Monday, July 16, 2012

Facts About Shock Dog Collars

There are many mixed views on shock dog collars by professional dog trainers veterinarians and owners alike. Shock dog collars have been a major debate in the dog world and are still being evaluated as a unnecessary way to train your dog. Some people believe that shock dog collars are cruel and inhumane, while others feel that shock dog collars are necessary and are not harmful to the dog.

Some people think that shock dog collars are very effective because the dog receives a small bolt of electricity form the shock dog collar every time it does something wrong. It is true that these shock dog collars do not release a large amount of electricity and it is a better method then other methods used in the past such as hitting your dog or spraying it in the face with water. The electricity from shock dog collars can be controlled by the owner and set at different levels.

Despite the fact that shock dog collars can help your dog learn its lesson much quicker due to the continual shocks, there are some facts that do not justify the use of shock dog collars. Shock dog collars can cause your dog to become fearful do to the shocks from shock dog collars. This can lead to the dogs mistrust with the owner and could cause the dog to retaliate against the owner due to the dog receiving pain form the shock dog collar. Another downside to shock dog collars is that if a dog does not know what it is doing wrong, the shock dog collar will not help the dog correct the problem. It is also a fact that the shock dog collars can malfunction and continually shock your dog as well as causing physical damage to your dog such as burns.

Shock dog collars is a highly controversial issue that has many justifications on both sides. Many dog owners play it safe by not using shock dog collars and instead use anti shock dog collar methods.

Cautions About Dog Shock Collars

Dog shock collars are viewed by some as great tools to train your dogs and viewed by others as torture tools that are unnecessary. No matter what someones opinion about dog shock collars are, there are however some truthful facts about dog shock collars that cannot be disputed. Here are some insights about dog shock collars that will be be helpful when thinking about buying or using dog shock collars.

It is a fact that dog shock collars can accidentally and unintentionally misused by owners. In fact, many owners do not even know that they are misusing the dog shock collars which results in causing the dog unnecessary pain and suffering that can have long term negative effects on the dog as well as the relationship between the dog and the owner.

Owners who are not experienced with the use of dog shock collars can result in giving their dogs continual shocks which will only create fear between the dog and the owner. Due to the shock form the dog shock collars and the fear created within the dog, it may take an extended period of time for the dog to correct their behavior as the dog is distracted from the dog shock collars shocks. Continually shocking a dog is considered cruel and inhumane.

There are many dog shock collars that have even malfunctioned and shocked the dog for no reason. The amount of shocks that dogs have received form these dog shock collar malfunctions have resulted in permanent damage to dogs.

It is proven that dog shock collars are not necessary to properly train a dog. You do not need to send electric volts with dog shock collars to teach your dog how to behave.

As you can see, dog shock collars have many drawbacks that must be considered before using them. Not being properly instructed on how to properly use dog shock collars properly, can have long term negative results.

The Trend Of Louis Vuitton Dog Collars

You may think it is crazy, but Louis Vuitton dog collars are a growing trend. Unlike the handbags, Louis Vuitton dog collars are very much affordable for anyone, despite they cost more then triple the price of other dog collars. Despite what many people may think about Louis Vuitton dog collars, Louis Vuitton dog collars are made with quality.

True Louis Vuitton dog collars are made with designer fabrics which is what really sets Louis Vuitton dog collars apart form the rest. The designer fabrics that are used for Louis Vuitton dog collars are the same types of designer fabrics that you will find on Louis Vuitton handbags.

Louis Vuitton dog collars are also set apart because they are custom made for your pet. The custom fitting that Louis Vuitton dog collars is great for small dogs that need a good exact fit so that they will not slip out of the collar or injure themselves.

The Louis Vuitton dog collar trend has become so popular that they even have Louis Vuitton dog collar replicas. Louis Vuitton dog collar replicas are becoming a cheaper alternative to having the name without paying the high price, just like the handbags.

Louis Vuitton dog collars are just the beginning, as you can also find the designers name on leashes, dog carriers and other products for your dog. Despite what people think about Louis Vuitton dog collars, they are quite affordable. You can find most Louis Vuitton dog collars for under two-hundred dollars. Louis Vuitton dog collars are just the beginning, as you can also find the designers name on leashes, dog carriers and other products for your dog.

Louis Vuitton dog collars are a great way to show off your dog in style. The bets thing about Louis Vuitton dog collars is that there are other Louis Vuitton accessories you can buy to match your dogs Louis Vuitton dog collar.

Friday, July 13, 2012

If It Weren't For All These Jobs for Dogs

Your dog certainly has it made in life, doesn't he? Most dogs have lives that are no different from what Garfield has. They get up in the morning, and the most they do is to chase after birds in the yard and then go back to sleep. But that's not the way it is for every dog. Believe it or not, there aren't actual jobs for dogs out there. And not just dogs that work for the police.

