Your dog needs play breaks. Especially if on lead! Ensuring your dogs have breaks while playing means you can check if it's consensual. Often play can escalate into aggression if you're not careful. It's easy to sort. Every thirty seconds, try interrupting play. Grab your dog, pop them on lead etc. Have a break, then let them go again. If both dogs engage again? Perfect. If not? Stop play. You don't need to do this every thirty seconds on the dot, just keep checking in. A simple one for tonight

Does pain 'look like' anything? When we think about pain, we tend to jump to serious injury. Crate rest, bandages, stitches and surgeries. Reality is different. Pain can be a sore back, or a headache. Pain can be a crumpled toe, or toothache. Pain can be constipation or stomach aches. All things our dogs get. 85% of dogs who have reactivity issues, sound sensitivity or guard items have some level of pain. How much of our lives do we go through with discomfort? Doesn't mean we're at deaths door,

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