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So you have a new puppy! Get him or her started right away on a grooming routine will help them trust being handled and help them bond...
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jikhalsa
- Jul 8
5 Keys to Working from Home Successfully with Your Dog
Working from home has been the new normal since the pandemic became a global crisis. On the one hand, it is relaxing to work from home in...
jikhalsa
- Jul 5
Why Dog Toys Are Important
Dog toys are physically and mentally stimulating for dogs. Boredom is as unhealthy for dogs as it is for humans. While human interaction...
jikhalsa
- Jun 25
6 Things to Remember When Introducing Your Dog to Your New Baby
Most of us feel like our dogs are our babies. However, dogs are not humans and you need to do some prep work when you bring home your...
jikhalsa
- Jun 22
The 3 Most Important Dog Training Principles
The first thing you need to think about after bringing home a dog or puppy is how to train it. No one wants an untrained dog who doesn't...
jikhalsa
- Jun 17
4 Things to Know Before Adopting a Shelter Dog
Do you have a soft spot for stray and shelter dogs? Here are a few things you should know about shelter dogs before adopting or caring
jikhalsa
- Jun 11
3 Major Reason Dogs Love to Play
Is there anything cuter than watching puppies play together and have fun?
jikhalsa
- Jun 1, 2020
Predicting Adult Temperaments in Puppies
Puppy temperament testing has been an important fixture for decades in determining suitability of dogs for service work, therapy work,...
jikhalsa
- Oct 2, 2019
What to Look for When You Buy a Puppy
You need to perform your own due diligence when you find a breeder you are interested in. Like every other industry, there are scammers,...
jikhalsa
- Jul 2, 2019
Food rotation for your dog
We cycle the food of our dogs and recommend that most families do the same, providing there’s no veterinary reason not to. Food rotation...
jikhalsa
- Jun 21, 2019
Emotional Responsibility and Self-fulfilling Prophecies (“Expectancy Effect”)
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes talking to us knows that we are big proponents of puppy parental responsibility—we all need...
jikhalsa
- Jun 1, 2019
Balancing your puppy's food and weight
As your puppy grows, you will need to increase his food. The best way to know when to increase his food is to run your hands down his...
jikhalsa
- Jun 1, 2019
Puppy pyoderma
Puppies are often in contact with the ground, have sensitive skin, and don’t have fully developed immune systems. For some, this can be a...
jikhalsa
- May 19, 2019
Puppy vaginitis
Female puppies can exhibit a clear or creamy vaginal discharge or have sticky or dirty hair around their vulva. You may notice them...
jikhalsa
- Apr 14, 2019
Puppy umbilical hernias
An umbilical hernia is an opening in the muscle under the skin where the umbilical cord was. We breed no dogs known or suspected to have...
jikhalsa
- Mar 11, 2019
Puppy urinary tract infections and bladder stones
Puppies are like kids, they can get several conditions that need attention but aren’t anything to panic over. One of those is UTIs. UTIs...
jikhalsa
- Mar 4, 2019
Clicker training
Clicker training is strongly based in behavioral science and is known as a form of “operant conditioning.” The point of this section...
jikhalsa
- Feb 21, 2019
Toys and chewing
We had initially titled this post “Unwanted Chewing” but chewing is such a natural activity for a dog we didn’t want the title to color...
jikhalsa
- Feb 14, 2019
Puppy training and socialization schedule
Here is our suggested schedule for minimum training and socialization for your puppy. If you are an overachiever, there’s a whole world...
jikhalsa
- Jan 2, 2019
Puppy heart murmurs
It’s not unusual for growing puppies to have low-grade (1 or 2 on a scale of 6) murmurs. Most puppy murmurs are innocent and not...