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Want to Make Your Dog More Optimistic?
We can give our dogs a more positive outlook on life through this simple game! Like people, individual dogs have a general outlook on life, tending either toward the positive or negative. That individual tendency influences many aspects of the dog's mental state, and...
Our New Puppy Room and Tools
Check out our new puppy room and a dozen tools we used to make raising our recent litter much easier! Our most recent litter was the first one raised in our new home, with its separate puppy room. In fact, this is the first time in 40 years that we had a room in our...
How To Maximize Puppy Development With Your Adventure Box
Are you looking to breed healthy, stable, resilient puppies? Then you need an Avidog Adventure Box for your litter! But Adventure Boxes are only beneficial if they are safe and designed properly. In our last blog post “The Top Five Ways to Make Sure Your...
The Top 5 Ways to Make Sure Your Adventure Box is Safe
Do you have an Adventure Box for your puppies? If you don’t, you should! If you do, read on to learn how to make sure your box is as safe and beneficial as possible! Since we invented the Adventure Box, it has become wildly popular with breeders seeking to...
Research on the Effects of Spaying and Neutering
There is a growing body of research showing that spaying and neutering dogs is not the innocuous surgery once thought. To help you determine if and when you should spay or neuter your dog, here is the current research on the long-term effects of these surgeries, as well as
Early Scent Introduction for Neonate Puppies
HOW TO START YOUR PUPPIES ON EARLY SCENT INTRODUCTION Neonatal puppies, from 3 to 16 days of age, are ready and able to smell their world. You can take advantage of this to improve their adult scenting ability by doing Early Scent Introduction with your litter. It’s...
Canine Physical Therapy
There are many types of non-traditional therapies that benefit dogs! Canine sports medicine and rehabilitation is a relatively new specialty in veterinary medicine. Physical therapy (also called physiotherapy) has long been used for humans to help...
The Importance Of Weight Control For Breeding Animals
Other than an accidental breeding a/k/a an “oops litter” most people plan their breedings well in advance. Some of the early plans include choosing a stud dog and deciding what method will be used to do the breeding. One other early plan that you need to...
Oh, What Fun! Avidog’s Adventure Box
Most women love to shop at Bloomingdales or Nordstrom, but sadly for my mom, my favorite places to shop are Ace Hardware, Lowe’s and Home Depot. The reason for my quirky shopping preference is my obsession with puppies. I am always looking for ways to...
Do You Have Barking Puppies? Teach Them To Be Quiet!
How cute is it when you walk into a room full of barking puppies jumping on the side of the pen saying “Pick me, pick me!”? Don’t you love that your new puppy is so excited to see you that he barks and jumps when you walk in the room? How bad can barking...
The Party’s Over: What to Do for Your Dam When You Send Your Puppies Home
Over the years, many novice breeders have asked me how dams feel when their puppies go to their new homes. As humans, we imagine emotional and possibly physical pain for her when her babies are gone. She cannot understand that we have found good homes for...
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