<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784</id><updated>2011-12-26T08:44:23.390Z</updated><category term='Mordidas'/><category term='Grooming'/><category term='Research'/><category term='Neve'/><category term='Desabafos'/><category term='Drever'/><category term='Teckel'/><category term='Cidadania'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='Comportamento'/><category term='Estrela Mountain Dog'/><category term='Educação'/><category term='Dog Shows'/><category term='Professional'/><category term='Dog Bites'/><category term='Investigação'/><category term='Canicultura'/><category term='Manutenção'/><category term='Genetics'/><category term='Exposições Caninas'/><category term='Genética'/><category term='Nikko'/><category term='Terapias Assistidas com Animais'/><category term='Heat'/><category term='Cão da Serra da Estrela'/><category term='Dachshund'/><category term='Profissional'/><category term='Puppy'/><category term='Rants'/><category term='General'/><category term='Natal'/><category term='Cachorro'/><category term='Geral'/><category term='Snow'/><category term='Ansiedade por separação'/><category term='Food'/><category term='Barbado da Terceira'/><category term='alimentação'/><category term='fun'/><category term='Citizenship'/><category term='Behaviour'/><category term='Treino'/><category term='Training'/><category term='Education'/><category term='Separation anxiety'/><category term='Animal Assisted Therapies'/><category term='humor'/><category term='Calor'/><title type='text'>Aradik</title><subtitle type='html'>Aradik Kennel's blog. It is not meant to share news about our dogs or activities - for that check our website at http://www.aradik.net, but rather to share information we find relevant on dogs and research

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Não se destina a partilhar novidades sobre os nossos cães ou actividades - para isso consulte o nosso site em http://www.aradik.net, mas sim a partilhar informação que pensamos ser interessantes sobre cães, canicultura e investigação</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>46</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-6886506648268052612</id><published>2011-12-25T19:56:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-12-25T20:55:26.878Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citizenship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Etiquette with older dogs (and their owners!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/etiqueta-para-com-caes-idosos-e-os-seus.html" target=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Versão portuguesa abaixo) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I have been through this with my first dog, and over the last few months with a severely ill dog. Seeing this article a few days after his death, and upon the comments I heard from strangers as my dog was getting worse by the day, it touched a sensitive nerve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I think this is an article everyone should read!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Reprinted with permission from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebark.com/"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The Bark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebark.com/content/be-gentle-i-know-my-dog-old"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Be Gentle: I know my dog is old&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;A call for improving our etiquette with older dogs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;By &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebark.com/search/node/%22Susan%20Seligson%22"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Susan Seligson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt; &lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cHGLKBlqKJE/Tvd93RoOfwI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/j92TC6GUVDQ/s1600/Top49---03-03-1995-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cHGLKBlqKJE/Tvd93RoOfwI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/j92TC6GUVDQ/s200/Top49---03-03-1995-1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Like everyone else in a society loudly lamenting a decline in civility, I recognize there are new breaches of etiquette every minute. On any typical day, cell phones alone account for the rudeness factor going off the charts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;But I believe there is one type of impolite behavior among adult humans that goes pretty much unchecked. I’ve been guilty of it myself and slinked away feeling really stupid. It just isn’t something that makes it into the etiquette books and it apparently isn’t even worth Miss Manners’ fleeting consideration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I am referring to the blunt, utterly uncensored and often just plain mean things people say to us about our dogs (by “us” I mean dog people). My close friend Pam has a 12-yearold German Shepherd who is visibly aging. So are the rest of us, human and canine, but to what person would you ever be so crude as to say the following: “Is that your mother? Wow, she looks awful. She can hardly move!” Yet this is the unsolicited blubbering my friend endures from strangers, all day long, about her old dog. I empathize because I’ve been through this three times, beginning with our family Beagle, Sam, who lived to be nearly 17, mostly out of spite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;“How old is he?” People would ask this unrelentingly about my now-departed Irish Setter, Amos. I didn’t mind telling them that he was 12 or 13. “Wow. They don’t live much longer than that, do they?” How tacky is this?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;But it gets worse. When my big, hairy mutt, Louie (we called him our “Bavarian crotch-smeller”) was old and frail, someone once asked me, “Have you thought about putting him down?” First of all, that’s kind of like asking a woman in her 40s (this also happened to me), “Have you ever thought about having children?” “Gee, there’s an idea! Why didn’t I think of that?” When your dog is old and sick, the end is pretty much all you can think about. Your heart is breaking and you’re preparing yourself to come to that decision in a way that spares your dog unnecessary suffering while giving yourself time to feel as peaceful as possible about letting him go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;People assume they can say anything they like about a stranger’s dog. While they’d (I hope) refrain from saying, “Excuse me, but it looks like your husband is losing his hair,” when Louie was suffering from Cushing’s disease, strangers constantly took it upon themselves to point out his hair loss. “Do you know your dog is losing his hair?” And what can you do except mumble, um, yes, this is my dog, he’s part of my family, I’m nearly always with him, I bathe him, I brush him, he sleeps with us, and throughout most, if not all, of these activities, I am looking at him! And it’s always too late when you think of how you could’ve said, “Do you know you have a wart on your chin?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Pam is at the point where she dreads walking her dog in public because she knows passersby will make insensitive comments she can’t bear to hear. Out in the world she is thoughtful and tender enough not to remind everyone she encounters that they are mortal. Like the rest of us, she can tell when a person’s on his or her last legs, but she keeps herself from saying, “Gee, you sure are slowing down” or asking the person’s daughter, “So how long do people in your family tend to live?” When approaching people like my friend, it helps to remind oneself that she knows her dog is old. She knows it every waking second of every day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The last years and months we share with our geriatric dogs are among the most bittersweet times in dog lovers’ lives. We know, from the moment we choose these guys as puppies or meet their limpid stares at the animal shelter, that our hearts will be torn apart some day. What makes it so much worse is that the older they get, the sweeter they get, and when they reach absolute critical sweetness—you simply cannot love them any more than you already do—they grow completely exhausted and die. So a person patiently coaxing an old dog on his increasingly shrinking route is someone who could benefit from a little compassionate restraint. Like a simple hello for the owner, or a tender pat on the head for the doggie emeritus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-6886506648268052612?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6886506648268052612/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/etiquette-with-older-dogs-and-their.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6886506648268052612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6886506648268052612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/etiquette-with-older-dogs-and-their.html' title='Etiquette with older dogs (and their owners!)'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cHGLKBlqKJE/Tvd93RoOfwI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/j92TC6GUVDQ/s72-c/Top49---03-03-1995-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7497686652410945672</id><published>2011-12-25T19:44:00.004Z</published><updated>2011-12-25T20:56:31.799Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cidadania'/><title type='text'>Etiqueta para com cães idosos (e os seus donos!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/etiquette-with-older-dogs-and-their.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Passei por isto com o meu primeiro cão, e ao longo dos últimos meses com um cão gravemente doente. Ler este artigo uns dias após a sua morte, e com os comentários que ouvi de desconhecidos quando o meu cão estava a piorar de dia para dia, tocou um ponto sensível.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Penso que este é um artigo que todos deveriam ler!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Republicado com permissão de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebark.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Bark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebark.com/content/be-gentle-i-know-my-dog-old" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Seja simpático:Eu sei que o meu cão é velho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Uma chamada de atenção para melhorar a nossa etiqueta com os cães mais velhos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Por &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebark.com/search/node/%22Susan%20Seligson%22" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Susan Seligson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LaL3SSOxXEs/Tvd8Bk9sNeI/AAAAAAAAAIE/2gK5WqyXr9U/s1600/Top49---03-03-1995-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LaL3SSOxXEs/Tvd8Bk9sNeI/AAAAAAAAAIE/2gK5WqyXr9U/s200/Top49---03-03-1995-1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1757192853"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1757192854"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Como qualquer outra pessoa numa sociedade que cada vez mais lamenta a redução do civismo, reconheço que há novas quebras de etiqueta a cada minuto. Por exemplo, num qualquer dia, os telemóveis são responsáveis por um factor de descortesia fora da escala.