Archive for April, 2010

Alphamanship

April 21, 2010
Author: vallerywhite

Alphamanship and your dog.  Try to keep in mind that although your dog may be “part of the family,” in truth your pet is a hairy, four legged cave dwelling pack animal.  Keeping control of your pet not only makes you happy but it makes your dog happy.  Dogs live to please their master.  Having a well behaved animal is essential to having a happy relationship between you and your dog.  Loving your dog does not mean letting your dog rule the “roost,” so to speak.

You should feed your dog twice daily and at the same time morning and evening.  Being fed is looked at as a reward by your pet whose natural instincts would be to hunt it’s own prey.  In a pack situation there is always a leader, and the leader is the one that eats first, decides where it will sleep and is always the one that initiates any kind of dog games.  Once the leader has eaten the other dogs are allowed to partake, once the leader finds the place it will sleep the other dogs arrange themselves around the leader accordingly.  If play is initiated by the leader then all may play, but when the leader takes the “toy” and the playing is over, then so are the dog games.

There are three steps to being the Alpha in your dogs life.  You control the food, where your pet sleeps and you initiate any games and when you are done, then you put the toy away.  It may not seem that easy, but in  sense it is.  Your pet is your pride and putting dog clothes on your pet absolutely enhances your pets appearance and is not only cute but safe.

Dogs, Beaches and Bikinis

April 7, 2010
Author: vallerywhite

Warm sunny days and exciting, fun nights means summer has finally arrived. It is time for sun filled days walking on the beach or partying the night away. This is just the beginning of a great summer.

Now is the time for both you and your pooch to dress in cool and cute summer wear. Put your female dog in a yellow polka dot dog bikini. It is a sure classic every summer. You and your pretty pooch will be turning the heads of both the two legged and four legged kind.

How Did Dog Become Man’s Best Friend

April 5, 2010
Author: vallerywhite

Have you ever wondered how dogs became man’s best friend? The dog was one of the earliest domesticated animals, living with man for over 15,000 years. There are cave paintings showing dogs hunting along side of humans. Since dogs evolved from wolves, how did this domestication take place? Looking at this cute little guy here wearing his dog T-shirt, it is hard to see that he evolved from a wolf.

It is unlikely that wolf pups were hand raised by humans, because hand reared animals will revert to their natural lifestyle and become predators. More likely, the wolves scavenged from rubbish around the humans. Humans were gradually changing to farming instead of only hunting and humans saw useful qualities in these wolves. Some juvenile wolves that didn’t exhibit predatory traits would have moved into the village with man.

Some probably were used for guarding livestock and others would have been used as retrievers when hunting. The useful wolves would have been bred and the others would have been either killed, eaten or driven away. This selective domestication of certain behaviors was the beginning of breeding and how we got our first dogs.