Links to Help You Learn More About Your Pet

These are some of our favorite links geared towards helping you understand more about your pets. This includes advice on how to prepare for a new animal, behavioral tips, and training your pet.

Denver Dumb Friends League Helpful Tips & Information
http://www.ddfl.org/tips.htm
Featuring:

• Selecting the Right Pet
• Preparing Your Pet for Baby's Arrival
• Moving with Your Pet
• Successful Cleaning to Remove Pet Odors and Stains
• Re-Housetraining Your Adult Dog
• The Barking Dog
• Understanding Aggressive Behavior in Dogs
• The Canine Escape Artist
• Destructive Scratching in Cats
• Cats: Indoor vs. Outdoor
• Solving Litter Box Problems
• and much more!

Great Pets
http://www.greatpets.com
Great web site maintained by pet behaviorists Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson. Covers a wide range of solutions to behavior problems in cats and dogs, such as: digging - licking - door dashing - trash tipping - jumping - housebreaking - litter box issues - aggression - fearfulness - etc. Featuring:

• Message Boards
• Ask the Expert
• Pet Stories
• and much more!

How to Love Your Dog
http://www.howtoloveyourdog.com
A great web site dedicated to kids that is well worth reading for everybody. Featuring:

• Planning for your new dog
• Are you ready for a dog?
• Tricks, Tricks, Tricks
• Keeping safe
• What dogs need
• I'll love you forever!
• and much more

Petdogs-L (Email List & Website)
http://timbreblue.com/petdogs-l/
PETDOGS-L is a free e-mail list for sharing information about owning and caring for dogs of all kinds and ages. If you own or are thinking about getting a dog or if you are an experienced owner or doggy professional who wants to help others, please join us! All questions about getting, training, feeding, and otherwise caring for dogs are appropriate. There's more information about the list at the Petdogs-L list site -- we'd love to have you join us! And we hope the Dog Care Pages help you and your dog have a better life together.
This website features "The Petdogs-L Dog Care Pages" where dog owners can find a lot of helpful information collected from contributions to the list.

Marin Humane Society - Behavior & Training Notebook
http://www.marin-humane.org/bt_notebook.html
Featuring:

• Housetraining the Adult Dog
• Avoiding Canine Confrontations
• Adolescent Dogs
• Puppy Stuff
• Doorbell Aggression
• and much more!

Can We Help You Keep Your Pet?
http://www.wonderpuppy.net/canwehelp/
Often people feel they must give up their pets for various reasons. On these pages, you'll hopefully find some alternatives and be able to keep your animal.

There is also lots of info here for those who would never dream of giving up their pet, but just need some advice on basic pet problems. If the problems cannot be resolved, there is information to help you find a good home for your pet. But, please try to resolve the problems first, it might cost your pet his or her life otherwise.