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Socializing Your Canine Companion: How to Properly Socialize Your Dog

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Socialize Your Dog to Other Dogs. Socialization is the single best predictor of a dog’s future personality. Well-socialized dogs are calm and unaggressive even in stressful situations. But socialization involves a lot more than just introducing your dog to a few random strangers every few weeks.

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Common Skin Diseases Witnessed in Dogs

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Skin diseases can drive both the dog and his owner mad. Every dog owner will agree to this, won’t they? The dog’s incessant licking, whining, and scratching are not only a heart breaking sight but also maddening to listen to hour after hour, day after day. There are basically five types of common skin diseases in dogs.

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

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If you are looking for a heartwarming, uplifting story, then you really need to add Welcome Home Mama and Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldier’s Beloved Dogs to your reading list. Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. Growing up, we always had animals.

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Teddy the Dog

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Teddy the Dog offers fun items for dog lovers (and of course, for dogs too). Baby fell in love with the Puppy Love Micro Plush Blanket , as did I! We also loved how it came packaged, it would make a really great gift for the dog lover in your life (or treat yourself to one). Isn’t that a cute graphic?

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Teach Your Dog To Go Potty On Command!

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Today we welcome top Celebrity dog trainer and behavioral expert Inger Martens as a guest blogger. in Mass Communications and Human Psychology helped create her unique training tips for dog owners. She is an author, television and radio personality and dubbed “Best Dog Trainer in LA&# by Los Angeles Magazine.

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The Blue House Dog

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A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. It took nine years for my picture book, THE BLUE HOUSE DOG, (Peachtree Publishers/August 1, 2010) to come out. The boy was wounded by his loss, just as the homeless dog was wounded when his owner died.

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Nutrition for Dogs: Choosing the Right Food for Your Canine Companion

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Feed healthy food to your dog. But just like with people, the quality of your dog’s diet can dramatically affect their short and long-term health. Many pet owners are surprised when they change their dogs’ diet to a higher quality food. The pet parent immediately notices better teeth, coat and skin changes in their dog.

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