Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Stand up for your dog! October 7, 2025 Stand up for your growly dog! Be your dog’s ambassador!And stand up for yourself while you’re at it!People will make hurtful remarks to you when your dog kicks off. Maybe he didn’t come back when you called and annoyed them. Maybe he barked frantically as they passed by with their dog. Maybe he lunged at their off-lead dog who was in his face … Read More... The post Stand up for...
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Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: What does your dog fear? September 23, 2025 You don’t throw your frightened toddler into the deep end of the pool. You start by sitting on the steps of the baby pool, your toddler on your lap, and - after many sessions - eventually your child will be wanting to join the other children in the shallow end of the big pool. Lessening fears and building confidence is a lengthy process achieved by slow desensitisation to...
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Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: You and your dog are not alone September 10, 2025 I give you loads of ideas. Lots of how-to’s. Methods, techniques, strategies. And maybe you read it and move on. Or maybe you read it, give it a half-hearted try, find it didn’t seem to work .. and move on Either way, you’re not giving yourself a chance! It’s so much easier to scroll endlessly on your phone … Read More... The post You and your dog are not alone...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Not all dogs are easy August 26, 2025 I stand on my soapbox and tell you how to train your dog. And for 99% of people and dogs out there, this works a treat. But sometimes .. just sometimes .. we seem to be dealing with another species entirely - I don’t know what, but not a dog! Read More... The post Not all dogs are easy appeared first on www.brilliantfamilydog.com Brilliant Family Dog
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Are You Building Dog Memories For Your Children? August 12, 2025 I was thinking about Simon recently. Don’t know what brought it to mind particularly, but there he was, in my mind. Clear as day. Simon was my first dog.The same age as me. So when he died aged 11 I was shattered … Read More... The post Are You Building Dog Memories For Your Children? appeared first on www.brilliantfamilydog.com Brilliant Family Dog
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Change for you, change for your dog July 29, 2025 Change. We all want change. We’re always asking for change. And usually the change is all about us, or how things affect us. Your dog’s not behaving as you’d like - let’s get that CHANGED. But perhaps we should look at this another way … Read More... The post Change for you, change for your dog appeared first on www.brilliantfamilydog.com Brilliant Family Dog
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Slow your anxious dog down! July 1, 2025 A student of mine in From Growly Dog to Confident Dog has an extremely anxious dog whose history as an East European street-dog filled her with unnamed fears. Her modus operandi when out is “head down, plough along the pavement”! So when I suggested having stop-points on her walks in one of our course coaching calls - where students can ask for individual help - her owner...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Dogs and Fireworks June 21, 2025 We’re approaching firework season in some parts of the world. So you need to work fast to be able to help your dog on July 4. If your firework season doesn’t begin for a while - ours in England is mainly from November to December - that gives you plenty of time to adopt some of these ideas to help you next time round. There’s a lot of advice washing about the internet about what you...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader; Beverley Courtney has made a new post at Brilliant Family Dog: Talking dogs! June 3, 2025 I’ve been reading some interesting studies on talking dogs recently. You’ll find the links in RESOURCES below. (Don’t worry - I’m not expecting you to plough through a doctoral thesis - though you can if you like! There are very good Abstracts that give you the speedy details.) In one, Chaser learned and retained the names of 1022 toys (Over a thousand!!!)... Read More... The post Talking...
5 months ago • 1 min read