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12 Useful Tips for New Dog Owners to Avoid Common Raising Mistakes

12 Useful Tips for New Dog Owners to Avoid Common Raising Mistakes The first three hours are a blur. I remember the box was open and Biscuit stood in the doorway of our apartment and did not come in. I had read that dogs need a few days to decompress. That sounded reasonable at 2pm on a Saturday with a dog I'd never met. So I sat on the floor in the hallway and waited. He waited. We were both fairly certain we had misunderstood something about this. Three hours later he was on the couch, head on my foot, asleep. Nobody had told me what those three hours were actually for. That's the thing nobody tells you. Raising a dog well isn't a set of rules you memorize. It's about a hundred small decisions, most of which you make once, in the first weeks, and then live with for a decade. Get a few of them right and the next ten years get easier in ways you can't measure. Here are the twelve I'd give a friend on day one. Start With a Vet Visit Before You Start With a Traine...
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Do dogs have a sense of time?

  The moment you walk through the door, your dog is there, tail wagging, as if they knew exactly when you'd arrive. Or perhaps it's the uncanny way they start pacing by their food bowl precisely when dinner is due. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? Do dogs have a sense of time, or is it just a happy coincidence, a trick of our own human perception? I've been thinking about this a lot lately, watching my own furry companion, and it's a question that really gets you pondering the inner world of our canine friends. We humans, we live by clocks and calendars, by minutes and hours and days. But for a dog, does time tick by in the same way? Turns out, it's a bit more nuanced, and frankly, a lot more fascinating than just a simple yes or no. First off, let's talk about the basics, the internal rhythm that guides all living things. Dogs, just like us, have what scientists call circadian rhythms . Think of it as their own biological clock, running on a roughly 24-hour...
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