Molly Durrant- Clinical Animal Behaviourist

29/05/2022

19/05/2022

We Love Forage Feeding ! 🐾🌿

Murphy is a beautiful Cotton de Tulear who can be reactive towards unknown dogs.
We've been working on building his confidence by training within his threshold (comfort zone) and using forage feeding to build good associations with other dogs being present.

Forage feeding is a great tool as:

🐾 Sniffing releases feel good hormones, which help to relax your dog!

🐾Sniffing in the presence of other dogs is a great tool for social interaction, as it is a non threatening behaviour!

🐾Murphy is able to make good choices and is more likely to use sniffing as a way to cope when he is feeling overwhelmed instead of becoming reactive!

Every dog can benefit from more sniffing and when we provide the sniffs through forage feeding we help bring our dogs focus closer to us and encourage engagement!
Happy Sniffing !🌞🐕

17/05/2022

My flyers have arrived!! Whoop whoop!
Feeling great about getting these out in my local area and hopefully helping lots of lovely owners and dogs as a result!

12/05/2022

Hello hello and welcome to my new Insta business page! ✨️
https://www.instagram.com/mcaninebehaviour/?hl=en

These are exciting times and I would like to invite you all to follow me on my new venture as a self employed behaviourist in Brighton! 🌿🌞

I will use this page to share my business milestones, client successes and fun dog pics, videos and training tips! 🐾

30/05/2020

Please give your new pup time

28/09/2019

Fear is a very common behavioural issue we as behaviourist encounter. 😱🐕

Whether it be fear of strangers, loud noises or even other dogs, it is important that it is identified and managed empithetically!✨

This article explains some steps to help your fearful dog!
It's worth noting that most forms of aggression are fear based and many other behaviour issues can be driven by anxiety and fear!

Be sure to think about WHY your dog is behaving in a certain way instead of focusing on WHAT 'bad' behaviour is being shown 🧠🌿

The most important things to know if you have a fearful dog.