All Entries Tagged With: "Dog"
How to Get your Dog in and out of your Motor Vehicle
One of the most valuable exercises you can teach your dog is how to enter and alight from your motor vehicle correctly. It should know how to enter the vehicle when instructed, show good manners while sitting inside, and not jump out as soon as you open the door. After all, there will be occasions [...]
How to Clothe Your Dogs When Undergoing Formal Training with Them
“What should I wear?” Most parents of teenage girls have heard that wail just before the next question, “Can you take me to the mall?” Luckily, most dogs don’t want to go shopping, but they do need clothing (commonly called equipment) to help them act in a civilized manner.
Equipment can be quite confusing. There’s the [...]
How to Decide Whether to Do Euthanasia For the Dog
The decision to euthanize your dog is never an easy one, but a pet owner needs to prepare for the eventuality of it since, in my experience, only about one of every ten animals will die outside of the veterinarian’s office. The actual clinical procedure of euthanasia is simple, painless and peaceful. The solution administered [...]
How to Handle When Wild Animal Attacks Your Chinese Shar-Pei Dog
Wild animal attacks are not unusual, even in city or suburban living. Dogs are very inquisitive, and Shar-Pei is natural hunters who will most likely attack the wild animal first. Wild animals such as the skunk, the opossum or the raccoon have little chance of escaping from a Shar-Pei, but can inflict nasty bites. They [...]
How to Understand Your Dog’s Body Language
Dogs employ a vast range of facial expressions, vocal sounds and body postures in order to communicate. Many owners talk to their dogs, and sometimes the two parties appear to understand each other. Dogs possess a large universal vocabulary, and some people have attempted to translate what they are saying.
Unhappy or ill
This body posture indicates [...]
How to Socialize Your Dog
Socialize your dog at his own pace. Rushing this process can result in him becoming nervous and timid, even aggressive, or it could make formed behaviour problems worse, rather than alleviating them. Make introductions to new experiences short and sweet so that your dog views them as good things. Here are some examples.
Going to the [...]
How to Train an Adult Dog
The key to owning a well-trained dog is to start off on the right track when he is a puppy. If you have an adult dog, however, who has not been trained or whose manners leave something to be desired, then he needs to be taught the basic areas of obedience. This article explains how [...]
How to Travel with Your Dog
For every owner, there are times when you have to be away from home – for example, when you are on holidays, visiting friends and family, during hospitalization or when on business trips. During such times, you will have to make arrangements for your dog to be looked after. There are several options to choose [...]
How to Live with an Older Dog
An aging dog, if he is in good health, can provide companionship that is just as rewarding as playing with a puppy. The old dog’s reactions may not be as sharp, nor may he move as fast or be as agile when playing ‘fetch’ with you, but you and he will gain as much pleasure [...]
How to Interact with Your Dog
Different dogs require different degrees of social contact with their owners and others of their own kind. Some will be more independent and aloof than their owners wish, while others need plenty of attention in order to thrive. Dogs that actively seek out human company show signs of distress if they cannot get enough.
Dogs that [...]