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How to Choose the Best Dog Food for Your Dog

3Nov

By Olivia WilsonNo Comments

Pets

How to Choose the Best Dog Food for Your Dog

The pet food industry is filled with options. You can choose from so many options now that it’s easy to get confused. The market is filled with so many different brands, and they cater to so many kinds of diet. You can get grain-free dog food, high-protein dog food, single protein dog food, limited ingredient dog food, breed-specific food, and more! Dog food for puppies is different from dog food for adults, and that is again different from dog food for senior dogs! How Do I Choose? Step One: Life Stage and Activity Level Your dog’s diet will depend on a few factors. Firstly, you have to limit your choice of dog food to whichever stage your dog is in. Puppies have high nutritional needs, as do active adult dogs, without which they can suffer malnutrition or even developmental def...

Everything You Need to Know About Service Dogs

22Jun

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Everything You Need to Know About Service Dogs

What Is a Service Dog? Service animals are dogs trained to perform major life tasks to assist people with physical or severe psychiatric impairments/disabilities. Service animals are sometimes referred to as assistance animals, assist animals, support animals, or helper animals depending on the country and the animal's function. What Is a Physical Impairment? A physical impairment is any medical disorder, condition, disfigurement or loss affecting one of the body systems, such as neurological, musculoskeletal, special sense organs, respiratory (including speech organs), cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genitourinary, immune, circulatory, hemic, lymphatic, skin, and endocrine. Examples of conditions that are impairments: AIDS, and its symptoms; Alcoholism; Asthma; Blindness or othe...

18Mar

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Lifestyle, Pets

How to Welcome Home Your New Pup

Bringing a new puppy home and welcoming them into your family is a big deal. Often, a young puppy will be intimidated when being welcomed into a new family. But there are ways to make them feel right at home with you and your loved ones. You want to make your pup feel loved and comfortable. They are going through a transition, and it’s the least you can do. Here we’ll give you a few tips on how you can make your new pup feel right at home with you and your family from the second they walk through your door. Show Them Around Your Home Since your pup is going to be a bit curious when they first enter your home, it’s best to take them on a quick tour of your home. This will introduce your pup to every facet of your home and calm their nerves. Walk or carry your dog around your home. Sh...

Growth Milestones of a Puppy That You Should Be Aware Of

31Aug

By Olivia WilsonNo Comments

Lifestyle, Pets

Growth Milestones of a Puppy That You Should Be Aware Of

After doing the pros and cons and making the decision to get a puppy home is just not enough to raise them. There is a lot of homework and it is a lot of responsibility coming your way. Also, when you decide to adopt or get a puppy there will be a lot of doubts that arise in your mind like what to feed them, when to train them, etc. And the developmental stages of a puppy have a lot of milestones that you need to have a track on. Neonatal period (Up to 2 weeks) The eyes and ears of the puppies are completely shut which makes them deaf and dumb. They just have the ability to smell and sense of touch through which they socialize. All that the puppies do is drink and sleep. This is because their brain development is incomplete at the time of birth and is completely developed by 2 weeks. ...