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Games for your dog
Hide
and Go Seek
When you are out of sight of your dog, call her to you. You can
either use your normal "recall" command or just her name. Be very
excited when she arrives. Start making it more difficult by "hiding"
behind doors, couches, etc. If she doesn't find you at first, call her
again. If your dog is very good at "stay" you can use this to
keep her in place while you hide. Some dogs will use their noses for
this task, others will just look. Most of them will learn a faster
recall. This is a great game for kids to play with dogs, as long as
the kids don't encourage the dog to chase them. (I played this for
hours with my first dog when I was young!)
Treasure Hunt
Put your dog in a down-stay and place a treat (food or toy) within
sight. Return to your dog and release her, and encourage her to go to
the treat -- she can eat it or play with it. Repeat this, varying
where you put the treat. Next time, "hide" the treat where the dog
can't see it, but she can see you putting it there (behind a piece of
furniture, for example). Release her, and let her get the treat (show
her if necessary). Next, hide the treat in further away, then in
another room, out of sight, and if she stays in her "stay" let her
find it. You can increase the distance, difficulty, and even number of
treats (several small food bits) as your dog gets better at "stay".
This is especially good for dogs that have begun to learn "stay" but
are nervous about having their people go out of sight. (Thanks to
Janet A. Smith for this one!)
Clean
Up Your Toys
Get a box or bucket and collect a number of toys and other dog-safe
items (don't start with things your dog likes to hoard or that you
don't want them ever touching). Scatter the toys in a small
pile on the floor. Through shaping and teasing, get the dog to pick up
the items one at a time, and place them in your hand. Once the dog is
lifting the items high enough to get your hand underneath to receive,
you are well started. Be sure to reward each "gift" with a food treat.
Make it harder and harder to put stuff in your hand, while maintaining
the fun of this "return for refund" game. Each item retrieved is
dumped into the bucket. The dog will leave harder ones for later, so
over time make substitutions that make the items increasingly
difficult for the dog. Some dogs take the leap and start putting
things directly into the bucket themselves. (Thanks to Diana Hilliard
for this one!)
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FAVOURITE DOG RECIPES
BAD BREATH
BANISHERS
- 2 cups brown rice flour
- 1
Tablespoon activated charcoal (find
this at drugstores, not the briquets!)
- 3 Tablespoons canola oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 2/3 cup
low
fat
milk
Preheat oven to 400F. Lightly
oil
a cookie sheet. Combine flour and charcoal. Add all the other
ingredients. Drop teaspoonfuls on oiled sheet, about 1 inch apart.
Bake 15-20 minutes.
Store
in airtight container in the refrigerator.
We
hope your best friend enjoys this tasty dog food recipe!
ICY PAWS
-
2
(32 oz) plain or
vanilla Yogurt
-
1 6
oz can of Tuna in water
-
2
tsp
Garlic
Powder
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24 3
oz plastic (not paper)
bathroom cups.
Mix
all and scoop into bathroom cups. Place on tray and freeze overnight.
Can add veggies, mashed
bananas or substitute canned chicken
for
tuna.
PUPPY PEANUT POPPERS
- 2 cups whole-wheat flour
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- 1 cup peanut butter (chunky or smooth)
- 1 cup milk
Preheat oven to 375' In a bowl, combine flour and
baking powder. In another bowl, mix peanutbutter milk, then add to dry
ingredients and mix well. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and
knead. Roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness and use a cookie cutter to cut
out shapes, Bake for 20 minutes on a greased baking sheet until
lightly brown. Cool on a rack, then store in an airtight container. |
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Dog Facts
- Worlds largest dog..... The worlds heaviest as well as longest
dog ever recorded was an Old English Mastiff named Zorba. In 1989,
Zorba weighed 343 lbs and was 8 feet 3 inches long from nose to
tail!
- Worlds tallest dog..... The tallest dog on record was named
Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and
weighed 238 lbs.
- Worlds smallest dog..... The smallest dog in history was a tiny
Yorkie from Blackburn, England. At two years of age and fully grown
this little dude was an incredible 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches
long! He weighed only 4 ounces! HE was approximately the size of a
matchbox.
- Worlds oldest dog..... The oldest dog that has been reliably
documented was an Australian cattle-dog named Bluey. He was put to
sleep at the age of 29 years and 5 months!
- Worlds Best Drug Sniffing Dogs.....A US Customs Labrador named
"Snag" has made 118 drug seizures worth a canine record $810
million. The greatest number of drug seizures by dogs is 969 in
1988. IN ONE YEAR! The team of "Rocky" and "Barco" patrolled the
Texas and Mexico border, alias "Cocaine Alley." They were so good
that Mexican drug lords put a price of $30,000 dollars on their
heads.
- All dogs, from the German Shepherd to the tiny Poodle, are
direct descendants of wolves. They can all breed together and
produce fertile offspring. Technically they are of the same species.
- Dogs can very easily regurgitate. In fact, after eating wolves
can travel significant distances back to their dens and regurgitate
the food at will to feed their pups!
- Dogs can see color but it is not as vivid a color scheme as we
see. It is much like our vision at twilight.
- Some authorities estimate that some dogs sense of olfaction
(smelling) is as high as 1 million times greater than ours.
- Canis Major or The Great Dog:- The great dog follows his master,
Orion, as he makes his annual journey through the sky. Sirius, also
known as the Dog Star, is located on the shoulder of Canis Major. It
is the brightest in the heavens, and its name means sparkling and
scorching, as it is nearest to the sun during the height of summer.
The hot, summer days - Dog Days - which Sirius was thought to
cause, run from July 3 to August 11th. The three stars of Orion's
Belt point at the Dog Star, Sirius, in Canus ajor at Orion's heels.
It is best seen in the northern hemisphere during winter, between
December and March. - first published in the May/June 1994 issue of
ZuZu
- Argos or Argus, Ulysses' hunting
dog, was the only creature to recognize the Greek hero when he
returned home disguised as a beggar after 20 years of adventure.
- Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek mythology,
guarded the gates to the underworld.
- Laika became the world's first space traveler.
Russian scientists sent the small animal aloft in an artificial
earth satellite in 1957.
- The basenji, an African wolf dog, is the only dog
that cannot bark.
- Irish Wolfhounds rank as the largest dog, and
Chihuahuas as the smallest dog. The St. Bernard
is the heaviest dog and other breeds range in size between these
extremes.
- A dog can hear sounds 250 yards away that most people cannot
hear beyond 25 yards. The human ear can detect sound waves vibrating
at frequencies up to 20,000 times a second. But dogs can hear sound
waves that vibrate at frequencies of more than 30,000 times a
second.
- Dogs cannot see as well as humans and are considered color
blind. A dog sees objects first by their movement, second by their
brightness, and third by their shape.
- A dog's heart beats between 70 and 120 times a minute, compared
with a human heart which beats 70 to 80 times a minute.
- A female carries her young about 60 days before the puppies are
born.
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