...just for humans. Let Fido in on the fun and dress your dog up for any holiday—be it Halloween or Christmas. There are many fun dog-friendly costumes that are sure to make both you and your pup happy. If you don't know where to start, don't worry. Dog antlers are a great jumping off point for a plethora of fun costumes. Some good costume ideas that involve antlers include these three: 1. Max – The Grinch Dog A fun costume for canines from the holiday film “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” Max is a fitting costume for any smaller dog. All you need to complete this costume are some dog antlers and a red ribbon. For the best looking costume, choose a single antler like you see in the cartoons and movie. Affix the antlers to your dog's head carefully to ensure he or she is comfortable. Once the antlers are secured, carefully tie a thick piece of red ribbon around your pup's collar. Viola, now your canine companion is Max, the Grinch dog....
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...P.D. Eastman’s book, “Go Dog Go” is a book with fun illustrations with an easy to follow story that was my favorite book as a child. The illustrations are very detailed which keeps a child’s interest throughout the entire book. The easy to follow story is simple to memorize which helps the child to remember the book and feel like they are actually participating in the reading of the story. As a child, my mom would always allow me to pick a book to read before bedtime. I remember picking this book several nights a week for her to read to me. If you ask her she will tell you that it was almost every night of the week. I think the first thing that I loved about this book was that it had so many different looking dogs in it. I loved, and still do love, animals and I found it exciting and fun to read about the adventures that these dogs were going on. On almost every page there would be a different dog on a new adventure. I know that after my mom had read this book over and over to me I had it memorized. This was exciting to me as a young child. I used to think that I was actually reading the book right along with her when in all actuality, I had memorized the words in the book. The story was very east to catch on to and I used to recite the words over and over. I can remember asking if we could read it twice each night just so I could show off my good “reading” skills. My mom would usually smile and then let me show off those great “reading” skills of mine. As...
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...When asked to build a dog park, you have to consider many factors that take place. For instance, what percentage of the city's people want the park to be built, how much taxes will be raied to provide the park, ect. I believe the city should have its own dog park for many resons, one being its good for the dogs to socialize and make friends! According to the first passage, it says, "When New York City started allowing dogs off-leash in dog parks, dog-bite reports went from 40,000 to fewer than 4,000 a year.". This alone should be enough to tell you that dogs socializing with other dogs is very important for their mental health. Although this does sound fantastic for the dogs and the owners themselves, it could be potentially very...
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...Atlanta High School Dog Eat Dog Jessie Reynolds AP English IV- 5th Period BB 02 December 2015 Jessie Reynolds BB AP English IV-5th period 16 November 2015 Dog Eat Dog Cute and cuddly describes a lot of dogs you see daily, but are all dogs nice and friendly? All people treat dogs differently, giving them lots of attention daily, while some give them none at all. The way dogs act around people and other dogs depends on the way they were raised. Dog fighting is a dangerous sport, where people train different types of “fighters”, and eventually end up killing the dog, or causing life-long disabilities. To start off, there are a couple of different “fighters”, which include street fighters, and professionals (Destreza). These fighters can be everyday people ranging from teachers, lawyers and doctors, to regular people who work at a restaurant. Woman are more sympathetic to dog fighting, so it is usually men who are more involved in it (Lee). The “street” fighters are people who only do it once or twice, or very rarely. Their dogs usually are not as experienced, and not necessarily aggressive, just a little meaner than regular dogs. Their fights are in backyards, garages, or any little secluded place. The fights are just for bragging rights, or for fun. The dogs...
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...Dog Swimming a. importance of swimming Just as swimming for people is recognized for its conditioning and therapeutic value, so has it been recognized for “man’s best friend” -the dog. For dogs that are overweight, need conditioning, or have disabilities that make normal exercise painful or inappropriate, swimming can provide an excellent alternative or supplement to ground-based programs. Also, swimming can provide dogs excellent rehabilitation therapy, aerobic conditioning, exercise, relaxation, interaction with other dogs and great of fun! b. how to swim Dogs, like all animals, have the natural ability to swim but generally have to learn water confidence before a specific swimming program can be developed. There are two swimming pools in our company. A training pool provides the initial swimming introduction and allows the dog to gain their water confidence. The main pool allows the dog to swim in 30 yard laps or to swim freely to retrieve, train or just swim for the fun of it. Swim Center staff performs the initial swimming of the dog, but owners are encouraged to take over once the dog has graduated from the training class. Dogs wear a chest harness for support and are walked down a gentle sloping ramp into the water. For dogs with paralysis or inability to walk, they are gently lifted and placed into the water and supported by the harness, or in some cases a flotation device may be used, while they develop their swimming stroke. Once the dog is comfortable...
