Ticks On Your Dog And How To Get Rid Of Them by Joseph Devine

Taking your dog out to the woods can be a good experience for both you and your dog. While you can protect yourself from any bug bites that might occur, you cannot however protect your dog from anything that might happen. When going out in the woods, the first thing you should always worry about is ticks.

Ticks are a small 8 legged insect that will bite you if you have any open skin. When the ticks bite you, they latch themselves on to your skin in order to suck out as muck blood as possible. When they bite on to your dog, they will continue to suck the blood out of your dog until they can't do it anymore. The best way to stop ticks is before they start. This means that you must spray your dog down with some kind of insect repellent before you take your dog out into the woods. Ticks are a parasite that sucks the blood right out of your body. These ticks hide out in the bushes and tall grassy areas.

The one thing that people are quite afraid of is the Lyme disease that ticks tend to carry. This disease can cause major shut downs in your body if you are not careful. This disease can also affect a dog quite drastically. These ticks with Lyme disease will quickly begin to shut down your dog's immune system and eventually make your dog very sick.

If you find that your dog has a tick buried in his fur, there are a number of things that you need to do to help your dog get better. The first thing that you will need to do is to get a pair of tweezers. You cannot just pull the tick out with your bare hands. When the tick initially bites you, it will bury its head in your skin. If you just try to pull it out with your bare hands, you might get the head stuck in your skin which could lead to infection. You should position the tweezers around the tick as close to the skin as possible. You have place the tweezers there, firmly begin to pull the tick straight up. This should help to keep the tick in tact and make sure that he is not broken in half. Once the tick is out of your dog, you should burn or flush the tick. If you through the tick away, it will probably just climb up the trash and try to bit you again.

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Joseph Devine
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Dog Obedience Training - How To Avoid Bad Dog Training MethodsBy Mark Freeman

As with all dog obedience training you will discover a vast array of advice available to you regarding the best possible way to train your dog.
Some are good methods & really work & some are not so good & can, when implemented over a period of time, damage your relationship with your dog.
Dog obedience training induced through fear is a bad training method but unfortunately one that is used all too often. The dog will do the command that you ask but is doing so because it's scared & does not wish to upset you. The dog learns that it receives a smack, or worse, if it does not complete the task set, therefore it appears to be obedient.
If you observe a dog that has been fear trained you can spot them immediately, they are the dogs that cower when performing their commands. Their tails are usually low set & their ears are generally flat, they do not look happy, as they are nervous.
The dog obedience training that you complete with your dog should be of a non-coercive type, both you & your dog should receive enjoyment from the work that you do. A dog taught through a non-coercive method will be just as obedient as a dog taught through a fear-based method. What is the huge noticeable difference? The non-coercive method dog will be a happy dog; the commands will be done with a waggy tail!
Another dog obedience training method that is bad is not being consistent, one day you tell your dog off for jumping up & the next day you stroke them when the jump up. Ensure you are always consistent with your commands & your actions & so are the other people living with the dog. If this does not happen you are sending out completely mixed signals to your dog & he/she will not comprehend what it is they are meant to be doing.
Your dog is then reprimanded for something that really is not their fault but rather yours for not being consistent.
When entering into dog obedience training with your canine friend you must speak the commands clearly, leaving no room for misinterpretation from your dog. Again if you are not clear your dog is reprimanded when technically you are at fault & not your dog.
One of the worse dog obedience training methods I have observed is the walking on a leash command. Their owner pulls the dog in every different direction. This is a terrible way to teach your dog not to pull on the leash, try a kinder way. Place a dog harness on the dog first so that the pressure from the dog pulling is not all resting on their neck but is distributed across their chest. Then use a non-coercive training method, such as the stop & start routine.
Just think if it were you in your dog's paws how would you like to be treated? Dog obedience training is all about gaining your dog's trust, love & above all their respect.
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