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Mas penso que há um tipo de comportamento indelicado entre os adultos humanos que basicamente não é controlado. Eu própria fui culpada dele e afastei-me sentindo-me realmente estúpida. É uma daquelas coisas que não chega aos manuais de etiqueta e aparentemente nem sequer é digno uma consideração fugidia por qualquer Paula Bobone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Refiro-me às coisas rudes, completamente sem censura e frequentemente simplesmente más que as pessoas nos dizem sobre os nossos cães (por “nos” refiro-me ao pessoal dos cães). A minha grande amiga Pam tem um Pastor Alemão de 12 anos que está a envelhecer a olhos vistos. Tal como ocorre com qualquer um de nós, humanos e caninos, mas que pessoa seria tão rude a ponto de dizer: “Essa é a sua mãe? Ena, está com um aspecto terrível. Mal se pode mexer!” No entanto este é o tipo de lamechices não solicitadas que a minha amiga tem de aturar de estranhos, o dia todo, sobre o seu cão idoso. Posso simpatizar porque passei por isto três vezes, começando com o Beagle da minha família, o Sam, que viveu até quase aos 17 anos, a maioria deles principalmente por força de vontade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;“Que idade tem?” As pessoas perguntavam isto incessantemente sobre o meu agora-defunto Setter Irlandês, o Amos. Não me importava de lhes dizer que tinha 12 ou 13 anos. “Ena. Não vivem muito mais, pois não?” Quão esfarrapado é isto?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Mas ainda fica pior. Quando o meu grande e lanudo rafeiro Louie (chamávamos-lhe o nosso “cheira-virilhas da Bavária”) estava velho e frágil, uma pessoa uma vez perguntou-me, “Já pensou em abatê-lo?”. Antes de mais, isso é um bocado como perguntar a uma mulher nos seus 40s (isto também me aconteceu), “Alguma vez pensou em ter filhos?”. “Hmm, ora que bela ideia! Porque é que eu não pensei nisso?”. Quando o nosso cão está velho e doente, praticamente só conseguimos pensar no fim. O nosso coração está despedaçado e preparamo-nos para chegar à decisão de forma a evitar sofrimento desnecessário ao nosso cão enquanto nos damos tempo para nos sentirmos tão tranquilos quanto possível em relação a deixá-lo partir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;As pessoas assumem que podem dizer o que quiserem sobre o cão de um desconhecido. Enquanto que (espero) abster-se-iam de dizer “Desculpe, mas parece que o seu marido está a perder o cabelo”, quando o Louie estava a sofrer da doença de Cushing, perfeitos desconhecidos constantemente assumiam o dever de apontar a sua perda de pêlo. “Sabia que o seu cão está a perder o pêlo?”. E que mais podemos fazer para além de resmungar, ahm, sim, é o meu cão, é parte da minha família, estou quase sempre com ele, dou-lhe banho, escovo-o, dorme connosco e ao longo de quase todas estas actividades, se não em todas, estou a olhar para ele! E lembro-me sempre demasiado tarde que podia ter respondido “Sabe que tem uma verruga no sei queixo?”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A Pam chegou ao ponto de recear passear o seu cão em público porque sabe que os transeuntes vão fazer comentários insensíveis que ela não consegue mais ouvir. Quando está na rua, ela é suficiente sensível para não recordar todas as pessoas com quem se cruza que são mortais. Tal como qualquer um de nós, consegue ver quando uma pessoa está nas últimas, mas abstém-se de dizer “Ena, está mesmo mais lento” ou de perguntar à filha da pessoa “Então e quanto tempo é que as pessoas da sua família tendem a viver?”. Quando se abordam pessoas como a minha amiga, ajuda lembrarmo-nos que ela sabe que o seu cão é velho. Ela sabe-o em cada segundo de cada dia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Os últimos anos e meses que partilhamos com os nossos cães geriátricos são dos tempos mais agridoces da vida dos amantes de cães. Sabemos, desde o momento que os escolhemos em cachorros ou olhamos para o seu olhar cristalino no refúgio de animais, que os nossos corações se irão despedaçar um dia. O que torna tudo pior é que quanto mais velhos vão ficando, mais doces vão ficando, e quando alcançam uma doçura absolutamente crítica– simplesmente não se pode amá-los mais do que o que se ama já – ficam completamente exaustos e morrem. Pelo que uma pessoa que pacientemente ajuda um cão idoso no seu percurso cada vez menor é alguém que poderia beneficiar de um pouco de contenção piedosa. 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// Feliz Natal !!'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LMKLw2uBvyU/TvWYZ7vrToI/AAAAAAAAAHI/A0o86zIM_vg/s72-c/NatalAradik11-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-1838390159741786902</id><published>2011-12-17T19:58:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-25T20:58:40.312Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citizenship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Puppy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Education'/><title type='text'>A puppy for Christmas?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/um-cachorro-para-o-natal.html"&gt;Versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(This article was originally published, slightly modified, in the Portuguese pet magazine Cães e Companhia nº 175, December 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Christmas is traditionally a time of peace, joy and… puppies as gifts?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Is it a good idea to offer a living being in festive times, especially when it is a surprise to the receiver? This text overviews some of the questions about getting a puppy, maybe from a somewhat less-than-common point of view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg8qjVBG1UA/TuzwylId8JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/xRquqt_EnRE/s1600/IMG_4716.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg8qjVBG1UA/TuzwylId8JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/xRquqt_EnRE/s320/IMG_4716.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;There are breeders and then there are breeders!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;We all acknowledge that doctors are not all alike; some are better and more efficient at their work than others. We also know there are good and bad mechanics, plumbers that know their work and others just “fix holes”, etc. However, in the popular mind dog breeders seem to be a “one-size-fits-all” issue. There is a tendency to think that they all want to breed as many animals as they can as cheaply as possible in order to maximize profit throughout the lives of the poor bitches. But those who breed dogs do so for a variety of reasons, which will without a doubt affect the final result.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Unquestionably there are breeders that indeed breed with the clear objective of making money, who seek to maximize the breeding life of their animals (regardless of their health, genetics or quality) and the lowest cost, so as to maximize their profit. They are breeders who do not care about the final destiny of their puppies, as long as they are sold, and who benefit the maximum from impulse buying – such as the cute little puppy as a shopping mall’s pet shop window -, preventing the potential buyer from seeing the puppies and the rest of their dogs in their usual environment. They’re the so-called “&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;puppy mills&lt;/i&gt;”. In Portugal they are a minority, but the most common source from pet store puppies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Most dogs come from “plain” people who own a breeding-age bitch, people who, although not necessarily seeking a profit, breed for a wide variety of reasons (excuses?) – because they want a puppy from their pretty bitch, because the idea that all females should have at least one litter in their life (or all males should mate at least one) still runs deep, because they have a purebred and as such they must breed it, if for nothing else then to “recover” the money they invested in her, because children should see the “miracle of birth”, because they did not control their bitch in heat and she got pregnant, etc., etc. These are normally well-meaning people, or quite on the contrary people with no care whatsoever for the reproductive management of their unsprayed females, who just get a female and a male together, with no real concern about what they are breeding or the fate or health of the puppies that are born, as long as they go to people “who promise to love them”. The puppies are often given or sold at a low price, just after weaning, while they’re still in the “cute” stage, without health care (vaccines, worming) so no money is spent on them. These breeders are usually called “&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;backyard breeders&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Finally, there’s also the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;true Breeders&lt;/i&gt;, those who are indeed worthy of that name, with a capital “B” – those who breed will a well defined goal, who care about improving their breed’s morphological and functional traits, who strive to reduce the occurrence of health, genetic and/or behavioral problems in the breed. They seek to learn as much as possible about their breed and specimens, looking for the best possible match to achieve their goals, even if that means using animals other than their own. Before they breed they try to assess the quality of their dogs, they do health and genetic screening to reduce the risk of transmission of problems to the progeny, they manage the breeding life of their females, respecting rest periods between litters and plan each litter beforehand. And they are people who screen potential owners for one of their puppies, in order to assess if they are a match to the breed and personality of each bred animal (and will refuse a sale if necessary), who try to follow up on the development of each dog in their new home and are available for additional support at anytime, up to, if necessary, repossessing or helping to re-home any dog they bred at any stage of their life. They may be a minority in the sea of dog producers, but these breeders are the main focus of this text.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;How much does a puppy cost?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_-l669iByRk/Tuzw_VmtifI/AAAAAAAAAGo/qHOsdMzRyRw/s1600/IMG_5223.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_-l669iByRk/Tuzw_VmtifI/AAAAAAAAAGo/qHOsdMzRyRw/s320/IMG_5223.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;This is the most common a breeder hears. It is often the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; question a breeder hears. It is a natural question, and is indeed an issue to consider when pondering getting a dog. But is it the only one? Or is it actually the most important one?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;When you want to get a new car, you don’t go into the first dealer you see and say to the salesperson “I want a blue car. How much does it cost?” - do you? First you decide on the type of vehicle you need, compare the technical traits of several brands of cars within the range you want, and only after you have a notion of what you need will you compare prices in several dealers for the makes and models you pre-selected, right? However, when they intend to acquire a living being that will be a full part of their life for 10 to 15 years, most people just seem to care about the price, without seeking to know the animal’s “technical traits”. Just as breeders are not all alike, the potential of each puppy, and the care he received, varies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;At the several freed ads websites, it is common to find puppies on sale for ridiculously low prices. When you ask a serious breeder the cost of a puppy of the same breed, you will get a much higher price. Why the difference? Is there a reason to buy a more expensive puppy when you can find cheaper ones? Yes! And the reasons run on the short and on the long range. Adequately raising a puppy, in order to give him the best possible start in life, is not cheap. You need to think of high quality food, adequate for the mother’s and puppies’ physiological state, supplementation (vitamins, minerals) when needed, regular and frequent worming to each of the puppies and their mother, vaccination, toys for physical and mental stimulation… and that’s not considering the time the breeder spends making sure the whelping goes for the best, the puppies nurse adequately, socializing them and getting them used to future situations they may encounter later in life, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Of course you can easily find here several ways to save money and sell cheaper dogs – with low quality food that does not fully cover the animals’ special needs at this stage, by not doing vaccinations and worming, by selling the puppies immediately after weaning so no money is spent on feeding them, etc… This has, of course, an impact on the puppy’s current and future health. While he is nursing, the puppy receives antibodies from his mother through her milk, but upon weaning that protection ends and is only recovered by means of adequate vaccination. If the puppy changes family just after wearning, that will occur at a time his defenses are down, so there is an increased risk of catching diseases at his new home, a new environment with potentially hazardous risks that didn’t exist at his birth place. Some diseases acquired at this age are fatal or with life-long consequences!