Oliver Ringrose

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 the weight. We...

🔬 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 accept, but I have...

By Oliver Ringrose - Dog Smart Training & Behaviour I'm a systems engineer. For most of my working life, I've been obsessed with understanding how things work — and more specifically, why they work that way. I spent years building control systems: thousands of data points, sensors feeding back information, loops constantly reading error and applying correction. There's something deeply satisfying about watching all of that complexity settle into something stable and functional. Everything...