There are several reasons why your dog barks. You must distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate barking to properly teach your dog to stop only when he shouldn’t bark. If your house is being robbed and you’ve scared the bark out of your dog he’s not going to be very good at alerting you to trouble.
Dogs bark for all kinds of reasons: aggression, defending their territory, to sound the alarm, to get their needs met, to get attention, and boredom. It is this boredom barking (barking for no good reason) that we want to stop, right? Before you do anything else, find out why your dog is barking. If he needs something (food, water, shelter, to be let outside) make sure he has it and doesn’t have to ask. Basic essentials should never be withheld from your dog!
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Our friend from the Moncton SPCA Dog Park has recently adopted a Welsh Terrier!!!
Sadie was orginally fromVirginia, USA, Regalridge from Nova Scotia, (where Charlie was born), rescued me and other dogs, when their owner passed away. I was already a retired show dog then.(Can you imagine being retired at 8 years old? - dog years, though).
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It seems that our country’s leadership has, in the past and present, always relished the four-legged folk that we all love so much.
In honor of Presidents’ Day today I thought I’d give a quick woof/meow out to some of our U.S. Presidents’ notable pets! There are quite a few pet-lovers in our past. Here goes…
George W. Bush: One English Springer Spaniel (Spot Fetcher) and two Scottish Terriers (Barney and Read the rest of this entry »
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