Dog advice, tips & guides from trusted canine experts. K9 Magazine will help you feed, train & entertain your dog with our behaviour, nutrition & dog health advice.
Hill’s Pet Nutrition is known around the world for formulating pet foods to help dogs and cats achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Now the company’s team of veterinarians and nutrition specialists has come up with what they call a…
Training a new puppy can be a heartbreaking experience for just about anyone that has a conscience. This helpless and adorable little puppy is just staring up at your eyes, making you melt into a pile of love mush. And…
Mike Deathe is an experienced and well respected dog trainer. But even the most experienced trainers and dog owners can make mistakes – as Mike found out recently. Fortunately for us, Mike Deathe relishes learning from his mistakes. He puts…
When you bring a new puppy into your home it can be an exciting time for the humans in the household, but for the puppy it can actually be quite a stressful time, writes Natalka Jacyszyn, Dog Psychologist. Just imagine…
Puppy house training is easy…when you know-how! If you’re one of the lucky few K9 Magazine readers who’ve recently acquired or are thinking of getting a new puppy, congratulations! You’ve done your homework, selected the breed that’s right for you…
Over the years Phil has grown used to my gasps and screams. He normally sits silently through them reading the paper, not bothering to ask what’s the matter. When I say, “Don’t you even want to know what’s wrong?” he’ll…
This is a guest post with some free online dog training advice for beginners. When training dogs it is important to be consistent in behaviour and commands used, if the response to whatever the animal does is always different, it…
Cataracts in Dogs: What You Need to Know: Owners of older dogs often notice begin to notice a bluish white film start to develop over the eyes of their dog. As dogs age, eye problems – particularly cataracts – are…
Separation anxiety is a common problem in dogs which has divided expert opinion of the causes behind the behaviour for many years. The situation can become dramatic when the owners leave, resulting in chewed carpets, remote controls, dog beds etc,…
