If it don't work...............

A great weekend at Paws in the Park helping my Good Lady and her Dog Listener colleagues. Apart from having to chase the marquee after a robust gust of wind (next year we'll lash it to jerry cans full of water as advised by my ex-navy friend) I was struck by the number of dogs wearing gadgets and gizmos dragging their owners around the event. Patently these gadgets don't work.

Why carry on doing something, even when it doesn't work? but then I suppose it's not well known or accepted that there is an alternative. I hope we were able to connect with a few people to show that there is.

We've heard of a lady who used to have a GSD who would sleep with her every night. After a time this dog would wake her up in the middle of the night by jumping on top of her. So she would get up and let the dog out, thinking that she needed the toilet. However, the dog never went to the toilet, so they'd go back to bed and the same thing would happen again. The lady was completely puzzled as to why and put it down to one of the dogs traits.

A few months later, she went to the doctors for a check-up and then was sent to the hospital for tests, it turns out that this lady had an irregular heartbeat, so much so that it was actually stopping while she slept!!! The clever dog, knew this so literally would jump on top of her and kept her alive!

My client had a pacemaker fitted and her dog never jumped on her again in the middle of the night.

She says that this dog saved her life, because if she hadn't have been almost performing CPR, she wouldn't be alive today.

How can anyone ever say dogs are stupid?!