WE all know someone who got a dog in lockdown. They may well be man’s best friend — at the last count there were 12million pooches living in UK households. 5 We share Leon Towers’s top tips for getting your dog’s behaviour on track from his new book Credit: instagram/leontowersthedogsvoice But parks are now full of bonkers, barking mutts whose owners are struggling to cope.
Canine behaviourist, nutritionist and hydrotherapist Leon Towers has 12 years’ experience helping wayward dogs and reckons the old methods do not work. Instead, he thinks of all dogs as children. In his new book, Fix Your Dog In Three Easy Steps, he writes: “I don’t believe that there’s any such thing as an adult dog.
“Instead, I believe all dogs have the mental age of a three-year-old. “However old they are, dogs never mentally outgrow a three-year-old toddler. “Even if a dog is 17 years old, they still have the mental needs of a three-year-old.
” Leon believes that each dog can be fixed by focusing on three things — diet, environment and mental stimulation — and that all owners should remember one key point. Most read in Fabulous HOME GAME Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers sells mansion to World Cup winner - but makes a loss STILL GAME Scottish football cult hero signs for eighth club of his career at age of 36 WALK ROW Provost slammed over 'No Surrender' comment as he 'defended' Orange Parade JACK'S THE LAD Rangers hero Ryan Jack emerges as target for rival Scottish Premiership side.
