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Dog Mange: Sharing More Than Just Love

Raymond — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:42:10 +0000

The species of mites that causes dog mange is not the same as the species that can cause human scabies. That does not mean that the mites will stay on your dog and not cause problems on your skin. They can and they will transfer to you if you and your dog have frequent contact and your immune system is not able to fight off an infestation. And most pet owners can never resist giving a beloved dog a hug or a pat on the head.

The signs that you have scabies are a bit different from your dog. You will notice itchy bumps on parts of your skin that may or may not have water in them. Scratching will lead to small wounds. The frequent areas that the mites will infest will be the parts of your body without hair. It may have come directly from the dog, or something that your dog has lain in like your sofa or even your bed. The best thing to do when you are sure that you do not catch scabies from your dog is to clean all the fabrics that he has come in contact with. Bleach would be the best way to do it, but applying a hot iron will also do the trick.

When your dog is getting treated for a mange infestation, this will be one of the more contagious stages. The mites on his body will be looking for a more suitable environment and will migrate off him. If you are the closest thing that they can find, they will not care if you’re the right specie.

Another way to ensure that the mites will not scatter will be to isolate the dog, although the severity of a mange infestation may call for treatments that can last up to six months. It’s really not a pleasant alternative for both of you.

On the other hand, mites can exist on your skin and not be bothersome if your immune system is strong enough. And while taking care of a sick pet will take its toll on you, you should not forget to keep healthy or you will end up getting a mite infestation as well.

Frasier Love Bites Dog Part 1

Raymond — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:38:27 +0000

Frasier Like Bites Dog Part 1

Talking Dog Siberian Husky Saying “I Love You!”

Raymond — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:41:56 +0000

my 9 week ancient puppy Ishmael showing off some of his tricks. It takes him a few tries to really pronounce “i like you” excellent, but he’s learning quickly.

Why Hypoallergenic Dogs Need Love

Raymond — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:44:19 +0000

All dogs need like in order to lead pleased, healthy lives. Since most breeds of hypoallergenic dogs are smaller, they will need even more like. There are several ways that you can show your dog that you like them. Spending time together, exercising, giving them healthy, nutritious food, and treating the dog with respect are all ways to show your like. In return, you will have a loyal companion that will respect and protect you, your family, and your home. Most small breeds need to be around people in order to feel safe. Hypoallergenic breeds delight in sitting on the couch together, curling up by their owner’s feet, and following you around the house when you are home. Spending time with your dog by playing fetch, sitting on the floor, and talking to your dog are all activities that your dog wants to do with you. Since some breeds can get into distress when they are left alone all day, you should keep your dog in one room of your home or you should crate train your dog. Dogs that are left alone may get mad or become nervous and nervous. As a result, they will chew on furniture, walls, clothing, or they will break items and rummage through the trash. Keeping your dog in a small room will help them stay cool. Walking your dog once or twice a day and letting it outside to play is another way to show the dog like. Exercise is a fantastic way to bond with your dog. Not only will the dog be able to spend time with you, you and the dog will benefit from the exercise. Even if you do not have time to walk the dog everyday, you should still let the dog run around your back yard so it gets the exercise it needs. Making sure your dog has enough food during the day is the third way that you can show your dog like. There are dog foods for different breeds and stages of life. You should research which dog food is the best by asking the vet, reading about what your dog needs, and by reading the marks on the food. As dogs age, they will need different nutrients to keep their teeth and coat healthy. It is best not to switch dog food brands often because you may upset the dog’s stomach. If you want to introduce a new dog food, do it slowly until the dog gets used to it. Respecting your hypoallergenic dog’s space will result in the more respect from your dog. Make sure your dog has a clean bed or blanket and they receive enough attention during the day. If your dog is sleeping, then you should not disturb it. This will only make the dog mad. Taking care of a dog also means respecting the dog’s boundaries. Some small breeds will become mad when their space in invaded during times when they do not want to be disturbed. As your dogs grows, you will learn when to socialize with the dog and when leave it alone.

To learn about house training a dog and how to stop dog barking, visit The Dog Trainer.

Why Does My Dog Love Me?

