To determine the amount of food to begin with when you start feeding a growing puppy, apply the following steps:

Step 1: Find a puppy feeding chart and determine the number of calories per pound of body weight your puppy should have for his age. For example, a 7-week-old pup weighing five pounds needs 400 calories every day.

Step 2: Divide the number of calories contained in a pound of the food you are feeding into the number of calories your puppy needs every day to find out how much food you should offer to begin with. For instance, if the 7-week-old pup is being fed a food containing 600 calories per pound, he needs about 400/600 cal per Ib. or.66 pounds of food each day.

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Euro Puppy USA

March 16, 2008

While there are many outlets to find that perfect puppy, the folks at Euro Puppy Blog have added the personal touch by using their company blog to post dog related articles that are both funny and informative.

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As you may know I love to go exploring. That’s why I love to go hiking. “But Spencer, you live in a humongous metropolis…where can you go hiking?” you may wonder. Well, wonder no more.

The Santa Monica Mountains have a lot of trails for hiking in Los Angeles. They are just one of the many great places to have outdoor adventures in the city of angels. I like to hike at Wilacre Park because it’s very close to my house. I can scoot up there anytime I need to have a nature break. When you walk along the top of the trail you can see both sides of the city from a wooded area. The smells are wonderful up here, I especially like the eucalyptus trees, they smell very nice. There are a lot of birds, deer, geckos and other wildlife here too. I like to smell all the places they have been. It’s very relaxing here and yet you are in the middle of a giant city.

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Insurance is a necessary evil if you ask me. Without any insurance coverage, you are actually exposing yourself to risks in the event that anything happens to you. Worse still, your family may suffer as a result of you not insuring yourself. Imagine if you are involve in an accident and you get hospitalized for a period of time. Who is going to take care of your hospitalization and medical expenses and also your household expenditure while you are unable to work?

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Nutrition experts have compared 15 pet food brands with 30 common dishes served to humans on key measures such as fat, salt and sugar levels.

Ceasar dog food has 4.4 g fat per 100 g and Gourmet Gold cat food has just 2.9 g of fat per 100 g. The unhealthiest food on test appeared to be Kentucky Friend Chicken’s chicken pieces with 23.2 g fat per 100 g (12 grams when counting the added fries as well).

Below you find the results of 2 food samples tested (results are displayed as g per 100 g).

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I have a copy of the book Rex in the City up for grabs! Here is a little more about it, and how you can win the book for yourself.

Lee Harrington, a frequent contributer to the Bark magazine, wrote a wonderfully witty and tender memoir about rescuing and abused shelter dog and rehabilitating him in her tony NYC apartment. During the process she went from glamorous downtown hipster to dog lover, thoroughly obsessed with the health and happiness of her dog. The book, Rex and the City, is now available in paperback and Lee is going on tour to promote adoptions and the book. Her tour (virtual and old-fashioned) includes inviting organizations to bring dogs in need of adoptions to her signings and donating a portion of the proceeds to the Mayor’s Alliance, a group dedicated to making NYC no-kill. You can read more about the book at www.rexandthecity.net, though be forewarned the publisher thought it was chick lit instead of dog lit.

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We do not believe in using the electronic collar as a punitive device, because that eliminates half of all of the good things that you can do with it, and it’s the better half that is being forgotten for those that do it. Sure, there are times it can be used as a deterrent just like a leash or your voice can be, but also like your voice and leash, it also has many positive values as well. A leash is nothing but a restrictive device. Cookies do not come falling out of a leash, nor does a tape recording that says that the dog is a good boy. However, when a person takes their dog for a walk, the dog comes running with his tail wagging to put his leash on! Our dogs do the same with our Sit Means Sit dog training collar. Then again, people don’t always just put the leash on only when the dog is bad, nor do they take it off when he is doing good things like having fun on a walk. The leash is neutral. Training with our remote electronic dog collar, or e collar as some refer to it as, should be the same. Here is a good video with explanation of what the dog looks like with out the collar on, done by Ashton Fitz-Gerald from our Las Vegas dog training office.

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Comb through the unseen healthy hair and get rid of the shedding hair; this is what most groomers do first before cutting your pets coat. A professional pet groomer will take their time when grooming each pet; they will make sure they do their best, because they understand that is what it takes to keep your business. You have to groom some animals all at once, while a lot of other animals have so much hair that it is easier to do a little at a time each day. Dog grooming seminars are usually advertised in dog grooming papers; these seminars are designed to help you get a feel for dog grooming.

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The big news is that yesterday a 4 month old puppy came to live at my house for a little while. We are fostering Jessy for the Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue. So I guess that makes me a big brother…kind of. She is in her gangly teenager stage…all limbs!

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Cleaning your dogs eyes more or less depends on his type of breed. Dogs with protruding eyes and wrinkles on their face such as the Pekingese, Pug, and Boston Terrier, need to have their eyes cleaned on a regular basis. On the other hand, other types of breeds do not require as much attention. Different eye types need different kinds of care.

* Flat-faced dogs with protruding eyes require the most care because they are less protected than breeds with eyes that are set deeper and protected by a long muzzle. Protruding eyes have the tendency to dry out easily and are also easily injured.

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