Ep 27: The future of dog health: Avoiding and managing pain with Dr Hannah Capon & Julia Robertson

Its a shocking fact that 80% of dogs over the age of 8 have arthritis. And 67% of dogs are overweight! Many dogs live their lives with untreated and undiagnosed pain conditions that most owners can’t spot and vets are poor at recognising in practice.

Pain conditions naturally cause serious distress to our dogs and can also cause aggression and behavioural problems too. So how can we recognise signs of dogs in pain and what can we do to prevent injury throughout the dogs life and treat pain conditions as dogs age?

In this episode;

Hannah, Hannah & Julia chat about;

• How their beautiful working relationship began
• How the dogs environment and management can cause or reduce injury
• Why ball throwing needs to stop and what the alternatives might be for dog owners (!)
• How we can set dogs up for success from a young age to protect their joints

DISCLAIMER:
1.Apologies for some of Hannah (Capon)'s expressive expletives (!!)
2. Dogs when doing scent work hit 200 breaths per minute not 300 as quoted. 200-300 million is the number of neurones in the dogs nose that connect the nose to the brain compared to a humans pretty basic 6 million.

For more information on Hannah’s work with Canine Arthritis Management
https://caninearthritis.co.uk/

And for more information on Julias work with Galen Myotherapy, pick up Julias brilliant book 'How to build a puppy:into a healthy adult dog' and get a free puppy chart head to

https://www.galenmyotherapy.com/pawstolearn

More on your host:

Hannah is a qualified dog behaviour specialist in the UK with a degree in Animal Behaviour and a specialism in dog body language and pet dog behaviour. She's trained over 10,000 pet dogs in the last 10 years and written an illustrated guide to dog behaviour called ‘Whats my dog thinking: Understand your dog to give them a happy life’. She featured as one of 3 experts on the prime time Channel 4 television series 'Puppy School' and currently teaches body language and handling courses to vets, groomers and pet shops to reduce bite incidents and increase the handling and observation skills of these awesome, but often overlooked, fields of pet care. She currently works as a behavioural expert for Agria Pet Insurance and leads the campaign for responsible dog ownership with the All Party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group in Westminster.

Big thanks to our season 2 sponsor Amplified Behaviour

www.amplifiedbehaviour.com

And you can train along with Hannah as a pet owner or a pet professional at www.amplifiedbehaviour.com

@amplifiedbehaviour @thehannahmolloy