Raymond — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:38:39 +0000

“A dog is the only thing on earth that likes you more than he likes himself. ” Josh Billings (1818-1885, US Humorist) This morning I was driving along a busy street, in a fog, sipping strong tea when I saw the geese. I have come to reckon of geese as very large rats with wings. The outlying Chicagoland area is so infested with these birds that you have to be careful where you step. The best thing I can normally say about them is that it’s fun for the dogs to run them off, and I frequently use the cantankerous fowl as distractions. When you can call a six month ancient pet Lab off a flock of geese, I figure you have a recall. Now I never said geese were stupid. That has never been my opinion. They seem to know it is more likely they will be harassed by dogs on my property than on my neighbor’s. Therefore, they avoid my grass. Or perhaps they just have an aversion to dog urine. Either way, we’ve reached an understanding. Frankly, with the vast numbers of them around, I never understood why we weren’t eating them. Then I saw the pair of geese along the road. One was lying dead on the median. The second was crossing two lanes of busy traffic. Cars were whizzing past the live goose, back drafts unbalancing it. But it waddled on, unaware or unconcerned of the hazard. That goose appeared to have one single minded purpose…reach its unmoving mate. Before I continue, let me emphasize that I am not a scientist, geneticist, nor a zoologist. I am a dog trainer. I am well read, and most of what I believe comes from what I have read combined with what I observe. Can one even be a excellent dog trainer without keen powers of observation, reading and interpreting what one sees? Geese, as most people know, mate for life. Their bond is undoubtedly instinctual, a product of natural selection in which strongly bonded pairs must have a greater likelihood of successfully raising young, thereby propagating the species. If the gene succeeds, the gene continues. Sounds simple doesn’t it? But it got me to thinking about the nature of bonding. And of course, that got me to thinking about dogs, and the nature of their bond to humans. While it has been proven that a duck will “imprint” on and follow a human if it is the first thing it sees after hatching, I reckon of “imprinting” and “bonding” as two different things. Imprinting is a simple instinct stamped into the brain that dictates the duckling will follow its mother. She is likely to lead that duckling to sources of food and shelter. This increases the offspring’s chances of surviving infancy, reaching sexual maturity, mating, and propagating the species. Again, the gene succeeds, the gene continues. But what is bonding? I reckon of it as something more complex. Something more bound to social order. Instinctual? Probably. Still related to survival? Certainly. But still complex. Dogs in the wild, since their earliest descendants, know social order and collaborative hunting. A well ordered pack of wolves can successfully hunt, shelter, raise offspring, and pass on their genes. A pack suffering from social strife will not have clear leadership or collaboration, and will eventually die. Dogs know this on a genetic level. It is why a properly socialized dog understands how to communicate with other dogs using their species’ unique and understandable body language. It is why we, as dog trainers, are sometimes described as being able to “read” dogs. We’re simply recognizing attitude and thoughts, and yes, even emotions, by interpreting body language. And that is precisely what allows us to shape dog behavior by using our own body language to clearly show a dog what we want from them. But why do dogs CARE about what we want from them? That is the question that has both mystified and thrilled me ever since I got my first dog at the age of 11. Why is a dog willing to be trained? Why do they thrive on it in fact? Why is a dog remotely interested in what we want from them? A cow doesn’t much care. So we eat them. Most horses I have known and ridden will yield to humans, but they seem to me to prefer their own company to mine when given a choice. But because they yield to us, and helped us form our nation, as a culture, we’re horrified at the thought of eating them. Wolves, I am told, are canids whose behavior can be somewhat modified by men. But they will generally return to behaviors for which they are genetically programmed, regardless of what training they have had. So what is it about dogs? Why do they care about what we want? Why did my first dog remember and perform his utility signals exercise into his dotage, way after deafness, strokes and until shortly before he died at seventeen and a half? His name was Gus. He was a Sheltie born April 29, 1969. He came to me in a dream several years ago and he spoke to me in words that did not come out of his mouth, but which I heard in my head. These are the exact words of the interchange. “Where are you?” he questioned, intense in his sadness. “I’ll come to you one day,” I told him. “But I have been waiting so