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A Brief History Of The Dalmatian

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Since the mid 18th century, historians have found references to the breed of dog known as the Dalmatian. The breeds’ first established home, for which the breed was also named after was Dalmatia. It is a place in the Western Yugoslavian area which at one time was part of Austria, located on the Adriatic. However, these dogs were well-known throughout many parts of the world long before that time. The breed was shown in various types of antique art including engravings, paintings, models, and early writings which have accounted for the presence of spotted dogs of the same size and type in wide-ranging areas including early Africa, Asia, and Europe. As history tells us, several bands of ancient gypsies (Romanies) were accompanied by the dogs in their wanderings around the world, which explains the vast widespread and popularity of the breed.

The Dalmatian quickly became a favorite and established some of their best known claims to fame in Great Britain. They were brought there by members of the British upper classes who in those days often made tours to Europe and would often come back accompanied by some of the striking spotted dogs. Right after they were adopted by the English aristocracy who used them to accompany their horse-drawn carriages, the charming dog soon became a feature of these processions. The dogs were taught to station themselves beneath the rear axle of the coach, and in some cases to trot underneath the pole separating the horses. They were also taught to lead the procession, trotting along ahead of the first horse, which was an impressive sight to see!

Another type of activity with which the Dalmatian became known for, which also said to have started in Great Britain, is his very famous role of being a "firehouse dog.” This was said to have started with the dogs being used as ratters, for the function of killing vermin in London's stables and firehouses, which they did with expertise. But these dogs loved the horses and the fire engine, so it was almost inevitable that they soon were racing ahead of them through the streets whenever the alarm was sounded. In the present days, many Dalmatians can still be seen riding on the fire trucks with their masters. Dalmatians are still considered as the mascot and are often found in firehouses, not only in Great Britain but in the United States and other countries as well.

In addition to being a “firehouse dog,” Dalmatians have also worked in war times; done sentinel duty; served as shepherd's dogs; and as draft dogs. They have been seen in many circus shows, especially enjoying popularity with the clowns as "assistants," their intelligence, aptitude, and showy appearance having fitted them particularly well for this activity.

The Bichon Frise Has A History Of Bichon Rescue

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It would be easy to confuse the Bichon Frise with a mobile powder puff. It has a double coat that makes the outer coat textured and puffy. The inner coat has a silky appearance. An active, loving powder puff with black nose and eyes. To meet the AKC standards, the body must be white but may have shading of apricot, buff or cream. The dogs do not shed but their hair is constantly growing so they can turn out to be high maintenance. As with any dog you should be sure that you are willing and able to put up with their needs before inviting one into your home. Many of the breed that ends up in bichon rescue shelters end up there because their owners did not research for a good match.

The early history of the Bichon Frise would indicate that their popularity grew from a seemingly bichon rescue effort. The Bichon Reise, a descendent of the Water Spaniel were found by 13th century Spanish sailors and traded around the world into homes that grew to love them. By the 16th century this effortless placement had worked the Bichon Frise into the royal courts of France. By the 1800s the dog had once again fallen from its popularity and was found accompanying organ grinders or appearing in circuses. Quite a come down for a proud dog that had once been featured in the paintings of Goya.

Among the interesting facts and history of the breed we find that the next significant bichon rescue occurred on March 5, 1933. It was on this date that the Societe Centrale Canine of France adopted the official standard of the breed. Breeding first occurred in the U.S. in 1956. In 1959 and 1960 two breeders acquired Bichons and the U.S. origin was underway. The breed was admitted into the Miscellaneous Class on September 1, 1971 and registration started in October 1972. It was on April 4 of the next year that the breed became eligible to show in the Non-Sporting Group at AKC dog shows.

While it is difficult to believe that a breed as lovable and playful as the Bichon Frise would ever be abandoned or mistreated it does happen with all too much regularity. For this reason bichon rescue societies have sprung up across the country. They will rescue the dogs from shelters where they would be euthanized and put them into foster homes until a formal adoption can be arranged. If you are active and in search of a loving companion check your local listings for a rescue society near you.

5 Tips To Remember When Teaching The “Come” Command

2011-03-31T23:59:00.000-07:00

1. Use it sparingly. When you overuse “Come”, puppies stop paying attention. When your puppy understands the command, avoid using it all the time. Say it infrequently and make it extremely rewarding.

