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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Libby Brooks

The dos and don’ts of good petiquette: four cardinal rules for dog owners

Dachshund wearing top hat and monacleUpper class posh sausage dog
Who’s a good boy? … dogs know how to handle themselves, and will give dogs who are aggressive a wide berth. Photograph: mrPliskin/Getty Images

Across the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, Naseby Park is the place we return to, my dog and I. Surrounded by red sandstone tenements in Glasgow’s West End, and roughly the size of a football pitch, this is where we first walked our four-year-old labrador Brèagha (Scots Gaelic for beautiful and she is, uncommonly so, thanks for asking). All I know about the etiquette of dog walking has been gleaned from the humans and animals who have paced its perimeter with us, and these are cardinal rules I have learned …

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