How Badly Do We Need to Know? Part 3 Despite the lack of safety evidence, many dog breeders use routine prenatal x-rays to get a count of how many puppies to expect. However, there are safer alternatives for counting puppies. If you have been following this blog...
Four Things You Should Feed Your Dog! Optimal Dog Nutrition Made Easy Just walk into a grocery or pet store and you will know that dog owners face a massive number of choices when they try to figure out what to feed their dog. Add to those options the dog...
New Screening Protocol for Canine Elbow Dysplasia The 2016 IEWG published a new x-ray protocol to help distinguish dogs with normal elbows from those with dysplasia. Elbow dysplasia is a painful, inherited condition that is far more challenging for vets, owners and...
Anything But Helpless: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Newborn Puppies I am always surprised when people, dog breeding books and even veterinarians describe newborn puppies as “helpless.” Although newborn puppies have limited abilities, they are anything but helpless....
Raising Puppies to Be Brave: The Top 10 Ways to Create Confident Dogs Product categories Select a category 2020 Avidog Swag and Gear Books Breeder Community Breeder Puppy Packages Bundles Canine Fitness Classes Canine Fitness Memberships Classes for Dog Owners Courses...
Puppies Learn Best What They Learn First! Four problem behaviors that people unintentionally teach puppies. Because of the way canine brains develop, what we teach puppies during the sensitive period, from 3 until 16 weeks of age, stay with them forever unless and...