long,” he said. “Because it’s not my time yet,” I told him. “But I will come. ” He paused, but only briefly. “I’ll wait for you,” he said. “Find Bobbi and Frannie,” I said. “They are Greyhounds They are mine too, and they will know you. They will wait with you. ” “I will,” he said, and he left me slowly, reluctantly, at my bidding. I woke up crying, as I weep now recounting the experience. I have always known that dogs care about us on the deepest possible levels but only recently did I place together my own concept of why. I reckon it was that dream of Gus. I told you he spoke to me in words. The words did not come from his mouth. They came from his mind into mine. But they had a voice. And that voice was my own. My waiting dog spoke to me in my own voice. We like our dogs. But they adore us on a level beyond like. They are what we question them to be, becoming part of us if we question them to. I reckon Gus came to me that night, or perhaps my unconscious summoned him, because I was finally ready to know the answer to my long held question. Dogs care about what we want from them because, when led properly by man, they consider us to be more than their pack mates. We provide more than food, shelter and more than comfort. We provide dogs what the concept of God provides to us, a sense of meaning, comfort, a sense of purpose, a sense that we are not alone. Dogs do not like us. They worship us. But not from afar. They live with their gods. They worship us from the foot of our beds, they adore us as they look at us, and they long for us even as we touch them. Trained dogs submit and yield to this worship readily. It satisfies them on a level which humans with our questioning mentalities may not fully comprehend. The faith of a dog, particularly a trained dog, is absolute. He never questions or has a crisis of faith. He doesn’t believe. He knows. Have you ever noticed that after putting a dog through even a basic course of obedience, other behaviors change for which you have not trained? If you do your work artfully, the dog gives up undesirable behaviors without even being commanded. This occurs because the dog always knew his owner didn’t like the behaviors. After all, they grumped and yelled when he did it. He simply didn’t care. He felt no particular compulsion to give up a treasured behavior such as jumping on guests. But when a dog is trained, he learns to look at his humans in a whole new way. He learns that the bond has more meaning that he ever knew before. He learns that he no longer has to make every choice for his life. It’s not satisfying to a dog to pull on the leash and be out of control. Yet, if that behavior is all he knows, he’ll do it over and over. I now see that behavior as a weep for help, the way the dog shows his profound need for leadership. But once the dog has learned to yield his choice making to a human, a bond between dog and handler is formed that knows no limits of depth. So why do dogs care about what we want? Why are they willing to do what we question of them if we can only show them clearly what we want? Why will they yield their willpower to ours? They do it for the like of man. They do it because they like us more than they like themselves. Is it genetic? The gene succeeds so the gene continues? Probably. But I reckon it’s more than that. I reckon the dog has a void that only we humans can fill. Even those of us who succeed the most with dogs don’t quite have the same like for dogs that they have for us. We can’t. We don’t have that gene. But we can know and honor the dog’s need for leadership. We can bring a dog to a place where his need for us is absolute yet doesn’t destabilize the independent nature of his being. Lest you take from my words the thought that I am a tree hugging dog spiritualist, I will tell you flat out that I am not. I am a dog trainer. I both right and reward my dogs. That’s pretty much the way life treats me. The ultimate reward for us both is a bond during the dog’s lifetime that exceeds any other comfort he can ever know. And after the dog’s death, he brings a form of comfort that some, like me, have not known before. Someone is waiting. Someone who likes me more than he likes himself.

Marc Goldberg, CDT is a certified dog trainer specializing in the rehabilitation of hard dogs and improving relationships. He is President of the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP) and Editor of SafeHands Journal. The author also educates professional dog trainers in his techniques. Visit him on the web at http://www. trainingdogsinchicago. com or http://www. chicagodogtrainer. com.

Love between cat and dog

Raymond — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:53 +0000

A cat and dog seem to be a couple. From www.youtube.com www.antwerpenwebcam.be http

! Love My Dog(s) November ’06 Mosaic

Raymond — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:44:43 +0000

Image taken on 2006-11-19 14:27:49 by wa?.ti?.

Husky Dog Talking – ” I love you”

Raymond — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:01:02 +0000

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