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May 2010 - Dog Owner Training Archives

How to Pick up Dog Poop

Picking up properly after your dog poop is important for your family, children and even your dog. Dog poop can fecal parasites so it’s important to be sanitary when dealing with fecal material from dogs. Round worm can infect kids. This is an environment, giardia parasite that you want to keep your home free of. [...]

Soothing Itchy Skin for Dogs

Why is your dog itchy? If you always see your dog scratching, you have to figure out what is causing them to do so all the time. It may be an underlying flea allergy, or any type of environmental allergy or skin infections. So if your dog is always itching, check with your veterinarian to [...]

How to Brush Your Dog’s Teeth

Dental health care for dogs is good for your pet in both short and long term care. They will experience the benefits of regular teeth care especially when they get older and have a healthier mouth than their peers because their human took charge of their dental care early in the game. Here are some [...]

How to Remove a Tick From a Dog’s Ear

Have you ever wondered why ticks like to congregate around a dog’s ears? The answer is because there is a lot of blood supply there that they can feed off of. Naturally that was before you, as your pet’s human, noticed the ticks. Here are some tips on getting ticks out of your dog’s ears: [...]

Pointers in Adopting a Dog

When you adopt a dog you have the wonderful assurance inside of yourself that you did a good deed, at the same time you satisfied your yearning for your own dog. You may feel you are ready to take in a new pet, but it is always helpful not to go into this blindly. Here [...]

Pointers on Dog Acupressure and Hip Dysplasia

Sometimes you love your dog so much that when they are in pain, it is as though you are in pain, too. This is especially true if your dog has hip dysplasia. Hip dysplasia can either be caused by injury, or by congenital problems with the hip bones. It is severely painful to your dog. [...]

How to Give Your Dog a Foot Massage

If you are the kind of human who gives your dog foot massages, then your dog must be very lucky indeed. But when the human sees their pet lying on their side, absorbing sheer pleasure from the experience, humans feel very lucky too. Foot massages are a good idea because it is one pleasant way [...]

How to Massage a Dog’s Side

We love to hug and pet our dogs, but we can do something nice for our dogs just by massaging down the dog’s sides. Ideally, you should do this when your animal is standing up. That way, you can get both sides massaged at once. However, if you have an injured animal they will probably [...]