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;On the long run, it is also a behavioral risk to acquire a puppy at such an early age. Throughout a puppy’s growth, he goes through several phases of development both physical and psychological. Between 3 and 12 weeks of age, there is the “socialization period”, during which he learns behavioral rules, first with other dogs then with other animals and people. If a puppy leaves his mother and siblings too soon he will not have the opportunity to learn canine communication and etiquette, and therefore has an increased risk of future problems in his relationships with other dogs and people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A serious breeder will refuse the sale of a puppy before 2-3 months of age. This way he will be able to start an adequate plan of worming and vaccination, trying to ensure that when the puppy leaves he already has the necessary defenses to withstand the “aggressions” of his new environment (but it is crucial that the new owner completes the plan for an adequate protection). This period spent with the breeder will also allow the puppy to acquire the basic elements of social interaction with other dogs and people and begin socializing with several types of situations, which the new owner must continue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;There is more than just the price&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;If you are reading this text then &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;a priori&lt;/i&gt; you have an interest on dogs above the population average and will try your best to be a good owner of the dog you acquire. With basic notions of what it takes to have a dog, or past experience, it is natural that your main concern when you get your dog is its price. But the breeder you contact does not know you! When he is contacted and the only question asked is the price, the idea that gets through is that you are just looking for the cheapest dog you can find, which is quite discouraging when he’s trying to find the best possible home for his dogs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;In any case, there are more issues to consider when acquiring a dog, leaving the purchase price as a secondary factor in the overall balance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;For example, you can (and should!) ask about diseases the breed may have, and what the breeder is doing to try to reduce their incidence. When you buy a puppy whose parents have been tested for the main diseases in the breed, even if that’s not an assurance that the puppy will not suffer from them, at least it gives you a notion of the real risk of being or not affected; a puppy from unscreened parents is always “a shot in the dark”, a lottery in which you don’t know what you are acquiring.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;You should ask to see the puppies and the dam (sometimes the father does not belong to the breeder, so he may not be present) and try to assess if the puppies seem to be in good physical and behavioral conditions – with shinny coat, clear eyes, active and playful, etc. If the breeder refuses, beware and enquire; if indeed in very young puppies there may be some health risks in being handled by strangers, after the puppies are properly vaccinated that risk is minimal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Ask the breeder whatever goes through your mind that may be relevant; a serious breeder will be available to answer and educate potentially interested people. Be prepared for the breeder to ask you questions in return, in order to assess if the breed and a specific individual is a good fit for you. After all, a 70 kg St. Bernard may not be the ideal choice for our frail 70 year-old grandmother; a Pug will certainly not be adequate for the dynamic youngster who likes to jog 20 km everyday with his dog; a digging terrier will not be perfect if you like a spotless garden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;And, very importantly, visit several breeders before making a decision! Talk with them, ask questions and answer questions, make up your mind and decide based on information. Remember the price you will pay for your puppy includes not only its cost on the moment, but also all the support the breeder will provide along the animal’s life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Do you have puppies available?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;This is usually the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; most common question the breeder gets asked, &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;when&lt;/i&gt; we get to the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; question. Also for obvious reasons. The person knows he wants to add a 4-legged companion to his life, so he wants to do it as soon as he decides so. However, that is not necessarily the best way!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A breeder doesn’t always have puppies available; he will have them when he thinks he found a combination of parents that will take him one step closer to his goals. If he has several animals, he may be able to manage his bitches in such a way that he will indeed be able to have several litters throughout the year, if he so desires and has an adequate demand. However, if he has few specimens, he will have greater intervals between litters, there will be times when he will not have youngsters available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;If you are interested in a popular breed, there may be enough responsible breeders for you to, with some research, find a breeder you like with available puppies. However, in the case of rarer breeds, with few breeders, odds are you will not find available puppies exactly you decided you want one. In this case, the ideal is enrolling in the breeder’s waiting list, waiting for an available pup. This will give you a greater chance of getting your puppy, especially because many breeders only breed when they have good homes for their puppies already lined up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Spend this time talking with the breeder, posing all your doubts and questions you can think of and easily and quietly preparing the arrival of your new companion. Use this period also to ponder seriously if this is the right time to acquire a living being that will require constant care and attention for the next 10 or more years. We live in a society of immediate consumption and gratification, in which we buy goods without seriously considering if we need them and what we will do with them in the future. An animal is not a teddy bear or a playstation we can put on a shelf when we get bored with it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;A puppy as a gift?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zR00_qKfoI/Tuzw6dAHpFI/AAAAAAAAAGg/zSsTV1pSzIQ/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="243" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zR00_qKfoI/Tuzw6dAHpFI/AAAAAAAAAGg/zSsTV1pSzIQ/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Christmas is traditionally a time when there is more demand for puppies. There are those who think they are ideal gifts, who want to offer a pet to their spouse, to a relative or even a friend. It is also common that people want to offer a puppy to their child, because he has been nagging for months for one, or because he had good grades at school, or to “teach him responsibility”… However, for a serious breeder, Christmas is one of the most complicated seasons! It’s a time when it is harder to distinguish between good and bad prospective clients. Because offering a puppy as a surprise to someone is usually a very bad idea. Acquiring a living being should be a well pondered act, in which all involved must agree on the decision. Otherwise there is the serious risk that they will not have time or will to properly take care of the animal, loose interest in the “novelty”, etc., which leads to a raise in the relinquishment rate shortly after Christmas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A classical example is buying a dog so “the child becomes responsible”. In principle that’s all very nice, but what happens when the youngster goes back to school and no longer has time available for the dog? Or when the novelty wears off and the puppy grows and the child looses interest in the dog, as often happens with young children (or teenagers who suddenly find other interests in life)? If the parents did not agree previously that the final responsibility for taking care of the animal is theirs, sooner or later it is probable that he will be relinquished. What responsibility are you then teaching your youngsters? That when you lose interest in them, it’s ok to abandon a living being?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Also from the point of view of the puppy himself, Christmas holidays are not the best to change homes. The dog is already going through the shock of suddenly losing all that was familiar to him and finding himself in a strange environment -at a place where traditionally at this time there is great commotion, with school holidays, family and friends staying over, etc., when what he needs is peace to get adjusted to his new home and develop properly. And when he finally starts getting used to his new life, suddenly it all changes again – holidays are over, children go back to school, adults go back to work and the environment changes again. It is better to wait for the post-holidays period to welcome the puppy, so he has a smooth transition to the normal yearly rhythm of his new family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;If you indeed decide that it is appropriate to offer a puppy for Christmas, if the decision is made responsibly, with everyone involved and the the breeder agreeing on it, instead of subjecting the puppy to this confusing time, why not arrange with the breeder a sort of “welcome package” to whoever will receive the puppy for Christmas, instead of the dog himself, as a preparation to go pick him up later, at a better time?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Adopt, don’t buy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;As Christmas is a time when the acquisition of dogs is traditionally higher, campaigns for the responsible adoption of abandoned animals are also more visible. Frequently their chosen motto is something in the lines of “adopt, don’t buy” or “each dog bough is a pound dog that gets killed”. But isn’t this somewhat of emotional blackmail?