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Play Fight or Real Fight? How to Tell the Difference

Strengthen your Dog and Partners Relationship + Winter Paw Care + Teach your Dog How to Play Dead

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Jared McKinney
October 17, 2024

Here’s what we’ve got for you today:

  • 💩 The Scoop Play fight or real flight: how to tell the difference.

  • 📈 Stories Strengthen your dog and your partners relationship + All you need to know about winter paw care + Teach your dog how to play dead

  • 🤣 Headlines Gaze at your dog, it connects your brains + Your dog is judging you… only if she is a girl + Man and his dog rescued during Hurricane Helen + Dog tied to a post during Hurricane Milton [TikTok]

  •  🙏 K-9 Causes Help Sidewalk Dog ban the sale of puppy mill dogs at pet stores for good.

Play Fight or Real Fight? How to Tell the Difference.

Have you ever seen two dogs wrestling and thought: are they playing or fighting? Fighting is a normal behavior and part of dog play. For puppies, it begins with their littermates. From the moment they open their eyes, until they go to their homes, puppies spend most of their time wrestling with each other.

During that period of social development, puppies learn bite inhibition, and proper manners, and use play fighting as exercise and socialization. Here is how to determine the difference between dog play fighting and an actual fight and when to step in.

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Strengthen Your Dog and Partners Relationship

Do you just want your dog and partner to get along? But what if your partner is not a dog person? Or what if you have a jealous dog? Let’s talk about how to strengthen that relationship between your two favorite things.

https://www.sidewalkdog.com/how-to-strengthen-your-dog-and-partners-relationship/

Paw Care in the Winter

If you live in a cold and snowy place, your dog’s paws can get harmed with all the ice, snow, and salt on the ground. Let’s talk about how to protect the paws of our furry friends in the cold, winter months.

https://www.sidewalkdog.com/paw-care-in-winter-protetcing-dog-paws-from-snow-and-salt/

How to Teach your Dog to Play Dead

It’s and old trick, but a fun trick. Learn how to train your bestie how to play dead.

https://www.sidewalkdog.com/how-to-teach-a-dog-to-play-dead/

K-9 Causes

Help ban the sale of puppy mill dogs at pet stores to end this cruel industry for good.

Puppy mills are mass breeding operations that run solely for the purpose of making a profit. In these mass breeding operations, animals are kept in terribly inhumane conditions, forced to live in cramped and unsanitary quarters, virtually never leaving their cages, not receiving any necessary medical care, and never getting any affection or caring human interaction. They have very limited socialization and the poorest quality food.

Puppy mill animals are bred and over-bred until their bodies give out and they can no longer physically produce litters. They are basically just being kept alive until they are profitable and then are abandoned or inhumanely killed.

North Shore Animal League America is committed to increasing awareness and ending the inhumane practice of these massive breeding operations. As the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, we believe all animals deserve the medical care, love and attention they need for a chance at a happy life.

Now you can join us and take a stand against puppy mills. California, Illinois, Washington, Maryland, Maine, and most recently the District of Columbia, Oregon, and New York state have all banned the sale of puppy mill dogs in pet stores, along with hundreds more municipalities. 

It's time for the rest of the United States to follow suit.