2. Do not chase your puppy if he does not respond. Practice on-lead for now.

3. Never call for negatives. If you have to groom, bathe, or isolate your puppy, do not use “Come.” Also avoid using it when you are angry. You will only scare your puppy out.

4. If your puppy runs away from you, do not repeatedly call or correct him.

5. Use a different command to bring your puppy inside. Coming in from outdoors is a big drag, no more fun than being left alone or ignored. Using the “Come” command when you want to bring him in makes it a negative command. Instead, pick a command like “Inside.” Start using it on-lead when bringing your puppy into the house. Quickly offer a treat or ball toss.

How To Evaluate Your Dog's Food

2011-03-30T22:20:00.000-07:00

Evaluating a dog food is a simple and straight-forward procedure of comparing certain characteristics of one food with those of other types of foods that are available to feed your dog. Regardless of whatever procedure you learn and use in order to effectively evaluate your dog's needs should have enough built-in flexibility that innovative dog feeders can adapt it to best fit your own situation and further reduce their margin of error.

When making an evaluation, the four characteristics of a satisfactory dog food, discussed below, should be used as the minimum standards that any food must meet. These four basic standards are:

1) A food should contain sufficient energy for daily activity.

2) A food should contain adequate nutrients, in proper relationship to each other.

3) A food should contain ingredients that are usable by a dog.

4) A food should be acceptable in a sufficient quantity to fully supply items 1 and items 2 above.

Animal Fats & Carbohydrates For Dogs

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Animal Fats: While most animal fats contain just as many calories as vegetable oils, only two contain essential fatty acids in amounts sufficient to supply a dog's needs. These are the fat of the pig, commonly called lard, and horse fat. The tallow of beef and mutton should never be used as the sole source of energy for a dog because of their low content of essential fatty acids. Animal fats contain about 126 calories in every tablespoonful.

Cereal grains: One of the major sources of carbohydrates, both for dogs and man, is the cereal grains. The useful carbohydrate in these grains is predominantly starch. Starch can also be purchased in pure form, and contains about 29 calories per tablespoon, or about 464 calories per cup. Other sources of carbohydrate energy from cereal grains can be obtained from dry and cooked breakfast cereals, boiled rice, hominy grits, corn meal, and in the milled form, such as flour. Cereal grain products should never constitute more than about 50 percent of the dry matter of a dog's diet.

Potatoes: Except for the fact that potatoes have more water in them, the amount of carbohydrates in potatoes is almost the same as in the cereal grains. Potatoes can be used interchangeably with those cereals that are fed in the boiled state. Like cereals, potatoes should never constitute more than 50 percent of the dry matter of the diet.

Bread: As a source of carbohydrates in a diet, white or whole wheat bread ranks among the better ''natural'' foods available to a dog feeder. It usually is fortified with vitamins and minerals, is palatable to most dogs, and is always available and inexpensive. Some dog owners who feed their pets natural ingredients insist that bread should be toasted before being fed to a dog. While such a practice makes the slices easier to crumble and mix with the rest of the diet, the starches in bread have already been subjected to cooking and about all toasting does is to enhance the texture of the bread.

Specialty flour products: A carbohydrate source frequently overlooked by a dog owner is the specialty product made from flour noodles, macaroni, and spaghetti. These have an energy content comparable to other cereal grain products. And, like rice and hot cereals, they have the advantage of being able to be added dry to a food, then being cooked after the water has been added. This gives the capability of mixing a large amount of dry food at one time, then adding water and cooking small amounts as it is needed.

6 Steps To Grooming a Wavy or Curly-Coated Sporting Breed

2010-12-16T08:42:00.000-08:00

Grooming a dog with a curly or a wavy coat is not as simple as grooming one that has a short and smooth coat. For example, take the the “water breeds”. They are sporting dogs with extremely harsh curly coats. Because these dogs typically spend a lot of time out in the field, retrieving items from water, flushing upland game, and serving as all-purpose hunting companions, their coats should be kept short and neat. If not then their long and straggly curls will latch onto every stray; twigs, burr, pieces of debris, etc.

If your wavy or curly-coated dog is to be shown then their coats should be scissored into a neat shape, and this precise method of scissoring the curly coat takes a lot of time and work. Owners who keep curly-coated sporting breeds for hunting and as pets are much more likely to clip them down with an electric clipper to a length of about 2 inches (with the exception of the Curly-coated Retriever, whose coat is short enough that it doesn't require clipping).

