Author: Alicia

Understanding Dogs

Decoding Your Puppy’s Body Language

Inviting a puppy into your life is a momentous event! If you’re unfamiliar with canine body language, it can also be confusing. Below is a head-to-tail translation of what your puppy may convey. Although your dog may be female, to facilitate this overview, we’ll refer to your pup as male.

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Dog Parents

Questions to Ask Before You Bring Home a New Puppy

It’s been medically and scientifically proven that dog owners tend to live, on average, longer than those who do not own dogs throughout their lives. If that is not the best reason around for getting a new puppy of your own, there is no good reason. However, not everyone is

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Dog Parents

The Benefits of Children Growing Up with Dogs

  Getting a dog is a very exciting time for everyone in your family. Having a loyal companion who is always ecstatic to be in your presence will bring your family a lot of laughter and love over the years. They also provide a myriad of benefits to the kids in

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Golden Retrievers

Golden Retrievers: Breed History & Information

  Golden Retrievers gain their name from their ability to retrieve game for hunters. The Golden Retriever was originally bred in Scotland to assist in wildfowl hunting. They were developed by Dudley Marjoribanks, the Baron of Tweedmouth, in order to create the perfect dog that would hunt well on both

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Health + Wellness

Basics of Heartworm Disease in Dogs

Heartworm disease is a serious and life-threatening disease for pets in the United States and around the world. It is caused by foot-long worms that reside in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels of affected pets, causing heart failure, severe lung disease and other organ damage. Heartworm disease can

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Canine Companions

How Dogs Can Help Individuals Overcome PTSD

Dog owners understand that a couple of benefits of having a dog are that it helps decrease your stress level and it can help you get over a bad day or time in your life. People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can especially benefit from having a dog as a

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Health + Wellness

Safety Tips for Dogs During the Holidays

The holiday season is such an incredibly fun time of year. It’s easy to get wrapped up in all of the ribbons and bows, chocolates and cookies, and extra fun activities (see this video as a cute example). But there’s a catch in all this fun-having; you need to make

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Health + Wellness

Toxic & Dangerous Foods Your Dog Should Never Eat

Dogs are often food lovers, and what their owners eat can be particularly appealing. Occasionally indulging your pet is fine, but certain things can make them very sick and even be lethal. Canines are also adept at getting into food on their own. As a result, it is important to

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Health + Wellness

Helping a Dog That Is Having a Seizure

Your dog experiences a lot of the same health problems as people, and unfortunately, they are not able to communicate the exact symptoms to you. Therefore, you need to be fully aware of a change of behavior in your pup, especially if he or she is having a seizure. Typical

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Training + Obedience

Ethics in Puppy Training

Most of the time, when you think about ethics, it is under the guise of medical or legal professionals. It is hard to imagine that there is a code of ethics in puppy training, but according to the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), it is important to the human-animal

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