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Your beautiful beagle may not write fantastic stories and be the prudent companion of one of the world’s most famous cartoons, but he or she is sure to be the apple of your eye. The beagle type dog has been around for nearly 2,000 years, but only as a breed of their own since about the 1830′s. They were created from selective breeding of many different scent hound breeds including the Talbot Hound, Southern Hound and North Country Beagle. This small to medium size animal is smart, even tempered and not given to inherited diseases, which makes them the perfect pet and unfortunately subject for animal testing.
Beagle puppies have to be one of the cutest canines on the planet! Long soft ears frame a warm loving face that is primed and ready to show you affection at the drop of a hat. Being from the scent hound, these animals are natural investigators and can sniff out a mouse in an acre field in less than a minute, and this is a proven fact! All of these features of this compact dog make them a number one choice of families, hunters and even law enforcement.
If you have immediately fallen in love with the great beagle, you are probably in need of some puppy training advice. Young beagle puppies are full of boundless energy and innate curiosity, which combines for unique training issues.
Training Issues:-
Determination You see the beagle has been trained for hunting and in particularly the long chase; this means your beagle puppy training will be faced with an animal that is single minded and focused. Their extreme sense of smell makes it difficult to pull them away once they have caught a particular scent that interests them. Although they are highly intelligent, they are easily distracted by all the smells around them. For this reason, you will seldom see the beagle in obedience competitions; in fact, they are ranked lowest degree of working obedience and intelligence.
Pack Animals Genetically all dogs are descendents of the wolf, which makes them predisposed to a pack mentality. However, most dogs over the years have adapted to the single living style associated with being pets. Beagles, on the other hand have been long used as a pack dog for hunting and therefore prone to separation anxiety. You will need to be patient and understanding with them.
Exercising Your Beagle As mentioned above the beagle has been trained to hunt for long periods of time. They have extreme amounts of energy that need some form of exercise daily if possible. This does not mean you have to run them to exhaustion however; it would be a good idea to take them for a walk or play Frisbee in the park on occasion. This also helps to ward of extreme weight gain to which the breed is prone.
Conclusion Beagles are soft, loving and entertaining breed that will provide gentle companionship for you and your family for many years. Understanding the breeds inherit traits will give you a leg up on puppy training and make for a happy contented home for all concerned.
For more information on how to effectively train your Beagle, please visit: How to Train a Beagle.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
You just brought home your new puppy, now, what should you feed him? There are a million types and brands of dog food, from canned to kibble. How do you know how much you should feed your puppy? For medium to large size puppies, they need to be fed a well balanced, quality, dry, puppy formula, 4 small meals a day, up to 4 months of age. They are growing so fast and using up so much energy, they need to be refueled frequently. From 4 months to 8 months of age, they should be fed 3 meals a day, and from 8 months to 12 months, feed 2 times a day. If puppies are started on dry kibble from the time they are weaned, they will have no problem eating dry puppy food.
Treats can be given in moderation, especially small treats for reward during training. Table food and leftovers should be avoided, although the occasional piece of apple or carrot is okay. Certain foods are not safe for puppies or dogs to eat. Most people know chocolate can harm dogs, but raisins, grapes, onions, garlic and certain nuts are also harmful.
It is important for large breed puppies to be fed a dry puppy food specially formulated for large breeds. Also, do not overfeed your puppy to increase or speed growth. This is especially important for large breed puppies because rapid growth causes improper skeletal development, which leads to bone and joint problems. A slower, steady growth rate is better. You should not encourage your puppy to become an oversized adult to make him look more impressive.
There are some key ingredients important for your pups diet. DHA, which is a fish oil has been shown to promote faster learning in puppies. Protein is important for muscle, skin, coat and organ development. Calcium and Phosphorous are needed in the proper ratio for teeth and bones to grow correctly. Omega-3 fatty acids help develop a healthy immune system.
Dogs do not naturally produce all the nutrients they require so a quality dog or puppy food is crucial for healthy growth and development. An all natural, human grade pet vitamin is also beneficial because it provides an important digestive enzyme lost during the processing of dog food. A quality pet vitamin also provides Essential Fatty Acids not produced in the body. A good pet vitamin also helps protect against allergies and immune disorders, such as Irritable Bowel Disease.
