5 Important Tips Before Buying Puppies

The dog’s reputation as a human’s friend could no doubt anymore. So close a human with a dog, because the dog is the most easily trained animals, different with a cat which has intelligence level far below the dog. It is the enough reason to choose a dog as the best pets. Cause of the reputation is very famous, but not all the people feel free to choose their own dog. There are some things that should be considered before buying dog in order the dog is suitable with the dog’s owner needed. What are they? Consider the points below:

Your yard is big enough? 

Your yard can be a referenced to choose what kind of dogs will be your pet. Big dog need a big yard, too. If you do not understand the kinds of dog, you can ask to the place where you buy the puppy, because the puppy cannot be seen the same when still a baby. Do not wrong to choose a dog and will bother you when grow up. If you do not have a big yard, you will spend much time to play on a public open yard like a park. It is not certainly effective if you don’t have much time for this. One more things, you have to extra carefully choosing the mix dog.

Are you the people who likes exercise with your dogs?

You have much time to exercise or relax? An active dog is right for you. You can bring your dog to exercise or go to the public park and spend your time with your active dog’s pet. How about if you are a busy person? The wise choice is a house dogs who like to watch TV and lazy is the right choice.

Long or short fur?

Fur is one of the main attractions for a dog. Many people say that the hairy dog looks more attractive than short fur. Before you buy a puppy, it’s better to consider the kinds of its fur. Do not let your desire to choose the long fur is the best choice. Consider also the cleanliness and treatment when it grew up. If you are not a problem with a dog fur that falling everywhere, you can keep it.

You have parents or children at home?

The safety of the residence is the most important things. If there are parent and children at home, it’s better to have the less active dog and the size is not big enough. This is to avoid the dog’s bite and encouragement during playing.

You can prevent your dog run away from home?

Maximum control and right treatment is highly recommended to keep a dog. Even tough a dog is a predator animal. The dog can hurt people if it’s not maintained properly. And some kinds of dogs can be run away from home if not feel comfortable at home. To avoid your dog escape from home is to build a fence at least 6 feet. It’s less effective if you buy a dog which expert in escape. If the kinds of that becomes your pet, so you have to make extra safety so your dogs cannot run away.

This five considerations arise due to most people just think after buying a wrong dog to keep their home. For the five above should be considered to avoid in choosing the wrong dog. Better to consider before buying than remember after they grew up, because it’s very hard to choose your beloved dog when they are adults. Emotional connection make you cannot let your pet even you feel bothered this time. For that, wise from now !

An Effective Way to Bath a Dog

You may think that the most causes of the dog’s skin disease is caused by the dog’s flea. For that we can make sure that the cause of your dog’s skin disease, it’s better for you to visit the veterinarian. From there you can determine whether therapy or treatment that suitable for your dog’s disease. Well, if it’s proved to be true that flea is the cause of your dog’s skin disease. The first step is certainly by bathing your pet dog, you must use special shampoo to overcome the flea and better combined with anti-flea medicine and the flea control around your environment to help this ways works effectively.

How to shampoo your pet dog 

The kinds of shampoo for dogs are variety as well as the shampoo for human. Every disease and dog’s fur is variety, allowing you to use variety kinds of shampoo as well. You have to ask your veterinarian to choose the type and brand for shampoo which is the best to overcome your dog’s disease. Read the instruction on the shampoo package to make sure the proper dosage for your dog’s need. Water should be considered, try the water not to cold and warm enough because the dog’s temperature is easy to rise.

The things to be prepared is the water source that has a hose and sprayer, the product that recommended by the veterinarian, large towel to dry the dog’s fur.

Bathing a dod that has a flea is different with bathing a healthy dog. For the dog which has flea should be started by wetting the dog’s neck and let the body in dry condition first. This meant so the flea do not move to the head and ears. After the neck is given shampoo, following by wetting all parts of the body and give shampoo. Wait for a while according to the instruction for using the flea repellent shampoo. The head is the last part to be shampooed. Do not forget to close the dog’s ears with cotton and avoid this product to enter the eyes. Rinse all parts of the dog’s body until clean. In order to make the dog’s fur looks beautiful, use conditioner.

Some Tricks To Eradicate The Dog’s Fleas

Fleas is an annoying and dangerous parasites. Fleas are in small to very small size, and include as a class of anthropods, has a kinship with spiders. The flea can perch and spread various kinds of dangerous diseases to some animals, including your pet’s dog. The flea sucks the blood of its host and commonly found in the warm and damp places, such as animal cages, carpets, chairs, and beds. The flea can be divided into three kinds, they are fleas, ticks, and mites. Type of flea that often attack dogs and cats are type of flea. Meanwhile, if we view from the species, the flea that most commonly found in a dogs is the brown flea or often called the red flea (Rhipicephalus Sanguineus Latreille ). Suitable with its name, the brown flea commonly choose a dogs as its host, but can also perch in other number of mammals.

