How often should you bathe your dog? And what products should you use? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Housetraining a puppy requires time, vigilance, patience, and commitment. Following the procedures outlined below, you can minimize house soiling incidents.
While there are many reasons for a diet change, there are a few basic rules to make the process as easy and painless as possible.
Animals that live in groups, like dogs, establish relationships, through which the individuals involved interact and live together. These relationships also take time to build, so proper introductions are important to help the dogs adjust to one another and start to build on their relationship.
The goals of working with this normal puppy behavior are to redirect your puppy’s desire to put something in her mouth onto acceptable chew toys and to teach her to be gentle when a hand is in her mouth.
It’s perfectly normal and reasonable for dogs to bark from time to time, just as children make noise when they play outside. However, continual barking for long periods of time is a sign that your dog has a problem that needs to be addressed.
Perineal urethrostomy is performed to prevent a urethral blockage so that your cat can pass urine and avoid the life-threatening emergency of urethral obstruction.
A pet colopexy surgery, or surgical fixation of the colon, is a procedure performed to secure the colon (large intestine) to the abdominal wall to prevent its abnormal movement or twisting.
Enucleation is a surgery performed to remove a pet’s eye(s). After recovering from surgery, pets may feel more comfortable and happy.
Positive reinforcement is the presentation of something pleasant or rewarding immediately following a behavior. It makes that behavior more likely to occur in the future, and is one of the most powerful tools for shaping or changing your pet’s behavior.
After surgery, follow these instructions.
Before surgery, follow these instructions.
Although it’s perfectly normal for a puppy to chew on furniture, shoes, shrubbery and such, these behaviors can be a problem for you.
Pyometra is a life-threatening infection of the uterus which requires emergency surgery. During surgery, the infected uterus and ovaries are removed.
Many adult dogs adopted from animal shelters were housetrained in their previous homes. While at the shelter, however, they may not have gotten enough opportunities to eliminate outside, and consequently, they may have soiled their kennel areas.
There is a lot of misinformation online about which ingredients to avoid in pet food. As pet parents, we tend to be swayed by ingredients that sound appealing to us and by creative marketing claims on the label.
November is Senior Pet Month. Did you know small dogs and cats are considered “seniors” around 7 years old? And large dogs are considered “seniors” around 6? Help your pet age gracefully by providing thorough preventative care throughout their lives.
Between 20 and 40 percent of dogs suffer from separation anxiety. When your pup is having a bout of separation anxiety, they experience what humans know as a panic attack.
Dogs with separation anxiety exhibit behavior problems when they’re left alone. Typically, they’ll have a dramatic anxiety response within a short time (20-45 minutes) after their familiess leave them.