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Often, the type of people who seek a purebred at a breeder is different from that who adopts from a shelter. While the later “just” (with any prejudice intended) want a loyal companion, those who seek a purebred often do so because they desire a certain amount of physical and behavioral traits which are easier to find in a purebred than in a mutt, due to the selection exerted which &amp;nbsp;leads to traits being substantially more predictably in a purebred puppy. (1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Anyway, even if a bought puppy might &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;potentially&lt;/i&gt; mean, on the very short term, that a stray dog is not adopted, on the long run the consequences may be different. When you buy a puppy from a serious breeder, you are simultaneously ensuring a life-long support, the breeder will be available to help the owner whenever and wherever possible, inclusively to retake or rehome the dog if necessary. Therefore the risk of this dog being relinquished later on is seriously reduced. The greater the proportion of dogs bought from responsible breeders, as opposed to from puppy mills or backyard breeders, the smaller the odds they end up in a shelter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Do your homework!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Some years ago it might have been difficult, for those not in the fancy, to know how to find a breeder for a given breed and what to look for in a puppy. Nowadays, with the major role the internet plays in our lives, with specialized media available to the public, this task is considerably easier. Spend some time researching the breed of your choice (and be objective as to the source of the information!!), visit several breeders and talk with them, even if you’re not planning on getting a dog right now – it is crucial to know if your choice fits your lifestyle and personality, it is important to find a breeder in whom you can trust and feel supported whenever you need to, throughout your dog’s life. Basically, use your common sense and critical judging and don’t fall into the trap of immediate gratification. Having an animal in our life is a great responsibility, he demands time and dedication for many years and will not remain a small cuddly puppy for long. This is probably one of the most important decisions you will make in your life! You will surely want to do it with as much information as possible, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;And by the way, after you get your puppy, do try to keep a regular contact with the breeder. He leaves a little bit of himself in every puppy he hands over, and would also like to hear from him, to know that he is growing well (or not) and that he and his family are happy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1tT1akZ57w/TuzxvVuhP2I/AAAAAAAAAGw/-9R5BHSXTnc/s1600/IMG_4861.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1tT1akZ57w/TuzxvVuhP2I/AAAAAAAAAGw/-9R5BHSXTnc/s320/IMG_4861.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;(1) In Portugal, breed rescues (groups dedicated to rescuing and rehoming dogs of a particular breed or group of breeds) are not yet common&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-1838390159741786902?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1838390159741786902/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/puppy-for-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1838390159741786902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1838390159741786902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/puppy-for-christmas.html' title='A puppy for Christmas?'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg8qjVBG1UA/TuzwylId8JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/xRquqt_EnRE/s72-c/IMG_4716.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7141552636487023522</id><published>2011-12-17T19:48:00.004Z</published><updated>2011-12-25T21:00:21.102Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cachorro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Desabafos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Educação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cidadania'/><title type='text'>Um cachorro para o Natal?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/puppy-for-christmas.html"&gt;Englosh version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Este artigo foi inicialmente publicado, ligeiramente modificado, na revista Cães e Companhia nº 175, Dezembro 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;O Natal é tradicionalmente uma época de paz, alegria e… cachorros como presente?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Será  que é boa ideia oferecer um ser vivo em épocas festivas, sobretudo  quando é uma surpresa para quem o irá receber? Este texto procura  abordar algumas questões relativas à aquisição de um cachorro, sob um  ponto de vista talvez um pouco menos tradicional.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg8qjVBG1UA/TuzwylId8JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/xRquqt_EnRE/s1600/IMG_4716.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg8qjVBG1UA/TuzwylId8JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/xRquqt_EnRE/s320/IMG_4716.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Há criadores e criadores&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todos nós reconhecemos que os médicos não são todos iguais, uns são melhores e mais eficientes no seu trabalho e outros piores. Também sabemos que há bons e maus mecânicos, canalizadores que conhecem o seu trabalho a fundo e outros que só andam a “tapar buracos”, etc. No entanto, no colectivo popular os criadores de cães parecem estar todos “enfiados no mesmo saco”; há uma tendência para se pensar que todos só querem criar o máximo de animais ao menor custo para tirar o máximo de lucro ao longo da vida das pobres das cadelas. Mas quem se dedica à criação de cães pode fazê-lo por uma variedade de razões, que indubitavelmente irão afectar o resultado final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incontestavelmente, há criadores que efectivamente se dedicam a criar cães com o objectivo claro de ganhar dinheiro, em que procuram maximizam a vida reprodutiva dos seus animais (independentemente da sua saúde, património genético ou qualidade) ao menor custo possível, de forma a maximizar a sua margem de lucro. São criadores que não se preocupam com o destino final dos seus cachorros, desde que sejam vendidos, e que aproveitam ao máximo a compra por impulso – como o cachorro tão querido na montra de uma loja de animais num centro comercial -, evitando que o potencial comprador veja os cachorros e os seus restantes exemplares no ambiente em que vivem normalmente. São os chamados “&lt;i&gt;puppy mills&lt;/i&gt;” ou “&lt;i&gt;fábricas de cachorros&lt;/i&gt;”. Em Portugal serão uma minoria dos casos, mas a fonte mais frequente dos cachorros vendidos em lojas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A grande maioria dos cães criados provêm de “simples” donos de fêmeas em idade reprodutiva, pessoas que, sem terem necessariamente intenções de lucro, fazem criação por uma grande variedade de razões (desculpas?) – porque querem ter um filho da sua cadelinha tão linda, porque ainda está enraizada a ideia que todas as cadelas devem ter pelo menos uma ninhada na vida (ou que todos os cães devem cruzar pelo menos uma vez), porque têm um cão de raça pura e como tal devem criar, quanto mais não seja para “recuperarem” o dinheiro que gastaram nele, porque as crianças devem poder ver o “milagre do nascimento”, porque não controlaram a sua cadela no cio e ela acasalou com um cão, etc., etc. São pessoas normalmente bem-intencionadas, ou pelo contrário sem quaisquer cuidados com o maneio reprodutivo das suas fêmeas não castradas, que se limitam a juntar uma cadela com um cão, sem grandes preocupações com o que estão a produzir ou o destino ou saúde dos cachorros nascidos, desde que sejam entregues a quem “prometa estimar”. Em muitos casos, os cachorros são dados ou vendidos a baixo preço, logo após o desmame, enquanto ainda estão fase “fofinha”, sem cuidados sanitários (vacinas, desparasitações) de forma a não terem gastos com eles. Este tipo de criadores são frequentemente designados por “&lt;i&gt;backyard breeders&lt;/i&gt;” (literalmente, “&lt;i&gt;criadores de fundo de quintal&lt;/i&gt;”).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente há também os &lt;i&gt;verdadeiros Criadores&lt;/i&gt;, aqueles efectivamente dignos desse nome, com “C” maiúsculo – os que criam com um objectivo definido, que se preocupam em melhorar a qualidade morfológica e funcional da raça, que se preocupam em reduzir a incidência de problemas a nível de saúde, genético e/ou comportamento que possam existir na raça. São pessoas que procuram conhecer ao máximo a sua raça e os exemplares existentes, de forma a procurar a melhor combinação possível para atingirem os seus objectivos, mesmo que seja necessário recorrer a animais que não os seus próprios. São pessoas que antes de criar procuram aferir a qualidade dos seus exemplares, que fazem despistes de saúde e genéticos para minimizar o risco de transmissão de problemas à descendência; que fazem um controlo reprodutivo das suas fêmeas, respeitando períodos de repouso e recuperação entre ninhadas, e planeiam antecipadamente as ninhadas. E são pessoas que avaliam os potenciais interessados em adquirir um dos seus cachorros, de forma a tentarem aferir se são compatíveis com a raça e personalidade de cada um dos animais criados (e recusam a venda a alguns interessados, se necessário), que procuram acompanhar o desenvolvimento de cada exemplar nas suas novas casas, estando disponíveis em qualquer altura para dar apoio aos donos, retomando ou ajudando a encontrar um novo lar, se necessário, qualquer exemplar por si criado em qualquer altura da sua vida. Serão talvez uma minoria no mar de produtores de cachorros, mas são estes os criadores que este artigo irá abordar prioritariamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Qual o preço do cachorro?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_-l669iByRk/Tuzw_VmtifI/AAAAAAAAAGo/qHOsdMzRyRw/s1600/IMG_5223.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_-l669iByRk/Tuzw_VmtifI/AAAAAAAAAGo/qHOsdMzRyRw/s320/IMG_5223.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Esta é a pergunta mais frequente que um criador ouve. É frequentemente a &lt;i&gt;única &lt;/i&gt;pergunta que o criador ouve. Que a pergunta ocorra é óbvio e é de facto um factor a ponderar na aquisição de um cão. Mas que seja a única? Ou efectivamente a mais importante?&lt;br /&gt;Quando pretende adquirir um carro novo, não entra no primeiro stand que vê e diz ao vendedor “Quero um carro azul. Quanto custa?”, pois não? Irá decidir que tipo de veículo necessita, comparar as características técnicas dos automóveis de várias marcas dentro da gama que pretende, e só depois de ter ideia do que quer irá comparar os preços para as marcas e modelos pré-seleccionados, e em vários stands, certo? No entanto, quando se pretende adquirir um ser vivo que irá ser parte integrante da nossa vida durante 10 a 15 anos, a maior parte das pessoas apenas parece preocupar-se com o preço, sem procurar conhecer as “características técnicas” do animal. Tal como os criadores não são todos iguais, o potencial de cada cachorro, e os cuidados que lhe foram prestados, variam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nos numerosos sites de anúncios grátis existentes na net, é comum encontrar cachorros à venda por valores irrisórios. Quando se pergunta a um criador sério quanto custa um cachorro da mesma raça, obter-se-á um valor nitidamente superior. Porquê a diferença? Há razão para comprar um cachorro mais caro quando se encontram mais baratos? Sim! E há motivos quer a curto quer a longo prazo. Criar um cachorro adequadamente, de forma a dar-lhe o melhor início de vida possível, não é barato. Há que considerar a ração de boa qualidade e adequada à idade e estado fisiológico que deve ser dada à mãe e às crias após o desmame, os suplementos (vitaminas, minerais) quando necessários, as desparasitações regulares e frequentes que devem ser feitas a cada um dos bebés e à mãe, as vacinas, os brinquedos para estimulação física e mental… isto sem sequer contabilizar o tempo despendido pelo criador a assegurar-se que o parto corre da melhor forma, que os cachorros mamam adequadamente, a socializa-los e habituá-los a várias situações que irão encontrar na sua vida futura, etc..