Learning Through Crafts
Are you sick of copycat arts and crafts? Where all kids do is follow adults models? Learn to do crafts with kids that explodes their creativity and at the same time builds skills like problem solving, initiative and independent thinking.
Learning Through Crafts
Dog Training Tips – Learning to play frisbee, or Disc Dog, with Maxx the border collie
This video covers the basics of dog training tips to teaching your dog how to play frisbee, or disc dog, with you. Maxx, a 12-year-old rescued border collie learns to catch a disc for the first time. Send your e-mail comments or questions to: info@didyaq.com For more information on training or cool dog stuff, visit our Web site: www.didyaq.com To learn more about how you can help Border Clooies in need, please visit www.bcrescuetexas.org
Learning About Two Common Symptoms of Dog Skin Problems
If your dog is having any skin problem, never ignore it. Your ignorance can lead to an extremely sore skin of your beloved pet made by its biting and scratching. Moreover, if not paid heed to for long, the skin disease can intensify and spread to other members of your household, even you.
The basic symptoms of dog skin problems are itching and reddening of the skin.
If you find your pet constantly scratching a specific part of its body, be sure, it is caused by terrible itching. Itching can occur due to attack of parasites like tick, mites or lice. If you examine carefully you may also be able to discover bacterial sores i.e. small reddish spots in already inflamed areas.
There are basically four causes for this problem:
? Ear disease
? Parasite infestation
? Contact dermatitis which is indicated by redness on the stomach
? Affected anal sacs, which is indicated by dog licking inflammations at the base of his tail
The treatment of course, is cause specific. If it’s caused by parasites, an antiparasitic bath is the best antidote. For minor bacterial problems, use antibacterial wash. If your pet is suffering from severe bacterial sores or ear problems or infected anal sacs, don’t take a chance! Consult a vet immediately!
For reddened skin, there are still four possible causes:
? Allergic dermatitis
? Contact dermatitis
? Fleas
? Anything that causes irritation such as lice, ringworm, or bacterial sores
If the reddening is limited to one particular region of your pet’s body, try applying calamine lotion. But if it is more extensive, wash out the infected part with lanolin baby shampoo. This will cool down the affected skin of the patient. After the dog is dry, you may even use a good flea spray. In case nothing works and the problem remains after 24 hours, do consult your vet.
Do Older Dogs Tend to Get Fat?
The answer is YES. Too much pampering tends to overfeed your dog. Older dogs develop loose muscles owing to lack of exercise and over feeding.
How Does a Dog’s Hearing or Sight Change, as He Gets Older?
Both hearing and sight are negatively affected with age. Even when the dog is medically fit, we see that dogs aged between 9-15 years often lose their power of hearing. Deafness occurs so gradually that often it’s impossible for the owner to detect it properly until the dog has become totally deaf.
Blinding, however, is a much rarer problem in dogs although partial clouding of the lens may occur with advancing age. Dog’s eyes contain no cones but only rod cells. So they are color blind i.e. can see only shades of black, white and gray. They do not have the power of a colored vision.
To learn more about dog behavioral and other pet-related problems, check with your local vet by phone or in person. You can also surf the web for many dog articles to help you and your furry friend become better at knowing one another.
Take care!
Article by Kelly Marshall from Oh My Dog Supplies – to find ceramic dog bowls to match any decor, go to http://www.ohmydogsupplies.com/dog-supplies/dog-bowls/
Learning About Basic About Dog Skin Problems
Dog skin problems may not seem worth worry, but in reality, they often develop complications. The term that is generally used for skin problems of dogs is eczema. It is used to refer to sore, swollen skin. But pinpointing the actual cause of eczema is not easy and sometimes even impossible.
dog skin problems are chiefly caused by soreness or dermatitis that leads to itch and irritation. Naturally, the dog, feeling uncomfortable scratches the swelled skin with its teeth and claws, thus causing hair loss and worse inflammation. Hence, this kind of skin disease of dogs is called itch-scratch-itch cycle. This may also cause rawness of skin, which will thus be an easy prey to bacterial infection.
