Dog Training - Some Misconception

Dog Training - Some Misconception

Many people, dog owners included, believe that a dog has to be trained relatively early in life. Beyond a certain age, the animal cannot be helped anymore.

Is this true?

Training is a vital part of developing and establishing the relationship between owner and pet.At the end of the day, it is the dog that suffers because of the owner’s lack of awareness.

Training is a vital part of developing and establishing the relationship between owner and pet. A dog that is well-handled is well-adjusted. And, yes, even the old dogs can be schooled.

Basically, all dogs are trainable. It’s preferable to begin a dog’s training when they are between the ages of six months to a year. However, you may trained a two-year-old dog the same way with the same results.

You can train a dog well but the results also have to be based on reasonable expectations. You cannot, and should not, expect a poodle to be a guard dog and behave like a German Shepard. The truth is that dogs don’t need training – people do. You, as a dog owner, should leatn how to communicate with dogs.

Dogs do the things they do because they don’t know it is wrong. You have to catch the dog at the point where they are about to do something and reprimand them with a simple ‘No’. You can’t do it after the fact.

If the dog has already chewed the slipper, reprimanding it would be useless. You are only serving to confuse the dog.

Too often dog owners take the easy way out when they can’t handle dog’s aggressive nature. We give up! Truly it is impossible to keep an eye trained on your dog to catch them red-handed, so to speak.

This is why you should laying down the rules early on so the dog understands what is acceptable and not. There are no such things as five-minute training sessions.

You cannot expect your dog to learn everything and be an expert after being told (off) once. You have to reinforce the message daily. It may be hard work but the rewards are worth it if you exercise patience.

Most of the problems dog owners face with their dogs today are because they didn’t take the trouble to fully comprehend their needs and their nature. Remember, it is never too late for you to train them the right way.

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Terminology for dogs

Terminology for dogs

Puppies engage in teething on almost anything.Dog, in common usage, refers to the domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris (originally classified as Canis familiaris by Linnaeus in 1758, but reclassified as a subspecies of the wolf, Canis lupus, by the Smithsonian Institution and the American Society of Mammalogists in 1993). The word is sometimes used to refer collectively to any mammal belonging to the family Canidae (as in "the dog family"), such as wolves, foxes and coyotes.

Dog is also a term used by breeders to specifically denote a male domestic dog. The female is known as a bitch. A young dog is called a puppy. The words pooch and poochie are generic, generally affectionate terms for a dog. Many additional terms are used for dogs that are not purebred


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Dog Care - Obesity

Dog Care - Obesity

A dog's waist should narrow after the ribcage ends, as this Australian Kelpie shows. This is easier to see if you view the dog from above. This dog has a nice tucked-up abdomen.

Some dogs, like this tiny Pug, have broader heads, shoulders, and hips than other breeds, but the bone structure should still be visible as in this example and all the rules still apply; however, people tend to spoil their toy breeds and overfeed them.

It is particularly important with very large, heavy breeds, such as this healthy Pyrenese Mountain Dog, to avoid obesity because they already have a tendency towards skeletal problems.Dogs, like people, can become overweight if they eat more calories than they burn through activity. And, just as obesity can cause health problems in humans, it can cause health problems in dogs, including early arthritis, heart problems, diabetes, and much more. Because dogs' lifespans are so short to begin with, allowing a dog to become obese can significantly shorten its life.

For purebred dogs, you can get an estimate of a healthy weight for the dog by reviewing the breed standards published for that breed. Typically, male dogs are slightly larger and therefore weigh slightly more than females of the same breed.

For all dogs, including mixed-breed dogs or purebred dogs whose height falls outside the breed standard, it is easy to determine whether it is of a healthy weight as follows:

By feeling along its sides, you should be able to feel the spaces between a dog's ribs without by just lightly running your hands along its sides, pressing only hard enough to feel through the hair coat. If you can't feel the ribs, your dog is obese and needs to eat less.

There should not be deep indentations between ribs, or the dog needs more calories (more or higher quality dog food).

By feeling along its back, you should be able to just barely feel the vertebrae in a dog's spine when you run your fingers along the back without pressing (or pressing just hard enough to feel through the fur of a dog with a thick coat).

By looking down on the dog from above as the dog is standing. The dog's waistline should be thinner than its chest and hips. You should be able to feel the hip bones with a little fat overlying them. (Sharp hip bones means your do is too skinny.)

By visual inspection from the side. For short-coated dogs, such as Boxers or Chihuahuas, you should be able to just barely see the light outline of the ribs through the coat, but they should not be obvious. In any dog, the abdomen should be tucked up instead of horizontal toward the rear.

Although all dog foods include printed suggestions for serving sizes for dogs, you must adjust the serving size depending on the amount of exercise that the dog gets and how many other sources of calories the dog has, such as plentiful treats, table scraps after every meal, and so on. As a rule, dogs should have less than five percent of their diet in treats and table scraps and at least 95 % quality commercial dog food. Many pet food labels exaggerate how much food your dog needs. Ask your veterinarian for a more reasonable suggestion, or feed just enough to keep your dog in good condition, as judged by the criteria above. Clicke here for free Healthy Dog Food Sample and give your dog a free treat

If you do feed table scraps, avoid grapes, raisins, and chocolate, which are highly poisonous to dogs. Never feed uncooked meat, as dogs are just as likely as humans to get food poisoning. (It is very difficult to make a homemade diet as complete as a commercial diet... dogs need to eat mostly dog food.) Clicke here for free Healthy Dog Food Sample and give your dog a free treat

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