Another good read http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterwedderburn/100050277/is-it-really-cruel-to-perform-an-alpha-roll-on-your-dog/

A great blog http://www.apbc.org.uk/blog/to_dominate_or_not_to_dominate

A very important press release was released today 15th December 2009 regarding the use of certain techniques often shown on TV http://www.dogwelfarecampaign.org/  Please read

If a contestant on I'm a celebrity can get charged for killing and eating a rat on a TV program then hopefully we can also charge those who use techniques such as hanging dogs by their leads and claiming that they are getting the dog to submit.  

Great information regarding dog whisperer techniques http://beyondcesarmillan.weebly.com/index.html

Follow the APBC on Twitter.   http://twitter.com/Official_APBC 

Great news shock collar banned in Wales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8317456.stm

http://www.petfireworkfear.co.uk/ 

  

The new website for the APBC (Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors) goes live on Saturday 24th October 2009. Promoting the best in pet behaiour.

http://www.apbc.org.uk

 

 Rosie will once again be apearing in a panto for Durrell as an angel (type casting) see www.durrell.org for exciting news on this and a few other matters such as saving species from extinction. etc.

 

Rosie on the radio

Rosie has recently featured on the BBC6 music George Lamb show for a chat about his cat who will only eat when he is looking at it. George explained that the cat would run over to its bowl of food and begin to "chow down" every he walked into the room. Rosie explained that it might be behaving like that as it doesn't want George to get there first. The discussion inevitably spiralled into pure Lambesque absurdity as he began to wonder how cats flirt and whether covering yourself in ham would encourage the cat human bonding. We won't even mention the nipple tassels. Thus highlighting the dangers of not researching your interviewer before a show. However, it was great fun and he did make me laugh.

APBC

Rosie has been acting as Education Officer on the Association for Pet Behavioural Counsellors (APBC) committee and hopes to be elected at their AGM 1st March 2009. For more information regarding the APBC visit www.apbc.org.uk

Book proceeds to a worthy cause

Rosie is also donating 25p from every copy of her book "Good Dog? Bad Dog?" sold to help further improve the welfare of the animals at Durrell by supporting their operant conditioning training programme. Examples of this include training the Tamarins to sit on a pair of scales to be weighed and they do this quite happily for the small price of a grape. Durrell have also started to train their gorilla's and orangutan's to present certain parts of their bodies for inspection in exchange for a nice ice lolly or a piece of orange. This enables the animals to be checked without having to catch them up which is usually a very stressful experience for all.