Things don’t always run smoothly in the world of dog training, but one of the most important lessons for you, as the human, is how to react when things don’t go quite as planned and your dog’s ears have turned off.

This has to be one of the most common questions I get asked – ‘When should I change my young dog onto an adult recipe?’ The answer actually depends both on the breed of your dog and which recipe you are currently feeding your puppy.

When you go for a walk with your dog, you want to do exactly that, not be dragged along at 60mph or get constantly tangled up in the lead as he whizzes round your legs. So, let’s take a look at how we can achieve having our dogs walking nicely to heel on the lead, without any undue stress to either of you.

Whether you live on a housing estate in a built-up area and need your new puppy to learn to walk on the lead from the start, or you live in the countryside with immediate access to open fields, almost all of us will need to put a lead on our dogs at some stage. They aren’t usually best pleased at the idea, but it doesn’t have to be a battle of wills…

Anyone that owns cats that have access to the outdoors lives in fear of one day finding them on the road, a victim of a road traffic accident (RTA). It is, sadly, a regular occurrence even on the quietest of roads and with the most ‘road-savvy’ cats, but are certain cats more likely to become a casualty of our increasingly-busy highways?