How to Remove Dog Ticks

Ticks are a nasty little arachnid pest that attach to your dog and can be very irritating and soar for your pet. They carry many different diseases that can be mildly dangerous to your dog and other members of your household. Some diseases take up to twenty four hours to pass on to their host so getting rid of the pests easily and quickly is essential.

There are a lot of ways that you may have been taught as a child to get rid of ticks from the skin, the most popular is probably to burn the tick into releasing his grip of his own accord so no further problems can arise of having the jaws still stuck into the skin.

The second way often taught to get rid of ticks is to smother them in oil based liquids of Vaseline to help take the tick out in a similar fashion to the way noted above.

These ways are both wrong and can be very dangerous, the first is dangerous, can be painful for your dog and will more than likely scare your dog into behaving in a bad manner. The second is also dangerous and unneeded, the idea is to keep your skin and around the area of the tick as clean as possible to avoid further infection or disease.

The way to remove the tick properly and with little damage or pain is to use sterilised tweezers to dislodge the critter, it takes patience if the tick is stubborn and doesn’t want to move but it is the safest way to remove the pests.

Be careful not to pull on the ticks body wile pulling him out, if you pull too hard on the body it will come off separate to the jaws and mouth of the tick causing it to be harder to dislodge.

Start by cleaning the tweezers with alcohol or burning over a flame if alcohol is not available. You may want to also put alcohol around the area in question to keep it clean. Once this is done try to get as close to the skin of the dog and grab the tick at the jaws, to do this you will need to place the tweezers from the side into position. If the tick refuses to budge, try moving from side to side to unhook the jaws wile pulling away from the skin. Doing this and keeping constant pressure on the tick will cause him to tire and give in, releasing the tick in one go.

Finnish off by cleaning the area with alcohol or soapy water and you job is complete.

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This will be the first time in history that Pere Saavedra’s training techniques will be translated into English! Beginning/Intermediate Agility Seminar in San Diego, California with Pere Saavedra flying in from Madrid, Spain! July 10th and 11th $350 for 2 days with a dog $175 for 2 days without a dog Sign up for the seminar here to confirm your place- www.sdcaninefreestylers.com The points that she will be covering are: 1. Introduction. 2. Agility basis (flatwork). Applications. 3. Practice. 4. “Serpentines and hexagons”. 5. Obedience 6. Weave poles. 7. Running contacts. Pere Saavedra Bio Pere Saavedra is a world-renowned Spanish dog trainer who has an extensive experience in agility training. She has given over 40 seminars in Spain and held seminars in Brazil and Chile. She has been on TV many times to talk about dog training and Agility. Pere and her dogs perform agility, freestyle, and more for huge crowds in the canine spectacle Alejop Show Can (www.alejopshowcan.com). Peres training methods are positive, creative, and innovative allowing her to not only succeed in Agility but in all aspects of dog training. Here is Pere’s Youtube channel where you can see footage from her previous seminars including the recent one in Chile, her amazing agility skills, along with her astounding dog behaviors and tricks- sometimes working with 5 dogs at a time- www.youtube.com Pere’s blog- wwwperesaavedra.blogspot.com She has racked up a list of accomplishments in agility: 1 …

Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training

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Coping With the Death of your Dog

The passing away of your dog is a sad time for all pet owners and a moment we all would like to avoid altogether although it is a natural process of losing a good friend or family member there are options that can make dealing with the situation better.

It is certainly can be a big shock to you when you find out your pet has passed away and the first reaction could be that of denial. Denial is a common occurrence when dealing with loss or finding out when someone your love has passed away. This is due to your body not wanting to deal with the blow of a pet’s death and it then tries to block it out like nothing has happened.

It is generally better to accept the situation of your dogs’ death if possible, this may be hard to come to terms with for many on such an emotional time, so a burial or small gathering of friends and family who knew the dog to say a final farewell may be a good idea, and it will help you accept the current situation.

Anger and blame may be a result of the shock and you may feel like this is a way to release the emotion you are feeling and pass it on to someone else. Veterinarians go through a tuff process to get to the standard of a professional vet, and for good reason, they care for the work they do. Blaming your vet should not be an option and they are always looking out for the best interest of your dog no matter what you might think when grieving your dogs’ death. Avoid this type of behaviour as it helps no one and it will only turn into guilt on your emotions start to calm down.

When the bad news finally hits home the grieving will start and your emotions will be too much to control, it’s good to let your emotional feelings out as this helps the situation greatly. Keeping yourself overly busy is not recommended like many people do, the emotions will need to come out sometime and it has to happen to stop the feeling of emptiness. Try finding groups of others in your community or internet that can relate to your problems and talk to family and friends about your feelings. The more support you get the quicker you will learn to look back on how happy you’re dog was and how much fun you had together.

Find Out Just What Dog Training is All About

There are so many different things that everyone should know, when it comes to dog training and actually doing something that works. Many people tend to have so many misconceptions about dog training and it is a great deal of the reason as to why so many dogs run around untrained and misbehaving for their owners. One mistake that is constantly made by dog owners is, punishing the dog in order to teach them. This will only get you so far and for the most part you will just be talking to yourself because you will not get the response from your dog that you had hoped for. The only way to get a dog to listen to your commands or to pay any attention to you at all is to get to know your dog and show them that they can trust in you right from the start.

Many owners think that spanking their dog or yelling at their dog is the only way to ever get them to listen and this just could not be more incorrect. Rewards, praise and the right kind of dog training, for whatever it is that you are trying to teach them, is the best way to get the results that you had been hoping for and really the only way, other than just hiring a professional dog trainer to take over the training of your dog. The dog owners out there that are just doing things all wrong are usually the ones that just end up giving up on the entire thought of trying to actually train their dogs, which is not going to get them anywhere. The best thing that you could do, as the dog owner, would be to really consider picking up some dog training books for yourself because in these types of books you will be able to find out about all different types of dog training techniques and what works, as well as what does not work for any dog out there. The amount of knowledge that you will gain from reading over these types of books should be enough to make it possible for you to learn how to train your dog properly and the techniques should end up working.

Another important thing to keep in mind when trying to get into dog training any dog is to never, under any circumstances, ever overtrain your dog. Spend just a limited amount of time in each day, working on some of the different dog training techniques that you have learned from doing the research and then just leave it at that, until the next day anyway. If you try and do too many different things with your dog, all in one day, your chances of it actually being a success are just very, very small. Just try and stick to a routine, just like you would with children, this is truly the best way to become successful at dog training any dog out there, no matter what the situation is.

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