Friday, October 12, 2012

Solutions for a dog that pees in the house | Help for naughty doggies



So you have a dog that you just love and adore, its gotten old and can't seem to make it outside to pee anymore or you have a young dog that no matter what you do simply chooses to lift his leg on your favorite chair.  Maybe you have a female dog that pees in excitement every time someone comes through the front door.  

You have tried training, bought sprays and solutions to remove pet odors, consulted your vet about incontinence...all to no avail.



What can you do if your dog just can't help peeing in your home?  Get rid of your beloved pet?  Bring it to a shelter and hope someone will adopt it?  Or continue to clean and wash, reupholster your furniture over and over again... change your rugs?  Have a healthy dog put down because you have given up?  The answer to all these questions is a resounding NO, NO, NO!!!



DOGGIE BELLY BANDS or
PUPPY PANTS by The 
Doggie Nanny
There is a much simpler answer to your problem!  The answer is DOGGIE BELLY BANDS or  PUPPY PANTS by The Doggie Nanny.  So simple, yet few people know that this solution is available.


Belly Bands by The Doggie Nanny are created from the same  materials that  high quality, reusable baby diapers are made of.  A leak proof outer layer, an absorbent inner layer and a top layer that helps wick moisture away from the body and to the absorbant layer, with velcro enclosures.  They are machine washable, and it is best to line dry to guarantee a long life of the materials.

Used alone or with an incontinence pad, Belly Bands by The Doggie Nanny will stop your loved pet from damaging your home.  Bring your pet to visit friends, the pet store, the Vet, etc. without having to worry about accidents!



Just attach an incontinence pad to the inside of the band and wrap it around your dog's belly.  Our belly bands are so cute, you won't mind your dog wearing one--whether you are home or out visiting friends!

For female dogs, cut an incontinence pad in half, and stick it to the inside of the panty.  Change the pads several times a day-- like you would for a baby.  


Now you no longer have to worry about having a naughty doggie in the house.  Enjoy spending time with your beloved pet without the stress of protecting your floors or furniture.  You will be surprised at how this simple solution will work to keep you and your pet in harmony!

Belly Bands by The Doggie Nanny come in various sizes and sell for $20.00 each. 
I can make them custom, to order so they will perfectly fit your naughty doggie.
If you have a dog that continues to pee in the house and are desperate for a solution--
send an email with the measurement of your dog's tummy to:  

Postage is additional.



Coming Soon!

I am currently working on new designs for doggies who are little escape artists.  Some dogs get out of their belly bands and need a special escape-proof design.  I have come up with a new design that works for both girls and boys and is easy to change.  I will have those available soon too!  I have seen other so called "escape proof" pants and bands, but changing them putting on a new pad is rather cumbersome.  My design is easy to take off,  put on a clean pad and goes on again easily. Stay tuned!









Sunday, August 5, 2012

Long Island Pet Adoption -- Don't Shop--- ADOPT!



These beautiful little dogs are available for adoption through Yorkie 911 Rescue

Go online to www.yorkie911rescue.com to view their available doggies
or submit an adoption application.

Interested in fostering?
Foster/host families are always needed.  Help a little dog find a new furever home!

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

GROOMING YOUR DOG AT HOME


How To Groom Your Dog At Home?


Have you watched how your dog rolls on the ground or licks it coat? You may also have noticed it licking its paws and running in circles after its tail! These antics that seem so funny to the owners are in fact, your dog’s way of grooming itself. Help it in its endeavor to look good by following the home grooming tips for your dog.

1.              Brushing The Coat – You need a suitable coat brush so that the dirt and tangles can be removed from the dog’s hair. Brushing also ensures that the natural oils spread evenly throughout his coat. When you are brushing his coat, check for fleas. Different kinds of dogs need different brushes. For example, shorthaired dogs need a slick brush for removing tangles, a Chihuahua will need to be brushed with a rubber brush or a dog with long hair will need to be brushed everyday with a slick brush. After brushing his coat and removing the tangles, use a bristle brush to remove dead hair and then comb the tail.
2.              Eye Maintenance – The boogers that get deposited around the eyes have to be cleaned. To do so, pull it gently. Use “tear stains” that are specially manufactured for this purpose. Ensure that the eyes are clear and that there is no discharge. You can take the dog to the vet to get the hair around the eyes cut.
3.              Cleaning Ears – Clean your dog’s ears only when needed. Saturate a cotton ball with a warm solution, specifically meant for cleaning ears, and gently wipe away excess wax and dirt. A
4.              Cleaning Teeth – Dogs do not like their teeth to be cleansed and have to be coaxed into it. Get a pet toothbrush and clean its teeth gently. Use toothpastes that are meant for pets.
5.              Clipping Nails – Your dog must be used to your touching its paws and nails. Spread its feet gently to check for flea and dirt. When it is used to your handling its paws, clip nails gently with sharp clippers. You can buy good clippers from a pet dog supplies store. Smooth out the rough edges so that it may not hurt itself.

