I love going to the Humane Society to look at the dogs. The dogs are so cute. Also, when I go there, it makes me think about how the dogs don't deserve to be in there. People do no beat their dogs. Some dogs are so unfairly treated. Dogs are "a man's best friend" and yet some people treat them wrong. I know how it feels to be treated unfairly, and I'm sure other people do, too. I can remember several times I have been treated unfairly. The first time I was treated unfairly was earlier this year
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Due to the frequently poor breeding conditions in puppy mills, puppies bred there often suffer from health and/or social problems. Puppies raised in a cramped environment shared by many other dogs become poorly socialized to other dogs and to humans. Dogs are then transported over long distances in poor conditions, sometimes resulting in animal stress and death. As the surviving mill dogs grow older, they are more prone to developing respiratory ailments and pneumonia, as well as hereditary defects
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I am happy the city of Muscatine, Iowa is considering opening a dog park. I understand and believe dogs needs daily exercise and have to learn how to deal with other dogs and people. Which helps with their behaviors. And it will help and favor people who lives in apartments and small neighborhoods to have an open area for their dogs to move freely. Also, not everybody is comfortable around dogs; like myself. Owners walking their dogs in the neighborhood is not safe and it makes some of us uncomfortable
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of this technique of saying the command in multiples of three. Dogs genuinely want to do the right thing and please there owners, but we need to give them the tools to do so. I asked my trainer Natalie Rimmons, who is a professional dog trainer at Pet Smart, why my dog was not listening to me and she told me that he is disobeying me because he is being difficult or stubborn. The only way to fix this problem was by having an incentive or reward for the
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Currently, I am an animal science major with a pre-veterinary emphasis. When I was a kid, I was in charge of a very important task. My dog, Mutt, had just given birth to her first litter of puppies, and she was not very good at being a first time mother. Therefore, I ended up becoming the caretaker of five sweet and vulnerable puppies. From that point, I knew that I would like to care for animal for the rest of my life. Since then, I have cared and endured for a variety of animals, including cats
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In order to become a service dog owner, there are multiple requirements needed not only for the owner itself, but also for the dog. The owner must be aware of the public education that the dog needs, the legal rights that are needed for the owner and dog. The requirements that are needed, and lastly the history of the service dog. Service dogs were developed after World War 1. A school in Germany trained German Shepherds to guide blinded veterans of the war. However, the school did not stay in existence
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Learning about your Pet to Enhance Dog Training Success Dogs are one of the most popular pets in the world. Having such a pet means that owners must spend some time training new dogs in order to ensure their safety and the well-being of everyone in the household. Dog training is something that takes a great amount of time to complete successfully. However, by understanding how your dogs think and react to the world around them, it is much easier to be successful with your attempt. For years, dogs
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ever walked passed those pet shops in the mall, adoring how cute those tiny puppies are? I know I have, many times. But unfortunately I've learned the exotic truth about how these adorable puppies were raised. The greed of what they went through. According to aspca.org, the number of dogs in a puppy mill can vary significantly, ranging from 10 to 1,000 breeding dogs. Buying puppies from shops that carry puppies from puppy mills isn't the best idea. Puppies sold in pet shops are mainly 99% from
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Imagine, you’re in a cage, there is a wire floor beneath your feet and the cages are not clean. No one ever lets you out and to make things worse, the cage is very crowded, there are way too many of you in that cage. This is what dogs in an average puppy mill go through every day. But before I continue, what is a puppy mill? According to source 1, puppy mills are large-scale commercial dog breeding facilities that care more about profit than they do the well-being of the dogs. The idea to persuade
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An article published by The Huffington Post states that “An 8-month old girl survived a house fire thanks to her family’s heroic pet dog.” “The 8-month old girl was kept safe by the dog as he used his body to shield the infant from the flames.” In the article, “A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin, he asserts that “animals feel pain, suffer, and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love.” I believe animals are exceptionally similar to humans. They should be studied more
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