With the proper care and nutrition, your puppy will grow to be strong and healthy. You will be able to enjoy your new best friend for a long time.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Have you ever wished you could just give your puppy a pill and get rid of all those annoying puppy behavior problems that turn up when you attempt to train puppy to be obedient? Of course, such a puppy training pill doesn’t exist. What does exist, however, are tried and true training methods for getting rid of puppy behavior problems like dog potty problems and other behavioral issues. These are the three steps you need to take in order to have perfect puppy behavior:
Start Puppy Training Early:Very often the mistake that is made by the typical puppy owner is to wait too long before beginning training. Puppy behavior problems can develop very quickly and it is best to take a proactive approach to not let those puppy behaviors begin in the first place.
Obviously you can’t expect perfect behavior at the tender age of eight weeks or twelve weeks of age but there are several things that you can start training right away. Begin puppy housebreaking the moment you bring your young dog home. Make sure to supervise your puppy by using a leash or a crate so that he can’t develop bad habits. Dog potty issues are not fun to fix as the dog matures, it is best to avoid them from occurring in the first place.
You can also begin to train puppy manners. These are things like teaching your dog to not jump, nip, chew, etc. The more your puppy does these behaviors when he is young the more reinforced they become. Be firm but fair in teaching your pup to be respectful of your home and family.
Just because your puppy is young doesn’t mean that you can’t start obedience training. Use a lot of positive reinforcement to teach your dog to sit, lie down, stay, come when called and walk on a leash. If you can begin to ingrain these ideas into your pup it will be much easier to train puppy as he gets older.
Socialize Your Dog Properly:Many puppy behavior problems occur because dogs aren’t socialized properly. There are three main things to remember when socializing your dog:1- Volume- You want your new puppy to meet a great deal of new and different people, dogs, children, and things.2- Variety- Not only should your puppy be socialized to a lot of things, but he should meet a big variety of things and people as well.3- Control- Many people understand the concept that they should socialize their dog but few people understand that socialization should be done in a controlled fashion. Control the types of people and dogs that your dog meets. If you don’t control the types of things your dog meets you risk your dog having bad experiences. Bad experiences can lead to fear issues and fear can lead to aggression. Expect Great Things From Your Puppy:I often encounter puppy owners who make excuses for their puppy behavior problems. As they begin puppy training they can often be heard to say that, “Oh, it’s okay. He’s just a puppy, he’ll grow out of it.” Very rarely do puppies grow out of behavior problems. More often these puppy behavior problems grow and develop to become worse and worse.
Your puppy isn’t going to be perfectly trained tomorrow, but he can definitely be better tomorrow than he is today. Expect daily improvement and train accordingly. Don’t make the excuse that your dog is just a puppy so behavior problems are okay. They aren’t okay and shouldn’t be treated as such.
If you can have these ideas in mind when you engage in puppy training you will find yourself capable of ridding yourself of puppy behavior problems in no time.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
These days, the development of successful hand-rearing methods has made it so much easier to raise orphaned or abandoned puppies. Dog owners who enjoy a high degree of success raising newborn pups pay careful attention to the three following principles: Giving a suitable environment; feeding a nutritionally complete formula; and having a regular feeding schedule.
1. Giving a suitable environment: Regulating the right environment such as providing warm temperature, humidity, and keeping the puppy comfortable, quiet, and undisturbed are the three most important requirements for a puppy’s proper environment.
2. Dog nutrition is very important when preparing dog food. We all know that the ideal food to feed to newborn puppies is their mother’s milk. However, any replacement for the mother’s milk should approximate it as closely as possible. Milk from cow is too dilute for puppies and should only be used as an emergency food. Every effort should be made to replace it with a more suitable substitute as soon as possible. However, a much more suitable emergency formula can be made from evaporated canned milk. This can be achieved by mixing three parts of evaporated milk, as it comes from the can, with one part of warm water. With this mixture, milk with 20 % solids will be formed. This mixture will have the amount of dog nutrition that is close to that of the mother’s milk. In addition, commercial formulas designed to be used for feeding orphaned or abandoned puppies is also a good substitute. These products closely resemble the mother’s milk in content so make an ideal starter dog food..
3. Regular feeding schedule: If their formula resembles the mother’s milk closely enough, newborn puppies of small and medium-size breeds do not need to be fed more than four times per day. For larger breeds however, this number may need to be increased to six meals. Using these measurements with a formula of proper content, the total daily quantity required will divide into four to six equal feedings that will leave the puppy with a moderately distended stomach following each feeding.