The flea eggs will hatch about 2-5 weeks depending on the surrounding temperature and humadity. The flea larvae that has microscopic size, then will look for the host to suck its blood almost about one week, and then leave the host to transform into nymphs. The Eggs, larvae, and nymphs of flea have a very small size, and almost cannot be detected with naked eyes. The dogs which infest by a flea will feel itching and potentially to have skin irritation. Some species if fleas can also infect humans. That’s why, you have to be extra careful when handling the flea.

Finding and removing the animal’s fleas

You need to be consider is, the dogs cannot remove their own flea from the only just by scratching, because the flea commonly perched in the body area that difficult to reach, such as face, ears, skin folds around the elbow, down the neck, stomach and between the fingers feet. So, you have to do detection and removal the fleas carefully. Make sure that you touch the dog’s skin surface constantly and gentle. When you find a lump, immediately check it by removing the fur around it and look for the cause, whether because of the flea or some skin disease. If you find the flea on the dog’s skin surface, immediately remove it using the pointy toes tongs ( tweezer ). Slowly clip with a tweezer and pull away from the dog’s skin surface carefully. Make sure the flea’s head also pull away. Place the flea into the sealed container, and report to your veterinarian. Ask if this type of flea can cause an illness, and check if your dog has been infected the disease.

Preventing the animal’s fleas

You have to know that the animal’s flea will choose to perch on the dog’s body that has the low system immune. Besides that, make sure that you always clean up the house and cages environment, then spraying with the disinfectant for flea. Separate the healthy dog with the infested one, and do the following steps :

1.Anti-flea powder

Should be use before bed time. Better if the powder that sticks on the bed should be let so that the flea will be left the nest. Do routine everyday if the flea has become the plague. For the treatment, use the powder at least once in a week.

2. Anti-flea shampoo

Anti-flea shampoo is suitable use for puppies. Besides being able to remove the fleas, anti-flea shampoo also make the dog become clean.

3. Ivermectin Injection

Many people think the ivermectin injection is an anti-fungal injection. Actually, ivermectin injection cannot eradicate the fungus, but for eradicate worms and ectoparasites such as lice ( fleas, ticks, mites )

4. Drops and spray medicine

There are so many anti-flea drops and spray medicines which is sold in the pet’s store. This medicine is not recommended for the dog under the age of 2 months.

The Guidance Of The Dog’s Health Problems

Basically, the disease that suffered a dog almost the same like human. The dogs also have obesity, cancer, arthritis, anxiety and other feelings. It is the task of the owner to be more sensitive to detect early symptoms that shown by the dogs as an indication that there is a health problem that faced by your dog pet.

The dog will show the simply behavior and signs to show that they have experienced the health problem in order to be more easily recognized by its owner. If they seem confuse and have little lost of balance, this can be a sign of an ear infection. Check your dog’s ear regularly and keep clean, this can be solved the ear problems that affected your dog and do it regularly.

If your dog has a health problems can also be observed from its urine and feces. The strong smell of urine is an indication of bladder infections and if often expends excessive urine than usual, so this can be the indication of Cushing disease (a hormonal disorder that cause by a high level of Cortisol in the blood).

The dog health’s problems that more serious are obesity. Obesity in a dog can cause a number of health’s problems such as heath disease, diabetes, and other related problems. Keep your dog’s weight in balance weight by reading a label on a dog’s food. Most of dog’s food that cheap contains an additional material and sugar. And also, the cheap dog’s food mostly doesn’t contain the needed calories by an active young dog to build its body immune system. The dogs which older and inactive would be gain weight more quickly and experience all the health problems that cause by obesity.

Some brands of dog’s foods are designed specially with the ingredients that suitable for the age of a dog. Diet is a right prevention way for the dog health’s problems. The good quality of dog’s foods with the healthy ingredients will contain protein for growth and the need for active dogs and also provide a good immune system for its body. By giving the right dog’s food, based on the age and activity, so you can save money to go to the veterinarian that will spend much cost.

Allergies are another dog’s health problems that can be influence by other dogs. The dogs will shown the same signs like the humans when suffering allergies. Watery eyes, sneezing, runny nose, are commonly happen. Check your household cleaner and see if the tool is good for your dog. 

Generally, when your dog is on at the age of 10 until 12 years could experience the health’s problems such as cataracts, hearing disorder, cancer, joint pain that related by arthritis. The signs that can be seen is the slow walking especially when climbing the leader and cannot hear when calling or hit furniture when they walk at home.

