12 Things You Should Never Do to Your Dog
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
- In this video, we will talk about 12 common mistakes dog owners unknowingly make when they are caring for their canine companions.
Not trimming their nails
Clipping your dog's nails is more than a cosmetic chore.
In the wild, dogs and wolves run and walk on hard, rough surfaces on a daily basis and this will slowly and continuously wear down their nails and keep them short.
Long nails are a hazard to your dog because they can curl into the skin and cause your dog great pain. In some cases, the nails can also split down to the quick, a blood vessel and nerve found in the nail.
Longer dog nails also make it harder for dogs to walk around comfortably. When your dog’s nails hit the floor constantly as they walk, it can put more pressure on the nail bed. This pressure can force your dog to distribute their weight differently while they walk, which can affect the way their toe and paw joints are aligned.
Yanking on leash or using a choke collar
Regularly yanking on their leash can result in a neck fracture.
Never yank on a dog’s leash for discipline. Canines have a hyoid bone near the base of their tongue that can be fractured. These fractures can cause a multitude of health problems. In fact, high rates of thyroid issues have been observed in large dogs that frequently pull on the leash.
Reports show an average of 26,000 dogs every year are injured in a collar related accident.
Using a choke collar, which constricts when the dog pulls away, is also dangerous.
Teasing your dog
Young children and even some adults can be especially guilty of teasing a dog. Barking back at them behind a fence, riding a big dog, pulling on tails or ears, or even wrestling with an unwilling dog are certainly annoying and can make dogs upset or even aggressive.
Having access to your bathroom
Dogs should be kept out of the bathroom and away from the toilet.
Toilet bowls do not contain clean water that is appropriate for your pet to consume. Keep the lid down so your dog cannot access the bowl.
In addition to housing dirty water, many bathrooms contain cleaning chemicals and personal-care products that may be toxic to canines.
Giving your dog ice to eat or play with.
In hot summer days, many dog owners pass their dog an ice cube to play with, or fill their water bowls with ice.
However, it isn't good for dogs to chomp on ice.
Ice is a common culprit in broken dog teeth. These broken teeth are painful and can easily become infected, requiring either tooth extraction or root canal. Cold water, or frozen dog-safe fruits like apples or carrots are a better choice for warm-weather dog treats.
Leaving a dog alone in the yard
All dogs should have access to the outdoors. But never leave your dog in your yard in the hot sun, or during the cold winter months.
In hot weather, dogs can quickly become dehydrated and overheat.
In cold weather, dogs can suffer from frostbite, which can cause permanent damage to the skin and tissues.
Not taking breaks during playtime
Just like people, dogs often need a break from even the most fun activities. Pushing your four-legged friend to play for long periods of time can lead to exhaustion.
When your dog becomes tired, they are more likely to hurt themselves and also feel soreness in the following days/
Most dogs love chasing and fetching a ball, but constant, repetitive ball chasing can have consequences to your dog's physical health.
Likewise, choose the best time of the day to play with your dog. Adjust intensity and duration of exercise in accordance with the temperature. Pushing them too hard or exercising in the extreme heat can be taxing on the animals’ body.
Playing with your dog on a humid day
Just as exercising a dog on a 90-degree day can lead to heatstroke, playing outside when it's 80 degrees with 80% humidity can also can also cause heat sickness.
When the humidity rises, even relatively low summer temperatures can be too hot for outdoor playtime.
Dogs pant to evaporate moisture from their lungs, which takes heat away from their body. If the humidity is too high, they are unable to cool themselves and their temperature will skyrocket to dangerous levels-very quickly
Punishing Fearful Behavior
Cowering, tucked tail, flattened ears, and growling are all signs that your pup is not comfortable in a particular situation. What they need at these times is to be calmly and quietly removed from the upsetting stimulus. Yelling and over-assertiveness on your part will only escalate the situation.
Some people believe that comforting a frightened dog reinforces their fear. But this isn’t true. You can’t reinforce emotions such as fear the same way you reinforce a behavior.
During stressful situations such as fireworks and thunderstorm, remain calm and soothe your dog with toys and calming music.
Another mistakes owners make is to get a dog based on looks and cropped there ears and cut there tail thinking it's not painful and benefits the dog with is wrong, if you want a dog get one and love it as it is it's supposed to be family not an object,
👏😻👍Yes!!! Cropping & Docking are painfully unnecessary procedures whose reasons for being are outdated & unnecessary for most regular, law abiding citizens. *Unless they are a working dog who's at risk of the injuries that are one of the reasons that this was done back in the day.
@@tammyrawdon3587 yes there's still a tiny mistake even a working dog like a hunters dog doesn't need cut ears only the tail gets cut short but also not fully so they can Still communicate :), at least it's forbidden in most places in Europe but some still don't care enough and I hope it will change someday to most dogs that are cropped life in the USA and only ther u got so many aggression problems, because there are not enough rules to settle the well being of the dog it's about monye and that the dogs are seen as object, in exchange there are still lots of illegal dog fights and violent dogs it's not the dogs fault it's the humans that don't care, but I'm glad u know that :) because there are too many that tell themselves it's ok and does benefit the dog and would hurt just to ease ther mind myths spread fast unfortunately
@@tammyrawdon3587 my dog and I are very active if I don’t cut his ears and he gets cut the risk of infection is high
@@elijahvasquez8136 Then that would fall under "a working dog who's at (high) risk of the injuries..." like I said?
Although personally it'd take more than being very active (we're in the woods, hike, have an agility course, host training classes, travel) for me to do that to them.
But I don't need to because I rely more on training (than tools) to stop them from going into risky situations.
