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I remember the day as if it were yesterday--Bringing home my little fluffy ball of fur with those big adorable, droopy eyes; so sweet, so precious. We were going to lounge in the mornings together as we awoke from our night's peaceful slumber. She was going to lie at my feet while I sat and read or watched television. It was going to be great. I'm not exactly sure of the precise moment of revelation but one thing I do know is that my life as I had known it, had come to a screeching, nails-on-the-chalkboard, screaming halt. Those dreams of fun-filled, relaxing, walks in the park with my faithful companion by my side had proven me to be delusional...or so I thought. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...http://dogtips.blogspot.com

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Greyhound:Socialization
One, who owns a greyhound or is looking to own one, should be aware of the fact that socialization is a very important factor, where these dogs are concerned.

The greyhounds, as the statistics support, have been mostly racing dogs, and 95% of them have made a transition from racers to pets. They are never really friendly with people whom they don’t know and owing to their background as racers they tend to chase them off at first sight.

In fact, there appears to be a direct relationship between their chasing nature and unsocial attitude. About 20% of these dogs have an extremely high prey instinct.

A newly trained pet, or rather a greyhound that has just turned into a pet, after a long life on the racing tracks, is bound to be skeptical of strangers. You will find it playing to its heart’s delight with the people in the house, but the mere sight of an outsider, an individual, a dog, a cat or even a rabbit will set him off. This happens primarily due to the fact that he has been used to running along the tracks all throughout his life when he had probably been given specific objects to keep sight of, which he could track down and thus win the race.

Once trained into a domestic animal, the greyhound makes a wonderful pet. Its transformation from a racer to a pet requires diligent training. Owners are almost always successful in taming them but when it comes to socializing them, they are faced with quite a challenge.

The greyhounds are usually sensitive and elegant, and very brave but they can be quite willful too. They are to be socialized at an early age before its too late and they end up turning into timid beasts. Owing to his reserved behavior towards his master as well as others, he tends to be undervalued.

Greyhounds are programmed as racers. Unless warned, they would probably even run through a glass door. They need specific care to the extent that even the general dog collar or leash can do them harm.

Before taking a greyhound, one should be perfectly conversant with the methods to train him into domestic life. Adoption centers with experts at handling animals are the best possible options to turn to when one is at a loss with a greyhound.

These professionals understand the mind of the dog. A dog that is used to a schedule of running at a particular time of the day and then again staying locked in a room for the rest of the day is bound to feel ecstatic when set scot-free. Domestic life for him would mean running around in his owner’s house all throughout the day, without really having to follow too many ground rules.

This however, has its pros and cons. Settling into domestic life calls for certain norms to be adhered to as well, aside from being just a household pet. All these norms can sum up to what we call socialization.

Indoors, within the household, they are calm and adaptable to the point of being lazy and are not even watchful or alert. But outdoors, they need special care to get accustomed to the life outside.

While interacting with people who are not family members, they need to be molded into warm, friendly animals that know how to be at their best possible behavior even when confronted with a stranger.

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: Nancy Richards has been a dog lover for the past 12 years. She has owned and handled dogs of different ages and have helped many fellow owners in training their dog

