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You want to purchase or adopt a pet, although you are unsure if you want a dog or a cat.  After all you love them both.  There are a few deciding factors to consider.  Where you live, how much time you have to devote to your pet.  The cost to consider when you go out of town or to the vet.  How much training will be involved for a dog, and believe it or not how much will be involved in training your cat.  You might want to sit down and write the pros and cons of owning a dog or a cat.  If all you can think of are the positives, and you know you want a pet, this article can give you some insight on what pet might be best suited for your current lifestyle.  Set down, and relax with a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy this article. How to Choose a Pet: Dogs vs Cats If you decided to purchase a pet, you must be responsible and reasonable. This may seem very easy: that`s enough to visit a pet store or bird market and to buy what you liked. Howe...

Anyone care for double the trouble, but twice the fun?   If you just held your hand up then a beagle-boxer mix could be the right dog for you! These muscular medium sized dogs are a hybrid between a beagle and a boxer, both breeds being notorious (some might even say ‘infamous’) for being big canine characters, which is code for saying boisterous and outgoing. But both these breeds are also dogs with a big heart, which are too busy being nosy or looking for food to bother about being aggressive. The prospective owner of a beagle-boxer puppy needs to know exactly what they’re letting themselves in for, the good and the bad, so let’s find out more about this appealing hybrid dog. The Bogle In the same way that a Cocker spaniel cross poodle is a cavapoo, so a boxer mixed with beagle is a bogle. This blend of two distinct breeds is known as a ‘hybrid’ or as some term them a ‘designer dog’. The original idea behind hybrid dogs was to create a dog with ...

Is walking your dog on your list of resolutions for the new year?  You want to get fit so you head for the gym, forgetting that your pooch needs a walk too.  Why not combine the two!  You and your dog can get fit together.  You can train together.  What a great month to start.  It’s January, and it’s National Walk-Your-Dog Month, so honoring our four-legged friends, here are a few reasons you should make this your “Best Year Yet” by keeping this resolution all year. Dogs – Responsibility – Their Own Health? You think that just because your dog has a doggie door that they are running around playing all day long.  So when you come home after working a 9 to 12 hour day, you figure they should be exhausted too?  Do you think they just want to lay around, and take it easy?  Think again.  That’s why they are super energized, and expecting you to entertain them the rest of the evening.   Chances are, if given, they just might ...

As I’ve spent more and more time researching and learning about pet care and behaviors, I’ve become interested in the various methods and camps for pet training. What methods work best? How do they work in shaping a pet’s behaviors and actions? How are they taught? Today I’d like to focus on clicker training, which can be used to train a wide variety of animals. Most often we see it used for training dogs but it can also be used for horses, cats , birds, and plenty of other animals. Clicker as a tool vs. Clicker as training First, let’s make a distinction. There’s the actual clicker tool. Then there’s clicker training, which is the overall method for marking and reinforcing positive behaviors. You can do clicker, or marker, training without the actual clicker. On the flip side, simply having a clicker doesn’t mean that you’re automatically doing clicker training. The idea behind the method Next, let’s talk method. The basic idea behind clicker training is to mar...