Dog Training Ultimate Guide

Dog behaviorial school – when everything else fails.
12.08.2010

Ensuring your safety as a trainer, should be your main priority while you are training your dog. During training, a guard dog is normally trained to attack intruders and is therefore trained in a way that will require absolute control from the trainer. He should control the dog’s aggression.

A trainer is normally the target while he is taking the dog through a training session. He will have to cope with the aggressive behavior of the dog because he will inevitably have to be arousing it to aggression and commanding it to back down. That way, he is a target at great risk.

A trainer should be cautious about the dog that can bite at any moment. The sharp nails can also tare through one’s skin like razor blades. Overall, the trainer has to cope with these roller coaster rides of aggression and calm.

It is almost a dog’s instinct to want to bite and grab a targets arm whenever he goes on the offensive. Therefore, a dog must mount on your thighs to get to the arm area. This means that the target is exposed to deep scratches due to the very sharp nails of the dog. The best advice for the trainer is to get scratch pants to protect.

For them to function well the scratch pants are normally made of a thick material and these will act as protective layers against scratches.

Sometimes, a dog will continue going at you even if you fall. This aggression level for a dog calls for the trainer to at least have scratch pants.

A good aggressive dog training session is that which can be conducted without having to interrupt the training every now and then to nurse scratches or bites. The trainer has to remain safe.

If you plan to do the training personally, you should get some protection. You should also monitor your dogs progress and seek professional help if you feel that your dog’s aggression is unwarranted.

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01.08.2010

It is heart-breaking for dog owners who care about their pets to watch them scratching constantly. Itchy skin can become such an annoyance that a dog will pull all its fur out of a patch and then still scratch its skin red raw. If this happens to your dog, then you know that something is seriously wrong.

It could be a question of canine psoriasis, but this is quite improbable, if your dog is on a healthy diet. No, nine times out of ten, it has to do with an infestation of fleas or, less commonly, ticks. Therefore if you see that your dog is constantly scratching a spot, inspect it. That spot will usually be on the dog’s back just in front of its tail – one of the favourite places for fleas to collect.

So, the first thing to do is look for fleas and comb most of them out. This can best be carried out in the garden or you may get an infestation in your house as well, although if your dog has fleas this badly, then your house is probably already infested.

Once you are certain that the itchy skin problem has to do with fleas, you can get on and treat your dog. Go to your vet’s or your pet store (which is probably cheaper) and get an insecticidal shampoo and flea powder for your dog and a permethrin based insecticide for your house. If they have a gentle canine skin cream, a small tube of that will help too.

Leave the dog in the garden and get out the vacuum cleaner. Open the bag and give it a hefty squirt of permethrin or flea powder and zip it up. Vacuum clean your house thoroughly in order to pick up fleas and any loose eggs.

Do not overlook the furniture and the curtains. When you have finished, spray the curtains, furniture and carpets with permethrin and put your own bedding on a boil wash.

Then take your dogs basket and blanket outside and shut the door. Do not go back in for an hour minimum. In the meantime, shake out the dog’s basket and blanket and dust it with flea powder. Now you can turn your attention to your dog.

Give him a thorough bath in the insecticidal shampoo following the directions on the box. When he is dry, apply some skin cream or olive oil on to his red bald spot. It is better not to use human skin cream because it contains chemicals and your dog will lick it off, unless you put a ruff around its neck.

You may have to do all this twice in order to kill the new hatchlings, but some insecticides will kill the eggs as well. When you have got your dog back to normal, brush and bathe him more often in the future and be vigilant for fleas.

Another persistent source of annoyance to dogs is mosquitoes. Mosquitoes usually bite dogs on the snout and the undercarriage and they suffer the same problems from bites as we do, except they do not moan about it.

Do not apply DEET or any chemical because the dog will lick it off and it is not to be taken internally. Instead, try a lemon based natural fragrance as mosquitoes detest the smell of citrus. Put a few dabs here and there every hour or two when the dog is outside after dark.

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Health Care Tips For Your Beloved Pet Dog – By JANET COMBS – www.special-dog.com – With Over 40 Years of Personal Experience, and over 14 Years as a Professional Breeder, and with the Ideas Developed from Extensive Research over that time Here are My Recommendations For All Dog Lovers.

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Your Beloved Pet Dog – Health Care Tips By JANET COMBS – www.special-dog.com – With Over 40 Years of Personal Experience, and over 14 Years as a Professional Breeder, and with the Ideas Developed from Extensive Research over that time Here are My Recommendations For All Dog Lovers.

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12.06.2010

If you are a dog owner, sooner or later you’ll be in a position where you need to give your dog some first aid. Dogs can get themselves into trouble, because of their curiosity and friendliness. It can be dangerous to be a dog. If that happens, the dog may need your help.

Your dog will need you to be his emergency help until you can get the dog to the vet. Many of the medical problems a dog can have are similar to those people have. If you keep some basic supplies on hand it will make effective treatment of your dog easier.

The first item to have in your doggy first aid kid is gauze. You want several rolls of gauze and also tape to affix it with. These can be used to slow or stop bleeding. There are also blood clotting topical products that can be worthwhile.

Hydrogen peroxide is a good option for cleaning your dog’s wounds. If your dog starts going into shock you need to keep him warm, so an old blanket is very useful. You also want to stock an antihistamine for bee or wasp sting emergency, antibiotic gel, and eye wash. Other basic supplies to keep around are cotton, safety scissors, tweezers, rectal thermometer, needle-less syringes for oral medication, and elastic bandages.

Learn the basic techniques of first aid. Then, tuck the relevant medical numbers into the medical kit. Your vet’s number is critical. You also want to ask your vet what to do if there is a medical emergency involving your pet in the middle of the night.

Your vet may give you instructions or advice on reaching him after hours. He may also recommend an after hours emergency clinic. Many towns now have these facilities, they are like emergency rooms for animals. If your town has one, include that number in your kit as well.

Your dog may snap or bite at you if he is hurt or scared, even if he normally would never dream of biting you under normal circumstances. Consider keeping a muzzle in your emergency kit.

Do not give your dog Tylenol. It is not safe for dogs. Instead, ask your vet what to do for pain, and have some animal-safe pain meds on hand before you need them.

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