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This month on World Wide Wag:
While everyone would love to have a dog with perfect manners, one that can go anywhere and is friends with everyone, some of us have dogs that are considered aggressive or reactive. A reactive dog displays threatening or inappropriate behavior in the presence of other dogs and/or people. These behaviors can be excessive barking, growling, lunging, snapping or biting. Debora Hogan, of Dog Direction in Tucson,AZ recommends five actions you can take to help reduce reactivity in dogs: First, instill a home management program under the direction of a skilled trainer. Secondly, begin using an herbal stress reliever. Next, do not let your dog practice reactive behavior while undergoing training. Double your dog’s exercise. Also, get a complete check up for your dog at his vet. Many aggressive behaviors are actually a result of the dog not feeling well. READ MORE!
Debora Hogan, owner of Dog Direction in Tucson, AZ is a dog trainer who specializes in reactive dogs. For more information, visit her site at www.dogdirection.com.
Whether a full-time resident of the American Southwest, or just a desert visitor, you and your best friend could cross paths with a rattlesnake. In fact, with a dog’s curious nature, keen sense of smell and excellent hearing, the risk is high.
Southwest residents have learned to be wary of rattlesnakes, but our dogs have not. We can’t tell them that rattlesnakes are docile creatures that just want to be left alone or that they could suffer greatly and die from a bite. READ MORE!
Sometimes….my dog….isn’t as fresh smelling as I would like him to be. It’s true. Cody Bear doesn’t like bath’s, and I have hated bending over for 30 minutes while I soak the back yard trying to get him to smell spring fresh. But a new business in our neighborhood has saved my back, made baths less scary for my little guy, and become a fun way for us to bond a couple times a month.
Self-service dog-washes have been popping up all over the country. Dirty Dawgs, Where Dirty Dogs Come Clean is a 1-mile walk from our house. Rebecca Wyant, the store’s owner, found a solution for pet owners troubled with bath time. Providing aprons, a bottomless pit of extra absorbent, fluffy dog towels, and aromatherapy shampoos, Rebecca greets each dog warmly, helping the fuzzy friends become comfortable. The self-serve dog-wash also provides blow-dryers, nail clippers, hair clippers and jumbo dog baths with walk up ramps. You have no mess to clean up at home, the washes are fast, you’re not abandoning your dear dog at a groomer’s for the day, a comfortable water temperature and no achy knees or backs! Dirty Dawgs! Tucson, AZ - www.dirtydawgs.biz
While the bathing experience is a great bonding experience, turn it into an exercise possibility, too! Walk from home, or, if the dog-wash is too far, drive part way and walk the rest! Your dog will enjoy the new smells of a different neighborhood, as well as associate a potentially stressful bath with a peppy jaunt down the street!
Dirty Dawgs is a self-serve dog-wash in Tucson, AZ
Cody Bear gives this business a rating of five wags!
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