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Cocoa beans, cocoa bean shells, cola and tea contain a natural ingredient called theobromine that can kill your pet when ingested. Dogs often cannot metabolize this fast enough to avoid poisoning. The amount of bakers chocolate to produce the adverse reaction is about 1 ounce for every 2 pounds of dog weight.

People living in small, confined spaces like condominiums or apartments are attracted to toy dogs because of their size. Generally, toy dogs only increase up to 20 times their birth weight. Adult toy dogs only weigh between one and ten kilograms. They typically reach their adult weight and size in a period of eight months. But not all toy dogs are alike. Some are active and require a lot of exercise, some are barkers, some shed more than others and some are not good with other pets. A particular group of people that needs to consider these differences in toy dogs carefully are the allergy sufferers. An allergy should not stop anyone from enjoying the company of a pet dog.

Rottweilers are relatively large dogs who are known for being great watchdogs because of their great strength.

They are black with well defined tan markings on their face, legs and other areas. Rottweilers have pink tongues and don’t have big jowls like Boxers, despite having a large skull. Rottweilers have dark brown eyes and often have an expression of being calm, alert and unafraid. Although sometimes they shed throughout the year, Rottweilers are low maintenance dogs overall.

Multo en Parvo - a lot of dog in a small space. This Latin phrase is often used to describe the playful clown of the dog world, the irrepressible Pug. A tiny package of bundled energy, the pug’s bulldog-like stance belies his classification as a ‘toy’ sized breed. Even with his overtly distinctive looks, it is the pug’s amazing personality that sets him apart from other breeds.

It is no uncommon knowledge that the Orient is responsible for giving the Western World some of the rarest and beautiful dog breeds in the world. There are the Tibetan Mastiffs, Chow Chows, Lhasa Apsos, Shih Tzus, Akitas, and Shiba Inus, and who can forget the Pug dogs?

Small with an adorable monkey face, the Pug dog might be tiny but it has the heart and soul of a dog that is many times its size.

Police dogs are a group of dog breeds that are used to assist in law enforcement work of policemen and other such personnel. In the United States, there is a special police force unit known as K9s. The term is a play on words, K9 being a homophone of canine.

However, police dogs are not only used in the United States alone. In fact, the term “police dog” is a common parlance in such countries as Germany and other Romance countries.

Anyone who knows his history can tell that there is such thing as killer dogs, or war dogs, or that do really had existed. These dogs are bred for the purpose to kill, prepared (by starvation) for such function, and released against ranks upon ranks of enemy. And the effect is remarkable though lethal, because attack formations exclusively made of dogs can unhinge even the most solid phalanx formation. These killer dogs, gigantic molosians (now extinct) are the forbearers of today’s molosers including the rottweilers. And several accounts of English armies, too, used killer dogs as weapons of war: transporting them in cages half starved that they would attack any being (especially horses) on sight.