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•How to House Train Your Dog
Dog is man’s best friend. Having a new puppy in the home is a wonderful and exciting experience for the whole family to enjoy. Unfortunately, raising a young puppy is a lot like caring for a newborn baby. The puppy does not yet know how to care for itself and as a result you will need to train the puppy how to find its food bowl and learn where to go when it has to potty. Training the puppy how to find its food is rather simple; the puppy knows that it will not eat until it finds the food. As a...
•Preparing Your Home For Your New Puppy
The big day is here! You have chosen your puppy. Whether your puppy is coming from a shelter or a breeder, it really doesn’t matter right now. You have a precious young puppy coming to live with you and you need to get your home ready to receive him.
Do you have the thing you will need for your puppy? Do you have a bag of the same food that he has been eating? You don’t want to make any fast changes in his diet even if you don’t like his current food. Coming to your house will be a huge...
•Stop Puppies From Nipping
Nipping puppies are a common occurrence. Puppies play hard with their littermates and when you bring your puppy home he transfers this behavior to you. Those sharp little teeth really hurt, however, and this is a behavior that needs to be nipped in the bud.
Nipping puppy behavior has nothing to do with teething or dominance. It is simply puppy play behavior that has gone wild. Buying chew toys and offering them to your puppy won’t do anything to deter them from mouthing people or teach the...
•How and Why to Crate Train a Puppy
For many new dog owners, housetraining is one of the most challenging parts of introducing a new canine into the family. Until that puppy learns how to go outside, chances are that you’ll be spending quite a bit of time cleaning up messes and dreading the smell when you open your front door.
But many people struggle with understanding the best way to teach their puppy how to go not only where you want but also when you want. After all, having your puppy on a schedule for using the bathroom is...
•Feeding Dogs Bones
For decades, images of dogs happily chewing on bones have been promoted on television and in motion pictures. As a result, pet owners have been feeding their dogs both raw and cooked bones, thinking that they are providing a natural form of nutrition for their pets. In reality, they are compromising the dog's health and unintentionally risking the animal's life. The consumption of bones by dogs has resulted in vomiting, organ puncture, and cancer. Feeding dogs bones is not a good thing to...
•Fun and Exciting Jobs For Dogs
When it comes to dreaming in living color . . . let’s face it. Doggies see in black and white. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t add a little “reach for the stars” rainbow into his life. From spreading a little cheer to kids in need to getting on the cover of that local pet store ad, read on to find out how you can get your doggie wagging for a living . . . or simply for a good cause.
Doggie Modeling
It’s glamorous, it’s glitz and you’ve always wondered how to get your puppy’s face on the...
•Are Cats and Dogs Really Enemies
It’s one of those truisms that we tend to take for granted: cats and dogs fight like, well, cats and dogs. Everybody knows that cats and dogs don’t get along. Don’t they? Isn’t it true? Well, maybe not. New research is casting doubt on this age-old stereotype about two of our best friends.
According to researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel, it’s perfectly possible for cats and dogs to get along in the same home. Researchers interviewed some 200 people who owned both cats and dogs for...
•Trimming a Dog s Nails
Most pet owners know that they need to keep their dog’s nails trimmed; unfortunately it’s often easier said than done! Not all dogs are very cooperative when it comes to having their nails trimmed and there are a lot of reasons for this problem. Usually it’s because a dog has had some bad experiences, especially with clippers. Or, it could be because the dog’s nails weren’t trimmed very often when he was a puppy. Whatever the case, here are some suggestions to help you trim your dog’s nails...
•Helpful Advice About Feeding a Dog
Is your dog overweight? If so, you’re not alone. In the U.S. today some 17 million dogs, or at least 30 percent of pet U.S. dogs, are estimated to be overweight or obese. Many people believe that if they love their dog it means that they should never allow their dog to be hungry, not even for a moment. Unfortunately, if you keep your dog stuffed with food all the time you are guaranteed to make him overweight. And that’s not healthy for him.
The single biggest reason that dogs become...
•Stop A Dog From Begging
Dog begging is one of the more difficult habits to break. Nothing can be more heart-wrenching than a dog begging while looking at you with those big sad eyes while you are eating. It almost seems as if their eyes are talking to you, and you know what they would say if they could talk: Please, just an itty-bitty piece of potato, or chicken, or roast beef. Pretty Please? You can see it in their eyes; it almost seems as if they have tears. Your dog does not actually have to be pawing at you or...
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