Dogs Value Guides

Your dogs most important instinct is the pack instinct. This is essential information for you to know in order to have a happy and comfortable relationship with your dog.

Congratulations on your new puppy! He is now ready to go to his new home. This period of adjustment could be a very stressful experience in your new puppy’s life. You want to make him feel welcomed.

Have you ever seen a dog ignore his or her owner when given a command? It’s sad and almost painful to watch the person’s face redden and the voice progress from one octave to another as he or she yells, sit, Sit,SIT, SIT!

Everyone has “hand-me down” traditions. Getting to bed early on Christmas, trick-or-treating on Halloween, even serving dinner at a designated time; these are traditions past on from generation to generation. Training of your puppy is one of these traditions. Clarification of these techniques needs to be made more evident.

Swimming is an excellent exercise for your dog to take part of. It works the heart and the lungs as well as stimulates the entire musculature system of your dog.

If your dog is essentially the “only child” in the family, meaning that you do not have any kids, then having a newborn baby come home can be a bit threatening to your pet.

One very dangerous myth that exists is the assumption that, in some mysterious way, all dogs will automatically be gentle and loving with any infant or a child.

A training class or obedience school is a place where you, the owner, are being coached by an experienced instructor on how to train your dog.

When you leave your dog home when going out, does she cry and weep like it is the end of the world?

Let’s face it – Dog’s love to dig, period. To a dog, digging ditches and holes is “a very natural,…