30th November 2011

A great result in court today.  Hurrah.  Another case resolved without having to put down a lovely family dog. Holland was brilliant and I had a truly wonderful time sharing my knowledge with 65 participants. I worked with a wonderful ex-police dog called Bullet who was a perfect demo dog.  He lives with someone who has been on the equine trainings with me here in the UK and she has already posted some wonderful feedback on the FB page about the change in Bullet and his relationship with her cat and Icelandic horses.  I always write this I know but I am so very very lucky to do the work that I do.  I stayed with my good friend Wilma who runs a small shelter near Amsterdam and at the end of the seminar we called in to her shelter so that I could see the dogs and cats that are in her care.  We walked into the staff kitchen and there were two small white dogs in a basket that shot under the table growling and barking when we opened the door.  It was the most bizarre situation as I recognised the dogs!  I had been shown a video of two street dogs rescued by a charity in Bulgaria in September when I was on a plane heading out to Latvia and they were the same dogs.

I sat on the floor and used treats to help them overcome their fear of me.  The little male dog was bolder than the female and took the treats but the female was too scared initially.  She sat at a distance and watched me as I started to use TTouch on her little friend.  She stared intently at my hand as I was doing small circular movements on the little body of her companion and then stared me straight in the eye.  Slowly she crept towards me watching my hand and then looking up into my eyes.  She was so, so sweet.  She got closer and closer and put her little paw on my hand as I worked on the boy. She kept her paw on my hand and looked at me again and this for sure was an invitation for me to work on her as well.  As I started to work on her she melted, and leant right up against my side with her head tipped back so she could continue to look me straight in the eye.  It was an incredible moment and Wilma and I spent quite some time working with both of them. Yup - I REALLY REALLY love the work that I do.

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