Puppy Farms & Puppy Supermarkets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS0u1DM5ndk&sns=fb
Which dog food?
http://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/
Click on the food you are researching, look out for ingredients highlighted in red as they are ones you should treat with concern. Then scroll down and read the review, they don't all have reviews, mainly the ones with concerns.
How to tell if a dog wants to be petted.
http://doggonesafe.blogspot.ca/2012/08/want-truth-ask-your-dog.html
Kennel Club - Council Dog Control Orders
The Kennel Club website with details of which councils have brought the Dog Control Act into force and which councils are at discussion stage.
Greater Manchester, High Peak, Tameside and Macclesfield already have orders in place. Click here to visit site.
Two Puppies
It is not a good idea to have two puppies at the same time. They often bond with one and other rather than with you and you will find training a lot more difficult than if you wait until your first pup is a good role model to your next pup. Google "Litter Mate Syndrome." They don't even have to be from the same litter to cause problems. The ideal is to wait until the first one is eighteen months or older.
Here's a light hearted video to show what having two pups together can cause... Click here to visit site.
The Pros and Cons of Neutering
Please leave breeding to the experts. A bitch doesn't need a litter to fulfill her. A male dog can be more aggressive to other male dogs once he's been used as a stud dog.
Puppy "supermarkets" tend to source their puppies from puppy farms which are little more than battery farming. Please purchase a pup from a responsible breeder that does all the health checks relevant to that breed and make sure you see the pup's mother.
Or why not give a "rescue dog" a home?
Raisins, grapes and onions are all toxic to dogs.
http://www.ukvet.co.uk/ukvet/articles/toxicology%20-%20raisins.pdf
Ticks & Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is on the increase. Please follow the link to read more about it. Click here to visit site.