My REX and REVA both love this special treat a lot -- even more than their regular beef meal at times. How about your "SCISSOR"? I'm sure SCISSOR will also love to have this wonderful treat. And you will just wonder how easy it is to make for your SCISSOR.

You will need:

• Whole wheat flour -- 4 cups


• Buffalo milk -- 1 full cup


• Vegetable oil (not mustard oil) -- 1/2 Teaspoon full


• Chicken liver (shreded) -- 100 gms


• Eggs -- 2 (large size)


• Water -- 1 cup

How to make:

• Mix all the ingredients together


• Put the mixture into the mixture grinder and mix it well for five minutes


• Bake it for 40 minutes at 325 degree.


• Take it out, keep it covered and let it cool down to room temperature


• It will become hard -- like dog biscuit


• Break it and give it to your SCISSOR.

If you give it as tidbits during training it would work like a real blast.

What else my dog friends have to do for us mankind??? They have been doing a lot for us -- guiding the blinds to the destination, fetching the news papers to their old masters, guarding and protecting our properties, going down to fetch games for their hunter masters, carrying messages during the war times and what not?

But it's really painful to say that they are now dying to teach the respected soldiers of Peru how to kill. Shame on the Government of Peru and educated Peruvian army officers !!!

The Peruvian commandos are tought how to kill where live dogs are spreadeagled and tied between the poles fixed vertically into the ground. The muscular Peruvian heroes slash and stab the helpless creature to death. This is how they are tought how to kill. Shame on the Government of Peru and educated Peruvian army officers !!! This is not the end...

I will not put the picture in my blog but all I can do is to redirect you to read about what's going on over there. Click here. This barbarism of the Peruvian military was first brought to notice by World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), which is a British charity. I owe millions of thanks to WSPA to bring the fact before the mass attention.

Developed over the millions of years the dogs are the man's best friend. Historians and scientists have provided us with enough scopes to look back to the evolution and development of the animal that we love as dog and think to be our best friend. The man-dog relationship was depicted in a manuscript of 18th century and by an ancient art made on a Greek vase during a period, spanning back to about 425 BC.

During this long evolutionary period dogs have changed a lot. From the dogs with no specific origin we have now a wide assortment of pedegree dogs -- Pure breed dogs such as Labrador Retrievers, Pit Bull Terriers, Afghan Hounds, Schnauzers, Gordon Setters, Grey Hounds etc.

• Pedegree Dogs are those dogs that have been bred as the helping hands of mankinds and bred actually on the basis of the pre-written standard set forth by any recognized association or a Kennel Club. The wide range of pure bred dogs are devided into seven distinctive groups -- Sporting Breed, Non-Sporting Breed, Terriers, Working Breed, Utility Breed, Hounds and Herding Breed. Untill the fag end of 1998 there were only 6 groups. With the begining of 1999 there was one more group and that was the Pastoral Group.

A pure bred French Bulldog

• Mixed breed and mongrels are the dogs that do not have a specific origin. Better to define it as the specimen from mixed parentage. Although it's for true that many pure breeds that we find today are the results of planned crossing of two or more different breeds. For instance, Bull Terrier. This particular breed came about by crossnig of old fighting dogs carrying Bulldog gene with Terriers (notably the English White Terriers, which are extinct now).

However the mongrels (also termed as a tyke, crossbreed, cur, a bitsa, mutt,or random-bred dog) are as apealing as the dogs of pure breed and may have as much characters as a royal German Shepherd Dog. I have often seen the hybrid vigor of the mongrels often surpasses the beauty and glamour of the purebred or pedigree dogs. If you compare one purebred to one mixed breed, either may come out ahead and you may wonder as to how a mongrel can be a mindblowing pet. I'll come up with a snap of a beautiful specimen -- LIZA (GSD+Labrador) sometimes later. Stay tuned!

Well, I am sure that you are interested in dog world and canine breed -- otherwise you wouldn't have dropped by "Welcome Dog Lovers" (WDL). Often people ask me, which breed of dog should be the right choice for them. The answer is not as simple as "the one that fascinates you the most"!!! Not again a big deal either. All you need to understand the dog breeds. Here's a simple guide that may help you understand what a canine breed actually is.

What is a canine breed? Putting very precisely it's a specific breed of dog that have been bred to conform to a Kennel Club's pre-framed breed standard (a written blue print for the breed along with it's purpose). In the dog world three distinctive approaches have been combined to give an idea of a specific canine breed.

• Ancestry: All the specimens descending from a particular origin (founder specimen/group) are designated as a specific breed.


• Typology: Canine breeds are also distinguished by the type or physique of the dog. Canines have been categorised into five classes of breed -- toy breed, small, medium breed, large breed and giant breed.
  
• Purpose: The canine breed are distinguished by their purpose and utility.
  
  While some breeds have been bred to be an ideal family companion and watchdog(such as the Keeshonden), the others are bred to herd sheep or to go for hunting with their hunter masters. There are working breed, sport breed, gun dogs, utility group, terrier group.
  
  Spare a serious thoughts before purchasing the dog. If you want a small breed that would make a great companion and would be good with kids, a Pomerenian will never be a right choice. Because poms are sometimes agressive with children. Beagles are better. On the other level, if you want to have a giant dog with appropriate degree of aggressiveness and highly intelligent, Bloodhound may be a better pick and not a Tosa. These are only a couple of examples.
  

Recall training is simply about teaching a dog to come to you on command from wherever he is, at home or in the park. While it is possible to teach this to a dog of any age, recall training ideally should begin with a new puppy as soon as he comes home. This is because he has a very strong urge at a few weeks of age to follow his mother and her owner, and will willingly transfer this to his new parent figures.

First teach your puppy or new dog his name. Whenever he hears his name he should look towards you to see what you want him to do, but, of course, there will always be a lot of interesting distractions. The aim of teaching him his name is to make you the most important thing in his life and to show that it is always worth listening to you in case he may hear you call his name.

• Sit on a chair with a bag of tasty treats with your puppy or dog close up to you, say his name and immediately give him a treat when he looks up. Within a few repetitions he will look expectantly at you as soon as he hears his name.
  
• Say his name and encourage him to take one or two paces towards you before giving him the treat. Build up the distance between you and him gradually and practice in all rooms of the house and the garden. We are not ready yet to tell him to 'come', we are just teaching him that whenever he hears his name, irrespective of where he is at the time, there is always a pleasant outcome for responding to it.
  
• Within the house and garden you can now call the puppy from one family member to the next with each member giving him a treat for responding to his name. The word 'come' can be added after the dog's name as he is moving towards you. Remember his name gets his attention, 'come' tells him what it is that you want him to do. Wait until he's actually moving towards you before saying 'come' to ensure that he makes the correct association between word and action. When he's got the hang of this new 'game', don't give him a treat every time, but instead reward him on a random basis, and then only for the very quickest and direct responses to being asked to 'come'.

Here are a couple of videos. Each one describes a different technique you can try when teaching your dog to come back.





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