Animal articles
The video news story below makes you wonder how these people can proclaim themselves to be helping animals when the local authorities have to step in and take animals away from them - for the animals welfare.
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Here you see a product that until a few days ago I was unaware that it existed. It is also a product that I see should not be used by a responsible pet owner. It is called a belly band. Its purpose is to prevent a male dog from urinating in the house. Almost every picture I have seen with a male dog wearing one of these useless products looks uncomfortable. To every dog owner that sees this as a useful product I might want to remind you that pet ownership is a responsibility and along with that responsibility comes the fact that you have to train, yes I said train your dog not to pee in the house. It is called housebreaking.
In order for dog owners that might be interested in this product I will add the words, male dog belly band review here so that this post might come up in their search engine. Much like people looking for face cream reviews I am going to play the search engine game to get the word out that products like these have no place in a dog owners home.
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You’ve seen them, the ads for the dog nail trimmer. They show the dog calmly having its nails trimmed and enjoying it. I remember at the time thinking “what idiot would buy one of those things?” Well look no further because I am now one of those idiots. I happen to see one on sale at my local Grocery Outlet for only $5 so I said to myself, what the heck, and bought it.
Got my new find home and got my little min pin on my lap and turned it on. Of course dogs are sensitive to motor noises and he looked at it with a “get that thing away from me,” look. So being the tactful pet owner that I am, I spent about an hour getting him use to the object and it being turned on and off. I thought we were doing pretty good until I got the bright idea to actually put one of his nails in the opening to trim it. At that point he tries to bite the trimmer and growl at me. This went on for another 10 minutes until I went back to just getting him use to the trimmer. After about 2 hours of this both me and my dog gave up on it. I put it on a shelf where my husband found it several days later and asked me, “what’s this?”, at which point I told him that it was a training device that so far has not worked out.
If you have the time to train your dog or cat to use the trimmer then go for it, but be warned that it will take time. Puppies and kittens will be easier to train and handle so if you start them off early you will not have such a struggle as I did.
I am unsure if I will try to use it again or not. Right now it sits collecting dust on the shelf until I have another 2 hours of training time free.
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Always give your pet a hug, kind word or praise. After all they are around because you wanted them to be there.
- Jan S. at All the Creatures
