FOUR P4WS

14/06/2025

Toby 🐾 He's a real pro at his walkies now, sniffing, eating treats and toiletting outside, good work bud!

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13/06/2025

Monday was National Bulldog Day! Tank celebrated with a FOUR P4WS walkies 💕🎉

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07/06/2025

Mr. Winston 🐾

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07/06/2025

✅ Does your dog wear an ID tag? It’s the law!

Under the Control of Dogs Order 1992, every dog in a public place in England, Scotland or Wales must wear a tag that includes:

📍 Your name and address
🏡 Your postcode
📞 A phone number is optional, but highly recommended!

👉 This applies even if your dog is microchipped – the tag is still a legal requirement.

🚫 Don’t include your dog’s name
It’s not required, and many vets and dog professionals suggest leaving it off. Why? Because if someone steals your dog, knowing their name can make it easier to pass them off as their own.

🏷️ Example of a good tag:
Miss Yappily
22 Barkers Avenue
TW16 5HL
0207 7695346 (optional, but useful)

🐕‍🦺 Some dogs are exempt, including:

Registered Guide Dogs

Police, military, or customs dogs on duty

Dogs used in emergency rescue

Dogs working with livestock (cattle or sheep)

Gundogs while out working

Dogs used for vermin control

📌 Quick Summary:
✔️ Your dog legally needs an ID tag
✔️ It must show your name, address and postcode
✔️ Phone number is optional, but helpful
✔️ Dog’s name isn't needed – and best left off

06/06/2025

A "guilty" look is more likely to be a response to humans' anger and feeling fearful/avoidant, than it is a geuinely shameful dog. You don't even need to have punished, threatened or shouted at your dog to see the "guilty" look - as dogs have evolved to read human facial expressions and body language well - they likely know if you are feeling cross with them, even if you try to hide it! Dogs do not share our own human morals and rules - that stealing food, toiletting indoors, chewing furniture, is not "wrong", it is simply behaviour that serves a function. We must instead try ro understand why dogs perform undesirable behaviours and help teach them mutually beneficial ones. We cannot expect them to learn or understand our "rules"; although highly emotional beings, there is no evidence they can experience the complex human emotions of guilt or remorse.

GUILTY

I thought I would do a post about " the guilty look" as this has cropped up a few times recently, and honestly it's been hard for people to accept, and some still don't, even when presented with the information we currently think regarding a dogs guilty look.

A study was published in 2009 by Horowitz et al that looked at the perception of guilt in dogs.

One of the tasks involved a dog being left alone in a room with a treat. The owner was asked to leave the room, when they came back in, if the dog had eaten the treat, they were to reprimand the dog.

What they didn't know, was that for some whilst the owner was out the room someone went in and either told the dog to eat the treat or removed the treat.

Owners came back in, treat is gone, dog gets reprimanded for taking it.

Because the presumption was the dog took the treat when they shouldn't, the interpretation was the dog knew they had done wrong and felt guilt when reprimanded.

However, as some if these dogs DIDNT take the treat how could they be feeling guilty?

The study found that the response was more directly correlated to the owners behaviour as apposed to the event of treat stealing and feeling guilty.

The challenge for many dogs is when humans interpret body language and facial expressions through the eyes of a human, the smiling dog must mean the dog is happy right, no not at all.

Successful coexistence needs both sides to be heard and understood.

02/06/2025

Blossom on her weekend daycare walkies - perfect for long days out, we can come keep your pooch entertained for a few hours!

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29/05/2025

Miss Tiff, lookimg very cute in the long grass with her tiny teeth showing 🥹

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25/05/2025

Pluto in the park 💕

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22/05/2025

Link and his "smiles"

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19/05/2025

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19/05/2025

Beckett 🐾

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11/05/2025

Smiley boy

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