The upside is that people didn't usually realize they were Doberman, Rottweiler & Pittie because none of them were cropped &/or docked, so we rarely had to deal with the negative stigmas & prejudices of Breedism.
My handyman just had 2 dogs (but not the black Lab) taken just bc of their breeds😾👎 they didn't even have an "incident" or a warning much less a ticket or anything 😿 The cops just took them (2out of3) from the fenced back yard (from what I was told) & the kids are so sad.
And yes, one is a Pitbull type breed.
I'll do whatever I want to my dog. My dog lives better than yours and I treat it like a dog not a human.
Thank you for the useful information presented look forward to some more valuable guidelines
Most people don't deserve dogs.
@@YourGirlKristy u have a roxblox pfp so I doubt that
These help me so much
Thanks
Remi
i love dogs!❤ty for saying that
Wow I didn’t know that
Choke collars are so commonly misused that I don’t think it’s ethical to sell them.
Its not ethical to even use fhem
Really? What about cars, knives, bats, hammers, chains & prescription drugs? (among others) 🤔 All of which are commonly misused for deadly purposes. Education vs Censorship... Knowledge is Power. Banning is black market fodder.
When used properly they are an excellent TEMPORARY training tool.
@@tammyrawdon3587 if education were effective, millions of people wouldn't have died due to cars for example. Hence we need to restrict them more and mitigate them and find alternatives. Same applies for collars there are more ethical collars that can be used
@@soaringstars314 But when those don't work after you've progressed your way through them and it's a choice between more aggressive temporary training tools or putting them to death?...🤷
I've been doing Animal Rescue Work for about 40yrs and I can promise you that sometimes people fůck up animals so badly that they have actual trauma & PTSD which manifests as extreme aggression.
If you cannot "fix them" to a certain extent then they cannot be "safe enough" to be around and no one wants to be responsible for the liability of them injuring or killing someone.
Have you not seen the recent headlines?!? All those people who were in lockdown over covid who got pets but didn't bother to learn about them are now dealing with killer pets ☠️😾☠️ and the legal ramifications.
@@tammyrawdon3587 no. There has to be a line drawn I'm never supporting those
@6:34 YESSIRRR BIG DAWG BIG BLOOD GANG BLATTTTTTT🅱️🏆🩸
I told my brother this but unfortunately he didn't believe me but I believe
I love how a bat is on the thumbnail as if hitting your dog with it is just an 'oopsie' mistake people make.
LMFAO
Use a Dremel. It works better and better once used to it they seem to prefer it.
You can get really cheap "PediPaws" dog nail grinders at the yard sales of people who don't bother to desensitize their pets to it before using it... they blame the dog, get mad & toss it.
Thank you cuz my dog hahaha loves and I was just the 1st 11 who knew that and didn't say it would like how did you know what's the but I was like I told you you better not know a "once
That sentence made no sense what so ever but alr
I told them nothing more heartworms
This was 3 days ago and good morning
Most of these are common sense. Some people just shouldn't have a dog.
Yes I think we have failed on the toilet one.. 😂
But what if a dog doesn't chomp on ice though?
I'm only watching this video to ask you are pupsicles good for dogs
As an occasional treat you can make pupsicles with broth (watch out for onion-garlic-salt if store bought) in a paper cup (or?). When it's ½ way frozen, you can put a "milkbone" ½ way in it for a "popsicle stick"... &/or add bits of meat, vegetables or fruit, etc depending on what they like.
How do you get dogs to become friends. The new dog is jealous of the older dog. I don't know what to do.
I have to break up fights. It's not bad yet, but it is getting bad day by day.
In 3 years I’m going to get a dog.
The fact that the neighbours hqve a dog and I bark back idk why I just have a talent of good barking
Proper barking is just like a conversation with them and can even calm their protective instincts. But if it riles them up, they can be triggered to attack. Make sure that your neighbors know that you are just "saying Hi" or they may get "barking mad"😉
@@tammyrawdon3587 what if I said a swear word 👁🫦👁
NO!!!! No hurting animals
Nails e ✨️ we know, we have 1 mini maltezer extreme Nails growing 🙄 today vizit the pet doctor for vacation 2 other big dogs.... every time sche go whit the others to do here nails 💅 🙄 🤭🤣🤣🤣 thanks more 1 top video 👍
Have you seen those "hanging hammocks" with leg holes for trimming nails? I train mine so I don't have issues but it looks like a great idea for problem (nervous) dogs &/or owners.
In my experience, when dogs need a break from fetch, they take the ball to a shady spot and lie down.
I would never do anything like that to any dogs, but maybe two cats
If dogs are a man’s best friend, is a cat a woman’s best friend?
I HATED that ThUMBNAIL.. and if I ever catch an owner with a ball bat in his hand beating an animal- he WILL MOST LIKELY NOT SURVIVE!!! I hate animal abuse.. as to the nails-- WALK THEM-- on concrete or roads.. it works.. and it gives me a good workout.
I told them not to ignore worms
You know, never spent much training time ....Spend lots of time with them....but never intentional did training. I never did anything to train them to not pee or poo in the yard....They dont.....I guess they know it is their yard. The door is always cracked open the gate is always open...."Do whatever." Usually, they just wont go to the beach without me.
Why is my dog not doing anything with me ?
Welcome to the early comment section
Holy shit what's up with that thumbnail!?
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.😊
Fear: that which tells us that our lives are at risk and we need to react. Toxic positivity: falsifying reality and appearing real stupid & unempathetic.
In Ghana, we beat our dogs all the time
awful
how would you like it if someone beat you?’