&lt;br /&gt;Claro que se pode ver aqui várias formas de poupar dinheiro e vender cães baratos – com uma ração de baixa qualidade, que não cobre adequadamente as necessidades especais dos animais nesta fase, não efectuando vacinas e desparasitações, vendendo os cachorros logo após o desmame, para não incorrer nos gastos da sua alimentação, etc.… Naturalmente, isto tem consequências a nível da saúde actual e futura do cachorro. Enquanto está a mamar, a cria recebe anti-corpos da sua mãe através do leite, mas no desmame essa protecção termina, apenas sendo recuperada com uma vacinação adequada. Se o cachorro mudar de família logo após o desmame, isso irá ocorrer numa situação em que as suas defesas estão significativamente reduzidas, pelo que tem um risco aumentado de contrair doenças na sua nova casa, um ambiente novo potencialmente com riscos que não existiam no local onde nasceu. Algumas doenças adquiridas nesta idade são fatais ou deixam sequelas para o resto da vida!&lt;br /&gt;A longo prazo, também a nível comportamental é um risco adquirir um cachorro de tão tenra idade. Ao longo do crescimento do cachorro, ele passa por diferentes fases de desenvolvimento não só físico como psicológico. Entre as 3 e as 12 semanas, ocorre o  que é designado como “período de socialização”, em que aprende as regras de comportamento primeiro com outros cães e depois com outros animais e pessoas. Um cachorro que saia demasiado cedo de perto da sua mãe e irmãos para uma nova casa não terá ocasião de aprender as regras de comunicação e etiqueta caninas, e tem riscos acrescidos de, por essa razão, vir a ter problemas futuros no relacionamento com outros cães e pessoas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um criador sério irá recusar-se a vender um cachorro antes dos 2-3 meses de idade. Desta forma, poderá proceder a um correcto plano de desparasitação e primo-vacinação, procurando assegurar que quando o cachorro sai tem já as defesas necessárias para resistir às “agressões” do novo ambiente (mas é fundamental que o novo dono complete o plano para uma protecção adequada). Este período passado com o criador permite também que o cachorro adquira os elementos básicos da interacção social com outros cães e pessoas e permite que comece a ser feita uma socialização a diversos tipos de situações, que deverá depois ser continuada pelo novo proprietário.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Há mais para além do preço&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se está a ler este texto é porque tem, &lt;i&gt;a priori&lt;/i&gt;, um interesse em cães superior à média da população e irá esforçar-se por ser um bom dono para um cão que venha a adquirir. Tendo já noções básicas do que é necessário para ter um cão, ou experiência prévia, é natural que a sua principal preocupação quando for adquirir um cão seja o seu preço. Mas o criador que irá contactar não o conhece! Quando é contactado e apenas lhe perguntam pelo preço, a ideia que é transmitida por vezes é apenas a de que estão à procura de um cão o mais barato possível, o que é deveras desencorajante para quem procura a melhor casa possível para os seus cães.&lt;br /&gt;Adicionalmente, há mais factores a considerar quando se adquire um cão, que fazem com que o preço de compra acabe por ser um factor secundário no cômputo geral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pode (e deve!), por exemplo, perguntar-se sobre as patologias existentes na raça, e o que é que o criador está a fazer para tentar minorar o seu efeito. Quando se compra um cachorro cujos progenitores tenham feito testes de despiste para as principais doenças que afectam a sua raça, e apesar de tal não ser uma garantia que o cachorro será indemne delas, pelo menos tem-se uma ideia de qual o real risco de vir ou não a ser afectado; um cachorro proveniente de animais não testados é sempre um “tiro no escuro”, uma lotaria em que não se sabe o que se está a adquirir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deverá pedir-se para ver os cachorros e a progenitora da ninhada (por vezes o pai não pertence ao criador, pelo que poderá não estar presente) e tentar avaliar se os cachorros parecem estar em boas condições físicas e comportamentais – com pelo brilhante, olhos limpos, activos e brincalhões, etc. Se o criador recusar, desconfie e inquira; se é certo que em cachorros de tenra idade o manuseamento por estranhos pode ser um risco de saúde, depois de os cachorros estarem adequadamente vacinados esse risco é mínimo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questione o criador sobre o que lhe passar pela cabeça que possa ser relevante; um criador sério estará disponível para responder e educar potenciais interessados. Esteja também preparado para que o criador lhe coloque questões, de forma a aferir se a raça e algum indivíduo em particular é ou não adequado para si. Afinal, um S. Bernardo de 70 kg talvez não seja a escolha ideal para a nossa frágil avó de 70 anos; um Pug certamente não será o mais indicado para o jovem dinâmico que gosta de correr 20 km todos os dias na companhia do seu cão; um terrier escavador não será perfeito para quem gosta de ter um jardim imaculado.&lt;br /&gt;E, muito importante, visite vários criadores antes de tomar uma decisão! Converse com eles, questione e responda às perguntas, forme a sua opinião e decida de forma informada. Lembre-se que o preço que pagará pelo seu cachorro inclui não apenas o seu custo no momento, mas também todo o apoio que o criador disponibilizará ao longo da vida do animal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tem cachorros disponíveis?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta é normalmente a 2ª pergunta mais comum ao criador, quando se chega à fase da 2ª pergunta. Também por razões óbvias. A pessoa sabe que quer adicionar um companheiro de 4 patas à sua vida, por isso quer fazê-lo quando tomou essa decisão. Porém, essa não é necessariamente a melhor via!&lt;br /&gt;Um criador normalmente não tem cachorros sempre disponíveis, tê-los á quando achar que encontrou uma combinação de progenitores que lhe permitirá chegar mais perto dos seus objectivos. No caso de possuir numerosos exemplares, isso talvez lhe permita gerir as suas fêmeas de forma a efectivamente ir fazendo várias ninhadas ao longo do ano, se o desejar e tiver uma procura adequada. No entanto, caso tenha poucos exemplares, as suas ninhadas serão mais espaçadas no tempo, haverá períodos em que não vai ter jovens disponíveis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caso se trate de uma raça relativamente popular, haverá certamente criadores responsáveis em número suficiente para que, com um pouco de pesquisa, o futuro proprietário encontre um criador que lhe agrade com cachorros disponíveis. No entanto, no caso de raças mais raras, com poucos criadores, a probabilidade é a de não encontrar cachorros disponíveis quando a pessoa se lembrou que quer um. Nesse caso, o ideal é a pessoa inscrever-se na lista de espera do criador, aguardando que este tenha uma ninhada disponível. Isto irá dar-lhe uma maior hipótese de vir a ter o cachorro desejado, até porque muitos criadores apenas criam quando têm boas casas asseguradas para os seus cachorros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beneficie deste período para ir conversando com o criador, colocar todas as dúvidas e questões que lhe ocorrerem e ir preparando com calma e tranquilidade a chegada do seu novo companheiro. Aproveite também para ponderar seriamente se é a altura certa para adquirir um ser vivo que irá requerer cuidados e atenção constantes durante 10 ou mais anos. Vivemos numa sociedade de consumo e gratificação imediatos, em que adquirimos bens sem ponderar seriamente se necessitamos deles e o que faremos com eles no futuro. Um animal não é um peluche ou playstation que podemos deixar numa prateleira quando nos fartamos dele!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Um cachorro para oferecer?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zR00_qKfoI/Tuzw6dAHpFI/AAAAAAAAAGg/zSsTV1pSzIQ/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="243" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zR00_qKfoI/Tuzw6dAHpFI/AAAAAAAAAGg/zSsTV1pSzIQ/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Natal é tradicionalmente uma das alturas em que há mais procura por cachorros. Há quem ache que é o presente ideal, quem queira oferecer um cão ao(à) cônjuge, a um familiar, ou mesmo a um amigo. Também é comum quem queira oferecer um cachorro ao filho, porque há meses que faz birra que quer um, ou porque teve boas notas no primeiro período, ou para “ensiná-lo a ser responsável”… No entanto, sob o ponto de vista de um criador sério, o Natal é uma das épocas do ano mais problemáticas! É uma das alturas em que mais difícil separar o trigo do joio em termos de potenciais casas para cada um dos seus cachorros. Isto porque normalmente oferecer um cachorro de surpresa a alguém dá maus resultados. A aquisição de um ser vivo deve ser um acto bem ponderado, em que todos os envolvidos devem ter participado da decisão e estar de acordo. Caso contrário corre-se o sério risco de não haver tempo ou vontade para cuidar dele de forma adequada, se perder o interesse pela “novidade”, etc., levando ao aumento do abandono pouco tempo depois do Natal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um exemplo clássico é a aquisição de um cão para “dar responsabilidade à criança”. O princípio é muito bonito, mas o que acontece quando o jovem regressar às aulas e deixar de ter tempo disponível para o cão? Ou quando passar a novidade ou o cachorro crescer, e o seu filho perder o interesse no cão, como acontece sobretudo com crianças mais novas (ou adolescentes que subitamente encontram outros interesses na sua vida)? Se os pais não tiverem assumido previamente que a responsabilidade final do cuidado pelo animal recai sobre eles, mais cedo ou mais tarde é provável que ele seja abandonado. Que responsabilidade se está então a ensinar aos jovens? Que quando se perde interesse, é legítimo abandonar um ser vivo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Também sob o ponto de vista do próprio cachorro, a época festiva não é a mais adequada para mudar de casa. O canito já está a passar pelo choque de subitamente se ver sem tudo aquilo que conhecia e num ambiente estranho. Um ambiente que, neste período é tipicamente de grande agitação, com as férias escolares, a família e amigos em casa, etc., quando o que ele precisa é de tranquilidade para se ambientar à nova casa e se desenvolver de forma equilibrada. E quando ele finalmente se começa a acostumar à sua nova vida, eis que tudo muda novamente – as férias acabam e as crianças regressam às aulas, os adultos ao trabalho, e o ambiente altera-se novamente. Será preferível aguardar por este período pós-festas para acolher o cachorro, de forma a que faça uma integração suave no que é o ritmo normal ao longo do ano da sua família de acolhimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se efectivamente ficar acordado oferecer um cachorro no Natal, se a decisão for tomada de forma responsável, com o acordo de todos os envolvidos e do criador, porque não, em vez de sujeitar o cachorro a esta época confusa, elaborar com o criador uma espécie de “pacote de boas-vindas” para quem irá receber o cão, a oferecer no Natal em vez do cão, como preparação prévia para ir buscar o cachorro em melhor ocasião?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Adopte, não compre?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sendo o Natal uma altura em que a aquisição de cães é tradicionalmente superior, as campanhas de adopção responsável de cães abandonados são também mais visíveis. Frequentemente o lema escolhido é algo nas linhas de “adopte, não compre” ou “cada cão comprado é um cão num canil que é abatido”. Mas isto não será um pouco de chantagem emocional?