Everything That You Should Know About Puppys/Dogs
Hello dog lovers Did you know that the after care of your dog could cost you a small fortune, with vet bills and dog toys and so on. Many new dog owner give there dogs treat but what they don’t know is this many of them treat that we feed to our dogs do more harm then good. The standard dog foods and treat are not all that their crack up to be, if you are a first time dog buyer then there are many things that you need to learn. But remember that beating your dog is not one of them, many country now have banned the pitbull but I think it is not the dog but the owner, put it this way a gun wont kill anyone unless someone pulls the trigger you see my point, a dog will only do what it is train to do. But lets get off that topic fast as many people will have mixed feeling about this. Now I know that you good people are not looking for a puppy/dog for any wrong reason. Like I said if you are a first time dog buyer there are many issue’s that you have to think about like your new best friends name is your home ready to take on a dog, house breaking your dog the list just goes on and on how would you feel if I said that I could take the pain out of all that and feed you the information that all dog lovers will need to know, what would this be worth to you well I will tell you this information for free. I was surfing the internet and I fell on a website that was packed full with the right information on dogs. It is a real gold mine I am a dog lover myself and I found out things that I never knew before with there great dog buyers guide e-book. I do think that every dog lover should have one. The site that I am talking about is http://www.dogbuyersguide.com it’s a real gem topic’s covered range from where to buy your puppy/dog picking your dog name and the dog buyers guide now this is the power pack all you need to know you will find right here. If you are not quite sure of the breed of dog you want not to worry there you will find a dog gallery loads and loads of dog picture to help you on your way. Want to learn to make new dog recipes know what treats are good and which are not. I could go on and on with what you will learn but the best way to learn is to see for yourself, as you know just what you need to know and we all know that the greatest place to find out information is the world wide web in other words the internet. I wish to you the best of luck with you new puppy/dog or to those who have already got there puppy/dog. Jason Balckwood Xtramates.com Ebooksrback.com

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LUXURY DOG GIFTS: What do you give a Dog and Wine Lover? a Whiner and Diner wine crate Dog Feeder!
“Treat your dog like a person, and he will treat you like a dog…� Not my pooch!
They are family members â€" we pamper our pets like our kids, we throw them birthday parties and arrange play-dates, and hire dog walkers for them. We dress them up for Halloween (my 85-pound black lab Bird in a bumble bee costume?) and take them along on trips.
Every dog owner I know has that “specialâ€� relationship with his pet â€" I’m sorry to say that I prefer my dog Bird over most people I know â€" and yes, I will provide him with the very best. The pet industry has taken notice: according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA), we spent over $36 billion on our pets in 2006 â€" a confirmation of how much they are a part of American family life. High-end hotels (fretté linen for your four-legged friend?), cafés, restaurants and deluxe boutiques have quickly opened their doors to our canine population. From doggy spas and dog fashion shows to luxurious pet products, we seem to spoil our furry friends rotten (or is it ourselves?).
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With the changing time the older techniques of training a dog has been revived and new techniques which is devoid of bullying, humiliation and punishment has been implemented. In spite of the enormous variety of methods, almost every successful dog training system is preceded on positive support techniques that are advocated by many dog lovers. Their effectiveness can be heightened significantly if the trainers remember to train it young, act gently and emphasize prevention of making mistakes. These three points, if always kept operating in the background, serve to push the effectiveness of any training technique in a positive direction. All of the new, more effective, recommended means of dog training share common aim to garner effective result and 100% result could be achieved if the training is started at a young age. Remember the popular adage "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" which is applicable in most of the cases but it is not entirely true in case of dog because any dog, regardless of age, can learn new things. The only difference is that the puppies will learn much faster and do not have deep-rooted behaviors that must be un-learned than an older dog. The earlier you are able to start training your pet; you will reap the benefits of increased effectiveness. Dogs are social animals and develop a real attachment to their owners which further enhances the chances of learning sincerely to impress their owners. Therefore owners are reminded to be gentle with their pets and try to make your training process a cooperative exercise instead of making a battle. Produce yourself as an ally for a trainee rather than a rival throughout your training process and a failure will affect your training process adversely even in the case of aggressive behavior of your dog. Too often, it has been found that the trainers found themselves to lose their interest in constantly correcting the unsuitable behavior of their pet. It is recommended that not waiting for your dog to repeat the mistake, you take the preventive measure beforehand as you must be familiar with the popular saying that "prevention is better than cure." Such mind-set will help the owner to intervene before a problem is created instead of simply responding to the problem that will abridge the need for correction efforts and can help urging quick progress and thus decreases frustration throughout the training process making it more enjoyable for both the dog and the owner.

