The muzzle is available not for each dog, owners of dogs of small and decorative breeds often do not find it necessary to buy it for the pets. Meanwhile, this accessory, according to the current legislation, is provided for all dogs who are together with the owner in the public place.
For what the muzzle is necessary
Can seem to someone that such measure is excessive and the muzzle is required only to those dogs which species can cause a fright or those who differs in unbalanced behavior. Some owners are completely sure that their dog will never rush on the stranger and will never bite anybody. But all these objections are disproved by numerous cases when dogs bite even the owners, and, just representatives of small and decorative breeds differ in it, and the championship in such cases in general belongs to the sweetest spaniels.
Therefore today the question of need of a muzzle for your dog is not necessary – it has to have a muzzle by default. It is necessary not only for walks in public places or for trips in public transport, without it the veterinarian can not accept you. Besides, the muzzle, its carrying is a part of the general course of training and is used also when the dog is disaccustomed to lift a forage from the earth.
How to choose and buy a muzzle
It is possible to buy a muzzle in shop where dog accessories are on sale. If it is a usual muzzle for not fighting or not for a guard dog which need especially strong muzzles, it can be made of leather, plastic or nylon. But inside it has to be surely sheathed or pasted over with natural soft material – fabric or leather, not irritating the skin of a dog and not rubbing it.
Of course, it is fitting muzzles better to be with a dog – so you will be able to pick up the size necessary for it most precisely. When it is impossible, at selection of this accessory it will be necessary to know the sizes of the head, muzzle and neck of a dog. The muzzle has to sit on a dog densely, but, at the same time, not pull together with her a mouth and a neck, she also has to have opportunity to put out tongue and to lick lips. Belts of a muzzle have to be strong and it is good to be regulated.
How to accustom a dog to a muzzle
It is necessary to begin it at the earliest age as soon as the dog grows up – somewhere in half a year. At first you have to develop at her feeling that a muzzle – it is not terrible at all. For this purpose in a muzzle it is possible to put delicacy that the dog ate it from there, detaining a mouth in a muzzle for several seconds. Then it is necessary to begin to muzzle a dog, not strongly tightening belts, and in attempts to pull together it, to distract a dog and to encourage it with delicacy. On walks when the muzzle already is densely fastened to the head and a neck, also distract a dog from attempts to pull together it especially as already through 2-3 walks she completely will get used to this necessary accessory.