Your puppy’s initial vehicle ride (at least her initial car ride with you) is of course the ride that takes her from the rescue shelter or pet store where you pick her up to her new residence with you and your family. If she will be the initial puppy you have ever had, then it [...]
The outdoors throughout the summer can be terrible inviting for you and your puppy after becoming cooped up by the cold of winter and the rain of spring. But you need to still be alert and responsible for your puppy’s well-being whenever you venture into the heat of those months. There will likely be days [...]
Each season has its joys for you and your dog. But each and every time of year also has its dangers for the furry, four-footed set. Winter is particularly fraught with puppy dog perils. The most obvious hazard needless to say will be the cold temperatures. For example, frostbite is as serious an concern for [...]
Not all puppies are created equal. Various breeds can have extremely diverse personalities. That is something surprisingly couple of prospective puppy owners feel about when they go down to their local rescue shelter or pet store and pick the puppy they fall in enjoy with at very first sight. Volunteers at a shelter may possibly [...]
You’ve tried your very best to control your puppy’s behavior. You have read guidance like this, you tried giving him rewards when he behaves nicely, not the least bit of encouragement when he doesn’t, and however still he barks incessantly or growls menacingly at everyone who comes to the door or seems terrified by every [...]
ecIn the same way puppies who bark excessively do so for all sorts of factors, so too you will discover quite a few motivations behind the behavior of puppies who engage in one more potentially disruptive behavior: constant digging. Knowing just why your puppy is gradually transforming your wonderful back yard into a lunar landscape [...]
It is a common misconception among people who do not suffer from dog-related allergies that the people who do suffer from them don’t like dogs. This is simply not true. Those who sneeze, itch, wheeze, cough or develop everything from shortness of breath to serious asthma attacks following contact with a puppy are not “misocynists” [...]
“Crate training” is wide considered to be the best way to housebreak your new puppies. Give her a plastic or wire kennel as a home within your home, where she won’t pee or poop because her own puppy instincts tell her not to, then take her outdoors at the proper intervals to do her business, and [...]
In some wonderful ways a puppy is like a human child, full of energy and affection. But a puppy is also like a human child in some more nerve-wracking ways. Like a toddler first learning to move about on his own, a puppy enjoys exploring the amazing world around him, long before he has been [...]
The biggest challenge you will have when you bring your new puppy home is of course getting him to poop and pee when and where you want. The second is breaking him of the habit of chewing on things you don’t want him to chew on, like the gorgeous carved legs of the couch your [...]