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Looking after Dalmatians
Looking after Dalmatians Coat â€" should be short, hard, dense, fine, sleek and glossy in appearance. Equipment needed â€" nail clippers, bristle brush, hound glove, chamois leather. Grooming Procedure: One of the joys of a smooth coasted breed is the ease of grooming. With Dalmatians, maintenance grooming is the key. A consensus of opinion regarding grooming is as follows: 1. Good nutrition with an emphasis on oils and saturated fats for a bright and shiny coat. 2. Adequate exercise for the development of good muscle tone. 3. Regular brushing with a rubber curvy comb or hound glove. 4. Bathe as necessary with a mild shampoo and a non-toxic bluing. Because the Dalmatian is pink â€" skinned, it lacks the overall protective pigment; the skin reacts frequently to harsh shampoos, shampoos with additives and detergents. Non-toxic bluing whitens the coat without irritating the skin. 5. Nail clipping becomes difficult when the nails are black. A pen-light may be used to locate the quick before cutting. Short even nails help to keep the feel tight and encourage natural trotting ability. 6. Clipping excess facial hairs & whiskers gives the face a clean chiselled appearance. Written by http://www.diyconservatories-and-windows.co.uk/

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dog adoption costs
Before you decide to bring a dog home, it is absolutely essential that you give some thought to the costs that you will be incurring in the process. It’s not the purchase alone, though even that is likely to be expensive in the case of some superior breeds of dogs, but also the cost of the equipments you will have to buy to make your home habitable for your pet. Then there are the visits to the vet, which have to be regularly made, and the expensive vaccinations, which the puppy has to be given. So, all in all, you will have to make pretty sure that your wallet can take the beating before you bring your doggy home.

What then, are the costs, and how much are they? Let’s start at the beginning. You have to buy the dog unless you are lucky enough to have it presented to you by a friend or a family member and the cost of this initial purchase can vary very widely. The variance will firstly depend on the type of dog you are buying. A purebred “companion only� puppy usually starts from around $800 but can go up to astronomical amounts for rare or exotic breeds. If you prefer to adopt a non-purebred variety from a shelter, it will cost you from around $150 to $300.

Costs also differ in different geographic locations so it is difficult for us to tell you of one fixed sum that you will have to pay for any given variety of dog. Visit the sources in your locality from where people normally buy dogs and check on the prices. And this includes the internet. After some queries on your part, you will be able to come to a fix on what your desired dog costs.

Now that you’ve got your dog, it’s time to look at the other costs you will have to start to incur. Let’s start with the one - time costs.

One Time Costs Average Cost
Fence $300 - $1500
Bowls $25
Collar $6
Training Collar $10
Leash $12
Bed $40
Crate $100
Brush/Grooming tools $20
Shampoo/ Coat care $15
Neuter/ Spay ( Based on weight ) $300
Microchip $50



Then there are the annual costs, which you have to be prepared for. I enumerate them below:

Vaccinations $185
Heartworm Test $35
Heartworm Preventive $65
Flea/Tick Preventive $120
Food $480
Toys/Treats $45
Tag $5

And then there are other costs:

Boarding â€" per day ( with 2 playtimes ) $25
Grooming â€" per time $50
Training classes ( Per 6-8 classes ) $100
Individual training ( Per session ) $100



And remember, this list is for grown up dogs and not puppies. If it’s a puppy you are adopting, the costs increase. There’s a check up, a series of 4 sets of vaccines, worming, heartworm tests, all of which will cost you close to $300. Then there is puppy food, which will set you back around $450 and toys/treats, which will cost approximately $65.

So, as you will have counted up from the figures given above, in the first year, you will be spending approximately $1500 to $2500 over and above the cost of buying your dog. After the first year, you will spend less per year â€" about $1000. Smaller dogs cost a bit less and larger dogs cost more.

Apart from all this, your dog will have lifelong healthcare needs. There will be shots and medicines you will be administering as preventive care and there will almost certainly be unexpected accidents, injuries or illnesses, however well you look after your dog.

It is therefore utterly essential that you objectively evaluate your budget and come to a decision as to whether you can really afford a dog. He will look to you for your support in all things and you owe it to him to give him, not only your love, but proper care, food and medical attention. These don’t come free â€" so ask yourself whether you can afford to get that dog you always wanted. If you realize that you can’t, it’s best to do without, both for your sake and his.

