Percy's Panorama: On Drive, Self-Preservation, and the Dog Who Doesn't Know When to Stop Percy's Panorama is an occasional long-form investigation into the topics that matter. This week, Percy examines what we actually mean when we say a dog is "high drive," why the phrase is doing considerably more damage than the dog world has acknowledged, and what it looks like — in daily, practical, sometimes alarming detail — to live with an animal whose motivational architecture operat

Percy's Panorama is an occasional long-form investigation into the topics that matter. This week, Percy examines why "anxiety" has become the most overused and least understood word in dog behaviour — and why the thing causing it might be closer to home than you think. I want to begin with a confession of mild frustration. The word anxiety has been doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting in the dog behaviour world, and nobody seems to have noticed that it is buckling under

🔬 PERCY'S PANORAMA 🔬 A Special Investigation by Percy WHY YOUR ADOLESCENT DOG IS NOT BROKEN — AND WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING INSIDE THEIR HEAD Let me address something immediately: I did not go through adolescence. I emerged from puppyhood essentially fully-formed — intellectually sophisticated, emotionally regulated, and already displaying the kind of behavioural elegance that others spend years attempting to achieve. I realise this may be difficult for some of you to acce