Grooming time should be fun for both you and your pet. Give it a treats every time you groom it. Also praise your canine in loving tones that it recognizes and lets you groom it. Use only special products that are meant for your pets.

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Alicia Lyttle is a freelance writer and the owner of two small pooches. She is a beauty expert by profession and believes in the goodness of beauty products by Olay.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Stray Dogs becoming a problem in the US | Spay/Neuter Your Pets!

SATURDAY, JAN 14, 2012 12:00 PM EST
The secret lives of feral dogs
A Pennsylvania city instructs police to shoot strays, opening a sad window on animal care in the age of austerity
BY WILL DOIG

originally posted at: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/14/the_secret_lives_of_feral_dogs/


(Credit: Salon/Mignon Khargie)

TOPICS:DREAM CITY, ANIMALS
Want to get people riled up? Institute a new policy about shooting puppies.

The city of Harrisburg, Pa., learned this last week when an internal police department memo went public, instructing officers of the cash-strapped city to stop bringing its growing number of stray dogs to the shelter. Instead, it said, they should release them in another area, adopt them themselves — or just put a bullet in them. Now that’s the new austerity.

Amid the predictable outcry, the city promised it would reconsider the policy. But the controversy also illuminated a serious — and largely ignored — urban issue: the soaring number of feral cats and dogs, and cities’ decreasing ability to deal with them. “The problem is way worse than people assume,” says Randy Grim, founder of Stray Rescue of St. Louis. “It’s a topic nobody talks about, but over the past 20 years it’s become an underground epidemic in most cities.”

There are lots of reasons for this — reduced animal control, the resurgence of dogfighting – but at base, the feral explosion has coincided with our ever-rising demand for furry little friends. America is turning into a nation of pet hoarders. In 1970 we had 30 million pet cats; today we have 90 million. Dog ownership has tripled since the 1960s. And the more we take in, the more we drop back on the street, where they procreate at a speed that would make Rick Santorum beam. The exact number of feral dogs and cats is unknown, but there are certainly well over 100 million at this point.

The epidemic has gone largely unnoticed because urban feral dogs and cats have extraordinary skills at remaining invisible. Grim, a fixture in St. Louis who’s been working with feral dogs there for decades, says the dogs emerge from alleys and abandoned buildings to look for food in early dawn or bad weather. “They understand how to survive. Most of them spend only 10 percent of their time being visible to people.”

Same goes for cats, says Jeff Horn, who completed a groundbreaking study of feral cat behaviors last year. Horn fitted 42 cats with radio tracking collars in the neighboring Illinois cities of Champaign and Urbana. “Some of the male cats are really only active for a small portion of the night,” he says. Females, on the other hand, are so often either pregnant or nursing that “they were active up to 20 hours a day just to find food to survive and feed their young.” And Horn was surprised by how large a range the cats staked out. Together, they prowled a region of some 6,286 acres, and a single cat roamed over 1,351 acres, an area greater than one-and-a-half Central Parks.

That territory included everything from forest to concrete jungle — feral dogs and cats are remarkably adaptive to different environments. Moscow’s feral dogs even use the subway to expand their territories. “They orient themselves in a number of ways,” Russian animal behaviorist Andrei Neuronov told the Financial Times. “They figure out where they are by smell, by recognizing the name of the station from the recorded announcer’s voice, and by time intervals.”

But many feral dogs in cities ultimately gravitate toward impoverished and abandoned neighborhoods, where hiding places and accessible garbage are more plentiful, and people are not. In depopulating Rust Belt cities, where nature is reclaiming entire swaths of the landscape, packs of dogs and colonies of cats are living in a world that’s nearly their own. New York Times Magazine writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis, who’s writing a book about dogs, spent time with Grim in East St. Louis and describes a world where people are scarce and dogs live wild once again.

“You’d have these abandoned buildings in grassy areas, an urban prairie that’s a perfect spot for these dogs,” he says. “You have dogs who were born out there who have had almost no contact with humans at all. We’d see them roaming in packs in the distance.” Grim says he’s seen some of these packs stick together for more than 20 years, spawning new generations to replace the old.

Feral dog packs are organized into hierarchies, just like wolves, and in the feral packs of Moscow it’s been observed that it’s usually the most intelligent dogs, not the most aggressive, that become pack leaders. For the wildest of these dogs, the ones that are several generations removed from domesticity, “It would be almost impossible to rescue them at this point,” says Denizet-Lewis. “They’ve been living without human interaction for too long.”

An extensive 1973 study of “free-ranging” dogs in Baltimore — still one of the few large-scale studies that exists on the topic — found that some of these dogs were relearning to hunt. But Grim says they’re more often stuck between wild and domesticated, able to activate their hunting instinct but not sure what to do when they’ve caught something. “We’ve bred that ability out of them. They kill pigeons but then just carry them around,” he says. “If I open one up for them, they’ll eat the meat.”

