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Archive for March, 2006

How to Remove a Tick from a Dog

Your dog comes in from a romp in the woods and settles down on your lap for a belly rub when you feel gasp a bump on your dog’s soft fur. When you look closer you find the bane of many a dog and dog owner’s life the tick.
Male brown dog ticks and nonengorged female [...]



Great Pyrenees Grooming Tips - Special Techniques for Large Breed Dogs

Large breed dogs pose special grooming dilemmas. The Great Pyrenees and other Bernard family members have cornered the market on that special combination of girth and hair. Without a regimented grooming routine the Pyrenees’ flowing white locks can easily morph, soon resembling an electrocuted Komondor on steroid.
One obstacle to keeping large breeds in the [...]



How to Find the Perfect Dog - For YOU!

Watching The Westminster Dog Show got me thinking about various breeds and the many reasons people get a dog in the first place. I’m paraphrasing something that Jon Katz the author of “Katz on Dogs,”wrote, “people will shop around, test drive and read all the stats and figures before they buy a large screen TV [...]



Smelly Dogs May Need Ablutions

Every week there is one date I faithfully keep: “ablutions” time with my dogs. I don’t know why we started calling it that – probably when I was completely and totally addicted to Regency Romance novels. According to Webster’s Dictionary, “ablutions” is “a washing of the body, especially as a religious ceremony.”
We don’t actually do [...]