As this is my dogs 8th birthday, to celebrate him and his breed, I decided to write a bit about him and Field Spaniels.
Primo is my second field spaniel, and my second dog. The reason why I got into the breed was pure fate, nothing less. At the time I was 14 years old, and lost all my friends due to the fact that I didn’t...
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It seems that there’s some sort of an anti-breeding and anti-dog show movement going around the world at the moment. It is the age old myth raising it’s head again, that pure bred dogs suffer from more illnesses than the mixed. Let me shed some light on this…
I have a pure bred, of course, but I don’t want to...
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This here is my dog. Cute, isn’t he? Looks very friendly and cuddly, doesn’t he? Most of the time, that is exactly what he is too. He is the most loving and friendly dog with adults and over 7-year olds or so, which would be all that he should be fine with in his every day life. He is not at all used to young children...
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I bet you have heard the tip of activating your dog by hiding treats for him to find. Today, I did that in reverse, and found myself activated as well as the dog. I gave the dog two small meaty bones as he needs 325 grams of stuff per serving, and I didn’t have the right size handy, so I gave him two. So he picks the other...
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Australia is a fantastic place for dogs – at least if you compare it to Finland, where we came from. One of the advantages is an easy access to butchers scraps, that make excellent and inexpensive dog food. Quite surprisingly, not all people know what excellent food it is! I mentioned “barfing” to a veterinarian,...
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Did you know that dogs don’t sweat? I recently came into an understanding, that it wasn’t such common knowledge as I always thought it was. Dogs don’t have the glands to sweat, and the way they reduce body heat is by panting. The longer their tongue hangs out, the more they reduce heat. Sweating on the other hand,...
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