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Puppy Safety Outdoors: Keeping Your Puppy Safe When Venturing Outdoors (Part 2)
Allowing your puppy to venture outside during his early months means that you have to follow a strict and watchful eye over the little guy. There are dangers lurking everywhere and because your puppy is innocent and ignorant of [...]
Dog Training: Correct Heel Methods (6)
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Now its time to find out if your dog has truly learned how to heel and execute an automatic sit.
Give him the command Heel and make any necessary corrections for poor heeling or lack of attentiveness to bring him up to the proper mental level of awareness. Come to a [...]
Police Dogs (2)
Submitted by Natural Pet Health Blog Practically every city across the nation, as well as other parts of the world, recognizes the high value of a well-trained police dog.
Studies of selected areas where crime rates are unusually high show that the introduction of the police dog has been the major factor in reducing those crime [...]
Puppy Safety Outdoors: Keeping Your Puppy Safe When Venturing Outdoors (Part 3)
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Puppy Safety Outdoors: Keeping Your Puppy Safe When Venturing Outdoors (Part 3)
Before you can take your new puppy exploring the great outdoors with you, it’s best to remind yourself of potential dangerous situations that your young and helpless dog could get into. Many unfortunate accidents happen every day to young [...]
Dog Training: Correct Heel Methods (5)
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When you feel that you have sufficient control of your dog while walking, usually within four days of his initial orientation to the leash, you are now ready to go to a higher level of control.
Give your dog the command to heel and begin walking, remembering to start out on [...]
Police Dogs (1)
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The concept of utilizing dogs for police services is certainly not a new innovation. Records in history account such animals being used for law enforcement safety and service as early as the fifteenth century.
However, the organized application of the canine as police dogs was instituted in the early 1900s and [...]
Pets Have Abdominal Cramping Too!
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Humans are not the only ones that get abdominal cramping. Pets often fall victim to it, as well. Your pet can get abdominal pain from the same things we do.
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Things that cause abdominal pain in pets are: gas accumulation, eating the wrong foods (ie. human food that contains sugar), ulcers, [...]
Dog Training: Correct Heel Methods (4)
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When it comes to obedience training, there should be no half-way action accepted. In other words, it’s all or nothing from your dog. And a crooked sit must be considered as something less than your dog giving his full potential.
Not only does it look shabby, but it also prevents [...]
What To Do Before Introducing A New Cat To Your Dog
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Dogs and cats may not be considered to be the most compatible of animals, but statistics show otherwise. In fact, there is a survey recorded in the American Veterinary Medical Association back in 2002 that stated that over 15% of every household in the United States has at least one [...]
Pointer (Sporting Group)
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Sporting dogs are known to be excellent hunters – and at the top of the list is the classic Pointer dog breed.
Considered to be a wide-ranging hunter, the Pointer is able to run for hours on end, while showing off its excellent bird hunting skills.
Like [...]
Wild Cat Wednesday #10
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Best friends furrever…
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How To Judge Whether Your Dog Will Like The New Cat
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When you first introduce a dog and cat together, 9 times out of 10 the cat will be the one that is fearful and the first to bolt away. There are of course rare exceptions, especially for smaller dogs that are poorly socialized.
I remember one of my Chihuahuas who would [...]
Dog Training: Correct Heel Methods (3)
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There are two extremes of personalities in dogs the introvert and the extrovert. However, there are many degrees in between those two extremes as there are dogs in this planet.
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Regardless of where your dogs personality lies on that scale, once you have given the command to heel you must start [...]
Plott (Hound Group)
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The Plott is one member of the Hound Group that makes the perfect, all-around family companion.
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They are instinctively drawn to picking up a scent and following that trail until the end, yet once inside the house the Plott turns into a calm, mild-mannered family dog that is good around children.
This [...]
Dog Training: Correct Heel Methods (2)
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As you begin, position your dog at your left side while keeping the leash short. Leave a belly of reserved slack, with your right hand, look at your dog, say his name, then command Heel!
Begin walking, starting with your left foot. Walk briskly in a straight line, with confidence in [...]
How To Make Your Dog & Cat Become Friends In Just A Few Hours
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Dogs & Cats: How To Make Your Dog & Cat Become Friends In Just A Few Hours
The secret to starting and maintaining a loving relationship between your dog and a new cat (or vice versa) lies within how carefully you introduce them to each other. You have already made the [...]
Pit Bull Dog Breed (American Staffordshire Terrier)
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Dog enthusiasts consider the American Staffordshire Terrier, otherwise known as the Pit Bull, to have come from the exact same lines as the Staffordshire Terrier. The original crossing of breeds sprung from the mix of an older type of Bulldog with some other older types of Terrier. The result was [...]
Deciding The Right Burial Option For Your Dog
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As we spend a decade or more with our dogs, they literally become a part of our lives, a member of our family, and the thought of them not being with us anymore can be too much to handle.
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Unfortunately, this is something that will happen. It is inevitable. And while [...]
Dog Training: Correct Heel Methods (1)
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Once you have reached the level in training your dog where he is not fooled by distractions or temptation, you are then ready to proceed to the next level of training how to heel correctly.
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If your dog cannot walk comfortably at your side, there is no way youre going to [...]
Pharaoh Hound
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The red, long-tailed dog goes at night into the stalls of the hills. He makes no delay in hunting, his face glows like a God and he delights to do his work.
The above description of the Pharaoh Hound is a hunting account that was taken from the XIX Egyptian dynasty. [...]
Calling All Healers!
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I know I have many folks who are in the healing profession reading this blog. So, now is the time I ask all of you to help.
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I’ve been experiencing what I call a ‘dark night of the soul.’
I won’t go into what instigated my dilemma, but suffice it to say [...]
Getting Your Child & New Puppy Off To A Great Start
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Nothing is more adorable than seeing a small child and a loving puppy playing happily together. What’s even better to know, is that psychological studies have proven that people who are fortunate enough to grow up with a dog in the family household tend to have happier childhoods.
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Kids who grow [...]
The Right Type Of Communication Needed For Dog Training
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The most crucial factor that can spell the difference between success and failure in training your dog is attitude both yours and your dogs.
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While your family dog may have some pretty serious difficulties, your dogs right attitude toward training will help overcome even his most intolerable behavior. However, control of [...]
Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen (Hound Group)
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The Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, a breed most popular in France, is a highly affectionate and playful dog that – although gives the appearance of being a wire-coated Basset hound – is a breed all on its own. They are always on the lookout for fun and games and will [...]
Mad Dog Monday #9
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Now that’s a lot of dog - what a big sweetie!
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