8 kinds of food good for your dog

There are some kinds of food good for Dogs' Skin.
If your dog has problem with skin or you want your dog to have healthy skin, you'd better read this posting.

1. salmon, sardine

There is omega-3 fatty acids in those food.
Because dogs can't produce it themselves, you need to feed your dog it by food.
The omega-3 fatty acids is helpful to prevent infection and improve your dog's level of immunity.

2. coconut oil

That is good for skin problem like allergy and eczema and improve your dog's level of immunity.
It is good for your dog's skin and fur and heath generally.

3. oatmeal

That is good for moisturizing and itching.
It can keep your dog's weight healthy if you feed it for food and it can be good for skin suppression if you use it as bath preparation.

4. cherry

That has antioxidative effect.
And supplying nutrition to your dog's liver and kidney, it prevents skin trouble by toxin in his organ.
But you must get rid of its seed before you feed your dog.

5. chia seed

That has 7 times more vitamin C than orange and 8 times more omega-3 fatty acids than salmon.
In addition, it has 6 times more fiber than oatmeal.
So it helps your dog's digestion and is helpful to his skin trouble.

6. flaxseed oil

That has a lot of omega-3 fatty acids.
It can keep your dog's skin and fur healthy by preventing infection and allergy.
And it also effective for relieving joint pain.

7. egg

That has protein, unsaturated fatty acid, essential vitamin and minerals.
Unsaturated fatty acid can prevent cardiovascular disease and promote blood circulation and help antiaging of your dog's cell.

8. kelp

That is a kind of laminariaceous seaweed.
It has rich vitamin and mineral so it can make your dog's fur have shine.

Ingredients to avoid when we choice dog food.

You may wonder what dog food is the best.
The best food is what your dog like to eat and what makes your dog healthy.
But we can't know what is the best because we are not a professional.

So we need to read the ingredients in dog food we will buy at least.

There are some ingredients to avoid.

1. CMIT (Chloromethylisothiazolinone)

• BHA
• BHT
• ethoxyquin
• Propylene Glycol

That is a cancer-causing agent and cause of illness of every kind.
BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin, Propylene Glycol are belongs to CMIT.

2. grains causing skin problem

• Corn
• wheat
• soy or soy-bean

Corn, wheat, soy or soy-bean can cause your dog's skin problem or make it worse.

3. gluten meal

• corn gluten meal
• wheat  gluten meal
• soy-bean  gluten meal

That is very low priced dregs of grains.

4. by-product of grain

• corn bran
• rice bran
• rice flour
• brewers rice
• beet pulp
• dried brewers yeast

5. low-grade fat

• animal fat
• poultty fat

6. by-product of meat

Those are neck, beak, legs, intestine, etc.
Those are easy to rot and have no nutritional value.

7. meat not to see where it is from

• meat meal
• bone meal
• blood meal
• fish meal
• animal meal
• poultry meal

You need to check the name of meat.
Chicken meal or duck meal is safe because you can know that the meal is of chicken or duck.

8. food coloring

• yellow 5
• blue 2
• red 40
• etc

9. taste and flavor enhancers

• ~flavors
• ~digest

Those are synthetic flavoring matters.

10. canola oil

• canola oil

Most of canola oil may be GMO.


I recommend to read carefully the Nutrition Facts of a dog food which you will buy.

How to correct a dog

You may blame your dog if he makes trouble.
But he may do same mistake even if you blamed him.
Because your dog doesn't realize his doing wrong.
So, we need to learn proper ways to correct our dogs.

1. Clear up compliment and scold

When you blame your dog, your tone of voice has to be certain and low.
And when you praise your dog, your tone of voice has to be high and you need to make a great fuss about your dog's doing.

2. Train your dog in a very short time

When you train your dog, you have to do it in 30 minutes.
10~15 minutes are more proper to train him.
You need to train him at the place where he can concentrate.

3. Don't hit your dog

Your dog already knows he is being blamed without hitting.
Hitting your dog can make his character worse and make him confused whether he did wrong.

4. Don't force your dog to do something.

When you want your dog to do something, if you force him to do and praise about it, he never understand why he is praised.
Wait until your dog do something himself and praise him when he does it.

5. Scold immediately

It is meaningless that blame your dog after 2~3 hours your dog made trouble.
Blame your dog at the moment he makes trouble.

6. Scold consistently.

If one of your family blame your dog with shouting and another blame him with striking the floor, your dog get confused whether he is blamed.
You and your family member have to blame your dog with same way.

8 common expressions of dogs

Every dog owner may curious what your dog's expressions mean.
So I'm posting about some expressions of dogs.

1. lying down showing its belly

That means your dog feels comfortable and good.
If your dog lies down with showing its belly, it let you know that it can't resist you.
In other words, it has no intention of attacking you and want to play with you.

2. looking at your eyes

That is expression of alert or favor.
To unfamiliar ones, that means alert.
But To familiar ones, that means favor.

3. yawning in urgent situation

Dogs yawn when they feel anxiety or stress.
They yawn for the purpose of both calming themselves when they get stressed and calming the other who is got upset.
You may see that your dog yawn when you blame it.
Your dog may have said you to calm down at that time.

4. licking your face

That originated from puppies' licking their mommy dog to ask milk.
If your dog licks your face(around your mouth), it may be hungry.

5. erecting its tail

Dogs erect their tail when they have confidence.
If your dog erects its tail when it meets unfamiliar one, that means your dog has no fear.

6. nodding the head slantwise

That means your dog is concentrating to understand your words or order.

7. shaking itself

Dogs shake itself to release its stress.

8. licking its nose

That is same with shaking itself.




If we try to understand our dog's expression, we can be better owner.

The Solution of dogs' stress

If you didn't read my posting about the signs of dogs' stress, please read that before you read this posting.

Tip :: The Signs That Your Dog Gets Stressed

There some simple ways to release your dog's stress.

1. walking and exercise

Walking and exercise with your dog can be a solution of stress.
It is good to walk to a place where your dog usually likes to visit Or to explore a new place.
Light exercise with your dog is good either.
It is helpful to play tugging as you walking with your dog.
If you consider your dog's health, it is good to combine walking and sitting.
For example, walking with your dog, you sit down around it.
It's good to let your dog get around with a long dog read.
Letting your dog use its nose a lot is very nice.

2. Letting your dog use its brain

How about make your dog do something to be able to use its brain?
Teaching a new trick or Using a toy which makes your dog use its brain is fine.
I recommend you toys of Nina Ottoson brand.



Or you can make dog game puzzle.
You can see the ways of making that by google search.

Teaching a new trick is good because you and your dog can share each other's feeling.

3. nosework

The nosework is very important.
After you Giving your dog snacks hidden in any torn papers(like newspaper), your dog eats those by using their nose to find out those(the snacks).
That is one way of the nosework.
The dog which use its nose a lot gets stress lower than the others and has high confidence.