Posts Tagged ‘canine’

Educating yourself about dog training should be the first step one takes prior to actually training your dog. Certainly there are plenty of sources one can access, but sometimes it just results in information overload.

Canine training is not really all that hard. One thing to remember is that most dogs simply want to make their owner happy. The problem is communication. Of course there is a language barrier, and owners need to get your pet to understand what you want.

Canine training can be summed up with just a few tips. Lets take a look at some of the methods that I have used in order to train my dog, making both he and I happier.

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You may or may not be aware, but in February 2007, there was a dog food recall that included many of the top brands of dog food. These foods had been laced with melamine, an industrial chemical used to make low-quality wheat gluten and rice concentrate appear more nutritious. More than 5,300 pet food products were taken off the shelves after pets began dying all over the country.

Aside from melamine, there are other ingredients still included in dog food that aren’t particularly healthful, aside from providing the bare minimum to keep your dog functioning. Some of these ingredients include “mystery meat” (unidentified source of meat), Propylene Glycol, Gluten, and BHA/BHT. For a complete list of these unhealthy ingredients, visit Dog Food for Life. Read the rest of this entry »