Jan
25
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Ethan Parker asked:


Dog training, particularly for feisty dogs like Jack Russells, can be quite intimidating. Some owners, in fact, either give up or don’t bother in the first place.

Don’t let that happen to you. Especially when there’s a solution that will cost you less than a week’s worth of dog food!

SitStayFetch is that solution. With a wide variety of real dog training experts and veterinarians behind it, this course is the real deal. You get everything from house-training information that works, to proper corrective and obedience training info.

Even better, the course doesn’t teach you rules that only apply to one kind of dog; in fact, they cover specific techniques for handling all kinds of breeds and specific dogs. Which is great for me, because information about dachshunds isn’t going to necessarily help me with my German Shepherd.

The book and course recognize the fact that it may be easy to correct, say, a Labrador Retriver. A stubborn Border Collie, on the other hand, is a completely different story!

Included in the course is the comprehensive SitStayFetch Training book; an interactive audio version of the course; great bonus books, particularly “Secrets to Becoming the Alpha Dog”; and something no other dog training course offers: a personalized e-mail consultation (more on this below).

Surprisingly, it doesn’t cost much at all for this: just $37!. On top of that, there’s a two-month money-back-guarantee, and I know there are no questions asked, so you won’t have a problem (but hopefully you don’t need to resort to this measure!).

The service, as well, is top-notch. For no extra cost, we were able to e-mail not one but two long, detailed question about our dog problem. You’re only entitled to one question, but the staff were so friendly that they voluntarily sent me extra information and answered my other question–completely non-related!

On top of that, within a day of each, we got a fantastic, thorough reply that answered specific questions about our German Shepherd, Rory.

For that reason alone, we highly recommend SitStayFetch. At $37, can you really afford not to learn how to properly train your dog?



RICKIE
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Jan
20
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John Mailer asked:


Most dog owners whose pets are household family members consider it an inconvenience to evaluate dog food. Most rely on the usual dog biscuit recipe. They usually feed only one or two dogs, never weigh them, and rarely keep any records on them at all. Many base their selection of a dog food solely on how well their dog eats it, not on dog nutrition. Moreover, the shopper for the dog food is usually the same individual who shops for the rest of the family’s food; the housewife. From the early morning news to the final night-time talk show, the housewife is bombarded with TV commercials, newspaper ads, and magazine ads who are selling the virtues of one brand of dog food over another. Some have their own homemade dog biscuit recipe such as just mixing dog biscuits with leftovers from the family meal.

Food chosen for your dog should always be made by proper research and never by some TV commercial. Stop and consider for a moment that TV commercials and magazine ads are designed to sell you their dog food. So why are they highlight the food’s packaging and other promotions. After all, your dog can’t read and doesn’t understand a word the ad man pitches. Just remember your dog does have to eat the dogfood you buy and feed it.

Simply because you like your food with gravy is no reason to believe that your dog does. Just because some people say all your dog needs is meat won’t stop your dog from dying from the calcium deficiency produced when it is fed an all-meat diet. You may prefer that hickory smoked flavor, but your dog prefers the essence of rotten rabbit as his favourite dog treat recipe.

And, if you toss in a little extra human gravy to make sure your dog gobbles up his food without pausing for a breath, remember that how fast your dog eats a food has little to do with the nutritional value of that food. The mere fact that your dog eats a food every time it is fed is no indication whatever that the food is good for your dog. Most dogs love the all-animal-tissue foods, but an exclusive dog food diet of nothing but meat will prove fatal.

While dogs kept as pets may fall into any number of categories, only three are important where feeding is concerned. These three categories are related to where the dog lives: exclusively outdoors, outdoors/indoors, or exclusively indoors. There are naturally some areas of overlap, but these three categories are generally easy enough to separate. Most dog owners can place their dogs into the correct category without too much difficulty when it comes to the starting point of establishing what sort of dog food should make up his diet.



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