results from this survey will their dogs and improve their own and their dog’s
allow us to respond to the issues that have been life.”
raised by dog owners and help them to start the
Good advice to empower every dog owner to
have a happy, rewarding relationship with their
four-legged friend.
Dogs for Good’s new Take the Lead campaign Dogs are always telling us how they’re
draws on the charity’s expert understanding of feeling by giving us clues and signals.
dogs, built over 30 years of training highly-skilled Taking a little time to understand dog body
assistance dogs and aims to empower dog language and learn about the physical
owners to confidently build a better bond with insights your dog is giving you is time well
their dog. spent.
Through Take the Lead, dog owners will be able
to access advice and information to help support website.
them to build a rewarding relationship with their
Over the last 30 years Dogs for Good has
dog and ensure they have a happy, healthy four-
developed its services to train assistance
legged friend.
dogs and provide animal assisted therapy via
Take the Lead includes good advice on subjects its community dog service to support people
such as dog behaviour, psychology and with a wide range of disabilities and conditions
wellbeing – all topics that survey respondents including autism, physical disabilities, dementia
said they’d like to know more about. All the and learning disabilities. The impact can be
advice is available on the Dogs for Good life-transforming, enabling people to live more
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