Teaching your Daschund to swim?

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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 […]

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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 […]

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According to Wikipedia, ‘alpha’, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, denotes the first of a series of items or categories and in the case of a group of animals it means ‘the socially dominant individual’ or leader.
In other words ‘Alpha Dog’ and ‘Leader of the Pack’ are the same thing really aren’t they? In […]

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Dogs are aggressive creatures by instinct. In the wild aggression is necessary as it helps dogs to hunt, defend themselves from other creatures, and to defend resources such as food, mates and a place to sleep.
Over the centuries though, selective breeding has minimized and refined this trait somewhat but, even still, dogs of all sizes […]

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