Online Dog Guide

You’re driving home from the vet with your best friend and have just received the worst kind of news. You knew something wasn’t right with your dog, he just wasn’t himself lately. As a responsible dog owner, you took him to the vet, what you weren’t expecting was the diagnoses: cancer. Now you’re head is swimming with tons of information about treatment options, side effects, length of time you have left and quality of life for your dog.

The domestication of dogs occurred between 12,000 and 25,000 years ago. Experts say that all dogs have evolved from the wolf. There are about 400 different breeds of dogs. But the most popular dogs are the mix breeds or non-pedigreed dogs.

Dogs and Cats. Eternal enemies, right? Through proper dog home obedience training you can teach your animals to live together.

Arthritis is a general term for abnormal changes to a joint. Arthritis can occur when joint tissue is damaged from an infection, from congenital defects that affect the structural integrity and from stress and trauma to joint surfaces and supporting structures.

Typical signs are dogs that are more careful getting up & laying down, walking up & down stairs more gingerly or at a more advanced state, limping. Arthritis affects larger breed dogs more than smaller breeds.

He’s not fat, he’s fluffy. That’s what you keep telling yourself anyways. However, the reality is your dog is obese. This is a medical condition that should be taken seriously. Fat dogs are more at risk in surgery, more prone to heat related stress, more prone to injury, and have more stress on their heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and joints. A sign of obesity is heavy fat over the ribs, along the spine and around the tail head. On a fit dog, you should be able to see their waist when looking at them from above & their tummy should be tucked up when looking at their profile.

Can you remember the last few times you completely gorged on food that you KNEW was making you fat?

Were you alone? And if not, who were you with?

More than likely, you were pigging out with the same person or group of people that you have no doubt done this with on more than one if not many occassions.

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When a dog takes on the “misery stance”, we will see the tail between the legs, the eyes looking away from me, and the ears down and close to the head. This usually happens because the dog is unaware of the owner’s wishes and unsure of my intentions. It my pet photography photo sessions this can sometimes be a challenge. When the dog looks bored or frightened or tired, these conditions make the photo session next to impossible.