Enjoy!

Have you seen a dog eat food like this before?

"You know, every time my mother wouldn’t let me jump on the table, so I can’t eat the delicious food.

Now look. I’ve trained myself to be stronger so I don’t need to jump on the table to eat the delicious food…

Am I clever?"

Teaching your Daschund to swim?

Dog Quote: "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

....Aldous Huxley

Puppies love to bite.

The do it naturally but it is something that they must be taught not to do.

This needs to be addressed while they are young because dog bites can lead to all sorts of problems including legal action.

It may seem fun and funny to have a puppy biting but a full-grown dog can do a lot of damage, particularly to children if they are in the habit of biting.

Dogs have immense strength in their jaws and even a playful nip can do permanent damage to a child.

Generally, puppies are taught to control their biting from their mothers but in most cases we get puppies as pets that have been taken from their mothers at a very young age and it is up to us to teach them as puppies not to bite.

By letting your dog socialize with other dogs from a young age they will quickly learn from their elders, provided they have been taught well, that the desire to bite needs to be curbed to avoid retaliation and an ensuing fight.

If you’d like more information take a look here.

Speak to you soon,

Stuart

I notice that an American organisation, FLexPetz, has just launched a Dog Rental service in the UK.

Apparently, for a fee, a busy family is able to rent a pet dog for a week or whatever time period they require. The aim is to provide the companionship of a pet dog to busy people without them having to worry about the responsibilities that come with owning a dog .

You can read more about it on Yahoo news here.

Now, in my view, that’s very similar to someone renting out a child to a busy family who isn’t prepared to make the time to look after it but wants the joy of having one when they see fit – and highly unfair on the child.

It would seem that the originators of this scheme haven’t thought about what the impact of being shuffled from owner to owner will have on the dog itself. Sure, they state that they carefully vet the owners – sorry, renters – to make sure that the dog will be well looked after but…

Have they not considered the dogs feelings? And do they not understand that a dog becomes attached to it’s master and cannot understand why he suddenly abandons it without a word. Surely the poor animal’s health will start to suffer as it is unceremoniously removed from one master to be plonked down with another and then another.

Quite rightly the RSPCA is not very happy with this scheme nor are other animal welfare organisations.

What do you think? Is this fair treatment on a loving and trusting animal or just another form of abuse by people wanting to make money anyway they can?

By the way I’ve also noticed a website in China offering similar services so it seems to be a spreading trend worldwide.

Let me know what you think, just leave a comment below.

Stuart.