Showing 80 posts from March 2009
Good grooming practices are essential for maintaining health and happiness for you and your dog. Healthy skin, hair, nails and teeth are what define a well-groomed dog. Dog-grooming is the practice of caring for the appearance of a canine for personal or showing purposes. Dog-grooming rituals include washing, hair clipping and cutting, nail clipping, powdering, [...]
There has been an ongoing debate about natural vs commercial dog food, one that is important for all dog owner’s to be aware of. After all, the food that you feed your dog is going to have a major aspect on your pet’s overall health, so you want to make sure that you choose the [...]
Whenever we go to the park we see a lot of pet owners asking their dogs to fetch Frisbees or other things. And it all looks so cool and fun. We would all like for our dogs to fetch things on command. But most of us think that it would be a big hassle to [...]
Clicker training for dogs is one of the more recent methods in dog training. It’s rooted in research done in behavioral psychology and the method is referred to by psychologists as operant conditioning. But you don’t need to know scientific terms in order to benefit from the method.
The method was first developed with dolphins. [...]
As a human, flying is sometimes one of the most nerve-wracking experiences, even when you know it is safe, efficient and generally very pleasant. If it is that worrisome for a human that knows what is going on, just imagine how stressful it is for your four-legged companion. Both dogs and cats can be transported [...]
