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When and How to Socialize a Sporting Breed Puppy
Socializing puppies when they’re young is key to building strong and confident adult sporting dogs. Puppies need to learn about everything, which includes the environments in which they’ll live and work, people, other dogs and animals, and routine care. Read on for some tips on when and how to start socializing your sporting breed puppy.
Should Your Sporting Dog Shift to an Off-season Diet?
Sporting dogs burn a lot of calories during the hunting season. To support their elevated nutritional needs, savvy handlers feed them performance kibble. Off-season nutritional needs are often different, and that’s why many handlers shift a dog’s diet to one with lower amounts of fat and calories.
Can Sporting Breed Puppies Eat Adult Dog Food?
Sporting breed puppies are bred and trained to work. As a result, they have very different nutritional needs from those of a future house dog. Puppy formulas are typically more nutrient dense when compared to most adult formulas, to meet the demands of growth. However, it is not uncommon for sporting dog owners to utilize a performance formula or an “all-life-stages” product for their sporting breed puppies. These formulas are usually more nutrient dense and, in theory, sufficient to support the growth period. However, there are other nutritional options available today specifically designed for active puppies that may offer advantages that help promote a solid nutritional foundation for future performance.
How Nutrition Supports Trainability in Your Sporting Breed Puppy
Sporting breed puppies have a lot to learn. Nutrition that fuels healthy brain function and learning supports a puppy’s ability to master a variety of tasks. Puppy diets that contain clinically proven levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) can provide a training edge.
War
Wars between son-in-law and mother-in-law are endemic in our culture, perhaps pandemic in wealthy families and especially when son is Dixie-born and bred and mother-in-law a Yankee. So it was between Eloise Crump of Boston and Doug Hall of Thomasville, husband of Eloise’s daughter Charlotte.
Revenge
It was a rainy March Friday with more rain forecast for the weekend. Ben and Sam had endured a horrid week in their practices of law and medicine, but it was finally over. They sat in captains’ chairs in Ben’s library-conference room with a fifth of The Macallan 12 open on the table before them and thick insulated short glasses in their hands, each holding three fingers of the bottle’s contents. They had been silent for five minutes. They heard the outside door close behind Ben’s PIC (“Person in Charge”), Joanne, as she left for her weekly dance lesson.
Key Nutrients that support a dog’s muscular system
Featuring Russ Kelly, M.S., Eukanuba and Royal Canin Pet Health and Nutrition Center
Understanding Bird Scent-Part 3 The Dogs Nose
The canine nose - truly one of nature's most amazing accomplishments. A dog's nose not only dominates her face, but her brain, as well. In fact, a dog relies on her sense of smell to interpret her world, in much the same way as people depend on their sight. Although this contrasting world view may be hard to imagine, know that your dog interprets as much information as you do. However, she does much of this by smelling an object or animal, not by staring at it. (Stanley Coren, Sarah Hodgson, Understanding A Dog's Sense of Smell).
Puppy or Older dog
So `Goose` is getting older and you are thinking about a new puppy. Or maybe you lost your pet and are starting to look for another one. Remember first of all there is only one `Goose`. Nothing or nobody can replace him. He was the one we have all had or want to have. He may not have been a Field Trial Champion but to us he was better. Goose just fits our family. Do we get a puppy or an older pup out of the puppy stage? Each family must make a decision of what works best for them. I am going to give you the pros and cons for young puppies verses older puppies for sporting dogs. Of course, many decisions must be made like, breed, pedigree, what or how will I use Goose Jr? Will I hunt test, field trial, or just hunt?
Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Whipworms
A common parasite in dogs, whipworms infect your pet's colon and small intestine, causing symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting, and weight loss. They are hard to treat, but fortunately, whipworms are not transmittable to humans or cats and can be easily prevented. In this article, we'll discuss the causes of whipworms in dogs, their symptoms, and how they can be treated.
Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Hookworms
Hookworms are one of the common intestinal parasites in dogs and cats. As the name suggests, hookworms have hook-like mouthparts that enable them to attach to intestinal walls. These microscopic germs may not be easy to catch with the naked eye. However, their impact on the animal's health can be dire. The parasites feed on the intestines by ingesting blood from the capillaries and other tiny blood vessels, thus causing inflammation.
Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Roundworms
Roundworms in dogs can cause mild to severe symptoms depending on how many worms are in the dog's system and how healthy he or she is overall. Most dogs with roundworms don't show symptoms at all, but if they do, they might seem sluggish or unusually thin, experience hair loss or lethargy, vomit often, or not eat much. If you think your dog might have roundworms, call your vet to find out whether treatment is necessary and learn more about how to prevent them from infecting your pet again in the future.
Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Hip Dysplasia
A hunting dog's career can be cut short when it develops hip dysplasia, so it's essential to understand the causes of this condition, how to spot the symptoms, and what treatments are available to help your dog live its life as comfortable as possible. The good news is that you don't have to put down your best hunting dog just because it has hip dysplasia, with the right approach, you can give your dog many years of pleasure and fun in the field before he needs to retire.
Poisonous Plants For Dogs
Dogs make such great hunting companions because they have great instincts, and they love to explore. Unfortunately, this desire to explore can sometimes take over, and the instinct to check something out with their mouths can lead to a great deal of danger. A lot of plants and flowers growing in gardens and in the wild are innocuous to humans but poisonous plants for dogs.
THE BENEFITS OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN DOG FOOD
Hunters and trainers might argue about which breeds of sporting dogs are best for their preferred pursuits, but they can all agree on one thing, sporting dogs are driven to work. Whether it's a setter, pointer, shorthair, or retriever, sporting dogs are energetic, focused, and motivated. Off-season conditioning helps dogs maintain their hunting drive all year long. Well-conditioned bird dogs can run for miles without missing a step, and retrievers can run, jump, and swim their way through dozens of retrieves.
