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The Dangers of Lawn Care Products and Your Dog

Don't let your dog or puppy walk in an area that has been chemically treated (Lawn Doctor, Chem Lawn, etc.) These chemicals will absorb through the pads of their feet within hours and causes diarrhea or soft stools often tinged with blood, as well as bile vomit often tinged with blood. Shortly after exposure, it's been noted that dogs will have the bile vomit and soft/diarrhea stools tinged with blood. Wash the dog's feet well with soap and water after any outings where they may have been exposed to chemicals of this sort.

Click below for articles authored by and generously shared by Stacy Greer, Canine Behavior Therapist, Adventures in Canine Training, Inc..

• Puppy Nipping - Teaching Bite Inhibition    (PDF file - see note)
• Puppy Nipping - The Truth Behind the Madness    (PDF file - see note)
• Puppy Socialization    (PDF file - see note)

The Blue Dog -- Parent Guide and CD
A colorful and engaging way to prevent dog bites.

The Blue Dog Parent Guide and CD is designed to help parents and children safely interact with dogs both inside and outside their home. Targeted and tested for children from 3 to 6 years old, it is intended as a tool to be incorporated as part of a more comprehensive prevention program.

Don't Go Near The Dog When He's Eating
Do you remember hearing that? Your mother/aunt/father had a good point. A lot of dogs have a problem with possession aggression. In other words, "what's mine is mine, and you aren't allowed to even look at it." Sharing is a foreign concept to most dogs, especially dogs who are the sole family pet. A dog with possession aggression will guard his resources, whether his resources are his food, toys, or the most valuable of all, You.

Resource Guarding Prevention
The dog that guards food may escalate to guarding other things as his possessions – the bed, toys, rawhides, even people. These are dogs that can benefit greatly from positive obedience classes. IMPORTANT – Correction or taking things out of their mouths tends to make them more aggressive!

Clicker Training Articles  (link to ClickerSolutions.com website).

Dog Training and Behavior: More links on the Perfect Paws  website:
Training Basic Manners for Your Dog to be the Perfect Family Pet House Training Your Dog

Lots more Puppy Training links on the Perfect Paws website: Socialization Pointers for Training Your New Puppy

Crate Training and Housebreaking: They Go Together

Crate training satisfies a natural instinct for your dog - one inherited from the wolf - to sleep and rest in a den. It's important because it will curb all sorts of destructive behavior, from digging to chewing to house soiling. Traveling is easier with a crate, and your puppy will be less afraid when it is crated at the groomer or veterinarian if it also has one at home. At full growth your dog should be able to lie comfortably on its side, stand, sit or turn without difficulty in its crate. Place the crate in a room where the dog will feel like part of the family. Make sure you place comfortable betdding inside to make it appealing for your puppy.

• Patience of Praise. The more patient and consistent you are in teaching your puppy housetraining rules, the more quickly he will learn. Dogs are instinctively clean animals and will learn due to praise and good timing on your part.
• Establish a routine. Feed your pup at regularly scheduled times, preferably 3 times daily. Most puppies will want to releave themselves right after eating. Do not allow access to food all day long.
• Go outside with your pup so you can praise it for going potty. Choose 1 or 2 "toilet areas" your puppy can associate with going potty. Direct your puppy to these areas. When puppy "goes," praise it's success.
• Keep an eye on your pup while it's inside the house. If you catch it in the act, shout or toss something near it to startle him. Then immediately take it out and if he finishes outside, make sure it knows it is a good puppy.
• When you are unable to watch your puppy, it should be confined, preferably in its crate. This helps build bladder and bowel control - although you still need to let it out every couple hours.

Poochie-Bells - from poochie-pets.net .

Handmade here in the U.S.A. using durable ribbons and materials. Two sets of strategically-placed bells that are carefully folded and snapped securely into place. This design allows for all breeds to reach the bells.

Ester-C Links and Further Information

Ester-C: Miracle Cure for Hip Dysplasia???
By Larry Mueller, Hunting Dogs Editor, Outdoor Life. Reprinted from Outdoor Life, January, 1996.

Here's a link to a Golden that was diagnosed with HD and with physical therapy and other tried things like Ester C, etc. was later diagnosed with clear hips. This article is titled: Diary of (what was) Cooper's Hip Dysplasia.
LINK  to hsutopia.com.

Here's a link to a lot of good info using viatmins (mainly C), site is for a wholistic animal practitioner.
LINK  to holisticanimal.com.

Here's a link to an article that explains the difference between regular Vitamin C and Ester C (which we all should know already, lol, Ester C is easier on the stomache). But this does go into actually "why" it's easier on the stomach. LINK  to nlpp.com.

And looky there... even Skansen Kennels believes in it... LINK  to kansen.com.

And of course, here's Dr. Belfield's website (the one that did the study on the litters of German Shephard pups predisposed to HD, that all ended up HD free when raised on the high doses of Vitamin C. - LINK  to belfield.com. (Earlier articles on HD written by Dr. Belfield are also available - see the Back Issue Index links on the above page.)

An Irish Folk Story: Why People Collect Butterflies (Reproduced with permission)