There are a few definite symptoms of this kind of eczema:
? Scratching
? Rashes
? Reddened skin
? Loss of hair
? Body parts wet from licking (in white dogs, the infected parts grow brown by coming in constant contact with the saliva)
? Black and rough stuff in the fur
? Dryness of skin
? Worms attracted by the fur
? Infected spots, dandruff and mats
As you must have understood by now, the most effective way to avoid dog-skin problems is to keep your pet hygienic and clean. Regular bath and cleansing is necessary to keep the fur as well as the skin of your dog totally dirt free.
Many people still believe that grooming a dog is strictly optional and needed only for cosmetic reasons. Don’t pay heed to them. Good grooming is mandatory if you want your pet to be healthy. It is a useful way to test the presence of fleas, ticks, and other signs of diseases, that can cause skin problem to your dog.
You must be wondering now about how many times to give your dog a bath. First of all, it’s obvious that if your dig was playing outdoors or gets into something dirty, he needs a bath at once. Otherwise you have to decide upon the number of times you should bathe it, according to the texture of its fur.
If your pet has a smooth coat like a Dalmatian or a Whippet, it requires bath only twice a year. The same rule prevails if it’s a Golden Retriever or Saint Bernard.
If the fur of your dog is long like a Bearded Collie or a Maltese, it faces greater risks of entanglement and other dog skin problems. He needs at least once in a month bath schedule to stay fit.
On the other hand, a wirehaired dog like the Schnauzer or Norfolk Terrier, will require a month at the interval of 3-4 months.
Finally, if your dog has cute, curly fur as a Poodle or a Curly-Coated Retriever then be sure to face entanglement and knots to occur frequently. For these dogs, a bath becomes necessary every 6-8 weeks to keep them away from skin problems.
Muscle Atrophy In The Older Dog: It is natural that every mammal’s muscles grow weaker and smaller with advancing age. But still, there are two muscle disorders on dogs, which initially look like normal weakness but are actually poorly comprehended complex problems.
The first disease is often termed as polymyositis, which causes inflammation of one or more muscles in the body. The chief symptom is that the dog feels weak at its leg muscles after a period of physical exercise and may fall down. After a time, it will seem to get better only to reveal in a while that it is not and would thus fall down again.
This disease generally affects dogs during late middle and early old age. The root cause may be various but apparently deficiency in the dog’s immunity system is primary. Treatment with corticosteroids has proved to be effective. Although sometimes the muscles of the esophagus are affected and swallowing becomes difficult, they are successful to an extent.
The second disorder that occurs mainly in older dogs is muscular dystrophy. It is very similar to the muscular dystrophy that we see in human beings. Affected animals become inflexible in its movements as the muscles go on becoming smaller in size and weaker in strength. The cause of this disease is yet to be discovered and thus, the only treatment possible is to sooth the patient, trying to make him comfortable and is often based on the specie concerned.
Article written by Kelly Marshall from Oh My Dog Supplies – to find dog food storage containers in every size, go to http://www.ohmydogsupplies.com/dog-supplies/food-storage/
Effective Dog Training – Ian Dunbar
Noted veterinarian and dog trainer Dr. Ian Dunbar offers a few of the “million different ways” to train a dog, outlining three simple strategies.
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Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and writer. Dr. Dunbar received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at the University of California in Berkeley, where he spent ten years researching olfactory communication, the development of hierarchical social behavior, and aggression in domestic dogs.
Dr. Dunbar has written numerous books, including How To Teach A New Dog Old Tricks, the Good Little Dog Book and a series of Behavior Booklets: separate educational booklets on each of the most common pet behavior problems. Additionally, Dunbar has hosted eleven videotapes on puppy/dog behavior and training, including SIRIUS ® Puppy Training, Training Dogs With Dunbar and Every Picture Tells A Story. All his videos have won a variety of awards.
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