Wheat-free Dog Treats for Pets with Allergies

Humans have food allergies (I’m supposed to avoid dairy and gluten myself), and pets can have food allergies too. Grains, especially, can be problematic since they’re not something dogs would eat in nature. If your furry friends have skin problems, dull coat, or stools that aren’t properly formed, it may be a food […]

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Teaching Your Dog to Swim

Swimming seems so integral to being a dog that we’ve even named a stroke after them, the dog-paddle — so you’d assume that’s something that every dog is born knowing how to do. It turns out that you’d be wrong. Not every dog knows instinctively how to swim, and some can’t swim at all, Wendy […]

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Of pooches and pools: Teaching your dog to swim

There are certain things we assume dogs know by instinct. Sniffing, for instance, sometimes in embarrassing places. Barking, too, and begging for food scraps are also downloaded onto dogs’ internal computers at the factory.
Then there’s swimming. It seems so integral to being a dog that we’ve even named a stroke after them, the dog-paddle — […]

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