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frequentemente o público que procura um cão de raça a um criador é algo diferente do que adopta um cão de um refúgio. Enquanto que este último “apenas” (sem qualquer sentido perjorativo!) procura um fiel companheiro, quem procura um cão de raça tipicamente fá-lo porque deseja encontrar um certo número de características físicas e comportamentais que são mais fáceis de encontrar um cão de raça do que num sem raça definida, devido à selecção efectuada que leva a que as características sejam substancialmente mais previsíveis num cachorro de raça. (1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De qualquer forma, apesar de um cachorro comprado potencialmente até poder significar, no imediato, que um cão abandonado não será adoptado, as consequências a longo prazo poderão ser diferentes. Quando se adquire um cachorro a um criador sério, está-se ao mesmo tempo a assegurar um acompanhamento ao longo da sua vida, o criador está disponível para ajudar o proprietário no que puder, inclusive para retomar o cão se tal for necessário; diminui-se assim grandemente o risco do exemplar ser abandonado mais tarde. Quanto maior for a proporção de exemplares adquiridos a criadores empenhados, vs. puppy mills ou criadores de fundo de quintal, menor será a probabilidade de virem a acabar abandonados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Faça o seu trabalho de casa!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há alguns anos atrás, poderia ser difícil, para quem não estava no meio da canicultura, saber como encontrar um criador de determinada raça e o que procurar num cachorro. Hoje em dia, com o papel preponderante da internet nas nossas vidas, com meios de comunicação especializados disponíveis ao grande público, essa tarefa simplificou-se consideravelmente. Despenda tempo a pesquisar a raça que escolheu (e seja objectivo quanto à origem da informação consultada!!), visite vários criadores e converse com eles, mesmo que não esteja a planear adquirir já um exemplar - é fundamental saber se a sua escolha se adequa ao seu estilo de vida e personalidade, é importante encontrar um criador em quem possa confiar e sentir que irá ter apoio sempre que necessitar, em qualquer fase da vida do animal. Fundamentalmente, use o seu bom-senso e espírito crítico e não caia na armadilha da gratificação imediata. Um animal na nossa vida é uma grande responsabilidade, exige tempo e dedicação ao longo de anos, não irá permanecer cachorro pequenino e fofinho durante muito tempo. Esta é provavelmente uma das decisões mais importantes que irá tomar na sua vida! Certamente quererá tomá-la dispondo do máximo de informação possível, certo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E já agora, depois de adquirir o seu cachorro, procure manter um contacto regular com o criador. Ele deixa um pouco de si em cada cachorro que entrega, e também gostaria de ter notícias deles, saber que se está a desenvolver bem (ou não) e que ele e a sua família estão felizes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1tT1akZ57w/TuzxvVuhP2I/AAAAAAAAAGw/-9R5BHSXTnc/s1600/IMG_4861.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1tT1akZ57w/TuzxvVuhP2I/AAAAAAAAAGw/-9R5BHSXTnc/s320/IMG_4861.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) Em Portugal, ainda não são comum os “breed rescues”, grupos que se dedicam à recolha e re-alojamento de cães abandonados de uma dada raça ou grupo de raças&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-7141552636487023522?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7141552636487023522/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/um-cachorro-para-o-natal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7141552636487023522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7141552636487023522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/um-cachorro-para-o-natal.html' title='Um cachorro para o Natal?'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lg8qjVBG1UA/TuzwylId8JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/xRquqt_EnRE/s72-c/IMG_4716.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8847354207823159724</id><published>2011-09-20T22:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T22:39:09.327+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Genetics'/><title type='text'>18 things you should know about genetics</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/18-coisas-que-deve-saber-sobre-genetica.html"&gt;Versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;“18 Things You Should Know About Genetics is an animated film that presents fundamental background information about genetics, as well as offering some quirky but interesting facts about DNA, genes and genetics. It was created to be an upbeat, fun educational short film to initiate and draw interest to this sometimes daunting and seemingly complex subject matter.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28957658?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/28957658"&gt;18 Things You Should Know About Genetics&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/davidmurawsky"&gt;David Murawsky&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8847354207823159724?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8847354207823159724/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/18-things-you-should-know-about.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8847354207823159724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8847354207823159724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/18-things-you-should-know-about.html' title='18 things you should know about genetics'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8364966577777038141</id><published>2011-09-20T22:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T22:39:37.246+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Genética'/><title type='text'>18 coisas que deve saber sobre genética</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/18-things-you-should-know-about.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Coisas Que Deve Saber Sobre Genética é um filme animado que apresenta alguma informação de base fundamental sobre genética. Oferece também alguns factos interessantes sobre o ADN, genes e genética. Foi criado para ser uma interessante e divertida curta animação de apresentação deste tema por vezes imponente e aparentemente complexo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28957658?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/28957658"&gt;18 Things You Should Know About Genetics&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/davidmurawsky"&gt;David Murawsky&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8364966577777038141?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8364966577777038141/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/18-coisas-que-deve-saber-sobre-genetica.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8364966577777038141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8364966577777038141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/09/18-coisas-que-deve-saber-sobre-genetica.html' title='18 coisas que deve saber sobre genética'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2477422475789451465</id><published>2011-08-06T12:32:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T13:11:59.063+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dog Bites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mordidas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><title type='text'>Video sobre prevenção de mordidas // Dog bite prevention PSA</title><content type='html'>Já fiz alguns posts sobre &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/pessoas-conhecendo-caes-caes-conhecendo.html"&gt;como abordar cães desconhecidos &lt;/a&gt;e sobre &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/linguagem-corporal-como-abordar-um-cao.html"&gt;como interpretar a linguagem corporal dos cães para identificar sinais de stress&lt;/a&gt;. O problema com a maioria das mordidas de cães a pessoas não tem a ver com o cão atacar sem avisar (situação rara e normalmente depois de o cão ter sido “ensinado”, intencional ou inadvertidamente, a não manifestar os sinais de aviso), mas sim porque as pessoas não sabem interpretar os sinais que o cão emite. A&lt;a href="http://drsophiayin.com/"&gt; Dra. Sophia Yin&lt;/a&gt;, veterinária especialista em comportamento animal de renome internacional, lançou recentemente o vídeo abaixo, ilustrando como esta simples realidade leva a que tantas pessoas são mordidas anualmente. No seu site também encontra informação sobre a interpretação da linguagem corporal disponível para download.&lt;br /&gt;Procure informar-se sobre o significado das posturas e comportamentos dos cães, quer para seu benefício quer para o do seu cão e do de outros que encontre!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have posted before on &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/people-meeting-dogs-dogs-meeting-people.html"&gt;how to approach strange dogs &lt;/a&gt;and on &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/linguagem-corporal-como-abordar-um-cao.html"&gt;how to interpret canine body language to identify stress signs&lt;/a&gt;. Most dog bites occur not because the dog attacked without warning (which seldom happens, and normally only after the dog was intentionally or unwillingly “taught” not to show warning signs), but rather because people do not know how to interpret the signs the dog is conveying. &lt;a href="http://drsophiayin.com/"&gt;Dr. Sophia Yin&lt;/a&gt;, internationally acclaimed behaviour expert veterinary, has recently published the video below, showing how this simple reality leads to so many people being bitten every year. On her site you will also find information about interpreting body language available for download.&lt;br /&gt;Get informed about canine body language and behaviour, both for your sake and for that of your dog and other dogs you may encounter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object style="height: 374px; width: 526px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mrQ1KO4j2bc?version=3"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mrQ1KO4j2bc?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="526" height="374"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2477422475789451465?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2477422475789451465/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/08/video-sobre-prevencao-de-mordidas-dog.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2477422475789451465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2477422475789451465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/08/video-sobre-prevencao-de-mordidas-dog.html' title='Video sobre prevenção de mordidas // Dog bite prevention PSA'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7164564604736266011</id><published>2011-07-27T15:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T15:50:45.511+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Training'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Educação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Treino'/><title type='text'>Ian Dumbar on TED</title><content type='html'>Interessante palestra do &lt;a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/"&gt;Dr. Ian Dunbar&lt;/a&gt;, especialista em comportamento canino de renome, sobre a educação e treino de cães (e pessoas ;) )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting lecture by &lt;a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/"&gt;Dr. Ian Dunbar&lt;/a&gt;, renowned dog behavior specialist, on dog (and not only ;) ) education and training&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="374" width="526"&gt; 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With them comes the availability to spend more time in the open air with our family – both 2 and 4 legged. And the temptation to have our canine companion off-leash is naturally great, especially because during the rest of the year, for different reasons, we generally have less time available for him. But should we do it without second thoughts?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fHTJRHiXnw/ThOTci3J_EI/AAAAAAAAAGA/KHOmgXqWWVY/s1600/PICT7771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fHTJRHiXnw/ThOTci3J_EI/AAAAAAAAAGA/KHOmgXqWWVY/s320/PICT7771.