The Baltimore study also discovered that urban renewal efforts were wiping whole territories of feral dogs off the map. “The boarding up of buildings and their eventual clearance raises interesting ecological questions regarding the fate of the dogs that use them …Will urban renewal increase dog mortality?” The report concluded that “future slum clearance should consider the fate of the dogs displaced.”

The idea that the fate of feral dogs and cats should be considered when neighborhoods rapidly change sounds almost like a parody of liberal do-gooder thinking. But is it really so crazy? These are cities where some dying dogs and cats go to hospice centers and ICUs. The more we learn about the habits and intelligence of feral animals, the less inclined we may be to see their lives as disposable.

Some cities are already moving in that direction. The Washington Post recently reported on the rise of trap-neuter-release (TNR) for urban feral cats as an alternative to euthanasia, a shift that rests on the assumption that they aren’t better off dead. But perhaps surprisingly, animal-rights group PETA doesn’t support TNR. “They need to be taken off the streets,” says PETA president Ingrid Newkirk, and if that means humanely euthanizing them, Newkirk says that’s better than the short, brutish life they’ll suffer while homeless. “There’s traffic, weather, illness, injury,” says Newkirk. “People like to have a go at these animals.”

Grim agrees that the life of these dogs and cats can be hell: “Right now I have 500 to 600 dogs in our system, and 70 percent of them have gunshot wounds.” Starvation is never far off (when temperatures drop below freezing, thirst can also be a problem). Disease claims even more of them, and humans are the biggest threat of all, as the fiasco in Harrisburg shows.

As it stands, solutions seem to be growing more distant, not closer. Like the feral population itself, it’s a problem with no owner, largely hidden from view but getting bigger all the time. Eventually, it may come back to bite us.

Stray Pitbulls terrorise a Brookyn neighborhood. 

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Beware of Chicken Jerky Treats for Pets from China | Poisoned Pets


WARNING: CHICKEN JERKY TREATS FROM CHINA MAY POISON PETS


From The American Veterinary Medical Association

The Food and Drug Administration continues to caution that certain chicken jerky products for dogs—also sold as chicken tenders, strips, or treats—are associated with illness in dogs.

According to a Nov. 18, 2011, update, the FDA has seen an increase during the past 12 months in the number of complaints from dog owners and veterinarians regarding illnesses in dogs associated with consumption of chicken jerky products from China.

The FDA issued warnings regarding chicken jerky products in September 2007 and December 2008. The number of complaints dropped off during late 2009 and most of 2010 before rising again.

The agency advises consumers who feed chicken jerky products to their dogs to watch them for any of the following signs of illness: a decrease in appetite; a decrease in activity; vomiting; diarrhea, sometimes with blood; an increase in water consumption; or an increase in urination.

Dog owners should consult their veterinarian if their dogs have signs of illness that are severe or persist for more than 24 hours. Blood tests might indicate kidney failure, and urine tests might indicate Fanconi syndrome. Although most dogs appear to recover, some reports to the FDA involved dogs that died.

The FDA and several U.S. animal health diagnostic laboratories are working to determine why these products are associated with illness in dogs. The agency continues chemical and microbial testing of the products but has not identified a contaminant.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), established in 1863, is a not-for-profit association representing more than 81,500 veterinarians working in private and corporate practice, government, industry, academia, and uniformed services. Structured to work for its members, the AVMA acts as a collective voice for its membership and for the profession.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Dog Shows | Yorkshire Terrier | Westminster | NYC

What is it like to go to a dog show?  What do the handlers and dogs go through behind the scenes and during competition?

Here are some videos that examine the Dog Show Experience.

If you are interested in attending Westminster in NYC or attending some of the fun Pre-Westminster events here are links for 2012:
Ticket information for The Westminster 2012 Dog Show
Have a blast at the 2012 Pre-Westminster Dog Fashion Show!
Go to the New Yorkie Fashion Show | NYC 2012












Long Island Dog Parks | Have fun with your doggie!

Please--be a responsible dog owner. DO NOT bring dogs to dog parks that have aggression issues. A dog park is NOT the place to work on them!  Small dogs are especially vulnerable to attacks by agressive dogs.  Work out aggression issues with a professional trainer. 

If you have a small dog--stick to parks that provide a separate area for smaller breed dogs. 
Small dogs and large dogs don't always mix.  Personally, I no longer bring my small dogs to parks that do not have separate areas for small and large dogs. A friend of mine lost her beloved Yorkie this year after a large dog attacked it in a local dog park.  This particular park has no separate area for small dogs.   Unexpected attacks can happen -- read my post on Jilli Dog.  I myself lost a small Yorkie after a large stray came into our yard and attacked him.  It was devastating for my family.  

In my opinion, mixing small breed dogs with large dogs is just not worth the risk. It is a tragedy waiting to happen.  
Be wise and be safe--you can still and have fun!


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