Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts

Monday, 15 October 2012

Why Your Dog Needs Exercise

By Tracey Patterson

Dogs exercising
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Every dog breed requires different amounts of daily activity and exercise. Experts say that some daily activity and exercise is essential to keeping your dogs physical and emotional health at an optimum level. Lack of dog exercise will lead to obesity, poor muscle tone, heart problems, bone and joint disorders and will often result in emotional problems, boredom barking, destructive behavior, and anxiety.

Sunday, 14 October 2012

The Barking Dog: 10 simple ways to solve this problem

By Daniel Reid

Barking dog
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How to stop a dog barking. Before you can stop the constant or excessive barking you have to figure out why your dog is doing it in the first place.

The reasons can vary from boredom, alerting the family when there are intruders, separation anxiety, aggressive barking towards people or other dogs, territorial barking or just looking for attention. It is a dog behaviour problem which can be solved.