Canine Wellness Wheel combines science with indigenous knowledge, it combines canine health and human health, it combines the need to care for our earth to care for our dogs because, as you will discover, the health of your dog’s and his/her cells is interconnected to the health of the Earth.

The running theme is educating YOU not only about how we need to consider and understand a dog as a domestic animal, but first and foremost understanding our dogs as a genetically ancient canine living in a modern day world. From this perspective, this can create a constant state or prolonged state of sympathetic activation within a dog’s ecosystem. I guide YOU through how to consider a dog as an ecosystem, what this means and the energy gateways of the canine wellness wheel (there is a human one too!). The wellness wheel “feeds” a dog’s ancient immune, digestive, nervous and energy ecosystem and can influence anything from behaviour to illness. So, the first module begins with the canine wellness wheel and what this means. It takes you through the different energy gateways that can either feed a dog’s ecosystem for resilience or one of distress and disturbance. It includes subjects such as safety, diet and digestion, social interactions, rest, emotional balance and so much more!

A dog’s functional character is just one of these parts! It does not stand alone in explaining how a dog responds, interacts or learns, as well as what the dog needs, expects and can accept in our modern day world.

Just like humans, dogs are genetically ancient beings that live in a modern day world. Part of this ancient blueprint allows dogs to continue to function as social group animals. The social group part of a dog includes their functional character. For dogs to live and co-exist socially and for social living to be solid, enhanced and in harmony, it wouldn’t make sense for all dogs to all have the same functional purpose.

No, just like other social group animals, the group composition we create for a dog can be one that promotes harmony, balance, peace, reassurance and confidence or one that creates chaos, disharmony and conflict.

Likewise, the functional character of a dog can mean some individuals are better suited to certain environments, certain working roles we place a dog in to our society or easier to learn a new task or skill than others. Once you learn about canine functional characters and apply this subject to your dog or canine business, you will begin to observe a dog in whole new and diverse way.