Your Dog and the Dentist: Learn the Drill
While "late is better than never," sooner is better than later, at least when it comes to your dog's dental health. Dental disease gets worse over time, and the longer you wait, the more damage that will have to be taken care of and the more expensive your vet bill will be.
Dog Aggression Part 1: The Importance of Socialization
While your puppy is growing up it learns many things, but did you know that your puppy learns to be friendly and affectionate too? Well, they do. Socializing your puppy to new experiences and people, keeps them from being aggressive later in life, and an aggressive dog is one of the most difficult challenges a dog owner can ever go through. If a dog is not trained not to be aggressive many are put to sleep. When all they needed was to be better socialized with the rest of the world.
Competition Dog Training, Important Tips
Dog competitions are exciting events in which their owners can demonstrate the skills of their dogs For many weeks, the dog trainer spends hours with her pet to ensure that he can perfectly execute commands
Achieving Dog Training Success With The 18 Donts Rules
A well-train dog usually leads a happier and healthier life and its owner also can enjoy a trouble-free life long companion. Dog training - basic obedience, house and potty training are therefore essential and important to a dog's education.
Show Your Emotions with Dog Pictures
It's genuinely great to have pictures of our loved ones. It just reminds us how important they are to us. Sometimes, charge picture of our loved ones becomes a great hobby. It's nature of compelling to get a photo record and collect the movies of the ones close to us. I think with all the gear that we all learn in life, custody ones picture as a clean remembrance is a good thing. So, which pictures are considered keepers? Well there was films of your family, contacts and well, pets! Yes, you heard it right pet picture are one of the stuff the people considers in their collection. Loving the thought of it is another thing. Right now the everyday thing for most dog picture collection. It is something that a lot of people finds interesting to ...
Santa Monica Pet Companies Team Up to Support Local Dog Charity; Healthy Spot to Feature A Dog's Life "Rescue Dog Series"
In an effort to raise awareness and donations for dog shelters and rescue organizations, Healthy Spot and A Dog's Life partner to bring a series of organic treats highlighting the dog adoption cause.
Dealing with a Dog Food Allergy?
Just as humans allergies can show up as a sneeze or rash, your dog's allergies can manifest as itchiness -- or even ear infections. In fact, if your dog's allergic to his food, it can cause him to scratch himself constantly, even with no obvious parasite problem.
Dog Owners Being Warned of Road Salt Toxicity
An innovative product called "EcoTraction" is gaining the attention and support of thousands of dog owners and eco-conscious consumers across Canada thanks to Home Depot. Used as a high traction agent instead of toxic road salt, the safe mineral-based product is the result of a tragic event dating back to 2004 when three dogs on a small Ottawa street suddenly died of cancer. Mark Watson, who lost his dog Grover, consulted with medical professionals and concluded that road salt was likely responsible for their deaths. Road salt is a substance that was declared "toxic" by a Health Canada and Environment Canada 2001 report but it continues to be widely used today. Members of the media can view a short 1 minute online video excerpt of Watso...
Mountain Hiking With Your Dog
If you are a nature lover and often go jungle trekking with your pet dog, you would have noticed dangers along the way that would have been harmful to your dog, as it may cause it injuries or even be threatening to its life. To ensure that you and your dog would be guarded against these hazards along the terrain you like to travel on, here are some areas you should avoid and keep your dog away from.
How a Dog Health Diagnosis Can Put Your Mind at Ease
Your dog is more than your pet. He is your best friend, companion, and guardian. For the times when he is feeling less than himself, the least thing that you need to be concerned with is that there may be something seriously wrong. Therefore, you need to go to the veterinarian for a dog health diagnosis.
Tough Guys Talking Plush Dog Toys
Recently Camille Tapp with Alpha Pet Products sent me a Billy the Duck Tough Guys Talking Plush Toy. My dog Kelly can be a destroyer of plush toys, ripping them apart and pulling the stuffing out, so I was unsure how long this toy would last.
Linking Your Dog's Habits to Its Ancestors
There are many things a dog cannot resist doing If he is planning on biting someone, he has to focus on his target, and he has to bare his teeth
Should Your New Dog Be A Purebred Or Mixed Breed?
There are several reasons for wanting a dog; the love for dogs is one reason You will want the dog to be happy in your home and in order to be a good dog owner, you have to make a sincere, thoughtful commitment
Smoke Dog Launches Exciting New Website Featuring Environmentally Friendly Teak Wood Patio Furniture
Jim Christian of Smoke Dog LLC is proud to announce their creation of a new website featuring environmentally friendly teakwood patio furniture. Teakwood patio furniture.com is a socially conscious, unique company offering high quality patio furniture crafted with teakwood harvested from sustainable forests.
Four Teenagers and One Great Dog Travel through Time to Change Fate of Thousands in New Mind-bending Adventure
The Timetable by Pat Holand follows four teenagers and one remarkable dog as they try to thwart an alien invasion.
A very irritating habit of many puppies is one that charges the door when a guest knocks. Since the puppy is likely to run faster than a person, he thinks it's out of your range and only under your voice control. Now having your puppy completely under voice control is a situation to be striven for. Like Rome, it does not happen overnight. So, how does one cope?
I first used a chain collar; this is supposed to be keyed so it would assault my dog's ears when it was rattled, for I had an adult, persistent door charger, Rex. One day when Rex was charging the door, I was unable too quickly find the sound collar, I simply grabbed a regular chain choker and tossed it, hitting the door at the exact time that my voice hit his ears with a firm NO. The effect was completely same: He settled down. This taught me that one does not need any advanced equipment; the rattle of any choke chain abruptly landing out of the blue is distressing enough to cause your puppy to heed your NO command. Repeated frequently, this mixture of the tossed chain and the NO command caused the dog not to charge the doors anymore. He charged them a less frequently, and he eventually quit all together. I've used the trick. Most dogs can learn this lesson in just two or three sessions.
Do be too concerned about what the person at the door is going to think when you correct your dog. Most people do not think polite thoughts when they are knocked down or jumped on by a puppy that answers the door. They will greatly appreciate your efforts to keep their entry safe. In addition to using the thrown object indoors to help through training, thrown objects are very helpful outdoors, as well. Place a few pebbles into an empty plastic bottle and use it as an outdoor training tactic.
The dog that does not pay attention to your voice command is frightened by the jangle the bottle makes landing nearby and is quickly persuaded that it is not safe to ignore you. A patch of dirt or a handful of pebbles will do in a second. Do not use anything that would harm your dog if it hits him. The idea is to get Rex?s attention - not to touch him. The mixture of the thrown object and your command will automatically get your dog?s attention and improves obedience. Make sure that you are sneaky about throwing things. You don't want your dog to see you throwing the object because that could make the him scared of you.
To learn more, head to your local library for dog training aids. Ask the librarian at the reference desk for help finding training cassettes, videos, books and even local workshops that may be in your area. She or he could also help you find helpful magazine articles where you might read about the Dog Whisperer, Caesar, from his television shows.
Authored by Kelly Marshall from Oh My Dog Supplies - the place to go for dog steps in all shapes and sizes