Learn how to maximize your dog’s development with expert tips and advice. Find the best family dogs for your home and create a loving environment for your furry friend.
Dog’s Social Competency Dogs communicate through body language. Dogs learn how to communicate with other dogs starting within their first week of life! Exploring dog socialization and play behavior is a rapidly growing area of animal behavior studies. We know that puppies get their first canine social cues from their littermates and mother. Puppies continue […]
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Did your dog suddenly collapse, shake, stiffen, drool, or seem “out of it”? Watching a dog seizure can be terrifying – especially if it’s your first time. Knowing what to do in those first few minutes can help keep your dog safe and help your veterinarian identify the cause faster. *For educational purposes, not to
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Stay fit with your dog, imagine all the ways you can play outside. We have previously shared how to make a rainy day walk an opportunity for dog enrichment. You can also start looking forward to summer dog walks. Let’s see how you participate in Dog Fitness Month?! What’s your favorite way to play? Entertaining
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Does your Weim love water? Titan used to love it – unless we were both swimming! Has this ever happened to you?! If we were both swimming he would swim over me and try to stand on my head!! It hurt! We had to swim together several times before he would relax and understand that
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Have you ever watched the unique interaction between a visually impaired person walking with their guide dog? It is a really unique relationship that these canine and humans share. Not only do they assist their owner with daily living, but they also are a loving and trusted companion. How Dogs Assist The Visually Impaired Did
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An American SPCA in St. Hubert’s, Madison, New Jersey, has revolutionized the rehabilitation of traumatized dogs. This Animal Welfare Center is unique with a new approach. The dogs are given a strict program and strict socialization and training for 3 months – consistently. That is 3 months in a consistent environment, with familiar professional trainers,
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As a typical dog owner, you probably come home to an overly excited dog who can not wait to see you! Your dog is eager to play with you and especially loves feeding time. And despite all that – you might wonder what are other signs your dog really loves you? Here’s ways dogs show
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Researches have studied the family dog influences your baby’s development for the last several years. Each time new evidence comes to light. The family dogs and baby’s development is a growing area of research. To know how babies benefit from having a family dog, we need to understand how they process their world very early
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Dogs & Pregnant Women Ever wonder if your dog can tell you are pregnant? And just how much do they understand? Well dogs can tell when a human woman is expecting almost from the moment of conception because they are so in tuned to us. Whether you are thinking of getting pregnant, or you are
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Getting a Dog is a Surprise of it’s own – Don’t combine the event with a big day Dogs can make great family pets if everyone is on board. They do not make good “surprises” such as Christmas or birthday gifts. Often this can lead to resentment as creating
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