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Managing Dog's wellbeing

DOG MANNERS' BEHAVIORAL METHODOLOGY

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Dog Manners strives to provide a personalized service that caters to each client’s individual needs. 

We want to improve communication between dogs and their owners; to help you live in harmony with your dogs and give them the life they deserve.

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Behavioural Training

Dogs are domesticated from the small grey wolf. Where they come from, and according to their DNA, they either follow, or they lead.

Thousands of years of domestication does not change the fact that they are animals. A canine species, a predator.

“For a dog to thrive in this human world we’ve brought them into, we need to guide and lead them to make the right and acceptable decisions to keep them, and all those around them safe.”

As their human, you are the “Mum, Dad, CEO etc.” that needs to make sure that they follow rules, boundaries and limitations. This is to make sure that you have a happy, healthy dog that understands what you expect of them.

Approach to Wellbeing

Dogs should be handled with calm, assertive energy, given plenty of structure and exercise, clear boundaries and rules, and of course, when the time is right, affection.

The order of priority for a dog’s wellbeing is:
1) Structure
2) Exercise, and then
3) Affection.

We often humanize our dogs and try to practice human psychology on them; and then we don’t understand when they don’t respond.

“Our dog’s mind does not work in the same way ours does. Your dog is a dog, not a human.”

By remembering this and not trying to humanize them, we are respecting their species and how truly special it is to be a dog.

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"Philip's helped countless owners gain control and improve their understanding of their dogs..."
"I've worked alongside Philip Page since 2016. While I worked at the Hermanus Animal Welfare Society, Phillip always made time to handle difficult/aggressive dogs that no one else could approach free of charge.

He also performed behaviour assessments on animals before they were re-homed and regularly took troubled dogs into his own home for rehabilitation.

He has assisted me on multiple occasions with severely neglected dogs as well as the wild horses in Kleinmond.

Philip's helped countless owners gain control and improve their understanding of their dogs. He is a loyal, honest and reliable individual that I've been privileged to work with."
Dr Melinda Devenish - BVSc