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwK0OlwBY-I/ThOSJ3mSzMI/AAAAAAAAAF4/MrpBj_QCwk4/s1600/PICT7766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hardly anyone will dispute the fact that dogs need to be let loose. They are social and active animals that need to be able to regularly spend their energy and to be physically and psychologically stimulated. The common hygienic walks, on-leash, quick and in familiar places will hardly be enough to satisfy our companion’s needs. Unlike popular belief, even small sized dogs will not see their exercise needs met by just running around the house; they actually often have proportionally greater needs than larger sized dogs.&lt;br /&gt;When they go smoothly, off-leash walks are an excellent opportunity to reinforce the bond and complicity that exists between the owner and his dog. But there are several opportunities for them to go wrong, and the owner should be aware of them so he may take the necessary precautions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Common sense… and obedience!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most risks, unfortunately, come form lack of care… Too often we see off leash dogs, even in confined and/or unknown places, showing clear signs of stress, bumping into objects (namely the ever more present glass doors, which dogs do not immediately apprehend as a barrier as they can see what’s on the other side). A loose dogs has inherently a greater probability to get hurt or cause injury, even if unintentionally. A dog that gets spooked or who is chasing an animal will easily run to the middle of the street, risking getting run over. Or crash into someone, due to being more focused on its prey than on what’s going on around him. An off leash dog should be a trained, obedient dog, with a reliable recall to his owner regardless of the situation, in order to prevent problematic situations. This is necessary not only in open space, but also when the dog is loose on enclosed spaces, like dog parks – they still have other people and dogs that should be minded, so the walk is an enjoyable experience for everyone involved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Breed propensity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some breeds tend to be more attentive to their owner whereas others tend to be more independent. Herding dogs, for example, having been bred to work under the guidance of people, tend to be more responsive to their owner’s desires and to keep near him, while the reverse tends to happen with mountain dogs, more independent and explorer of the surrounding areas. Scent hounds, on the other hand, despite being very attentive to their owner, when they find a scent that attracts them and start following the trail, show a remarkable “selective deafness”. This happens because this activity is for them much more attractive and rewarding than the mere presence of the owner (hard as it may be for some owners to admit it). Of course, there are general trends, and there is ample individual variation within each breed, often even more than among breeds. However, it is a good empirical rule to consider the different breed types and their tendency to behave differently when they are on the loose, for when the owners are implementing strategies to ensure their dog’s obedience in any situation – it is necessary to try to ensure they are their companion’s main focus of interest, more interesting than any other activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;“He just wants to play!”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You’re on the beach relaxing when, out of the blue, comes a running dog chasing a ball someone threw, skidding right on top of you and giving you a sand bath. As if that wasn’t enough to ruin your good mood, another dog comes out of the sea and vigorously shakes right beside you, literally giving you a cold shower. As much as you like dogs, that will certainly not be one of your favorite moments!&lt;br /&gt;When you’re taking a walk on the park, the situation may become even more complicated. Your dog may actually just want to play, but other people are also entitled to enjoy public space their own way without being bothered. He may even be the nicest coolest dog in the area, but that is no reason to let your 70 kg Saint Bernard run like mad on top of a passer-by asking to be petted, drooling all over him, just because “he only wants to play”. Or to let your Collie&amp;nbsp; run around people trying to get them together in a single group, nibbling at their heels (herding behavior). Special attention must also be paid in places with bikers, skaters, etc., as most dogs tend to associate them with prey to chase.&lt;br /&gt;If your dog is little or not used to children, watch him carefully in places where kids are playing. Children have a shape and behavior different from adults, and dogs that are not used to them may not understand them as people, but rather as animated toys or prey to chase.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwK0OlwBY-I/ThOSJ3mSzMI/AAAAAAAAAF4/MrpBj_QCwk4/s1600/PICT7766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwK0OlwBY-I/ThOSJ3mSzMI/AAAAAAAAAF4/MrpBj_QCwk4/s320/PICT7766.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“He won’t bite!”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a dog is all worked up enjoying his few moments off leash and notices another dog, often his tendency is to run to the other. Almost automatically, often the owner lets him, just saying to the other dog’s owner “it’s ok, my dog won’t bite!” But is it such a simple and innocent situation?&lt;br /&gt;On one hand, the dog may actually not bit in a normal situation, but his owner doesn’t know anything about the other dog, if he is aggressive, scared, etc. Is it wise to expose any of the dogs to a situation of potential risk without proper precautions?&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, and often because of the social isolation of most urban dogs are subjected to (often by their owner, who will immediately repel any dog trying to approach his own), many dogs don’t know how to politely meet and greet other dogs according to the rules of canine etiquette. In a correct approach, both dogs will come up to each other calmly, with a relaxed demeanor, without staring at each other (they may alternate staring with looking away), will position themselves side by side to smell their anal area (the canine equivalent to the human hand shake) and, if there is no stress, will either continue their way or try to play with each other. When this is approach is not done correctly, there may be problems due to misinterpretation of intentions. For example, it is common, when dogs are excited, that they come running directly towards the other one, stopping right in front of him. As a human equivalent, think about a stranger that sees you at distance and comes running on top of you, stopping only a few centimeters away. Unpleasant, right?&lt;br /&gt;In such a situation, a more confident dog may show signs to try to defuse the situation, like calmly waking away or staying put but smelling the ground (almost certainly the floor is not more interesting than the other dog, but by showing lack of interest the other dog may calm down), lick his lips, etc. If the dog is unsure and/or doesn’t have the possibility of choosing what to do (as when he is on leash), he may eventually show some aggressive sigs (like raising the hackles, showing teeth, growling…), in order to try to prevent the other dog from approaching. The owners may also unintentionally add to the stress of the meeting. For example, by not knowing normal canine behavior, some will try to stop dogs from smelling the anal areas, because they think that behavior is gross. Even more common is the owner getting nervous with the approach of a strange dog and putting pressure on the leash, in an almost reflex behavior of trying to hold their animal better. But the dog will feel that pressure and think that the situation may indeed be a problem, which will lead to an escalation of the real stress. The ideal, in a situation where both dogs are on leash, is to calmly watch the dogs’ body language and keep a loose leash in order to avoid unnecessary tension. When both dogs are off leash the “complicating” human element is removed, and any of the approaching dogs may choose to walk away, but the animals' behavior must still be closely watched. A misinterpretation by one of the dogs or a lack of knowledge of body language (do not forget that many dogs live in a virtually human environment with little to no contact with other dogs since puppyhood) may lead to the occurrence of conflicts. But when one of the dogs if off leash and the other is on leash, there may be the problem of ever-excitement of the loose dog associated with the tension perceived by the owner and the leashed dog, who has no possibility of walking away if he so desired; if the fearful dog does not have the possibility of flight, fight remains… The owner of the off leash dog thus has the increased responsibility to ensure his animal does not derange the other dog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L2jRK6ry2Rw/ThOSuI3ONMI/AAAAAAAAAF8/63sIFToWDws/s1600/IMG_0865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L2jRK6ry2Rw/ThOSuI3ONMI/AAAAAAAAAF8/63sIFToWDws/s320/IMG_0865.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ask first… and watch&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A simple way to do it is to keep your dog close to you and ask first to the owner of the other dog if they can greet each other. Should the owner refuse (he may have a fearful dog, an aggressive dog, a frail one, a dog undergoing some kind of treatment, etc.), respect his wishes and carry on with your walk. If he accepts, watch the dogs’ interaction. Watch the way they approach and if your dog starts getting too worked up, call him back, allow only calm approaches, in order to avoid misinterpretations and risks. After the first introduction, should both dogs want to play for a bit, don’t lower your guard. Although when playing dogs normally use several signs showing that what they are doing should not be taken seriously, in order to keep their companion relaxed, different dogs may have different play styles – some like rough games, others prefer calmer playing… Special attention should be given when dogs of different sizes are playing, as the bigger dog may accidentally injure the smaller one. That is actually the main reason for the recommendation for two separate enclosures in dog parks, so animals of different sizes may interact safely with dogs their own size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respect to be respected&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as you may want to always have your well behaved dog off leash (and regardless of the legality or not of the situation), bear in mind that some people are afraid of dogs or, even if they do not fear them, do not particularly enjoy having dogs around. Many people don’t know who to correctly interpret dog body language and may feel threatened by the approach of a strange dog. Remember that in most public spaces dogs should be kept on leash and they are refused access to a number of them. Despite our traditional tolerance to certain of these freedoms, it is necessary to respect others! Learn to interpret canine body language, keep your dog on leash or near you when you’re around other people, do not let him approach other people or dogs without proper permission and never forget to pick up after your dog, even if he is off leash. If we all respect the basic rules of common sense, respect and healthy sociability, we may gradually start to change people’s mentalities and gain legal access of dogs to increasingly more public areas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-572664508125956217?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/572664508125956217/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/07/off-leash-walks-yes-no-maybe.