If the symptoms that mentioned above suffer your dog pet, immediately consult to your veterinarian. As the owner, we have to pay attention to our dog’s behavior, diet and the daily needed. This is the best prevention way to keep away your dogs from the health’s problems. Whenever possible, 2 times in a year, visit your veterinarian regularly.

Types Of Dogs And The Health Problems

Siberian Husky : Immune System Disorders / Autoimmune Disorders

Autoimmune Disorders is failure of the body immune system that made the body attack its own tissues. The autoimmune disorders are prone suffered. Most of the disease affected the skin. The effects that arise is in the form of injury and the loss-fur, often attack the face. This immune dysfunction not only attack skin but can infect the eye so can lead to glaucoma and cataracts. To overcome this disorder is corticosteroids to prevent the immune system attack the body.

Bulldog : The Breathing Problems Overview,

Bulldog looks like a lump of walking meat ball. The fat body posture is the identity of a bulldog. But underneath its robustness, bulldog is susceptible to the breathing problem. The small nasal cavity structure with elongated soft palate and a narrow windpipe allowing bulldog can sleep snoring and hot weather can threaten its life because of fatigue and difficulty in breathing. So, it’s better to keep bulldog in normal temperature and avoid too much playing in the heat.

Pug : Eye Problem The kind of pug is rather strange.

Pug has a snub face and protruding eyes. This trait is at the risk of eye problem. The fatal problem is the eyeball is out of place. This thing is prone to be happened if the Pug got an accident or fighting. If this happen, close the pug’s eyes with a wet cloth and immediately bring to the veterinarian. The veterinarian can make the eyes back to the place, but cannot certainly the eyes sight is still normal, depend on the level of damage.

Labrador Retriever : Obesity

Any dog can become overweight, but Labrador is most susceptible for this. And like humans, this obesity can cause health problems for dogs. Labrador needs full energetic daily exercise. If Labrador ask foods more often, trying to give raw carrots, beans, or apple for snacking. Because prevent is more easily than losing weight, so better to consult with your doctor in planning right diet for your dog.

Beagle : Epilepsy

Epilepsy is brain problem that can cause convulsions, seems to be more commons happen to Beagle than other dogs. Dogs that affected by epilepsy usually often have seizure at the age of 6 months until 3 years. Although epilepsy cannot be cured, if often seizure (more than 1 months), can be treated by anti-seizure medications.

Shih Tzu : Wobbly Kneecaps / Kneecaps shifts

Wobbly Kneecaps or Pattelar Luxation is very commonly happen to the kind of the toy-sized dogs such as Shih Tzu. In the Pattelar Luxation, the kneecap sometimes out or shifts from its place and cause the dogs walk limp or hobble. The kneecap usually returns to the place itself but in the severe case, the surgery might be done to correct the problem and prevent arthritis.

Dachshund / Tekel : Back Problems

Because of its long body, Dachshund has a high risk of back injury and spinal disk problems (spinal disk: the soft bone which connect the back bone until the neck bone ). The best ways to keep Dachshund is to maintain ideal body weight. The excessive weight can burden its back. Besides that, try to limit climbing the leader and jump off from furniture, because it can also give pressure on its back.

Poodle : Glaucoma

The Poodle Dog is one of the few types of dogs which have a high risk of serious eyes problem. Glaucoma is buildup of fluid in the eyes and cause pressure, pain, and ending with blindness. On the first step, glaucoma can be treated by medicines, but when it become worse, surgery or eliminate the eyes that have been existed may be required.

Rottweiler : Joints Problems

Large dog breed like Rottweiler has a risk of various joints problems, include hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, arthritis, and Osteochondrosis Dissecans (OCD). Giving a balanced amount of food can help the health of Rottweiler’s joints.

Cihuahua : Collapsing Trachea ( Windpipes Abnormalities )

Is your Cihuahua Dog has a wheezing sound when it’s excited? It may have collapsed trachea, commonly happen to the toy-sized dog. Some dogs live with collapsing trachea and no problem with it, but for the other dog may be needed a treatment. In the severe case, surgery may be needed to shore up the open windpipe.

Pomeranian : Fur Loss / Baldness

Pomeranian dog are prone to adrenal gland disease and called Alopecia X (also known as X-type baldness or black skin disease) that can cause the fur loss. Alopecia X usually begins when the dog still young. This fur loss is caused by the excess production of sex hormone. Melatonin supplements can help overcome it.

Maltese : “ Little White Dog Shaker Syndrome “ disease

Based on its name, “ Little White Dog Shaker Syndrome “ disease is a condition that cause whole body vibrate and usually experienced by a small fluffy white dogs ( although dogs with other fur color may also be affected by this disease. It is caused by the cerebellum inflammation and produce vibration that can make the dog almost cannot walk. But the good news, this disease can be treated by corticosteroids, not painful for dogs, and usually subside after a few weeks.