Do You Want your Puppy here

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Ccan you imagine how your children would feel seeing both themselves and their puppies on-line. Well you can. Just send me their photoes and I will add them to this site for the whole world to see. Post them to me Denis Kermode at denis@tarotservices.com  and I will post them on this blog giving full credits. Why not let me know a little about your puppy as well perhaps the problems you are having or just the joy it is bringing into your life. This is why we are here, to share the moments a new puppy brings us.

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Counting Calories For Your Dog

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Counting Calories

For Your Dog

There’s a very good chance that your dog may be overweight and you don’t know it! Did you know that the number on canine health disorder is obesity? According to reports from many veterinarians, as many as 25%-44% of all dogs are overweight but it could be even more. If a dog weighs more than 15% than what is the average for the particular dog’s height, he is obese.

It’s no surprise that conditions related to obesity are on the rise. These conditions include diabetes mellitus and orthopedic, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, endocrine, respiratory, immune, and reproductive disorders. All of which are devastating conditions for a dog to have.

Who’s to blame? Well, according to most doctors, obesity is on the rise because of the lack of fussiness of dogs, their natural gorging behavior, and insufficient exercise.

A prevailing ignorance of providing a nutritious, well-balanced diet with a controlled calorie intake is also to blame.

Is your dog fit or fat? Do you your dog’s daily caloric requirements and what factors may diminish those requirements?

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know. Commercial dog food is packed with sugar and fat to make the “ingredients” they put in appetizing.

Don’t use a dog’s begging behavior as a gauge on how much to feed him. Healthy dogs are ready to eat all the time and some can quite literally eat while flat on their side and just about asleep.

Keeping your dog trim and healthy is knowing how many calories he needs and how that translates into food. Your dog’s energy needs constantly change throughout his life. As he becomes more active, it will increase and as he gets older it will decrease.

Individual metabolism, exercise, age, environment and overall health will determine what your dog really needs to remain lean and healthy. Since your dog can only have so many calories every day, it is important to pack lots of nutrition, bulk and appeal into those calories.

In order to determine what your dog to remain lean and healthy, you must take into account his age, environment, exercise, metabolism, and overall health. It’s imperative that since your dog can only have so many calories per day, that those calories be packed with as much nutrition, mass, and appeal as possible.

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Here are a few reasons why one shouldn’t use Positive Punishment

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Positive Punishment is defined as adding anything that will decrease a behavior (this could mean anything from saying “no!”, “eh eh”, or using physical Positive Punishment- choking, shocking, kicking, smacking etc)

Here are a few reasons why one shouldn’t use Positive Punishment:


1- Without perfect timing, intensity and consistency, the intended positive punishment actually becomes abuse.
2- The dog learns to avoid the punisher in order to do undesirable behavior.
3- It can cause irreversible emotional damage to the dog or human, even irreversible changes in the brain.
4- Positive Punishment is scientifically proven to increase stress hormones, arousal and aggression.
5- Animals habituate to positive punishment – meaning the intensity will have to keep increasing.
6- You cannot make children, dogs or anything for that matter reinforcing for a dog using Positive Punishment, you can only suppress the behaviors punished.
7- Positive Punishment causes dogs to hide their warning signs before a bite.
8- Dogs trained with punishment feel trapped when with owners, as leaving a ‘stay’ or leaving the owners side to escape from a child can cause punishment. Dogs that feel they have no escape tend to bite rather than move away.
9- Intended punishment can actually INCREASE the behavior you wished to extinguish. As attention was provided.
10- - The punisher becomes less reinforcing to be around for the dog. If you use punishment with your dog, there is no way to compete with the reinforcement value of other things in the environment. Your dog will find other stimuli in the environment more reinforcing than you because the dog has a history of punishment with being near you.
11- Dogs who are punished do not offer behaviors as readily, so they are harder to teach new obedience behaviors, sports or tricks.
12- People who use positive punishment will punish more readily in the future as it is positively reinforcing to use. Using punishment causes ones own behavior patterns to change towards dogs and people. Some people will find that they cannot stop using positive punishment even if they want to, and will need to seek help to change their behavior.

-Emily Larlham

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