Archive for February, 2009
Are you going to travel with your pet? Most of the owners do want to spend their precious holidays along with their pets. If you’re one among them, then please read further to know about pet travel arrangement tips.
1. When flying, contact the individual airline agency well before your journey day about the space available in the airlines especially if you’re having a large dog.
2. If you are going to perform a long journey, do check whether you’ve taken food for the dog, but avoid overfeeding.
3. Do open the window a little, which will help to prevent motion sickness in dogs. Immediately contact your vet, if the problem of vomiting is persistent.
4. During long journey, stop at motels at regular intervals to give your dog exercise and a drink of fresh, cool water in a bowl.
5. Make sure your dog or puppy has relieved itself before starting on a journey.
6. Never leave a dog in a parked car in direct sunshine, which may lead to heat stroke.
7. Don’t leave a dog unrestrained in the moving or parked car . Make use of guards, dog harnesses, travel containers, portable kennels or crates for a flawless travel.
Happy Journey!!!
Most of us will love our dog like anything because he wags his tail as well as smiles at us once we walk through the door. The best way to take care of your pet is to take care of that smile for your pet. Yes!!! Dog dental hygiene is very important to maintain the smile. Did you know that your dog’s diet can influence their dental hygiene? So if you want to help your dog, then take care of its oral health.
It is mandatory to brush your dog’s teeth daily to keep tartar and plaque from becoming an issue. Some of the owners cleaning their dog’s teeth with a damp, clean cloth can be a beneficial.
Your dog’s food plays an important role in dog’s dental hygiene. The important things that can affect the livelihood of your dog’s teeth include the feed that you’re feeding your dog. some of the owners are feeding their dog with dry dog or dog canned food. Even what kind of toys and treats you provide for your dog plays an important role in dog dental hygiene.
Your dog’s dental hygiene will be at its best when your dog’s diet is nutritionally sound, containing enzymes, nutrients, and essential vitamins. You can maintain your dog’s oral hygiene at its best if you feed your dog with dry food rather than moist canned variety. You should feed your dog with tiny kibbles to remove and reduce the plaque as it rubs against the teeth.
Try to minimize the treats for your dog because it may cause injury to to the dog’s oral cavity because most of the snacks and treats can be just empty wasted calories.But some of the treats are exemplary in its work. Hard dog biscuits, jerky treats, rawhide’s, or dog bones all dog help to keep the dental decay of the dog at bay.
In nutshell, you should provide a healthy diet to ensure excellent dog dental hygiene. Provide dry dog food whenever possible. In addition to this, do provide perfect treats that will enhance your dog’s dental hygiene. Perfect monitoring your dog’s diet will help to improve your dog’s oral hygiene.
Are you harnessing your dog when you carry them in the back of open trucks? If you’re living in Maryland, there is no need for cage or harness your pets. Because recently Maryland senate has rejected a bill, which would have required dog owners to cage their pets in the back of their trucks while traveling.
Although the same senate nodded for the bill last year, this year it was deferred by 30-17 against. With this voting, Maryland joined its hand with the rest of 24 states, where there is no need to tie the pets in cars and trucks.
So, dogs can continue to cruise unrestrained down Maryland highways. Let us see whether the bill of restraining the dog will be resubmitted again in the next senate meeting.
Do you know regular examination and care of dog paws is more important in preventing diseases? So you ought to provide a perfect dog paw care. Most of the dogs are having sensitive feet. Hence it is very difficult to check the dog paws regularly. Dog paw care can be practiced regularly if you check regularly right from puppy hood.
The top five tips for dog paw care includes-
1. Regular Trimming of Claws
You should trim the claws regularly. Overlong claws are more susceptible to damage and can cause the dog discomfort.
2. Prevent Paw Licking
The sore or irritated paw should be protected well either by Elizabethan Collar or covering the foot by bandage from constant licking.
3. Dry The Wet Paws
You should dry the dog paws effectively after bathing, exercising in wet grass, bathing, or swimming as a precaution against infection.
4. Check the Paws After Exercising
Thoroughly check the dog paws for thorns, ticks, scratches, cuts and other debris after exercise. This should be done especially when your dog running or walking over rough ground.
5. Look for Dog Paw Problems
You can look for bare patches of inflamed, crusty skin on the dog paws, cuts on any part of the paw, swellings or foreign bodies between the toes, and damaged claws. You should immediately seek the help of a vet to sort this problem at the earliest possible time.
If you follow these five golden rules of dog paw care, your dog will walk and run effectively through out its lifetime. So your dogs walking depends on your dog paw care. Happy exercising!!!
If the tooth root hasn’t been fractured and it is treated quickly, you can easily re-implant the dog’s tooth that has been knocked out.
Pick up the tooth by the crown without touching the root, and place it in a container of cool milk. This will prevent the delicate tissues around the root from drying out while you rush the dog to the vet.
After the tooth has been replaced in the jaw, the pulp will probably die, but root-canal treatment can be given when the tooth is secure in the jaw again.
If you hurt your dog while grooming, you can expect these kind of reaction from him/her. Please check the brush whether it is too hard, or you tugging his hair.
If there is no physical reason for this resentment, it could be a warming signal that he/she is going to resent discipline in general.
Take charge of this situation. Get someone to hold your dog for you, steadying the head and neck with one hand and placing the other arm under his belly. Keep the grooming sessions to 5 minutes and reward him/her with a tidbit when finished.
