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Discover the Secret to Understanding Your Dog and How It Will Help to Optimize Your Dog Training

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    Discover the Secret to Understanding Your Dog and How It Will Help to Optimize Your Dog Training A big part of dog training is understanding your dog's body language and mood. Like us, they have their good days and their bad days.  Sometimes we want to learn and other days we are not so inclined to. Well, same goes for our dogs.    As humans, we communicate with one another through verbal and non-verbal communications.  We have use of our words, facial expressions, body language and tone of voice to get our message across.  It can be "ruff" for your dog to communicate all the things they want to convey to you. So how can you determine how they are feeling? The following information will help guide you so you have a better understanding when it comes time to train your dog.  They express their emotions through posture, facial expressions, body movements, and vocally like barking, whining, whimpering, growling and howling (but we'll save that for another future post

How To Read Your Dogs Body Language

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  How To Read Your Dogs Body Language Photo by  Blue Bird  from  Pexels As humans, we communicate with one another through verbal and non-verbal communications.  We have use of our words, facial expressions, body language and tone of voice to get our message across.  It can be "ruff" for your dog to communicate all the things they want to convey to you. They express their emotions through posture, facial expressions, body movements, and vocally like barking, whining, whimpering, growling and howling (but we'll save that for another future post 😃). Understanding their body language can be beneficial to help identify what emotion they are feeling and/or what their intentions are.  Communication and connecting is what makes the bond stronger between you and your pet.  Like you, they feel the same emotions- happy, sad, anger, joy, fear, anxiety, stress and more.  As a dog lover and previous owner of two chihuahuas (not at the same time), I feel it is important to take the ti

Tips for Walking Your Dog

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Benefits of Adopting a Dog

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  Benefits of Adopting a Dog Image: Max Pixel Before adopting a dog or a puppy a thorough research as to what type of dog and whether or not you will be able to provide for it must be taken into consideration. Taking care of a dog or any pet for that matter,is an important and big responsibility and should not be taken lightly. They will need your time, care and efforts for providing a loving home. Image: Flickr What Questions You Should Ask Asking the right questions to the pet adoption centre where you wish to adopt from, is essential. According to   https://www.royalcanin.com/  website, these are some crucial questions to ask: What food are they being fed and what's their feeding schedule? Have they begun house broken, and to what level? What are their current daytime and night time routines? Have they been checked by a veterinarian? Have they had any health issues? Have they had any vaccinations and if so, when is the next injection due? When have they been given de-worming tre