I love eating…especially when my owners have chicken for dinner and give me a little bite…like I said in the post before this one, I do beg, but I don’t get what I want until the owners are ready to cut it up and give it to me.
One thing dogs and their owners should know about many dog foods that you buy in the store is that they are heated up a lot while processing, and my nutritionist owner can tell you that kills a lot of the vitamins and nutrients that are in the food.
If your food doesn’t have the nutrients in it that your body needs, it can lead to many problems, including shedding and itchy skin. All dogs with fur (not hair like me, my hair grows like a human) shed when the weather gets warmer, but there are some dogs that shed all the time…their skin is dry because of missing essential oils and other nutrients in food.
So, like humans, dogs and even cats need supplements. One supplemental source you will want to look into is Dinovite.
You can learn more by going to the solutions center and completing the customized solution guide.
We depend on our human owners to take good care of us, because we can’t go out and find our own food…we have to eat whatever you give us, whether it’s healthy or not…why not help us out by giving us foods that are healthy, and when you aren’t sure whether they are healthy enough, giving us the pet supplements we need?
I’m not very excited about my owner sharing this article with you, I’m the “queen” of begging, and she says she thinks she’s guilty of thinking my begging is cute…it may be too late for me (I hope) but not for your dog. Enjoy the article and let us know if it helps.
Your Dog’s Behavior:
Why You Should Never Let Your Dog Beg For Food & Attention
By: Kelly Marshall
Unless they are trained not to do so, most dogs will form the habit of begging for attention and food. Some dog owners actually allow this behavior and think it s cute…not. Many people get extremely annoyed very quickly when their dog begins to beg every time he wants love, attention, and especially when he smells something delicious coming from your kitchen.
What is wrong with a begging dog?
Everything! Begging is another form of demanding and it gives your dog an aspect of control within the family pack . I describe a family as a pack because that is exactly how your dog sees it. While it may seem cute when Rex rolls over on his back expecting a belly rub every time you enter the room, or just sits all teary eyed staring straight at your hero sandwich when you re eating during the Super Bowl game, this behavior has the possibility to gain momentum and become hostile.
Just how hostile can a dog actually become?
If you do not think that your dog could ever actually bite your hand because he expects you to give him a fun snack every time he begs, think again. For years a friend of mine would hand feed his dog pieces of food at any time of the day he was eating. If it were breakfast, his dog would get a two pieces of toast. At lunch time my friend would hand feed his dog a few bites of his Rueben sandwich. The same went for super.
Months later, his dog matured and grew larger, and my friend did not realize that he was reinforcing a dominant leadership role into his dog every time he gave in to begging. Once he decided to alter this behavior with his dog, he learned very fast just how dangerous the situation was. At one of his meals, my friend refused to feed his dog anything and the begging and crying turned into hostile barking. Then without suddenly his dog jumped up onto his plate and snapped at his cheeseburger, taking a little bit of my friend’s finger along with it.
Begging can be eliminated with proper training
The example of my friend may seem a bit extreme and you still probably could never imagine you re cute dog biting you in the attempt to get a meal that he was wanting. This can develop into a real problem and you must start early in your dog’s life with instilling the rules when it comes to begging.
During meal time, you need to train your dog to sit and stay in a separate area when the family is eating food. This may take some time but eventually he will remain in a sit position until after your dinner is over and then of course you should praise his actions by offering him up a delicious meal that he can eat in his “own” food bowl, and only after everybody else is finished eating their meal.
Once again, my owner is feeding birds. I don’t mind too much, the fun thing about it is that sometimes squirrels will come and eat the seeds from one of the bird feeders, and I can bark at them…one of my favorite things to do.
It’s a very cloudy, rainy day today, but there’s a bright red feeder outside full of sweet liquid that the hummingbirds are coming too. I’m not sure that it’s a glass hummingbird feeder, it’s one that we’ve had for a very long time and will need to be replaced soon. All of the bird feeders that we are using…except the hummingbird feeder, are from birdfeeders.com. My owner really likes them a LOT, and loves to get their newsletter by email because it has a lot of educational information about birds. That’s how she knew that the hummingbirds had migrated into our area, they had a map in one of the newsletters telling us all the states where they hummingbirds had returned for the summer. There is an entire section about hummingbirds at the site, and a lot about other birds, too.
I’m glad she feeds me well, or I might get a little jealous of all the attention the animals outside get.
Click here is another post we did months ago with a video of me opening a box we received with a birdfeeders.com feeder in it.
Actually, I’m being nice…my owner has been lazy, she’s the one that does my typing for me, and she’s been busy doing other things. It has been hard enough to get her to take me for my walks, give me my snacks and give me my “tummy rubs” lately, and getting her to type for me has been impossible.
Oh don’t worry, she hasn’t totally ignored me. The weather is nice now, and sometimes she just wants to be outside, so we’ve been taking walks more. Other times she lets me run around the yard while she watches, because she knows I’ll sneak next door or run out in the road if I see a cat or something fun to chase. We have bears around here, too, so she does have to keep a close eye on me just because she loves me.
But we’ve missed blogging together, so will try to do better, and hope you are having a good summer so far.
I love eating…especially when my owners have chicken for dinner and give me a little bite…like I said in the post before this one, I do beg, but I don’t get what I want until the owners are ready to cut it up and give it to me.
