What is Assistance Dog?
Assistance dog is a specially trained dog to help people with certain disability to mitigate their disability. The term of "Guide dog" and "Service Dog" often used in US, while in UK people tend to use Assistance Dog.
Some other terms that make big difference from UK and US is the service dog term. It is quite common for people in US to call assistance dog as service dog, while in the UK service dog literally means dogs that serve the military, for example guard dog used to help the soldier or officer to patrol some area. Such dog often called "war dog" in US.
Some Reason To Own This Stuff
Reason #1: Traveling With Car
Dog just love it when the owner takes them with a car, the problem is, dog always need water and food and feeding your dog inside the car can spill out everything, the car is a "shaky" place and a long journey will require lots of stops if you bring your dog along.
What is Dog Separation Anxiety?
Before I answer this, let's take a dive into a dog's mind. Dog is a social creature, they love and feel safe being with the pack. A domesticated dog tends to think that their owner (and family) is their pack. When being left alone, they feel like something is missing and bring unsafe feeling. Especially if the dog overly dependent with the owner, although building trust with your dog requires "bonding", too much attachment may cause this behavioral problem.
It's just dog collars, but how can you make it special? Well there are some crafty people out there and offering their service to provide you with “special” dog collar, so special that makes most common people think about it as “strange”. What are these collar? Well, read on.
St. Bernard Dog Collar Barrel
This one would be just like the classic era where St. Bernard Rescue dog will carry a beer keg as the "first aid" for "dying in the cold lost traveler".
Dog is social animal, they love the presence of other dogs, but owning more than one dog inside your household can be a real mess; especially, when it comes to food, toys, space and even affection (yes, dog can feel jealous too!).
It is a natural instinct for a dog to get everything they want whenever they see "valuable resources", and one of these valuables are toys. Often times toy stealing can lead to dog fighting, and so many dog owners can stuck in frustration each times this happens. This problem often called as "toy stealing" or "toy possession".
No! Not Teacup!
First fact is "Teacup is a gimmick!" It's a marketing trick to create a term for excessively breeding the toy dog. Toy dog or Miniature is the correct term to address small breed dog, these term is recognized by many kennel club, but not teacup! Not purse dog, not other cute-term to cover the fact that's unknown and unrecognized term for all dog kennel club because the parent being excessively breeds to meet the market demand.
How important is Socialization?
Socialization is extremely important. For me, it's the top priority after food. It affect in many area, reducing the fearful response in the future daily life, reducing the risk of timid or aggressive dog, reducing many behavioral problem like submissive urination and more.
Ah, this is the time where she starts to looks like and adult dog. The bone structure getting stronger and the learning loop haven’t closed yet; this makes them capable of learning tricks, obedience command, and other fun activities fast.
If she were human, then she will be like 18 or 19. She’ll looks like an adult but still thinks like a teen. The physical growth is fully achieved at 1 year age, but not the social and mental growth. So we must take her a bit more serious at this stage.
Old Dog (7-8 Years and Beyond)
This stage often referred as “Geriatric Stage” some call it as “Old Dog” this will like the 50+ if your dog were human. The life getting faster for her while she gets slower overtime. The one who usually so agile and strong now getting bit “rusty” in their skill. Their fascinating sense of smell getting bit “covered” with something they don’t know.
The sun is getting hotter in this summer, but even hotter inside your car. Do you know that the heat inside your car can peak at 160 degree when parked under the sun? With such heat, it only needs less than one hour to kill your dog. Especially a dog can't sweat with their skin.
What is Heel Training?
Heel training is a training to make your dog walk beside you. If you have a "leash puller" then you seriously need this training. Heel area is about two feet away from your left hip/leg.
Sometimes we meet "unfriendly dogs" somewhere, no matter it’s a domesticated dogs or a stray dogs. Both are having some tendency to act unfriendly towards you.
Most domesticated dog are just trying to protect their master, while stray dogs usually highly abused dog that became very timid or aggressive toward human and easily feel threatened when they feel human presence.
Cairn Terrier is a small dogs breed with lots of energy with athletic and intelligent look. They have long stand up ears that similar to a fox. Like any other terrier type dogs, they really love chasing squirrel and rats. Digging is their specialty, their front feet is larger than the hind, making them an excellent digger to chase hiding mouse or other hole-dwelling animal.
Flea is one common problem for feline and canine, especially in the summer. If ignored, this irritating infestation will get worse in the mid to late summer and feels like unstoppable.
Trying to kill adult flea with various medicine isn't a viable solution, they can have hundreds of new eggs every day! And the larvae and pupa can turn into adult flea at any day!