Learning to coexist with dogs without stress

A huge part of our lives in the of University of Ioannina campus, makes us come close and live together with a large number of stray dogs. But how can we effectively communicate and coexist with our four-legged friends? 

We invite you to an open discussion where the following topics will be discussed alongside a presentation: 

- How do dogs communicate and how can we politely communicate with them? 

- How does a dog approach us, and how can we approach or avoid a dog without creating a conflict?

- How do we understand stress in dogs? 

• - How to avoid the stress escalation by learning to understand the dog? 
• - The importance of enriched environments and meeting the needs of the dogs. The presentation will be followed by a visit to our enclosure, a practice on politely meeting the dogs and the creation of an enriched environment for them.
  For the latter, we encourage the participants to bring things that can be interesting for the dogs to smell/play with (old clothes, shoes, toys, things used by other dogs etc.), things you don't mind getting destroyed, so that we bring new stimuli and make the enriched environment more exciting for our dogs.

Date: 15/04/2023
Time: 16:00
Meeting Point: ST' Dorms