“Introduce a dog to your home when it’s fairly settled and peaceful, not right before or during a big change.” Similarly, avoid getting a puppy during times when you plan totravelsoon. If you travel often for work or pleasure, be sure to consider what plans you will have in...
Dogs often become anxious when left alone and will bark all day. Read our blog to find out how you can help a dog feel calm when left alone.
Mini Foxies, as they are often called, arebrave, intelligent, explosive and full of action. They need to be well trained, as they will hunt for pleasure and won't distinguish between a venomous snake and a harmless one. T-REX in my Backyard!
Yay!! I do worry, as most in the pet animal industries, that with people being home so much with their new pets they will not have been appropriately trained or properly socialized and may suffer from separation anxiety when their owners do return to work. I am currently working on ...
My cycle is right at 28 days and I realized yesterday that means I will not be on my period for the marathon. Hallelujah. Ever since I’ve had Skye my periods have felt a lot worse (anyone else have that happen after babies?!) so I’m happy to skip over that. I have ...
In my opinion, in answer to the question ‘when to start training a puppy’, you should start at 8 to 10 weeks, as soon as you get your puppy home. They will be eager to please, can learn a surprising amount, it’s fun for both of you and it’s quality time spent together that...
So allow at least four or five hours of reading time to get up to speed on how dogs learn, and another few hours of online training courses if you’ve not trained a dog before. Attending a puppy class will also help – that’ll take up a couple of hours of your time each week, ...
But sometimes a dog who’s been house trained will go to the far end of the run if he can’t reach the outside. And if the kennel run has a door to the outside, some dogs will try to potty outside. But remember that a house trained dog may have accidents in a kennel because ...
It seems to me when we enter murky waters with a “well-trained” dog, the range of options to which they will go if we give them a non-specific correction is less likely to be some wild behavior we never wanted them to practice in the first place — which isn’t always ...
and after that one could see that the humans in my office were already getting tired. I had asked them, after all, no small number of questions that took a lot of thought to answer. “When did the problem first begin, just even an inkling of it?”“What exactly did you do in the...