Budgerigars - This N' That!

Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper, I have had a fascination for birds and cage and aviary birds in particular. Although each breed has its own particular attraction, breeding and exhibiting budgerigars has provided me with many...

By: James Keith

What you’ve always wanted to know About Choosing a Pet

Choosing pets is an important choice to make and is no easy task. It's not just a matter of looking up pets for sale in your handy classifieds paper or online classifieds and picking the first thing you set...

By: Jonna Ajeda

Keep your Pet Healthy and Look Good

Anyone who owned a pet knows that how pet becomes our special part of our family. Yes our pets are a part of our family. Pet owner always want the best for their pet. Pet needs special and daily care...

By: Anna Josephs

Best Pet Health Insurance Policy

There is something that pet owner should know before you take the leap. All pet have wants needs and health issues just like human beings. When your pet is injured or ill, you may experience natural feelings of concern, as...

By: Anna Josephs

How To Avoid The Most Common Mistakes In Raising Dogs

Dogs do not come with an instruction manual around their necks. Dogs need time, patience, and understanding. Therefore new owners need information to train, and help cope with the difficulties of the newest member of the family. Common mistakes in raising...

By: Dencho Denchev

Dog Training: to punish or not to punish

Punishment is a controversial subject in dog training, though it is widely used by both traditional and positive trainers. The most common punishment is positive punishment. It consists in stopping an undesired behavior by adding an unpleasant thing or situation. Therefore,...

By: Rodrigo Trigosso

Venomous Reptiles - World's 5 Deadliest Snakes

Snakes are both infamous and revered due to their perplexing way of living and characteristics that vastly differs from other animals. Add to that the fact that they have this unmistakable aura that commands fear among other species in the...

By: Mae Paulino

Positive Dog Training for Newbies

Positive dog training was developed under the principles of Skinner's operant conditioning. While it's not a new technique, it didn't get enough popularity until the nineties. Former students of Skinner, psychologists Keller and Marian Breland, pioneered commercial applications of operant conditioning...

By: Rodrigo Trigosso

Dog Training Techniques Revealed

Though there are several dog training techniques, all of them can be categorized by the way they address behavioral issues. Thus, there are two main categories: techniques based on learning theories and techniques based on canine ethology. The former category focuses...

By: Rodrigo Trigosso

Dog Whispering Behind the Scenes

Ethology is the science that studies behaviors of a species under natural situations. Therefore, it studies instinctive and non-instinctive behaviors that are typical of a species. Dog whispering is a training technique based on canine ethology. So, it takes into account...

By: Rodrigo Trigosso