In this segment of Pooches at Play, Gyton Grantley chats with Mick from PETstock about their new Glow puppy food range. Mick also provides some useful tips for ensuring your puppy gets the right start in life with optimum nutrition through diet, as well as some other puppy tips to help new dog owners.
Grooming puppies and anxious dogs can be tough on everyone involved so it’s important when you wash a puppy for the first time that you make it a positive experience. Get them used to their paws being touched Before you wash a puppy, you first want to get them used to having their paws touched by gently massaging them between the pads. This also helps...
In this segment, Pooches at Play Host Gyton Grantley meets up with Cam from PETstock Puppy School to find out why it is so important to take your puppy to puppy school in the first 8-16 weeks of it's life. Known as the Critical Period of Development, this is the time a puppy learns all about the world, the good and the bad, and the...
Puppies love treats so it’s important to choose a puppy treat that will help meet the different nutritional needs puppies have compared to an older dog, like the Vitapet Milky Sticks. What to look for in a puppy treat Because puppies have a lot of energy to burn we need to feed them more frequently than adult dogs, with different protein and fat levels, as...
National Puppy Day is on March 23 and is a day to celebrate the magic and unconditional love that puppies bring to our lives. It's also a day to help save homeless puppies across the globe and raise awareness about the dark nature of puppy mills and backyard breeding practices by choosing to adopt not shop. Unfortunately I believe some people are still getting a...
If you're planning on bringing home a new puppy and would like it to go on a raw food diet there are a few things to consider. Chris from Big Dog Pet Food gives us the rundown in the video above. Introducing your puppy to raw food It's a good idea to find out from the breeder what diet your puppy was previously on. Usually,...
If you’re in the process of toilet training a puppy, or perhaps you might even have a dog that still has some issues with peeing inside, then there are a few things you can do that can assist in the process. Toilet training is not a quick process and there WILL be accidents around the house, so it is important to never punish your puppy...
Bringing a new puppy home is an exciting time for everyone. It’s also a crucial time for puppy socialisation activities to help ensure it can overcome the instinctive fear that dogs have of humans and many other things in our world. The reason why we need focus on puppy socialisation as early and as positively as possible, is that because everything that a dog learns...
Lara and Trish Harris from NDTF/Four Paws K9 Dog Training, discuss a puppy's critical period of development and the importance of early puppy socialisation.
When training a puppy or dog new skills, using positive reinforcement (ie: rewarding the desired behaviour) works best. It is also important to know how to use a ‘Schedule of Reinforcement’ correctly during the different stages of training a puppy or dog with the aim of strengthening the behaviour you are after. Firstly, find what motivates them When training a puppy or dog you need...
In this segment of Pooches at Play, Gyton Grantley chats with Mick from PETstock about their new Glow puppy food range. Mick also provides some useful tips for ensuring your puppy gets the right start in life with optimum nutrition through diet, as well as some other puppy tips to help new dog owners.
Grooming puppies and anxious dogs can be tough on everyone involved so it’s important when you wash a puppy for the first time that you make it a positive experience. Get them used to their paws being touched Before you wash a puppy, you first want to get them used to having their paws touched by gently massaging them between the pads. This also helps...
In this segment, Pooches at Play Host Gyton Grantley meets up with Cam from PETstock Puppy School to find out why it is so important to take your puppy to puppy school in the first 8-16 weeks of it's life. Known as the Critical Period of Development, this is the time a puppy learns all about the world, the good and the bad, and the...
Puppies love treats so it’s important to choose a puppy treat that will help meet the different nutritional needs puppies have compared to an older dog, like the Vitapet Milky Sticks. What to look for in a puppy treat Because puppies have a lot of energy to burn we need to feed them more frequently than adult dogs, with different protein and fat levels, as...
National Puppy Day is on March 23 and is a day to celebrate the magic and unconditional love that puppies bring to our lives. It's also a day to help save homeless puppies across the globe and raise awareness about the dark nature of puppy mills and backyard breeding practices by choosing to adopt not shop. Unfortunately I believe some people are still getting a...
If you're planning on bringing home a new puppy and would like it to go on a raw food diet there are a few things to consider. Chris from Big Dog Pet Food gives us the rundown in the video above. Introducing your puppy to raw food It's a good idea to find out from the breeder what diet your puppy was previously on. Usually,...
If you’re in the process of toilet training a puppy, or perhaps you might even have a dog that still has some issues with peeing inside, then there are a few things you can do that can assist in the process. Toilet training is not a quick process and there WILL be accidents around the house, so it is important to never punish your puppy...
Bringing a new puppy home is an exciting time for everyone. It’s also a crucial time for puppy socialisation activities to help ensure it can overcome the instinctive fear that dogs have of humans and many other things in our world. The reason why we need focus on puppy socialisation as early and as positively as possible, is that because everything that a dog learns...
Lara and Trish Harris from NDTF/Four Paws K9 Dog Training, discuss a puppy's critical period of development and the importance of early puppy socialisation.
When training a puppy or dog new skills, using positive reinforcement (ie: rewarding the desired behaviour) works best. It is also important to know how to use a ‘Schedule of Reinforcement’ correctly during the different stages of training a puppy or dog with the aim of strengthening the behaviour you are after. Firstly, find what motivates them When training a puppy or dog you need...
