Your dog, your loyal and reliable friend, needs not only your love, but also protection even if it not a tiny toy terrier, but a huge Bordeaux mastiff. Why it is necessary to protect a pet? From aggression from other dogs, from diseases, from stealing, in the summer from a heat, in the winter from cold, and in the spring from fleas and ticks and it is not the complete list. And if the veterinarian can help you to avoid diseases and to be protected from insects, then all the rest should be controlled most.
Instruction
1. How to protect a dog from aggression from other dogs? First of all try to avoid such situations. If you conduct the pet on a lead and in a muzzle, and see how the stray dog or a dog whose owner does not find it necessary to control it approaches you, pass to the other side of the street better. If the aggressive-minded dog already rushes to you, try to take the dog on hands. Even, if you have not a "pocket doggie", it is quite possible that to lift and some time to hold her you will be able. Get up in an aggressive rack, with widely placed legs, present that you both your dog very big and very strong and surely order the coming aggressor – "To Stand!", "Home!", "Foo!". If in those places where you walk, aggressive-minded dogs not a rarity, get special means of protection. Buy the frightening-off spray or a dog electroconvulsive gun in pet-shop. Be ready to apply them.
2. How to protect a dog from stealing? It for you a dog the friend and the faithful companion, and for someone just a profit source. Do not let out the pet from a field of vision when you lower it from a lead. Do not leave one on the seasonal dacha and do not lock in the car. There are people who want to have such dog as yours, but she is too expensive for them and not all from these people are honest. Attach to a collar of a dog "cartridge" with a note with the text of approximately following contents "This dog needs daily expensive treatment. If you found it, call, please, owners and save it life". If someone stole your dog for the love of this breed and a disastrous financial position, he can think of truthfulness of these words, regret and return a dog.
3. How to protect a dog from a heat? In the summer especially carefully you watch that in a bowl of your pet there was a lot of pure fresh water. If the dog is the most part of day on the street, check whether it has an opportunity to take refuge in a shadow. Whether the lead reaches? Whether rather dense shadow? In especially hot days pour over a dog water from a hose several times in a day. If your pet has a gentle pink nose and the same paunch, apply on them sunblock cream and you watch that the doggie did not pinch it before it is absorbed. Dogs have skin cancer too. It is not necessary to shave a dog on it is bald that her it was easier to transfer a heat. Fur of your dog protects it from solar burns and from insects. Better regularly comb out a dog, deleting surplus of wool.
4. How to protect a dog in the winter? In the winter our pets also suffer from cold and dryness of skin, as well as we. But, if the freezing dog we guess to dress up, then to learn that the dog suffers from the dry and angry skin to us it is possible not always. In cold season, wash a dog as seldom as possible. Too frequent bathing can deprive its fur of the natural oils protecting wool and leather. Comb out even short-haired dogs as often as possible. Combing helps to get rid of the died-off cages and stimulates production of skin fat. Surely wash paws to a dog when you come from the street. In the winter of the street strew with salt and chemicals which can damage small pillows of paws, besides the dog can lick paws and absorb these hazardous substances
5. How to protect a dog from household dangers? Dogs sometimes behave as small children therefore rules of safe life with small children are applicable also for pets. Remove far away chemicals and medicines. Do not leave small objects which it is possible to swallow and injure intestines on a floor. You watch closely the jewelry. A tiny earring, being swallowed, it is capable to kill big to the sobakena leave unguarded chocolate and tasty greasy food. If the last is dangerous only at regular abuse, then the dog can and get poisoned with chocolate outright. Hide under a wire plinth from household appliances. Make sure that toxic plants, such as azaleas, rhododendrons, lilies and poinsettias are inaccessible for a dog.
6. You drive the pet of times during a season on survey to the veterinarian in time to carry out all preventive procedures.