Archive for the ‘Training Pets’ Category

Training a dog to employ the stairs

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

While most persons don’t think that they need to train a dog to employ the stairs, it can often times be a good idea if you do. If you think in regards to it from the angle of a puppy you will see that the stairs can be quite a intimidating prospect and likewise very unmanageable to figure out. Rather than helping their puppy learn in what manner to use the stairs a good deal of dog owners just carry it up and down which can be bad idea as it teaches the dog to be reliable on you.

Like any sort of dog training it is never a good deal of an idea to console a bad custom from the beginning because it’s then much more unmanageable to remove it. In this article we will tell you in what way to make certain you train your dog to employ the stairs in the right way.

First and foremost you better get started of only using the very lowest steps just in case there’s an accident. Put your dog on the second or third step and then help the dog without really carrying it. Once you have done this get a helper a number of steps up with a good deal of treats and get the dog to tardily get started to climb the stairs. Before long the dog will get started to see that it is competent of climbing the stairs on its own and must become more comfortable and more comfortable for you to encourage the dog to do so. Naturally, a good deal of persons don’t want to have the dog upstairs at all and in this instance you better ignore this lesson!

Tested Tips To Keep Your Pets Alone While On Holidays

Friday, August 21st, 2009

1. Ask your neighbors, acquaintances or other family tree members to take trouble of your pets all through the calculate you will be gone
2. Make guaranteed with the intention of the food must be unfilled by proper place.
3. Keep the doors of bathroom commence and get on to guaranteed with the intention of your pet must be qualified for potty.
4. Leave the excitement or AC on in the areas of the household with the intention of the pet occupies but get on to guaranteed with the intention of thrilling wires are made known of get to of your pets as they be inflicted with the problem of chewing the electricity wires.
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Does Your Pet Talk to You?

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

All pet owners know that pets use their body language to communicate with us. Since they live much simpler lives than we do and are so dependent on us, they need to be able to convey their requirements. Cats do this with their ears, bodies and a wide range of sounds. Sometimes they simply want our attention, while other times, they’re telling us “My food bowl is empty”. A pet owner can soon become attuned to the facial expressions and the unspoken word the body speaks.

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I’ve five house cats. They’ve each taken responsibility for telling me different things. The oldest, Pepper, (a Persian mix) keeps me informed when their food bowls get low. She never lets them get empty before she alerts me. The next oldest, Smokey (a Russian Blue) lets out a howl, when coming through the pet door from their outdoor kennel, to let me know it’s either raining or too cold for his liking. He does this continually, until it stops raining or warms up outside. Then, there’s Squeaky, (a gray Tabby) who jumps up on my computer desk or my lap and whines to let me know that one of the other cats is picking on her. Bringing up the rear are our two year old siblings, Little Bit and Precious (Manx & gray Tabby mix). Little Bit assists Smokey with the weather reports and Precious reminds me when it’s time for “our” nap. With the five of them, I never lack for noisy conversation. (more…)

You Can Train a Dog But Can You Train a Cat?

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Now there’s been an age old argument about which is smarter cats or dogs. Proponents of cat intelligence being superior use anything and everything at hand to prove their point. According to them a cat is elusive and independent because they’re so intelligent. Clever enough that they just use you and when they do play with you and show you affection it’s always with an ulterior motive. You simply require to remember Morris the cat or be a Garfield fan to see this.

Dogs, on the other hand can be trained to rollover, play dead, sit, fetch, stay, play Frisbee, play with the ball, and do all kinds of other astonishing things. Just look at Lassie, Rin Tin Tin or the Doberman Gang. Another strong debate for the dog is the pet shows and home video shows on TV. There are bunches of other amazing dogs that do tricks in the movies and on TV.

Then you’ve got trained police dogs, seeing-eye dogs, and personal assistant dogs for people with disabilities… service animals. (more…)