How Are Seizure Alert Dogs Trained? After two years of training in basic obedience and advanced service dog skills, Canine Partners for Life evaluates each dog for its potential to alert for seizures. Alerting to an impending seizure is an …
Clubs Offering: “Reliable recall” refers to the act of calling your dog to come and always expecting them to respond. Training games like “find me” or “hot potato” are fun, effective ways of teaching your dog to recall. Patience, practice, …
Why Your Dog Started Digging A digging furry friend can be quite a pain. Whether they are destroying your yard or plotting their escape, canine digging can cause an abundance of frustration for their owners. To help you better understand …
Is Eating Dirt Bad For Dogs? Yes. Eating dirt presents many dangers to your dog and you should try to stop the behavior whenever you see it. As we mentioned above, dirt contains all kinds of harmful things that could …
When Dogs Growl or Snap: What NOT to do If your dog recently growled or snapped, you may be wondering why. After all, you may have done your research and made sure you adopted the best dog for your family. …
What You Can Do for Your Old Dog If you’re concerned that your canine companion might be showing signs of CDS, don’t panic, cry, or devour a box of bon-bons just yet. The good news is that there are traditional …
Breeding – A beginners guide to inbreeding and line breeding Animal Care College – caring for people caring for animals My thanks to Sue Bowling for allowing me to quote extensively from her article First and foremost I should emphasise that …
The 9 Reasons Dogs Pee on Their Blankets: Territory marking is not an uncommon behavior in dogs, although they typically do it on upright surfaces like fences and fire hydrants. Fully housetrained dogs rarely mark their territory via urination within …
Hastily Picking a Second Dog Can Lead to Personality Clashes “I’ve always had dogs in pairs,” Dr. Borns-Weil says. Yet some of those pairs did better together than others. For instance, at one time there was Lucky the male hound …
Desitin & Dogs Desitin can be toxic to dogs; however, in most cases, the dog would have to either eat a large amount or eat the ointment on a regular basis to have a toxic reaction. Having said that, it’s …