The exact quantity to be fed must always be left to the discretion of the owner feeding the puppy. Remember that common sense is still one of the most important aspects of successfully raising infant puppies. Although dog nutrition is key to a healthy pupppy always keep in mind that it is better to underfeed than to overfeed.
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Nipping puppies are a common occurrence. Puppies play hard with their littermates and when you bring your puppy home he transfers this behavior to you. Those sharp little teeth really hurt, however, and this is a behavior that needs to be nipped in the bud.
Nipping puppy behavior has nothing to do with teething or dominance. It is simply puppy play behavior that has gone wild. Buying chew toys and offering them to your puppy won’t do anything to deter them from mouthing people or teach the puppy to have a safe mouth around children. Safe chew toys are a great idea and important to have but they teach puppies how to chew on puppy toys instead of people things. They don’t teach puppies not to bite people.
Mouthing and nipping is usually a sign that the puppy is hyperstimulated and wants to play. They simply need to learn to play in a gentler way. Nipping and mouthing on people and having the people tell the puppy that it HURTS teaches the puppy the critical lesson of “bite inhibition” so they can learn better control over their aim with their mouth. Bite inhibition is something that puppies also learn from their dams and their littermates. Their control over their biting usually improves over time if you properly and consistently reinforce the message that you send. Your puppy will get better emotional self-control and physical coordination.
This is exactly the same lesson that 2- and 3-year-old human children have to learn about playing with other children: be gentle or no one will play with you. The goal is to have the puppy become gentler and gentler with their mouth so that being soft with their mouth becomes a habit. Or a skill. It takes time to build a habit.
You teach a puppy to be more gentle with his mouth by shrieking with pain when he nips you. You need to overdo it. Really let your puppy know that it HURTS. Follow this by immediately leaving the room and closing the door so your puppy cannot continue the biting. Some puppies may try to run after you because they still want to play so be sure to leave the room and close the door. Start out by shrieking over a painful nip and work your way to up a shriek about any tooth-to-skin contact at all. By the time your puppy is 4 1/2-5 months old they should have a very soft mouth if you apply this method consistently. This is the same method that is taught in most puppy kindergarten classes.
You are basically doing the same thing that your puppy’s mother or littermates would do when he nipped them. His mother and littermates would cry out and stop playing with your puppy if he bit them too hard. He would learn that if he played too rough there would be no more play.
If you are playing with a puppy who starts to become overstimulated or who shows signs of nipping you can take a time-out. Stand up, turn your back on your puppy, cross your arms and look away. Stand still, even if your puppy jumps on you. Don’t acknowledge your puppy. Don’t speak to him. Count to 30. If your puppy has calmed down you can praise him and resume play. If he hasn’t calmed down by a count of 30 try another count to 30. If that still doesn’t work you should calmly leave the room, with the puppy still in the room. If your puppy is still showing signs of being overstimulated you should do a time-out with your puppy in his crate for 2-5 minutes. These are ways of teaching your puppy emotional self-control. Your puppy learns to calm himself down in order to get you to play with him some more.
If you teach your puppy using these methods it should solve your problems with nipping and becoming overstimulated when playing. You want your puppy to grow up to be a dog who has good control of his mouth and teeth and who doesn’t become overstimulated and accidentally bite.
Time-outs can be used effectively when your dog is getting out of control. If your dog is barking excessively a time-out in his crate for a few minutes may get his mind off barking. Sometimes a dog may bark wildly at a squirrel or something else outside. Your dog may be overstimulated at these times and a time-out can help calm him down. There are some good ways to try to discourage barking behavior but a time-out may be the only thing that breaks the barking sometimes.