Follow the history of man's friendship with canines, and you come to see that dogs weren't domesticated for their companionship, originally. They were domesticated for the valuable services they could provide with their skills. People took dogs in and trained them millennia ago for the way they could guard well and hunt. These days, the job market for dogs hs really expanded. There are all kinds of new jobs for dogs out there – even ones you never knew existed.

There was an article in the New York Times not long ago a doubt how dogs these days are allowed in court. These dogs are specially trained by the government and are provided by the courts to vulnerable witnesses who find it hard to come out and speak out. The friendly dog sits next to the witness right in the witness box, and the witness can hug the dog and pet it and gain strength from its affectionate presence. That's one kind of job for a dog.

It isn't just vulnerable witnesses who need the strength a dog is capable of giving them. When young children and the elderly need to overcome serious diseases in hospital or at home, they can really use the kind of affectionate unconditional affection that appears to come from a good dog.

A lot of us could really gain strength in life in certain situations if we just had a beautiful dog to pet for some time. A doctor will usually have knowledge of where you can find a therapy dog if you should need one.

You have heard of police dogs and firefighter dogs, haven't you? They are trained in all kinds of sniffing tasks to be able to find survivors in a fire accident, drugs that someone might be smuggling in all sorts of other things. But you might be surprised now that trained dogs are an integral part of many military units. US SEAL teams, for instance, always include dogs. They trained those dogs to be able to tell regular people apart from enemy fighters. They go on the battlefield equipped with bulletproof vests and everything.

How wonderful it would be if we could smell as many things as dogs can. Most jobs for dogs revolve around their sense of smell. In German hospitals, if a doctor suspects that you might have cancer, he doesn't readily sent you to a biopsy. He sends you to a cancer sniffing dog. Cancer sniffing dogs are way, way more accurate than any biopsy ever can be.

If You Have a Dog Mounting Problem On Your Hands

Our pets tend to be happy creatures. One thing that this happiness comes from, is a normal sex drive. Normal or not though, a dog licking himself or mounting something or the other and humping, can be very disturbing for family members to see. We don't live in a society where this kind of thing is normally seen. It isn't even purely sexual for dogs. Even week-old puppies will do this. And grown dogs will do this after they've been neutered or spayed. Dog mounting activity is something you see in both male and females.

The question is, what are you supposed to do when this kind of thing happens? When you see your dog mounting things all the time and humping, are you supposed to pretend that you don't see it?

The first thing you have to realize is that while dog mounting activity is sexual half the time, the other half of the time, it isn't. When it's sexual mounting, male dogs will have erections – even if they've been neutered. And they will also ejaculate. It's just the way it is with humans who have had vasectomies.

When it's not sexual though, dogs mount just for fun. When this happens, you won't see any overt erections or anything. If a dog has been properly socialized, when he meets other dogs, he will only mount them on occasion. If this hasn't been done the right way though, the mounting will occur all the time. Dogs also do this to show that they are the leader in a given situation.

Basically, if your dog does this on occasion, there isn't a lot to worry about. You just have to pretend that you don't see it. If this happens all the time though, it could mean any kind of disease – right from urinary tract infection to skin allergies. The first thing you need to do then wouldn't it is to take your dog to the back to see what's going on. You do need to rule disease out.

If your dog is intact and the mounting isn't for a medical reason, consider neutering him. This is sure to at least reduce the behavior if not get rid of it altogether. If your dog is doing this to people and other dogs, this can be dangerous. Both are likely to take offense and start a fight. Other dogs especially.

You need to take your dog in for training or figure out how to do it yourself.

Think Before You Buy a Dog. You Can't Think Later

Some people just don't get what it is like to have a dog as a best friend in their home. They get all hung up on how owning a dog is like taking care of a small child. You have take care of his toilet time, bathe him, brush his teeth, groom him, teach him things, take him out to play, take care of his medical needs and so on and so forth. Of course, they completely miss the point just the way a childless person misses the point when he says that taking care of a child is just too much trouble. But they do have a point in how when you buy a dog, you don't want to set yourself up for any more work than you have to do. Come to think of it, most parents do wish parenting wasn't just this demanding.

For some reason this whole "looks don't last forever, it's what's inside that counts" thing just won't leave us be. It isn't just women, cars or homes or anything else. It's dogs, too. You can't buy a dog because he's cute-looking. Because you know, he is going to outgrow it.

Deciding to not buy a dog for how totally cute he looks as a puppy can be very difficult. Because hanging out in a public place with a totally cute 10-week old puppy is going to get you more women than you ever dreamed of. If you want to buy a dog, buy a dog because you really want the love and friendship of an animal companion. Not for this. Because before long, the cute puppy is going to grow into a big high-maintenance dog that sleeps all day and barks all night.

