Before you brought your puppy home you imagined what looking after them would be like. You thought you’d have this adorable best friend who’d bring so much joy to your life. But your reality is very different. You’re tired, feeling like everything you’re doing is wrong and you’re starting to wonder whether you should just return your puppy to their breeder.

You're starting to feel like your puppy is becoming the perfect dog of your dreams. But then, suddenly everything changes. Your puppy stops listening to you and fucks off to the other side of the park as soon as you let them off lead, they're now barking at every person and dog they see and they're biting you again (but now it's scary because they're BIGGER). You might be feeling like you've failed or you're just not good enough to have a puppy. But that's not true - what you're experiencing is normal. Your puppy's just become a teenager.

You got a dog dreaming of taking them out on lots of relaxing walks. But then you discovered that reality is very different. Your dog pulls you to every person or dog they see out on a walk and as soon as you let them off lead they fuck off as far away from you as possible. Now you're dreading taking them out because what should be the best part of your day has become a huge chore.

Every summer we're all given warnings about the dangers of walking our dogs in hot weather. Dogs can quickly overheat and get seriously ill walking while it's hot and the risk is increased for young puppies, older dogs, toy or giant breeds, dogs with thick coats or flat faces.

But just telling you not to walk your dog doesn't help if your dog will go stir crazy and destroy your stuff without a walk. Luckily, there are some easy ways to occupy your dog's brain in hot weather.

So you picked up this adorable little puppy and you were full of excitement about your future together. You read up on toilet training and how to teach your puppy to sit and come back when called. But now your biggest issue is that your puppy is biting EVERYTHING. There are teeth marks on your furniture, your favourite pair of shoes are destroyed, all your clothes have holes in them but the worse victims are your poor hands and feet. You're probably starting to worry that you've brought home some demon puppy who'll grow up to be an aggressive beast.

It's not uncommon for dogs to be a little bit worried about certain things. Often these can seem like small things to us: strangers approaching, being touched in a certain place or novel objects or sounds. Some people find this really difficult to understand, especially when nothing bad has happened to their dog. Why would they be worried about people in hats if no-one has ever hurt them, especially not someone wearing a hat? We know our dogs are safe so why don't they?