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10 Great Tips to Stop Your Dog From Biting

Your puppy doesn’t speak your language. All things have to be taught to them. This is why saying “no bite” or “stop biting” really isn’t going to work. And none of the great tips will stop your dog from biting in one day! Happy & Polly will share 10 tips in this article to help your puppy with all this biting and learn bite inhibition! Why Does Your Puppy Bite? Puppies bite for a few different reasons, and it’s important to take note of why they are biting because this can help solve this problem. Here are the top 5 reasons. Exploring: Puppies explore the world with their mouth. They use their nose and mouth to check things out. So if your hand is sweaty or smells like food, your puppy is going to nip and bite. Natural Urge: Puppies have a natural urge to chew and bite. If you do not give them the right things to chew on, they will chew on you and your furniture. Teething: Puppies who are teething (3-6 months) will want to chew and bite even more because they have sore

20 Things New Puppy Owners Need to Know

If you're about to become a new puppy owner, you probably want to know everything you can about the breed. So in this article, Happy & Polly will talk about your puppy's first week home and how to have a well-behaved four-legged family member. 1. Dog Crate What will you need to buy to prepare for bringing your adorable puppy home? One of the first things is to get a dog crate to keep your puppy locked in. It is the most important thing you need to train your dog in the future days. 2. Baby Gates Then you will need baby gates put up around your kitchen or other places to prevent them from entering or exiting the house. 3. Indoor leash/house lines You will need a house line, and a smaller line for little puppies. You can also buy a dog collar, or a dog leash . It is very useful in future trainings. 4. Flat buckle Collar A flat buckle collar is also the collar that most people are familiar with and use. It is used for tying dogs to avoid hurting themselve

How to Choose The Best Dog Leash for Your Pet?

There are thousands of dog leashes on the market, but not all of them are suitable for your dog. How to pick up the best dog leash for your pet? Basically, there are four things that you want to think about when you're considering the best dog leash. Purpose of dog leash The first one is the purpose. What are you going to be using it for? Are you hiking with your dogs jogging? Is it for daily walks? For working indoors: The best dog leash may be a long, thin, rounded nylon leash is that the best suited because it's extremely light and is that the one least likely to urge stuck under the furniture in your home. When outdoor training: I recommend an honest 8 to 10 foot Nylon leash. Unless training distance commands that you ought to get a 30 to 50 foot long line. In both cases a nylon webbing leash is best but an honest tip is to wear gloves so you'll avoid the likelihood of 'rope burn' if your dog pulls and you grab the leash, it slipping through your

Should Dogs Wear Clothes?

The use of dog clothes has always generated controversy. Is it really necessary to protect dogs from the cold? Can we dress them in clothes daily? Is it harmful to their health or well-being? If you have doubts about the use of clothes for dogs, you probably care about their welfare, and not only about their aesthetic benefits of clothing. In this article, we will explain when it is necessary and unnecessary for a dog to wear clothes. We will also be discussing how to choose the best clothes for your pup, from more of a veterinary and ethological point of view. Is it really necessary to dress a dog? Some owners even those with the best intentions, choose to dress their dogs on the premise that they suffer from the cold in winter. However it is important to understand that dogs are not human, and they have evolved in such a way that they need to be respected. Dressing a Nordic dog, such as Earth Siberian Husky, does not make any sense and can be harmful to this breed. By dres

Pet Grocery Market 2020 - Challenges and Opportunities Under COVID-19 Pandemic

The global pet grocery store is predicted to develop from $74.6 billion in 2019 to $75.five billion in 2020 at a compound annual boom rate (CAGR) of 1.3%. The low increase is mainly due to economic slowdown throughout countries thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak and the measures to contain it. The marketplace is then predicted to recover and develop at a CAGR of 6% from 2021 and reach $88.five billion in 2023. The average consumption in step with capita in value terms reached 16.34 USD in step with capita (in retail prices) in 2014. In the next five years, it grew at a CAGR of 4.48% in step with annum. In the medium term (by 2024), the indicator is forecast to sluggish down its boom and growth at a CAGR of 3.64% per annum. North America turned into the largest location in the global pet grocery store, accounting for 38% of the marketplace in 2019. Western Europe become the second largest region accounting for 22% of the worldwide pet grocery store. Middle East turned into the smallest

Can My Dog or Cat Spread Coronavirus?

Around the world, people are really worried about coronavirus. You've seen people wearing masks and you might have also seen some pictures of people's dogs wearing masks. In this article, Happy & Polly will tell you whether your dog or cat can spread COVID-19, and how to protect your pets from virus. Can Pet Spread COVID-19? There is a difference between being infected and being infectious, it's when you're infectious that you are capable of spreading the virus. The corona virus has spread to countries across the world, but officials believe that it all started in Wuhan, China. It's believed that the virus that may have originated from a market in the city where people can buy an assortment of wild game meat. It's too early to say that. The moment we have this one case of Hong Kong or the pet dog, who has shown a weak positive result for the virus, they think perhaps this dog picked up the disease from a contaminated surface. It is after all living