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The use of a crate (kennel) is an effective way to train a new Doberman Puppy. The kennel imitates a den. In nature, puppies stay in a small den, just big enough for everyone to fit. While the adult pack members are off on the hunt, the puppies stay behind, safe in the den usually with an adult puppy-sitter. Only when the pack returns will the puppies emerge to happily feed on regurgitated food. Instinctively, a puppy will have a feeling of safety and will not want to mess inside his small kennel. To properly kennel a puppy, the kennel should have just enough room for the puppy to fit comfortably laying down, standing up, and he should be able to turn around. The kennel should be built specifically for dog safety with only small spaces between the bars. The kennel should also be of high quality and in good repair, without bent or broken bars, and with a flat cleanable floor. Doberman puppies grow fast, so it’s often a good idea to purchase a crate made for a full grown Doberman, 42″ x 30″ x 31″ or larger. Some crates are equipped with a divider to make the floor space inside the crate the right size for the puppy as it grows. With a regular crate, a box or other large item can be placed inside to take up the unneeded space, where the puppy would otherwise mess.Feeding:Many Doberman breeders recommend a lower protein puppy food (less than 28%) for the first months of puppy hood. They also discontinue feeding puppy food at an early age, ~4 months. This practice is thought to help reduce the incidence of Panosteitis (wandering lameness) and reduce the rapid growth produced by a higher ratio of protein found in most commercial puppy foods. Many also recommend raising the food dish off the floor to lessen neck strain while feeding.Adult Dobermans should be an adult dog food containing “joint support” supplements, such as glucosamine, to help reduce the risk of hip dysplasia. A typical and health adult Doberman can eat nearly 40 pounds of dry dog food a month, which can mean an average of $20 per month per dog. As a Purina “Rally to Rescue,” we feed and recommend the Pro Plan brand dog food. Water:All mammals need water. Like in feeding, raising the water dish off the floor will help lessen neck strain. Also, water quality is important. Just like human consumption of tap water is a health concern, the same contaminates can affect your dogs well being. If at all possible, your dogs should be give water that is filtered. If filling a water dish from a garden hose, remember to allow the water to run through the hose for a few minutes, because harmful germs and bacteria grow in the stagnant water left in a hose.Toys:The Doberman is likely to be able to destroy most toys suitable for other breeds. One safe bet is a Kong toy which is fairly indestructible. We also recommend toys from Helping Udders. Dobes also have a love of tennis balls but these should only be provided with supervision. There are known cases of Dobermans choking on tennis balls. Beware of products stating they can be “ingested” safely. This DOES NOT mean they can be digested successfully.
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Bringing home a new puppy is exciting, and nerve-wracking. There are so many things that can go wrong, but so many things that can go right. You must immediately begin teaching your puppy how to treat others and how to behave in your house, and you must immediately begin teaching others (especially children) how to treat the puppy and give her consistant behavioral cues.
The period of house training your puppy is especially laden with potential hurdles and setbacks. Try to keep in mind that puppy training is not a battle or a race. The most important thing is to get good habits established early, and to stick to your guns. We love them, but dogs are simple creatures and prefer stable habits and rituals. This makes it easier to prevent mistakes and set up a good precedent for later training. Establish a food and water schedule, serving your puppy at the same time every day, and take away her water bowl before bed time. (Don’t forget to replace it in the morning!) Young puppies can only hold their urine so long, generally about an hour for every month of her age, plus an extra hour. So, a three month old puppy can hold on for about four hours.
When accidents happen (and there is no way to completely avoid them), don’t freak out about it. Simply clean up the mess, use an odor neutralizer, and get on with the training. The thing is, in their simple-mindedness, dogs don’t distinguish between a ‘good’ and a ‘bad’ place to go to the bathroom. The world is their toilet, and when they feel like going, they just do it. It is a human construction to designate a special place to eliminate. Dogs do, however, have a natural instinct to keep their bedding or sleeping area clean, and you can use that to your advantage.
Make a strong distinction between your puppy’s sleeping area and her bathroom. It’s very important that, if you live in an apartment or in a house without a yard, that you buy a doggy pad for your puppy to use when you can’t take her out. It’s like a litter box for dogs, and will constitute your dog’s special place to go. If the dog considers the whole house her bedding area, she won’t want to muck it up, and will prefer to use her specially designated “bathroom” area- the doggy pad.
The process itself is fairly simple. Keep the puppy in a little penned off area, or bedding area, for most of the day. Every hour or so, bring her to the area that you have deemed acceptable, be it outside or a doggy pad, give her a verbal command (like “go potty” or “business time”) and wait for her to go. Build up the association between the word and the action– as she’s going, give the verbal command again. When she’s finished, shower her with praise. Right after a jaunt to the bathroom, you can give her some time out and about.
If you take her to the bathroom and she doesn’t go after a minute or two, bring her back to her pen and try again in twenty minutes. Try to stick to the hour schedule, though, and you’ll be rewarded for your perseverance. Yes, this means also waking up in the middle of the night to bring her to the bathroom. You can do this only twice or so a night, though, since you’ve taken her water away and she won’t have to go as often.
Remember, be patient. Your puppy is a simple creature, and training won’t happen all at once. She needs routine and reassurance. And never use physical force to train a puppy. This will only teach her to fear punishment and mistrust you. You must encourage her to try for reward and make training into a game that she is interested in winning. Best of luck!
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