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...Philosophies, Theories, and Concepts Jamie Field ECE 311 Early Childhood Curriculum & Methods Prof. Terri Surrency 08/26/2013 My goal for the future is to open my own in-home preschool and provide a positive and healthy learning experience to all that attend. I want to help guide and prepare our young children for their future in academics and life in general while having fun at the same time. My goals for the children are to teach them positive social skills, to be respectful to all people and things, to give them a voice and allow them to input their own ideas and opinions, give them a sense of pride and accomplishment to build self esteem, and to just love learning. Kindergarten today is not what it used to be and unfortunately, most children are not prepared for this. It’s important that our children feel comfortable and capable of entering into Kindergarten, which is where I come in. Although I do not have a concrete teaching philosophy I think I am leaning towards student-centered and progressivism. I think that teachers and students should work together to create learning experiences and opportunities. Progressive education is a form of education advocated by John Dewey in the early twentieth century. The basic idea of this philosophy is that students learn through experience, rather than through memorization. “Dewey believed that students, facing and ever-changing world, should master this scientific method: (1) Become aware of a problem; (2) define it; (3)...
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...able to provide some trends that will ensure its solid customer base that will remain loyal to them, will keep growing. Biscuits & Bath 1. Biscuits & Bath presents cocooning for dogs by providing each dog with appropriate bedding right for their sleeping needs. Also, the dog’s owner may bring its own blanket to make his dog even more comfortable by being surrounded with its recognizable stuff at bedtime. 2. Clanning at Biscuits & Bath is provided when dogs are able to participate in play groups designed appropriately for the dogs age and size which will ensure the best socialization experience and interaction between dogs. In these classes dogs meet new friends and socialize with dogs that share the same play style. 3. Biscuits & Bath provides Fantasy adventure by its daily park runs in neighborhood parks throughout Manhattan, and fun walks that allow the dog to relieve himself, and stretch his legs in a social atmosphere in the open air. 4. Pleasure revenge at Biscuits & Bath offers a variety of services for dogs, including full-service haircuts, bathing and fluffing brush-out, manicures and pedicures and well as hot oil treatments that will leave the dog feeling clean and refreshed. 5. Biscuits & Bath provides a variety of all natural and delicious treats for dogs at a nominal...
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...classical conditioning "A phobia is a group of symptoms brought on by an object or situation that causes a person to feel irrational fear" (Porterfield, 2005). A few types of phobias are prevalent in society. A simple phobia, the fear of an object like a dog or a cat or a telephone or the fear of heights or traveling in a train or a car impact millions of lives. Social phobia, caused by fear of humiliation causes millions more otherwise normal people to live lives of loneliness and desperation. "Behaviorists believe that these intense fears (phobias)begin when people are classically conditioned by a negative stimulus paired with the object or situation. In other words, phobias are learned. Sometimes parents may pass irrational fears on to their children in this way" (Porterfield, 2005). This is a powerful form of behavior modification. It deals with spontaneous behaviors. A dog doesn't have to learn to salivate when the meat is presented to him because he reacts spontaneously to the stimulus. In a negative sense when an electric shock is presented to the dog he spontaneously reacts to escape. How addictions can be developed through operant conditioning Ivan Pavlov showed that a dog can be conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell by...
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...really knew why he did this, but through behavioral and social/cognitive theories, this behavior could be explained. In his mind, there was nothing positive in doing something early. In a way his procrastination was reinforced and associated with having fun. This student has been procrastinating since his elementary days. He would always wait until the last day to do an assignment. He probably developed this habit watching his mom. Every morning he would watch his mom with just enough time to get ready and still make it to work on time. He then made the generalization that this could also be done with homework from school. He continues this habit into his adulthood because he values having fun more than completing an assignment. There have been some events in the past where procrastinating made him feel miserable due to lack of sleep and stress, but he continues to do it. He is always under the illusion that he can get it done right before it is due and still get a good grade, so why not have fun now and do the assignment later? This has worked for him in the past. The reason why he still does could probably be explained through positive reinforcement. Although he did the assignment late, he still had fun and got a good grade from the teacher. On occasion he would try to break this habit, but whenever he does, it does not last long. What usually happens is he tells himself that he would start to do his homework early after getting burned from staying up...
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...Should People be Allowed to Keep Pit Bull Dogs? Most likely, you probably have heard the quote “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” But, why does this suddenly change, when pitbulls are mentioned? Most people believe or even assume that pitbulls are aggressive, dangerous, and vicious animals. This is why, many people think that people shouldn’t be allowed to keep pitbulls. In reality, most pitbulls are energetic, playful, and loving. This is why I believe you should be allowed to keep pitbulls. According to the American Temperament Test Society, “As of March 2001, the American pitbull terrier has a current passing rate of 82%, which makes them one of the top 5 most stable breed of dog in the country.” This states that pitbulls aren’t as vicious and dangerous as they might seem. It proves that pitbulls can be well behaved and ordeal to have. Also, these dogs are eager to please people, and are very playful. Most...
