Before anyone mentions it: that’s right, heavy metal has not ranked well in the dogs and music studies, tending to make shelter dogs more agitated (Kogan et al., 2012). That’s not surprising. But if you play it already and your dogs are fine with it, they may be habituated. In ...
Dogs can acquire intestinal parasites from food or water contaminated with the parasite or its eggs, licking surfaces or objects contaminated with poop from infected animals, or sniffing, eating, or licking contaminated soil, such as in dog parks. The worm eggs are microscopic, but you may see...
Dogs have real feelings and emotions and they are far better at reading your emotions than most people I know Even though I have never seen a Rottweiler with PMS, (and for that I am extremely grateful,) it doesn’t mean you can’t hurt their feelings. Their cognitive and emotional respon...
Position traps close to floor boards in areas where mice or feces have been spotted. If children or pets are in the home, choose locations where they won’t have access to the poison. Keep laying a fresh batch out each night for at least a week to ensure they all have been snagged. ...
there are some immediate risks to take into account when your puppy refuses to eat. Puppies, unlike older dogs, don’t have fat reserves. Therefore, they can’t go longer than 12 hours without food. This is particularly true for toy breeds that are prone to hypoglycemia (a drop in blood...
but over the course of two weeks it grew progressively stronger and more caustic. After a morning of sniffing we believe it comes from under the cellar stairs. But the stairs are totally closed. They would have to be dismantled to find out what’s beneath them. And how would anything get...
I think my grandma talked about WW2 days when eggs were hard to find – never knew when you could “arrange” for some, and said they kept some in the cellar in a big barrel full of “something”, and she would go “fish” for them when needed. Water glassing involves storing the ...
Us humans, on the other hand, are no match for that kind of speed.Your best bet when faced with a charging bear is to stand your ground, make yourself look bigger, and make loud noises to intimidate it.Running away could trigger its predatory instincts, and that’s a situation you ...
The Drug Sniffing Dog man settles in his seat next to the window on a plane, when another man sits down next to him and seats his Black Labrador Retriever in-between them. The first man looks very quizzically at the dog and asks why he's allowed on the plane. The second man explain...
Here are some of the booksI’ve been savoring, in hopes of beginning a conversation about other great books just waiting for me to turn the page: The Possibility Dogs.I wrote about it last week, but couldn’t skip mentioning it again. Here’s the quote I sent to the publisher after ...