By Susan McCullough The Chappell family was puzzled: Why was their house-trained mixed poodle, Molly, now wetting her bed during the night? Ten-year-old Molly had never done this before, making it seem like the once well-mannered canine suddenly decided to misbehave. “We couldn’t understand why Molly was forgetting her house-training,” recalls Stan Chappell, who lives [...]

By Darcy Lockman for The Dog Daily When your dog is ill, the sooner you intervene, the better. While lethargy and changes in appetite and elimination patterns are easily detectable, other signs of illness may slip under the radar for months on end. Dr. Trisha Joyce, a veterinarian at NYC Veterinary Specialists, offers advice on [...]

Playful pets can eat a lot of things which they can’t digest. Sometimes these foreign objects can block their intestines and if immediate action isn’t taken, it could lead to death of the animal. Usually in serious cases, the foreign object must be taken out surgically.  Animals such as dogs and cats commonly chewing loose [...]

Dog owners who live near a forest, beside a river, or on a farm will be quick to tell you that there is something about stinky, decaying, items that appeals to dogs. It doesn’t seem to matter if it is black swamp water, dead fish, or a pile of slimy manure, if it stinks and [...]

Aggressive dogs can be scary and dangerous.  In their natural habitat, wolves and coyotes use aggression to establish their ranking in the pack, mating, and basic survival. In the family environment, those aspects of canine behavior are really not necessary. Dogs can show their aggression in behaviors such as growling, snapping, showing their teeth, and [...]

A dog can bring a lot of pleasure to a family’s home life.  These creatures are extremely intelligent, and can be trained to do many things, but they need us humans to take care of their health. Dogs are prone to sicknesses from parasites, fungi, viruses and protozoa. Dog owner should be on the lookout for any problems,  since [...]

After getting a new puppy, probably the most important thing to learn is how to break his habit of answering nature’s call just about anywhere or any time he feels like it – your kitchen floor, the dining room carpet, the sofa in the rec room. To a puppy, one place seems as good as [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how many people I see being pulled along by their dog while out “walking”. What amazes me more is that most of these people blame their dog for this behavior. If they only realized that the problem is on the other end of the leash. If your dog pulls [...]

Learning to train a dog is usually very straightforward. Most dog training techniques are time-proven, so if someone claims they have a “new” technique, chances are that it’s an existing technique that has been slightly modified or adapted for a particular case.  And although it is straightforward, that doesn’t mean it’s easy for a beginner.  [...]