Cat: Introducing Dogs and Cats
Find your pet’s perfect match. Before taking the plunge, it’s important to know whether the
dog you’re considering is a good candidate to live with your cat and vice versa.
Find your pet’s perfect match. Before taking the plunge, it’s important to know whether the
dog you’re considering is a good candidate to live with your cat and vice versa.
Do you have a bundle of joy on the way? Congratulations! Introducing a newborn baby into your home is a big change for the entire family, including the family dog. However, a baby on the way shouldn’t mean an eviction notice for your dog.
Like people, dogs perform better when they are reinforced for their achievements. Rewards
maintain the motivation and build a positive human-animal bond.
Submissive urination is a fear-related appeasement behavior that happens when a dog feels
threatened—regardless of whether or not the threat is real or only exists in the dog’s head.
Repetitive behavior— or the clinical name “stereotypic behavior”—is a normal behavior
performed in a repetitive and compulsive manner. We don’t know if dogs obsess the way
humans do, so we can’t call these behaviors obsessive compulsive.
Socialization is the process by which your puppy learns to be comfortable with all the things in her environment. If this sounds like a big project, it is.
The sheer amount of biting and mouthing your puppy subjects you and your clothing to can be
shocking, even a little alarming. The good news, however, is it’s normal and healthy behavior,
and not in any way an indication your puppy will grow up to be aggressive.
Chewing is a normal and important activity for puppies and adult dogs. Lifetime habits form early and puppies need guidance in learning what is theirs to chew and what is not.
Nobody knows for sure why dogs eat poop, but we do know it’s a common and natural behavior in dogs (and many other species). Scientists think the practice originated as a way to keep the den area free of parasites and avoid attracting other predators.