Dogs And Cats – Can Your Dog And Cat Ever Become Friends?

Cats and dogs are notoriously famous for being thought of as arch enemies. From cartoons to movies, they are always being depicted as two animals that are always at each other’s throats. This makes it easy to assume that they are not meant to get along.  However, there is a way for these two seemingly [...]

Fear Of Water And How To Become A Dog Trainer

Question: Dog Afraid Of Water “Our 1 ½ year-old German Shorthair Pointer has a water phobia. His mother loves the water, and water doesn’t seem to bother the others that were in the litter. My dog’s pedigree (mostly champions) shows Duals and Field Champions so the problem isn’t there. Our dog is trained, but the [...]

Dog Pannus And Obedience Trainer Lessons

Question: Dog Pannus (An Inherited Health Defect) “My daughter-in-law is blind and has a seeing eye dog. The other day, I noticed her dog’s eyes looked a little filmy. Two veterinarians both agree it was pannus. They gave her drops to put in three times a day for the rest of the dog’s life.” “Could [...]

Traveling With Dogs

Helpful Tips While Traveling With Dogs To ensure fun, stress-free travel with your canine pal, follow these 5 simple tips: 1. With experience, most dogs get over the tendency to become sick when riding in a moving vehicle. However, some will almost always get queasy. In such cases, you should ask your veterinarian to prescribe [...]

Your Dog Is Part Of Your Family

People and dogs have a long and unique relationship, one that is unlike our relationship with any other animal. It’s not hard to imagine some prehistoric hunter bringing home an orphaned wolf cub, only to find that it fitted surprisingly well to human society as it grew up. On top of that he would have [...]

Bell-Ringing Craziness & The Dog Who Ignores Basic Commands

Bell Ringing Craziness Our family owns a six-year-old Wirehaired Fox Terrier. Whenever the phone rings and someone goes to answer it, she starts barking incessantly, runs after the person, and jumps up on them. Sometimes, she even bites that person! She seems to bark at any kind of bell ringing. Why does she do this, [...]

Graduated Obedience Class But Still Not Educated & The Ole Touchy Feet Syndrome

Graduated But Not Educated My Boxer is a 1-year old male and he really makes a fool out of himself whenever someone comes to the door, or if anyone gets near him for that matter. He jumps in the air, wipes his saliva all over their clothes, and runs in circles around my guests. He [...]

Pet Identification

Pet identification is highly required in these days because of the need for the licensing of the dog in a proper manner and to reduce the numbers of the stray dog menace in streets. Pet identification is done by many methods, which are different from each other. The cost factor for that also has variations [...]

Boredom And Variety

Boredom and variety are always inter connected in case of dog misbehaving. Yes. This is true. Many a times, boredom can be managed with variety of materials that will distract the animals to a greater extent. Hence, the dog may not do the abnormal or unwanted activity arising out of the boredom experienced by it. [...]

False Pregnancies In Dogs

Unusual behavior following a heat cycle (estrus) in the non-pregnant female dog is a common occurrence. This condition is termed false pregnancy (hyperluteoidism, pseudocyesis, pseudo-pregnancy). It is a hormonal imbalance and may cause a wide range of clinical signs. Let’s have a brief review of a normal estrous cycle on the female dog in order [...]