{"id":7664,"date":"2019-03-02T15:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T15:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2019-03-02T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T15:36:27","slug":"theres-a-dog-psychologist-in-da-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2019\/03\/theres-a-dog-psychologist-in-da-house\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a Dog Psychologist In Da House."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunbathing in February – thank you global warming.<\/p>\n

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Twiglet – wee pudding. The baby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I know I know – it\u2019s no laughing matter but a glint of sunshine on the face as I stumble about the beach juggling the sausage dogs is frankly joyful.<\/p>\n

But as of now. Today. This moment. All gamboling on the beach with the dogs is banned – and the reason? All of us humans and dogs are being trained by a dog psychologist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Walking without the dogs – just wrong, weird and Noooooo!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The problem is there have been traumas aplenty in the Craig household. The reason is Charlie Chorizo Sausage Dog of Love the 4 year old\u00a0 <\/span>– king of all he surveys – wire haired miniature dachshund boss has been droopy, depressed and convinced he neither wants or likes his sister Twiglet. Heartbreak hotel here I can tell you.<\/p>\n

Food, toys and cuddles were the main source of angst. His dilated pupilly eyes bulged with jealousy as he whipped out of his bed and got her by the ear a couple of weeks ago and awful as it was to face , we knew it wasn\u2019t tenable to continue living like this = everyone on edge, clenched and waiting for the next incident. So after much soul searching, googling and seriously considering parting with our wee hairy daughter, Ruth, a great friend of mine sent me the name and number of a dog psychologist.<\/p>\n

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The two sausages, Charlie and Twiglet. Look at that droopy face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were at the end of our tether, had tried everything else so confessing slight scepticism I contacted Julie and this week she came round to meet us all.<\/p>\n

Rarely are we all in the same place a the same time but happily when Julie arrived it was to meet the\u00a0 <\/span>long suffering husband, the offspring who is currently back in the fold, his girlfriend and of course the two sausages aka the point of this whole thing – \u00a0Charlie Chorizo Sausage Dog age 4 and livid and Twiggy 6 months young all feathery eyelashes and feminine charm – which cuts no ice whatsoever with her big bruiser of a brother.<\/p>\n

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Twiggy being dramatic. No sausages were harmed in the making of this photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Adding insult to injury Charlie was declared a podgy wee fat boy 2 weeks ago by Victor our lovely vet so he has been on a very strict regime of food. He is losing weight and has come round to the fact a carrot baton is tasty especially\u00a0 <\/span>if its the only thing you are going to get..so chubby Charlies has receded revealing a rather\u00a0 <\/span>slim Jim – slender, stylish but still furious we had the audacity to introduce another sausage to the link….<\/p>\n

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Clones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So after hysterical barking – from the dogs not David and I – Julie sat and talked us through the politics of pooches. The way we react to them and the consequences. In a nutshell she explained unless someone stood out as the boss then Charlie – bless him and his testosterone – would feel he had to take control. Sadly taking control of a world he doesn\u2019t understand at all is going to end in tears. It is clearly\u00a0 <\/span>a complex issue but in a nutshell 24 hours in – and following Julies instructions to the letter – there is already a shift. Things are calmer, he looks happier, Twiggy still happy and waggy and us mere 2 leggers are determined to follow this through.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really not the dogs that needed sorted it was us and the way we interacted with the dogs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I will report back as this is, as I say , only day 2\u00a0 <\/span>but we are more than hopeful, we are optimistic that this will return high stress situation to chill out zone with happy humans and dogs to boot.<\/p>\n

So if you have a barker, chewer, biter, anxiety ridden dug – the good news – there may very well be help at hand. I will report back\u2026\u2026\u2026.meanwhile here’s her website…..DOG PSYCHOLOGIST.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunbathing in February – thank you global warming. I know I know – it\u2019s no laughing matter but a glint of sunshine on the face…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[1717,1719,1716,1715,1718,1490,1714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}