The following are six steps to groom your wavy or curly-coated sporting breed:

Before bathing your dog, brush out the entire coat with a pin brush and/or a slicker brush to remove as much dead coat as possible. This will also help eliminate tangle. Remove mats with a mat comb or coat rake, or cut through them with scissors.
Next, run a comb through the entire coat to make sure you have removed every tangle. This step may take some time because you do not want to comb too fast and yank out any hair from the skin.
Scissor the leg hair evenly, removing excess hair.
Cut hair from under the foot and between the foot pads. The foot should look rounded and should blend in with the leg hair, appearing like a powder puff over the foot.
Clip down torso to 2 inches, or scissor off fuzz and shape by scissoring the sides to tidy up. Shape the sides and rear to best match the shape of the breed. An imperfect form can be slightly adjusted by the shape in which you trim the curly coat. Make sure to take off just a little at a time, periodically standing back to check the shape of the dog. It is also good to have a picture of a well-groomed specimen of your breeds in order to have a better idea of the proper way of trimming.
After the bath, do not blow-dry or brush the body coat. Let the curls or waves air-dry naturally in order for them to stay intact.

8 Guidelines For Feeding Your Adult Dalmatian

2010-12-15T07:29:00.000-08:00

Here are some feeding guidelines researches have learned over the years and recommend for adult Dalmatians:

Never feed a Dalmatian organ meats such as liver, kidney, sweetbreads or brains in any form, whether cooked, raw or as an ingredient in a pet food or snack.
Never feed a Dalmatian game meat such as venison or elk in any form, cooked, whether raw or as an ingredient in a pet food or snack.
Never feed a Dalmatian red meat, cooked or raw, or as an ingredient in a snack or in a pet food where it appears as one of the first three ingredients listed on the label.
Never feed poultry cooked or raw, or as an ingredient in a snack or in a pet food where it appears as one of the first two ingredients listed on the label.
Feed them plenty of fruits, vegetables and grains as snacks, except those known to be high in purine yields such as mushrooms, asparagus, legumes, oatmeal, spinach and cauliflower.
Feed adult Dalmatians dog foods such as corn, wheat and rice, (in that order) whose protein and fat content are moderate: about 22% protein from low purine sources and no more than 10% fat.
Fresh, clean water must be available at all times.
Divide the dog's total daily ration into two meals so that blood levels of uric acid will remain fairly stable. Soak meals in warm water to improve water consumption.

Dalmatians are only one of about 140 recognized AKC breeds. Because they have different dietary requirements than all the other breeds, it is understandable that the ingredients in most premium pet foods are not aimed specifically at keeping Dalmatians fit. What new Dalmatian owners do not know is that pet food representatives do such a good job at marketing their products to various pet food outlets, that the store salespeople often become excited for certain brands, which may very well be outstanding overall but are quite harmful to a Dalmatian.

If a meat product is listed as the first or second ingredient in an adult dog food, it is more likely that the food is less suitable for Dalmatians than others that list grains, especially corn, as main ingredients.

Degenerative Joint Disease

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Noninfectious osteoarthritis is the commonest form of joint disease in the aging dog, a situation not too different from that in humans. The disease is progressive and causes few, if any, noticeable symptoms in the early stages. It is not uncommon for a veterinarian to discover the existence of degenerative joint disease or its predisposing causes during a routine checkup.

Primary arthritis develops from the normal wear and tear of a joint with time and age. While seen occasionally in very old dogs, it is not the commonly observed arthritis that it is in people. The bulk of aging dog arthritis cases are secondary to disorders which happened or started earlier in life.

The following are just a few of the many such disorders:

Obesity in any breed but especially in the large and giant breeds.
Mechanical trauma such as falls and jumping mishaps.
Torn ligaments in any joint but especially the stifle joint in toy or miniature poodles.
Chronic dislocating patella (slipped knee cap), most common in toy breeds.
Osteochondritis dissecans, a disease of young dogs.Hip dysplasia.

Constipation And Flatulence

2010-12-10T06:56:00.000-08:00

As your dog grows older, the muscles of the colon and rectum may lose some of their ability to propel and expel feces adequately during a bowel movement. Reduction in stomach and intestinal digestive secretions can produce a bulkier, firmer stool as can diets very high in dry food content if there is insufficient water intake. Your dog will squat and strain to force the fecal mass slowly out. She may cry from the discomfort.