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...intelligence, mass hysteria, football, head transplants, and a talking monkey. It takes place about seventy years in the future when everything fun is against the law. You can get sent to jail for road rage, or eating too much, or forgetting to wear your safety equipment. Twenty percent of the people living in the United Safer States of America are in jail, so all the manual labor in the country is done by prisoners. I thought this was a sports book when I picked it up because of the cover, but it’s more like science fiction. Some parts are pretty funny, but it’s also kind of sad because the future looks like it could be no fun at all, kind of like that book Feed, which is good too, only by some other guy with initials instead of a first name. Bo Marsten, the hero, is in love with this girl, and when she goes out with another guy he loses it and tries to hit the other guy and ends up in prison in Canada making pizzas for McDonalds and being chased by polar bears and playing tackle football which is illegal because everything that can possibly hurt anybody is against the law. Bo has only two friends--a talking troll he invented on his computer for his AI class, and an unstoppable fat kid named Rhino. It sounds goofy, but it all makes sense when you read it, except for maybe the part about the mechanical dog that does everything a real dog does including pooping. The funniest parts of the book are when Bo talks to Bork, his pet artificial intelligence. I also liked the football...
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...all dogs go to heaven!!!! DO YOU ENJOY DOGS? DO YOU LOVE TRAINING DOGS? DO YOU LOVE WORKING IN A FAMILY ORIENTATE ATMOSPHERE? IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO THOSE QUESTIONS THEN JYD KENNELS IS THE JOB FOR YOU. Company Information Junk Yard Dog Kennels is a family owned business. We have been training, kenneling, and loving dogs for 14 years. We love helping dogs who are in danger, needs more training and just need love. Structure This company has a structure like no other. We have a training area, sleeping area, feeding area and a play area, as well as a vet on call at all times. In the training area, the dogs will learn to be gentle, loving, and obedient. The trainer will teach your dog everything. He or she will know what sit, come, NO, stay and any other words you want your family pet to know. All dogs will spend 30 minutes a day in the training area until the skills are met. Feeding time is 2-3 times a day, depending on the care of your dog. For a healthy dog they will be feed in the A.M and P.M, for unhealthy pets we will give them a feeding in between the original feeding. Treats are only given when the dogs follow directives. This is one of the most important times of the day for these animals. Play area is where we allow 2 dogs at the most in the area with trainers to interact with one another. This is a skill that all dogs that come to us have to learn. Once they are able to interact with each other we will place a child robot into the area and see how the dogs take...
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...Sacramento Area did their concern begin to rise. My sister and I were enrolled in the local public school and my sister was quick to make friends, whereas, I was not. My uncle believed I just needed time to warm up to the change of scenery, so he gave it some time and after several months, I still kept to myself. At this point, my uncle tried to give me a little push in the right direction by forcing me to accompany my sister whenever she did things with her friends. “Did you have fun?” He would ask when he showed up to pick us up. “No.” I would say and he would quickly reassure me that there was always next time. After about the fifth time of having this conversation, he began to grow ever so frustrated with the realization that I could not make friends. My uncle began to become angry with me when I told him I did not participate in any of the activities my sister and her friends did. He would also get angry at my sister for not trying hard enough to include me in the fun, since that was the only explanation he could muster for why I...
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...Did you know that the pit bull is named after many bulldog and terrier type dogs used in dog fighting in the past? Pit, meaning the dog’s history as a fighting dog. Bull meaning is the type of ancestry the dog has. But this reasoning does not mean that every fighting dog is a pitbull or not. The three main parts of a pitbull are bulldog, terrier, and fighting dog which comes together in the pitbull type dog. (www.ukcdogs.com) American pitbull's scientific name is canis lupus familiaris. Canis lupus familiaris is a tamed descendant of the wolf. Pitbull puppies are usually called pups, or puppies. Pitbull puppies are usually puppies 12 to 18 months old. Pitbulls are called adults when they reach about one year old. A newborn puppy is called a whelp....
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...Getting a new puppy can be a lot of fun, until the newness is overshadowed by the not so fun vomiting, diarrhea (and I mean a lot of diarrhea) and you having to clean up after it. The unfortunate reality is that your new puppy could have a wide range of ailments since they are highly susceptible to them and one possibility is Giardia. Giardia is unique since it is an infection that your puppy or even your older dog can acquire, that is actually a protozoan parasite and not a typical bacterial or fungal infection. Giardia is picked up by your canine companion in the cyst stage where it is then ingested and moves to the gastrointestinal tract. Once it is in the gastrointestinal tract the cysts mature and reproduce creating more cysts that are then shed in the feces of your dog starting the life cycle all over again for some other poor dog. This little single cell parasite is rather hardy as well and can survive several weeks in the environment as a cyst just looking for chance to infect a new host. This parasite is you guessed it spread through feces. The diarrhea from a contaminated dog is the route of transmission and it does an excellent jobs of spreading Giardia. The soft stool can easily spread the cysts on the ground and contaminate water leading to more dogs being infected....
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