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Conventional Methods For House Breaking a Puppy
If you are undertaking the complications of house breaking a puppy you are, beyond doubt, interested in using the quickest and most result oriented methods possible. This can be a particularly difficult time for many new pet owners because of the burden house training a puppy can put on a family, particularly if you make mistakes in the beginning.

House breaking a puppy should start immediately, just after you bring him home. Even at only 7 or 8 weeks old, he wants to eagerly follow your lead.... it's important to start early using puppy housebreaking training methods that will help him develop the acceptable abilities. Your puppy will make the decision where and when he will relieve himself if he is not trained early and correctly. Obviously you cannot allow this to be his decision. It is up to you to let him know where you want him to go. Puppies will learn very quickly when they understand what they are to do

Dogs have a natural instinct not to eliminate in their den area and, because of power of their nose, are attracted to areas where they or others have defecated or urinated in the past. You can capitalize on these natural tendencies in several ways.

Probably the most effective way to take advantage of these instincts is, first of all, to use a plastic dog carrier 'crate' as the pup's sleep area and place of security. You should get him used to being alone in the crate for short periods of time so that he is content and happy sleeping there.

The second way to use his instinctive tendencies is to watch your puppy's body language for indications that he need to go (circling,searching and sniffing), and then to react quickly by picking him up and taking him to the designated spot to eliminate.

The familiar smells in the designated area and your alert and consistent act of getting him immediately to the area will help him quickly understand. Success of the whole process can be moved along by being alert at times when he is most likely to go. Be ready to take him out when he awakens, after playing or exercise, and after he eats or drinks.

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Is Your Dog Food Poisoned?
Have you ever scanned the ingredients in a commercial dog food and thought, "How can this be healthy?" Unfortunately, if your dog eats ordinary, processed dog food, your dog probably eats things that are a whole lot worse than what you might find him chewing on in your backyard each and every day. Most pet foods available in stores today are so highly processed and full of preservatives and chemicals, that they aren't any better for our dogs than potato chips are for humans. In fact they are a whole lot worse. They contain cheap ingredients, unhealthy fillers, unhealthy preservatives or poisonous chemicals. Many dog foods advertised as "preservative-free" do, in fact, contain preservatives and poisonous chemicals. Manufacturers don't have to list preservatives that they themselves did not add. Many preservatives make their way into dog food at rendering plants before the meat is even sent to the manufacturer. An analysis of several pet foods labeled "chemical free" or "all natural ingredients" found synthetic antioxidants in all samples. Although you won't see it on the label, since it is often added at the rendering plant and not by the manufacturer, ethoxyquin (EQ) is used to preserve most dry dog food. EQ is the most powerful of all preservatives and may be the most toxic. Rendering plant workers that have been exposed to it denoted side effects similar to those of Agent Orange: * A dramatic rise in liver or kidney damage * Cancerous skin lesions * Hair loss * Blindness * Leukemia * Fetal abnormalities * Chronic diarrhea. In animals, EQ has been linked to: * Immune deficiency syndrome * Spleen, stomach, and liver cancers * And a host of allergies. "The "animal" or "meat by-products" in dog food are biodegradable wastes that we don't want to eat ourselves. These are parts that Americans rarely consume as they are not intended for human consumption. These parts come from animal carcasses, and include animal heads, bones, blood, organs and feces. Their origins include catering waste (all waste food from restaurants, catering facilities, central kitchens, slaughterhouses and household kitchens). It might also contain parts from sick or dying animals that can come from slaughterhouses or euthanized animals from animal shelters. The city of Los Angeles alone, for example, sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a pet food plant every month. The worst is that dog food companies don't stop with pets, your dog is also eating euthanized animals from zoos, animal control and putrid, decaying road kill. Before these animal parts and by-products are shipped to the rendering plant, the by-product is "denatured." This means that crude carbolic acid, cresylic disinfectant, or citronella, is sprayed on the product. The true horror is the drug used to kill these stray and abandoned animals, Sodium Pentobarbital, is not broken down by the manufacturing process and is still present in active form in your dog's food!! Before these poisoned animal parts can be used for poisoned dog food, they are taken to the rendering plants where they grind the meat by-products and ship the meal to dog food makers. Next, the manufacturers combine the meal with carbohydrates such as corn, thickeners like guar gum, vitamins, minerals, food coloring and preservatives. By the way, dogs are color blind so the food coloring is there to appease the human eye not the dogs. To make wet food, this glop is then heated in a pressure cooker and canned or sealed in a pouch. For dry pellets, all of these dead animals, and other ghastly materials, are then processed until the portion left over for dog food production is a brown powder, which consists of 25% fecal matter! The stuff is then heated, cut into tiny pieces, dried, and then wrapped for shipment. More expensive brands tend to have fixed formulas, while cheaper brands often change recipes to include ingredients that happen to be selling cheap at the time of processing. (They might decide to replace corn with wheat, for example, if wheat prices were especially low.) The New York State Food Laboratory reported that it found aminopterin in food from the palatability studies. Director Daniel Rice said aminopterin was a cancer drug about 50 years ago in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency later banned use of the toxin as a rodenticide in this country. Federal law does not mandate the frequency of inspections or premarket approval of foods under FDA jurisdiction, unlike the meat and egg products under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. The FDA regulates much more of the food supply with much less money than the USDA, according to the Government Accountability Office. Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, said regulation of human and animal food doesn't differ substantially. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires that foods be pure and wholesome and that they contain no harmful or deleterious substances, all though the act does not specify how manufacturers should ensure safety. The agency has limited resources for inspecting animal food and drugs, so it focuses inspections on manufacturers of drugs and of feed for food-producing animals, not for dog food. Usually an inspection is only conducted when there has been a complaint, such as the recent dog food poisoning of the suspected batch of wheat gluten from China. Note: * If you want to quit feeding your pooch poisoned dog food, learn to make your own healthy, homemade dog food. * Don't assume that your dog should eat what humans eat "People food" such as chocolate, grapes, raisins and onions can be difficult for your dog to digest and toxic to his system. This article may be reproduced on websites subject to credit being given to the author, and a link to the website. If you would like more information on Dog Food Secrets and how to get healthy dog food recipesClick Here! © 2007, June Parker.

