Life recipes
The recipe for a happy dog is not a bowl
Every page here has the same shape as a food recipe: ingredients, doses, a method and something you can watch to know if it is working. None of them are promises — they are starting points with numbers attached.
Food lives next door. The bowl recipes, by need and by protein, are free and separate: food recipes.
Life recipes
The recipe for a quieter dogThe recipe for less barkingBarking always works for the dog, or the dog would not do it. Find out what it is buying, and pay for something…Read the recipe →The recipe for time aloneThe recipe for a dog that is left aloneA dog can be left alone. What it cannot do is be left alone for ten hours and then be blamed for the afternoon…Read the recipe →The recipe for a calm dogThe recipe for a calm dogCalming an anxious dog is not done in the moment of panic. It is done in the boring hours, and then the moment…Read the recipe →The recipe for a loose leadThe recipe for a loose leadYour dog pulls because pulling works. Every step you take with a tight lead is the reward.Read the recipe →The recipe for a dog that is not boredThe recipe for enrichmentA drawer full of puzzle toys does less than one good walk where the dog is allowed to use its nose. Enrichment…Read the recipe →The recipe for enough exerciseThe recipe for enough exerciseThe famous 'five minutes per month of age' rule is a guess. What a dog needs depends on the dog, and the…Read the recipe →The recipe for the bondThe recipe for the bondYour dog already knows you love him. The bond grows where you spend the ordinary hours, not the big gestures.Read the recipe →The recipe for trustThe recipe for a dog that trusts youTrust is not affection. A dog can love you and still not trust you. It is built by one thing: you are never the…Read the recipe →The recipe for the daily walkThe recipe for the daily walkMost dogs get walked enough and sniffed almost never. The fix is not more time outside, it is a different kind…Read the recipe →The recipe for a happy dogThe recipe for a happy dogYou cannot buy a happy dog. You can dose three things every day and watch the dog change.Read the recipe →The recipe for a dog that sleepsThe recipe for good sleepA dog that sleeps badly behaves badly. Sleep is not laziness in dogs — it is most of their day, and it is the…Read the recipe →