Communication Spell » Pets + Supplies http://www.communicationspell.com Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Dog Training For Beginners http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/14/dog-training-for-beginners/ http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/14/dog-training-for-beginners/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:59:37 +0000 admin http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/14/dog-training-for-beginners/ Training a dog is a fairly difficult task. Some find it to be very frustrating and simply send there dog or puppy to a professional trainer. Now if you have a dog that is completely wrecking or disrupting your life this may be a good idea. Before you take a look at a professional dog trainer you may want to try out some of these tips.

1. Make training fun for your dog. This means in order to get your dog to listen to you you need to reward him when he does things right. This means you need to praise your dog with treats and hugs.

2. If your dog is just a puppy you need to have very good patience. Puppies take longer getting used to the surrounding of there new home.

3. Potty training can be difficult for puppies because they have week bladders. The only way around this is to take him for walks in the mourning and at night. If he goes to the bathroom out side reward your puppy or dog.

4. You should never hit your dog. Its very important that you don’t use any form of physical contact. Dogs need to trust there owners. If your dog doesn’t trust you any more then you will find it hard to get him to obey.

5. Be consistent with your demands. If one person in your home lets him sleep on the bed then the rest will have to do the same. You simply cant have one person praising your dog and the other person screaming at it for the same thing.

These are all just some basic tips and advice for training your dog. It does help to have a good understanding of a dogs behaviour, but it certainly isn’t needed. The most important thing you can do is to just love and praise your dog when it obeys.

Tyler Casselman runs the website Super Dog Trainer witch you can visit at dog training
You will be able to find lots of tips and advice about dogs and dog training.

]]> http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/14/dog-training-for-beginners/feed/ 0 The Preakness Stakes (The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans) http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/04/the-preakness-stakes-the-run-for-the-black-eyed-susans/ http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/04/the-preakness-stakes-the-run-for-the-black-eyed-susans/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:52:39 +0000 admin http://www.communicationspell.com/archives/2008/06/04/the-preakness-stakes-the-run-for-the-black-eyed-susans/ The Preakness Stakes (“The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans) The Preakness Stakes is one of the famous thoroughbred racing events in the United States. It is the second phase of the prestigious “Triple Crown in Thoroughbred Racing.” The Preakness is held two weeks after each Kentucky Derby. During a dinner party hosted by Milton Hanford, John Hunter of New York proposed a thoroughbred race that would be held in the fall of 1870 and named as the Dinner Party Stakes in honor of the occasion. Governor Oden Bowie of Maryland suggested that the race be held in Maryland and pledged $15,000 for the construction of the track. The track, named the Pimlico Race Course, opened on October 25, 1870 and hosted the first Dinner Party Stakes. Three years later, the event was renamed to the Preakness Stakes in honor of the event’s first winner Preakness. Throughout the history of the Preakness, there were a number of changes in the course’s length. The course initially ran for 1.5 miles but after a series of adjustments, was finally set to 1.188 miles. Only 3-year old horses that meet certain weight specifications are allowed to run in the Preakness. The winner of the Preakness is presented with the Woodlawn Vase, one of the most coveted trophies in thoroughbred racing. Aside from the trophy, the winner also gets a blanket of black-eyed Susans, Maryland’s state flower. (Truth be told, the flowers are actually daisies dyed to look like Susans because the flower is not in bloom during the fall.) The biggest favorite for the 2008 Preakness (and its eventual winner) was the 2008 Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown.

Learn more about horse competitions on the Horse Sports site.

Rocking Ranches are ranches where competitive cutting horses are trained.

Alice Walton, founder of the Rocking W Ranch, is a horse enthusiast.

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