Starting Your French Bulldog Puppy On A Raw Diet Start With One Protein Source Regardless of whether you’re preparing your own raw or are using a prepared raw food, it’s best to start with one protein source. Give that one protein for a good week. If there are no signs of digestive upset, start yourContinue reading “Starting Your Puppy on a Raw Diet”
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How to Socialize Your New Puppy
Socialization is one of the most misunderstood areas in dog training.The old-school concept of socialization meant you take your puppy out and get it used to interacting with people, places, and other dogs. When we explain that this thinking is exactly what causes many of the behavioral problems, people ask, “How can I get myContinue reading “How to Socialize Your New Puppy”
Raw Feeding Puppies: BARF Diet
Raw feeding for puppies: BARF Diet The BARF model diet is the most popular raw diet for puppies. A BARF diet can be home prepared with multiple ingredients to provide recommended allowances for most essential nutrients. Although, it is important to note that many ratio raw diets can be lacking in certain essential nutrients when specific whole foodsContinue reading “Raw Feeding Puppies: BARF Diet”
Marker Training for dogs and puppies
In technical terms, marker training is operant conditioning. Operant conditioning has been around for years. It is how dolphins are trained at SeaWorld. Operant conditioning forms an association between a behavior and a consequence. I can see new dog trainers reading this and shaking their heads thinking “Duh, isn’t that pretty obvious and what allContinue reading “Marker Training for dogs and puppies”
Traditional Spay-Neuter Shouldn’t Be the Answer for Every Dog
It’s time to consider broader use of alternative sterilization procedures that don’t remove the ovaries or testes, especially for large and giant breed dogs. A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that spaying and neutering dogs, especially large and giant breeds, and especially at an early age, increases the risk for a wide range ofContinue reading “Traditional Spay-Neuter Shouldn’t Be the Answer for Every Dog”
Top 5 Causes of Puppy Diarrhea
Having a new puppy in your home is an exciting time for your family. But then the dreaded puppy diarrhea strikes … and you’ll want to figure out what caused it. What Does Puppy Diarrhea Look Like? Here’s what you may see if your puppy has loose stool or diarrhea: Soggy and loses shape whenContinue reading “Top 5 Causes of Puppy Diarrhea”
Why Dog Allergy Medications are not safe
Your dog needs his immune system to protect him from disease. But modern dog allergy medications can damage the way it works … sometimes permanently. What is a dogs Immune system Your dog’s immune system is an extraordinary network of cells, tissues and organs that work together to defend against attacks from foreign invaders thatContinue reading “Why Dog Allergy Medications are not safe”
How to protect Your puppy from Vaccine Damage
How to Protect Your Dog From Vaccine Damage Unfortunately, most veterinarians continue to remain uninformed about the potential for revaccination to trigger adverse reactions in pets. As a result, they continue to promote automatic revaccination rather than antibody titer tests to see if their patients even need that second, third, or tenth revaccination against theContinue reading “How to protect Your puppy from Vaccine Damage”
What dose your puppies poop tell you
What does it mean when your dog’s poop is a weird color instead of the usual chocolate brown?Yellow/OrangeCan mean liver or gall bladder problems. GreenGall bladder problem, intestinal parasites or bacterial infection. BlueYour dog may have eaten rat poison. BlackCan mean your dog’s digesting blood, especially if stools look tarry. May indicate upper GI tractContinue reading “What dose your puppies poop tell you”
Dog Training: the drop it command
Training the Drop it command by toy Switching Toy Switching (teaching a drop it): Toy switching is my favorite way to teach a drop it inside of play. To do this, all you need are two identical toys and dog who loves to tug. Level one: teach the toy switch Start by playing tug withContinue reading “Dog Training: the drop it command”