Prostatic disease can mechanically cause constipation as the prostate gland enlarges and presses up against the floor of the rectum. Similarly, tumors in the rectum or on the anus can interfere with the passage of feces. Any dog may have an isolated difficult bowel movement on occasion. This should be no cause for alarm if he is otherwise in good health and there is no bleeding or excessive pain.

Repeated bouts of constipation can slowly stretch the rectal muscles, causing permanent dilatation and resulting in chronic constipation. Once this occurs, your dog will need frequent enemas as well as fecal softeners to help him eliminate. The increased time the stool remains in the colon and rectum will allow bacteria that normally live there to act on the stool, causing putrefaction and excessive gas production.

Prevention of Canine Urinary Infection - Tips You Can Use Right Now

2009-03-09T19:29:00.000-07:00

Prevention of canine urinary infection is often far easier to do than waiting for the problem to start in the first place. While some breeds are more susceptible to this problem than other breeds, all dogs can benefit when the owner decides to take steps in preventing canine urinary infection problems.

So, what can the average dog owner do? When it comes to urinary infection in dogs, here are some solid, useful tips.

Preventing Canine Urinary Infection:

Diet: Of the tips that will help in preventing canine urinary infection, diet is at the top of the list. Owners should make sure that their dog is getting food of high quality. This applies for both store-bought food and home-made food. Just like humans, dogs need vitamins, minerals, and fiber. The better dog food companies have known this for years, and they have formulated their foods to meet your dog's nutritional needs. However, foods that are high in certain minerals, such as magnesium, should be avoided.

Hydration: The second tip in preventing canine urinary infection issues is to make sure that your dog has plenty of clean, fresh water. Water is vital to your dog's health, and he or she needs to have easy access to fresh water day and night. One note here: If you normally give your dog water from an in ground well, make sure that the mineral content as well as the bacteria content of the well water is within safe limits. Well water can contain both high levels of unsafe minerals and organisms that cause health problems for your pet. If your dog doesn't drink enough, then canned foods might help since they have significantly more water content than dry food. The more water your dog drinks, the more often he or she will urinate. Urination is natures way of flushing bacteria and other potentially harmful compounds, such as minerals from your dog's urinary tract.

Hygiene: It may not seem that dog hygiene would have much to do with the prevention of canine urinary infection but it does. Consider this: if your animal has not been bathed regularly, the chances of bacteria forming around the genital area are high. These same bacteria can easily travel into the dog, and will often cause health problems. Routine bathing will keep your dog free of most dangerous bacteria and he or she will smell better too.

Nutritional Enhancements: Adding nutritional supplements or enhancements to your dog's diet can go a long way in preventing canine urinary infection problems. This is especially true as your animal ages. Of particular interest are the supplements that maintain the proper pH of the urine. Your vet can help guide you toward the right supplement for your animal as each animal may have different needs. There are supplements made specifically for this purpose.

Fruit Juices: Juices made from berries have properties which can help to keep bacteria from clinging to the bladder. If your dog likes the taste, consider adding some cranberry juice to the diet. You can mix it into the dog food or provide some in a water bowl.

Walks: As mentioned, frequent urination can be helpful in the prevention of canine urinary infection. If you take your dog for another walk each day, she will urinate at times to mark territory and possible drink more to quench the thirst triggered by increased exercise. When the bladder files with urine, bacteria in the urine is floating around the bladder. Urination of the contents of the bladder pushes this bacteria out of the body.

Preventing canine urinary infection is easier than most owners believe, but the steps have to be taken in order for it to work. A healthy diet, plenty of fresh water, routine grooming, and the proper supplements will all go a long way in preventing canine urinary infection.

Jeff Grill is an editor of the Dog Health Handbook and has written on many canine health problems. See this site for more information on natural canine infection prevention options.

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2007-12-10T08:57:00.001-08:00

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2007-12-03T07:56:00.000-08:00

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2007-11-30T06:15:00.000-08:00

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2007-11-28T06:03:00.000-08:00

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Homemade Dog Food Recipe

2007-11-27T06:39:00.000-08:00

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2007-11-26T12:10:00.000-08:00

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Chicken Soup Dog Food

2007-11-23T08:13:00.000-08:00

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California Natural Dog Food

2007-11-21T06:57:00.000-08:00

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2007-11-20T09:53:00.000-08:00

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Coupons For Purina Dog Food

2007-11-19T08:47:00.000-08:00

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Dog Food Samples

2007-11-16T07:53:00.000-08:00

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