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Sometimes your pet's behavior can have you at your wit's end! Please browse these short tip sheets for useful information you can use right away. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the files, which are in PDF format. Basic Dog Training Techniques DOES YOUR DOG GET ON THE FURNITURE and refuse to get off? Nudge your hand and insist on being petted or played with? Refuse to come when called? Defend his food bowl or toys from you? If so, a training technique called “nothing in life is free” may be just the solution you’re looking for. Download the Tip Sheet Now Cats: Destructive Scratching Because scratching is a normal behavior and one that cats are highly motivated to display, it’s unrealistic to try to prevent them from scratching. Instead, the goal in resolving scratching problems is to redirect the scratching onto acceptable objects. Download the Tip Sheet Now Crate Training Your Dog Crate training takes some time and effort, but it is a provenway to help train dogs who act inappropriately withoutknowing any better. If you have a new dog or puppy, youcan use the crate to limit his access to the house until helearns all the house rules—like what he can and can’t chewon and where he can and can’t eliminate. Download the Tip Sheet Now Dogs: Destructive Chewing SOONER OR LATER EVERY DOG LOVERreturns home to find some unexpected damage inflicted by his or her dog...or, morespecifically, that dog’s incisors and molars. Although dogs make great use of their vision and sense of smell to explore the world, one of their favoriteways to take in new information is to put their mouths to work. Fortunately, chewing can be directed onto appropriate items so your dog isn’tdestroying items you value or jeopardizing his own safety. Download the Tip Sheet Now Dog Toys: Why You Need Them FOR DOGS AND OTHER ANIMAL COMPANIONS, toys are not a luxury,but a necessity. Toys help fight boredom in dogs left alone, and toys can even help prevent some problem behaviors from developing. Download the Tip Sheet Now Introducing a New Cat to Other Pets WOULDN’T IT BE NICE if all it took to introduce a new cat to your resident pet were a brief handshake and a couple of “HELLO, MyName Is...” name-tags? Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple, which means you’ll need to have some realistic expectations from the outset. Download the Tip Sheet Now Solving Litterbox Problems YOU’RE HAVING A HARD TIMEpersuading your cat to head for the litterbox when it’s appropriate, it may be time to draw a line in the sand. Most catsprefer eliminating on a loose, grainy substance, which is why they quickly learnto use a litter box. But when their preferences include the laundry basket, the bed, or the Persian rug, you may find yourself with a difficult problem. Download the Tip Sheet Now Dogs: Reducing Separation Anxiety We don’t fully understand why some dogs suffer fromseparation anxiety and, under similar circumstances, othersdon’t. It’s important to realize, however, that the destructionand house soiling that often occur with separation anxietyare not the dog’s attempt to punish or seek revenge on his owner for leaving him alone. In reality, they are part of a panic response. Download the Tip Sheet Now Unusual Eating Habits in Dogs and Cats YOUR PET HAS AN APPETITE FOR such oddities as socks, rocks, oreven feces, chances are you’ve wondered—and worried—about her unusualeating habits. In this case, your worry may be justified: Not only can yourpossessions be destroyed or damaged, but objects such as clothing and rockscan produce life-threatening blockages in your pet’s intestines. Download the Tip Sheet Now Reducing Urine-Marking Behavior in Dogs and Cats Some pets may go to the extreme of urinating ordefecating to mark a particular area as their own. Urine-marking is not a house soiling problem. Instead, it is considered territorial behavior. Therefore, to resolvethe problem, you need to address the underlying reasonfor your pet’s need to mark his territory in this way.Before this can be done, however, take your pet to the veterinarian to rule out any medical causes for his behavior. Download the Tip Sheet Now |
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