Common cares

Dog is the best friend of man ; learn how to become the best friend of your dog!
Dr F. MERY

• Safety:
  • For its safety it must be identified, tattooed. . You have to know that less than 0.2 % of not tattooed, unidentifiable dogs, find their owners again after having been lost, all the others (99.8 %) die.
  • His collar must neither wound his skin, nor wear out his fur.
  • Never tie a dog under the direct sun because he may die of a stroke.
  • Never tie a dog under the rain, he may die of hypothermia (= cold).
  • The dog must go out or be liberated from his tie at least 3 times a day in order to let off steam and make his nature calls without turning mad.
• Feeding:
  • He needs clean fresh water at will, permanently. Worrying for hygiene, keep in mind to change the water as often as possible.
  • Plates must always be clean in suitable places: He must be able to follows his calls of Nature far from it.
  • He must not be left without food, he must eat accurately, at least once a day.
• Washing:
  • A dog will be washed only three or four times a year, with warm water and a special soap, not grease-removing, otherwise his fur loose its impermeability and he may die freezing cold, even here.
• Medical vigilance:
  • Control the cleanliness of ears, watch fleas and mange. An ill dog must be cured, like us, he doesn't cure always by himself and, on long-lasting, may die.
  • In case of unknown signs allowing to suppose that the dog may be ill, BEFORE it turns serious, a call to a VETERINARIAN allows to avoid troubles.
  • If his eyes are red (inflamed conjunctivitis) and are watery, if the dog, on morning, has deposits at the eyes corner, wash it with black tea.
  • During nervous lactation, or nervous gestation, 2 months after the heat, give some parsley in some meat, and make cold water with a touch of vinegar added compresses on breasts. (1 tablespoon in 1/2 litre of cold water, cold don't means frozen ...)
• Behaviour:
  • He understands NOTHING to the punishment reason after few minutes, he forgot what he did: It is almost stupid and couter-productive to punish him far from the time he did his mischief.
  • He can turn mad if he is punished all the time while he can't understand why. It is a mistreatment punished by the law, and recover is always long.
  • He can turn mad if he stays tied with a leash less than 3 feet long. It is a mistreatment punished by the law, and recover is always long.
  • He can turn mad if he stays tied for days. It is a mistreatment punished by the law, and recover is always long.
  • He can turn mad if he is randomly punished for things he is encouraged to do the rest of the time. It is a mistreatment.

The fact the dog comes under the absolute dependence of his owner impose duties to this one.
Jacques BRENNER

Education

Only well-trained dogs are loved by people!
The one who don't know how to educate a child will never knows how to train a dog (and conversely).

* To train a dog there is to know how:

• to give an order in a clear manner on a command tone,
• to reprimand,
• to give strokes with voice and with hand ; it is a reward which deserve any well done job.

By voice, the master may and must obtain anything.

* There is:

• to banish the taming collar with nails which is a torture tool,
• to banish electric pulse training tools,
• to proscribe blows as for any brutality,
• to stifle any impatience and to contain any burst of anger, to be even-tempered.

* Remember that:

• the dog is loyal and obedient to his master like, in Nature, he is with his pack chief,
• the master must place himself, by his behaviour , on top of the dog-hierarchy,
• by definition, the master is considered by the dog, as a superior, a protector, a chief,
• In dogs, the chief eats always before the others, never eat just after your dog,
• a dog must respect his master, but he must not fear him
• the dog recognizes his master by smell, then by his voice, and finally by eyesight.

* Dog trainning start at three months old, softly, by successive steps.

* It is obvious that a dog don't want to joint up his master if he is striked when he reaches him.
  All dogs have understood that, but not all owners ...

A well-educated dog don't need trainning.

* If we desire a guard dog, he must not be constantly tied up, this would turn him raging.
  A vicious dog is never a good guard.
  Apart from dogs fearful from birth, all dogs may become good guards.
  They know what belongs to the master, they have the home smell in nose.

Some masters seems having a dog only to revenge against life.
  The dog is then a scapegoat.

Mistreatments are punished by the law.

Bites

A dog who bite is not necessarily a vicious, aggressive, dangerous one.

1. He have the right to bite when:

• he guards,
• he is deliberately provoked.
• Attacked: he defends himself.

2. He is forgiveable to have bitten when:

• He has been pushed voluntarily or not (to pull or walk on his tail, by example),
• He has been frightened (by surprise, silently, awaken with a start ...),
• Someone took his bone, his food or his toy from him,
• Someone tried to separate fighting dogs,
• He has been teased until iritation,
• A vet makes him an injection,
• He nips or bite a man strongly smelling alcohol,
• He bites a man in uniform, in a white coat, in rags,
• He attacks by grundge (remember of a mistreatment of which he revenges).

3. Dangerous dogs are those who bite and are aggressive without apparent reason, without provocation, those for which it is impossible to forecast or explain the reactions.
These are:

• Fearful dogs, bitting by fear,
• Dogs suffering from inferiority complex (yappies),
• Dogs with corrupted temperament, turned quarrelsome (too tied up, too locked in, mistreated),
• Jealous dogs,
• Dogs having whims or neurosis (depending on temperature, athmospheric pressure, during the rutting or heat, who dislike some smellings or some noises...),
• Badly trainned dogs (chasing, even out of their home, after cyclists, cats, other dogs...),
• Dogs with nervous diseases (Carré disease, epilepsy, etc.).

These dogs are to be treated, trained, educated, re-educated or to euthanise.

There is to teach childrens (and some adults) that they must never touch a dog they don't know well.

There is not to fear a dog when he opens his mouth, but actually when he shuts it.

Overpopulation

All puppies have a mother, but they don't all find a home.

Puppies in excessive numbers are devoted
to be abandonned, badly treated, badly feeded, badly cared, badly placed:
they always end badly.

How to avoid unwanted puppies?

1. Watching the bitch while in heat.
2. Avoiding to let "running his dog".
3. Using a contraceptive method (pills, injection).
4. Interrupting any gestation by the veterinarian within the week following the mate.
5. 'Euthanasiing' babies at birth (it's FREE here).
6. By spaying the bitch when she is 11 months old (before her first heats).
7. By neutering the dog at any age, but never before at least 1 year: A too early sterilisation may weaken him for life.

Lately castrated dogs and spayed bitches have tendancies to stoutness.
There is to reduce their food intake, somtimes by half, and to give them exercise.

It is absolutely not necessary for the health of a bitch that she have puppies "at least once during her life".