Author: Healthy Dog Club

Calming Techniques: Unlock Five Tips for Grooming Your Anxious Pup

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Is your furry friend less than thrilled about spa days at home, but the necessity of regular brushing and nail care persists? Fret not! We’ve got five game-changing tips to turn grooming into a pleasant experience for both you and your beloved pet Is your furry friend less than thrilled about spa days at home, but the necessity of regular brushing and nail care persists? Fret not! We’ve got five game-changing tips to turn grooming into a pleasant experience for both you and your beloved pet. Master the Setup: Practice…

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Guide to Achieving Reliable Off-Leash Training:

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Establish firm responses to your commands while your dog is on a leash, then progress to a long line. When transitioning to an unfenced area, gradually introduce distractions. Is your dog yearning for the freedom of running off-leash? The vision of them sprinting across an open meadow, unrestrained and wind-ruffled, chasing scents into the woods is a quintessential dog fantasy. Regrettably, many dogs never get to experience this thrill because their owners haven’t trained them to be reliably off-leash. If your dog is constantly tied to you like an umbilical…

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Glutathione — the king of antioxidants

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The glutathione antioxidant is a tiny but powerful nutrient that is vital to your dogs cell health, liver function and immunity. Mention antioxidants, and most people think of vitamin C or beta carotene. But there are other, less commonly known antioxidants that are even more important to overall health and well being. One of these is glutathione. It’s a tiny but powerful and abundant protein compound made up of three amino acids. This antioxidant exists in every single cell of your dog’s body, where it protects the minuscule but important…

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How to groom your dog’s nails

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Let’s get this out of the way first: Nobody, it seems, likes trimming dog nails. Not you, not the dog, nor anyone else who may be called upon to take on nail-clipping for you (such as a technician at your local veterinary hospital or even a professional groomer). But for the health of your dog, it must be done, and should be done frequently enough to keep your dog’s nails short. These tools can help get the job done. Nail clippers use blades to remove the tip of the nail.…

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How you can engage your pup during quarantine

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Be it a cold day, a rainy day, a shelter- at-home order, or a day when you just want to have some enjoyable quality time with your pup, there are plenty of indoor games you can play at home with your dog. A simple, classic indoor game is hide and seek. Since dogs lead first with their nose, then their ears and lastly, their eyes, you want to design your hide and seek game appropriately. A dog’s sense of smell is estimated to be anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 times…

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To feed or not to feed grain

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Dogs are not engineered to gain a significant portion of their nutrition from grains. This explains the large, soft stools excreted by most kibble-fed dogs. It is clearly processed poorly by the dog. Many vets agree that corn, wheat and soy may cause allergies, skin and coat problems. Overfeeding grains may be a big factor in the frequency of canine obesity today. This in turn may cause or aggravate many other health problems. Grain-based diets promote bad dental health and that can lead to systemic infections and weakening of all…

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Boost your pups immunity with probiotics

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Just like in humans, the majority of a dog’s immune system resides in his gut. Im sure you have heard about the gut and brain axis and the importance it has for our mental and physical well being. The gut is the largest immune organ in the body and contains approximately 70% of all immune cells. So keeping your dog’s digestive system running optimally is essential to making sure that he stays healthy, active, and lives a full and healthy life. One way to potentially improve your dog’s digestive health…

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Should I Give My Dog Supplements?

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Vitamins and supplements found at health stores and pharmacies are all the rage these days — from multivitamins to specialty supplements that are designed to support specific bodily functions. So does that mean you should also add a supplement to your pet’s daily ration of food to keep him or her healthy? Not only is this not necessarily true for most dogs, in some cases it can be harmful. Commercial pet foods are formulated to meet all the nutrient requirements a dog needs to thrive. Unlike our diets, which vary…

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