We run into the summer attention to the heat strokes...
The heat strokes in the dogs can be lethal, attention therefore during the summer period to the exposure of your defenceless friend to the solar rays; severely forbidden to leave him in car and to make him race in the central hours. Not being the dogs able to expel the excessive heat with the transpiration, to maintain the normal temperature (what in the case of the dog it is 38.5 degrees) they increase the respiratory frequency and they use the language as radiator. If we observe anomalous behaviours with worry, respiratory paroxysm, lethargy etc... we immediately intervene trying to lower the temperature in gradual way with wet cloths, with cold water or you liquidate that easily evaporate as vinegar and alcohol, in how much evaporating they subtract to contact with the body the heat. We don't use ice in how much a rapid too cooling could cause weakness and at times shock heart circulatory. If we decide to bring him in the beach with us, being the cocker a dog of water will provide himself to make uproarious baths, in alternative to always hold him the wet head and to the shade.

The ceramics of our CIS member Maria Lambertucci


What to do if the pup dirties in the house?
The problem is tied up to two factors the feeding and the education.
EDUCATION: never to use coercive (for instance to put us the face inside) systems, but to use love and to establish with the pup a relationship of love and mutual trust and control. The coercive systems in fact they create in the pup fear, stress and fear not having neither positive neither negative experiences they respond purely to a physiological need.
DIET: it is all of this that involves the field of nutrition and the activity' intestinal. It must first of all be tried to give suitable foods for the age and the activity of the pup, to maintain the schedules of the equal meals and in case of variation of the diet to make him gradually. We try then to observe the place in which the pup dirties. To this point after the meal let's bring him out doing so that to the beginning its exits are long and frequent, if the pup dirties out let's praise him and let's reward him. Let's remember us that a pup dirties after having slept, eaten, played or after a strong stress. If we take him in fragrant let's distract him with a plays or with a biscuit. We maintain you always stop also our interventions in the case the method of the newspaper you adapt him in case that will owe to be moved then to the outside... let's remember always us to strengthen with the prizes the positive behaviours.
SIMONA SACCONE TINELLI