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The German Pointers Dog Breed History
The Origins of the German Pointer breed As the name suggests the German Pointer dog, also known as the German Shorthaired Pointer comes from Germany. Even though researchers do not have many details about the origin of this breed, the all concluded that the German Pointer breed is a mixed breed that developed in time from mixing breeds like the Spanish Pointer, the Foxhound, the Bloodhound and other hunting dogs and later the English Pointer. The German Pointer breed belongs to the European pointer dogs. There are records about the pointer dogs as well as the hunting dogs from Europe ever since the 13 th century. Todays German Pointer is an elegant and versatile hunter both in the water and on land. He is a specialist in bird hunting and is admired for his great personality. The German Shorthaired Pointer is related to the German Wirehaired Pointer, a breed of dog mostly common in Germany and less in The Great Britain or The United States. Though they are both mixed breeds and have related predecessors, the German Wirehaired Pointer does not have any Bloodhound or Foxhound predecessors. The Wirehaired Pointer however originates from the Pudel pointer, another mixed breed between the German Pudel and the English Pointer amongst others. Past records of the German Pointers breed Even if there aren't many records that talk about the German Pointers breed but mention the hunting dogs for their proficiency in finding and tracking large and small animals as well as their dexterity in both water and on land, the breed got some recognition after it was crossed with the English Pointer in the late 1800s. The German Pointer was recognized as a breed and recorded by the German Kennel Club in 1872. In the 1920's the German Shorthaired Pointer was taken to the United States where it became a popular breed. Not too long ago the American Kennel Club, that formally recognized the breed in the 1930, stated that the German Pointer reached the 20 th place in list of most popular breeds in the US. In 2005 a German Shorthaired Pointer dog won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the first show where a German Shorthaired Pointer participated was held in 1941 in Chicago.

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