Somehow, we've been hearing about not being able to teach an old dog new tricks forever. Once we buy dog in puppy form, we could still hear that 10 times a day and we wouldn't really understand what it meant because that saying has just become scenery. With forgotten to pay attention to it. That's the truth.

You cannot skip training your dog. And if you are buying a grown dog or rescuing him from certain death at the shelter, while that's a wonderful thing, you do have to realize that it takes a lot to live with a dog that's not trained and that is this mistrustful of people. You have to spend about 10 times as much time and money on training him. It's just the way it is.

And finally, perhaps the number one mistake we make is to buy a dog first and then to think about how much time we have. It's a criminal thing to buy a dog and then to lock him up or tie him up all day without human company. Make sure you have the time.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Crate Training a Puppy

Dogs have instincts that make them feel safe only once they are in a small den-like area. That's the way they are evolved. Being in a wide open house feel less than safe to them. That's why crate training a puppy is a good idea. It achieves two things at once. The begin with, it really helps potty train him. A dog who's closed up in a little den that is all his own will not be willing to soil the place. And so, he'll wiil hold it in and ask to be taken out. That trains him right there. The other thing it achieves is that it helps him find a way to deal with his separation anxiety. He is confined to the crate for several hours at night, and he will learn to be by himself.

A kennel crate is a little container that they sell ready-made at any pet store, that you're supposed to use when you take your dog traveling by plane or something else. Why, if you're taking your dog on vacation, staying at a hotel most of the time, the hotel will require that you keep the dog crated. If your dog is pre-trained, this should not be a problem. It should be a great idea to start crate training a puppy right at the start and then to do it from time to time to keep his hand in.

The first thing you need to do to start crate training a puppy is of course, to prepare the crate. Your dog won't go in into an enclosure just like that. He will fear this feeling of entrapment that is involved. So what you need to do first is to detach the top half of the crate so that he can sit in there and understand that it isn't a threat. Once he gets used to it, you can put it back together and help your puppy stay in there, first without the door closed.

Your puppy will find his crate infinitely more welcoming if it's decorated with all his favorite stuff – soft chew toys and so on. You should make sure that there isn't any small object around that he might choke on. Round out his own little special room with a little food and water too.

Most puppies like soft bedding. You will need to find out. Some puppies don't like it at all soft; they like a hard surface to sleep on.

To help your puppy get used to his crate, first, throw bits of dog biscuit or kibble in there so that he will often have reason to think that this crate is a place where special things happen. You need to lavish your puppy with praise each time he goes in there voluntarily. Don't ever try to force him in there. When you put your puppy in there and lock the door for the night, make sure that the crate is right next to you, so that your puppy doesn't feel scared and lonely.

Training Puppies Not To Bite Can Be Easy

When puppies bite, they don't really mean to. You've seen how little babies play with the objects around them haven't you? Whatever they see, they convey it to their mouth to try to taste and feel. It's an important way in which little ones of any species will investigate the world. Little babies don't seriously bite people even once they get their teeth. It's instinctive to them to not bite fellow humans. Little puppies though don't realize what they're doing – especially once they get to be about three months old or so. Training puppies not to not bite though is very important unless you want to get seriously annoying injuries all the time.

Training puppies not to bite, you'll basically use a technique called bite inhibition – making a dog think about how hard he's biting when he's biting a human. Since biting is normal play behavior for a It only teaches said dog to be gentle when biting a human.

When working with puppies, bite inhibition uses a kind of natural socializing skill that puppies have. When puppies play with one another, occasionally, they tend to bite one another too hard. When that happens, the other puppy gives a sharp yelp of pain and won't play with the biting puppy for a few minutes. This, kind of tells him that he's done something wrong.

Since learning behavior of this kind is instinctive to a puppy, you can use it for bite inhibition training with humans too. Every time he bites a little too hard, you want to make a loud pained sound – rather like a yelp.
He will understand that. After that, you can scold your puppy in a stern voice for a couple of seconds. After you move away for a few minutes, come back and start playing again.

Usually, this will work very well. But it doesn't, you'll have to switch to a timeout. Dogs and puppies thrive on human attention. They can't stand it if they are ignored. So this could be the way you train your puppy to not think that biting is a pleasurable activity. Each time a bite happens, you can just get up and walk away. You want to stay in sight, but completely ignore the pooch. It shouldn't last more than a minute. What does this teach him?

It teaches him that if he will playe gently and in a reasonable way,
playtime never stops. But if he bites, the fun stops immediately. Training puppies not to bite this way will usually get you the desired results.