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Keeping Your Dogs and Cats Safe at Christmas

For your dogs and cats, Christmas is a time when lots of unusual and exciting things are brought into your home. As humans are especially busy and distracted this time of year, it makes the perfect opportunity for your animal companions to be tempted into all sorts of mischief !

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Advice, Dogs

Three Tips on Top Canine Health

Keep your Dog Hydrated

An average dog will drink ½ to 1 fluid ounce of water per 1/2 kg of body weight per day. This will fluctuate due to exercise, hot weather, feeding dry dog food etc. If you notice that your dog is drinking more or less than normal, be vigilant as this can be a sign of medical conditions such as diabetes.

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Advice, Dogs

Flatulence in Dogs

Feeding your dog – Canine Nutrition 

Diet is the bricks and mortar of health. This applies to dogs as well as humans. Putting a little thought into what you feed your dog can pay big dividends with their improved health over their lifetime. However, choosing which dog food is the most beneficial isn’t always easy.

 Flatulence in dogs

Most cases of chronic flatulence are caused by a diet that is poorly digested by the dog.

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Five Reasons Why You Should Feed Your Dog FourFriends

Diet is the bricks and mortar of health. This applies to dogs as well as humans. Putting a little thought into what you feed your dog can pay big dividends with their improved health over their lifetime. However, choosing which dog food is the most beneficial isn’t always easy.

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Advice, Dogs, Pet Food

Feeding Your Fussy Dog

Diet is the bricks and mortar of health. This applies to dogs as well as humans. Putting a little thought into what you feed your dog can pay big dividends with their improved health over their lifetime. However, choosing which dog food is the most beneficial isn’t always easy.

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Advice, Dogs, Pet Food

Feeding Your New Puppy – Canine Nutrition

Diet is the bricks and mortar of health. This applies to dogs as well as humans. Putting a little thought into what you feed your dog can pay big dividends with their improved health over their lifetime. However, choosing which puppy food is the most beneficial isn’t always easy.

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Feeding Your Puppy A High Meat Content Food

Diet is the bricks and mortar of health. This applies to dogs as well as humans. Putting a little thought into what you feed your dog can pay big dividends with their improved health over their lifetime.

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Advice, Pet Food, Dogs

Feeding your dog – Canine Nutrition

Diet is the bricks and mortar of health. This applies to dogs as well as humans. Putting a little thought into what you feed your dog can pay big dividends with their improved health over their lifetime.

The dog’s digestive system is designed for meat consumption and benefits from a meat rich diet. Meat should be the first and most abundant ingredient in your chosen food.  

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Advice, Dogs, Pet Food

The Click Is Consistent and Precise

When using the clicker, the sounds is always the same when you press it unlike a yes word or good word. The use of a word will be different every time you say it, think about it as when you are happy and then think about when you are sad? the difference in tones with your voice and the change in your body language will be a huge give away to your dog on how you are feeling that day or that training session.

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The Click Zeroes in on the Behaviour You Want to Train

This is how we start to train with the clicker, suppose you’re teaching you're K9 Friend to leave temptations alone. You might start by standing lightly on a dry dog biscuit and letting your dog paw and nose at your foot. Eventually there comes a moment when he/she will become frustrated because he wants the biscuit but can’t get it, he/she will then eventually back off a couple of millimeters from your foot.

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