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/572664508125956217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/572664508125956217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/07/off-leash-walks-yes-no-maybe.html' title='Off-leash walks - Yes… No… Maybe…'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fHTJRHiXnw/ThOTci3J_EI/AAAAAAAAAGA/KHOmgXqWWVY/s72-c/PICT7771.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-3656356462799179024</id><published>2011-07-05T23:44:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T12:37:02.636+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mordidas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cidadania'/><title type='text'>Passear com o cão à solta - Sim… Não… Talvez…</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/07/off-leash-walks-yes-no-maybe.html"&gt;versão inglesa acima&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;As férias de Verão chegaram, com o bom tempo e os dias longos. Com elas vem a disponibilidade para passar mais tempo ao ar livre com a família – tanto a de 2 como a de 4 patas. E a tentação de andar com o nosso companheiro canino à solta é naturalmente grande, tanto mais que no resto do ano, por razões diversas, normalmente temos menos tempo disponível para ele. Mas será que o devemos fazer de qualquer maneira?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fHTJRHiXnw/ThOTci3J_EI/AAAAAAAAAGA/KHOmgXqWWVY/s1600/PICT7771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fHTJRHiXnw/ThOTci3J_EI/AAAAAAAAAGA/KHOmgXqWWVY/s320/PICT7771.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dificilmente alguém irá contestar o facto que os cães precisam de andar à solta. São animais sociais e activos, que precisam de poder desgastar regularmente as suas energias e de ser estimulados física e psicologicamente. Os simples passeios higiénicos diários, à trela, rápidos e em sítios conhecidos, dificilmente serão suficientes para satisfazer as necessidades dos nossos companheiros. Ao contrário do que popularmente se pensa, mesmo os de pequeno porte não satisfazem as suas necessidades de exercício com o andar em casa; muitas vezes, têm mesmo necessidades proporcionalmente maiores que as de cães de porte superior.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quando correm bem, os passeios à solta são uma excelente oportunidade para reforçar os laços e cumplicidade existentes entre o dono e o seu cão. Mas existem numerosas oportunidades para que corram mal, e o dono deve estar ciente delas para se poder precaver.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bom senso… e obediência!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A maioria dos riscos, infelizmente, advém muito da falta de cuidado… Vezes demasiadas se vêm cães sem trela, mesmo em espaços confinados e/ou desconhecidos, a manifestar evidentes sinais de stress, a embater contra objectos (nomeadamente as cada vez mais presentes portas de vidro, que os cães não apreendem de imediato que constituem uma barreira, por verem o que está do outro lado). Um cão à solta tem, por inerência, maior probabilidade de se magoar ou de causar danos, mesmo que não intencionalmente. Um cão que se assuste ou que persiga algum animal, facilmente corre para o meio da estrada, arriscando-se seriamente a ser atropelado. Ou a embater em alguém, por estar mais focado no que está a perseguir do que no que se passa em seu redor. Um cão à solta deve ser um cão treinado, obediente, que responda à chamada do seu dono qualquer que seja a situação, de forma a precaver situações problemáticas. Isto é necessário não só em espaços abertos, mas mesmo também quando se tem o animal à solta em espaços vedados, como parques para cães – não deixa de haver pessoas e outros cães a quem é necessário prestar atenção, para que o passeio seja uma experiência agradável para todos os envolvidos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Propensão racial&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Algumas raças têm tendência a serem mais atentas ao dono, enquanto outras tendem a ser mais independentes. Os cães de pastoreio, por exemplo, tendo sido selecionados para trabalhar sob a supervisão de pessoas, tendem a ser mais responsivos aos desejos do dono e a permanecer mais nas suas imediações, e o inverso tende a ocorrer com os cães de montanha, mais independentes e exploradores da área em que se encontram. Já os sabujos, por exemplo, apesar de serem bastante atentos ao dono, quando encontram um cheiro que lhes interesse e começam a seguir o rasto, manifestam uma notável “surdez selectiva”. Isto porque essa actividade é para eles bastante mais atractiva e recompensadora que a mera presença do dono (por muito que custe a alguns donos assumir isto). Naturalmente, isto são as tendências gerais, e existe muita variação individual dentro de cada raça, frequentemente até mais que entre raças. No entanto, é uma boa regra empírica considerar os diferentes tipos raciais e a sua tendência para se comportar de forma diferente quando estão à solta, para os donos implementarem estratégias para assegurar a obediência do seu cão em qualquer situação – há que procurar garantir que constituem o principal foco de interesse do seu companheiro, mais interessante que qualquer outra actividade.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Ele só quer brincar!”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Está você na praia a relaxar quando, vindo do nada, aparece um cão a correr atrás de uma bola atirada por alguém, fazendo uma curva apertada mesmo em cima da sua toalha e dando-lhe um banho de areia. Como se isso não fosse suficiente para destruir a sua boa disposição, um outro sai do mar e sacode-se vigorosamente ao seu lado, dando-lhe desta vez literalmente um banho de água fria. Por muito que goste de cães, este não será certamente um dos seus momentos favoritos!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quando passeia no parque, a situação poderá tornar-se ainda mais complicada. O seu cão até poderá só querer brincar, mas as outras pessoas têm também direito a poder disfrutar o espaço público da sua forma, sem serem importunadas. Ele até pode ser o cão mais simpático e bonacheirão da zona, mas isso não é razão para deixar o seu S. Bernardo de 70 kg ir a correr desenfreadamente para cima de um transeunte a pedir-lhe festas, enchendo-o de baba, só porque “ele só quer brincar”. Ou para deixar o seu Collie andar a correr à volta das pessoas tentando juntá-las num único grupo, mordiscando os seus calcanhares (comportamento de pastoreio). Deve ainda ser prestada atenção especial a locais ondem andem pessoas de bicicleta, patins, trotinetes, etc., já que a maioria dos cães tende a associá-los a presas a perseguir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Se o seu cão não estiver habituado com crianças, ou pouco, vigie-o cuidadosamente em zonas onde haja garotos a brincar. As crianças têm uma forma e um comportamento diferente do dos adultos, e cães que a elas não estejam habituados poderão não as apreender como pessoas, mas sim como brinquedos animados ou presas a perseguir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwK0OlwBY-I/ThOSJ3mSzMI/AAAAAAAAAF4/MrpBj_QCwk4/s1600/PICT7766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwK0OlwBY-I/ThOSJ3mSzMI/AAAAAAAAAF4/MrpBj_QCwk4/s320/PICT7766.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Ele não morde!”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quando um cão está excitado a aproveitar os seus poucos momentos à solta e se apercebe de outro cão, muitas vezes a tendência é ir a correr ter com o outro. Quase automaticamente, o dono frequentemente deixa-o ir, limitando-se a comentar para o dono do outro “Não faz mal, o meu cão não morde!” Mas será uma situação assim tão simples e inocente?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por um lado, o seu cão poderá efectivamente não morder numa situação normal, mas o dono nada sabe sobre o outro, se é agressivo, se está assustado, etc. Será sensato expor qualquer dos cães a uma situação de potencial risco sem tomar as medidas adequadas?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por outro lado, e frequentemente em virtude do isolamento social a que a maioria dos cães urbanos estão sujeitos (muitas vezes imposta pelos donos, que de imediato afastam qualquer cão que se tenta aproximar do seu), muitos não sabem aproximar-se educadamente de outros cães cumprindo as regras de etiqueta canina. Numa abordagem correcta, os dois cães aproximam-se calmamente, com uma postura relaxada, sem fixarem o olhar um no outro (poderão alternar o olhar para o outro com o desviarem o olhar), posicionam-se lado a lado, para cheirarem a região peri-anal do outro (o equivalente canino ao aperto de mãos humano) e, não havendo tensão, poderão prosseguir o seu caminho ou tentarem brincar um com o outro. Quando esta abordagem não é adequadamente efectuada, poderão surgir problemas por má interpretação das intenções. Por exemplo, é comum, quando os cães estão muito excitados, virem a correr directamente para o outro, parando mesmo em frente dele. Num equivalente humano, pense num desconhecido que o vê à distância e vem a correr para cima de si, parando a poucos centímetros. Desagradável, não?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Numa situação destas, um cão mais confiante poderá exibir sinais tentando acalmar a situação, como o afastar-se calmamente, manter-se no mesmo local mas pôr-se a cheirar o solo (quase de certeza que o chão não é mais interessante que o outro cão, mas mostrando desinteresse, pode ser que o outro cão acalme), lamber os lábios, etc. Caso o cão seja inseguro e/ou não tenha possibilidade de escolher o que fazer (como acontece quando o cão está à trela), poderá eventualmente exibir sinais de agressividade (eriçar do pelo, arreganhar os lábios, rosnar…), de forma a tentar desencorajar o outro cão de se aproximar. Também os donos podem, inadvertidamente, contribuir para aumentar a tensão nos encontros. Por exemplo, ao desconhecerem as normas de conduta canina, há quem impeça os cães de cheirarem a região anal, por acharem esse comportamento repugnante. Mais frequente ainda é os donos ficarem nervosos com a aproximação de um cão desconhecido e fazerem tensão na trela, num comportamento quase reflexo de procurar segurar melhor o seu animal. Ora, o cão vai sentir essa tensão e ficará a pensar que efectivamente a situação poderá ser problemática, o que poderá levar a um aumentar da real tensão. O ideal, numa situação em que ambos os cães estejam à trela, é vigiar calmamente a linguagem corporal dos cães envolvidos, mantendo a trela lassa para não criar tensões desnecessárias. Quando ambos os cães estão à solta, não há o elemento humano a “complicar” a aproximação entre os cães, e qualquer um pode optar por se afastar, mas nem por isso se deve descurar a atenção ao comportamento dos animais. Uma má interpretação do comportamento por parte de um deles, ou desconhecimento do significado das posturas corporais (há que não esquecer que muitos cães vivem num ambiente virtualmente humano, desde cachorros com pouco ou nenhum contacto com outros cães) poderá levar ao surgimento de conflitos. Mas quando um dos cães está à solta e o outro está à trela, poderá haver o problema da sobre-excitação do cão à solta aliado à tensão apercebida pelo dono e o cão preso, que não tem a possibilidade de se afastar se o desejar; à falta da hipótese de fuga, ao cão receoso resta a do ataque... O dono do cão à solta tem então a responsabilidade acrescida de procurar assegurar que o seu cão não perturba o outro cão.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L2jRK6ry2Rw/ThOSuI3ONMI/AAAAAAAAAF8/63sIFToWDws/s1600/IMG_0865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L2jRK6ry2Rw/ThOSuI3ONMI/AAAAAAAAAF8/63sIFToWDws/s320/IMG_0865.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Peça autorização primeiro… e vigie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Uma forma simples é manter o seu cão perto de si e perguntar primeiro ao dono do outro se se podem acercar. Caso o dono recuse (pode ter um cão receoso, agressivo, frágil, em tratamento, etc.), respeite e prossiga com o seu passeio. Caso aceite, vigie a interacção entre os cães. Observe como se aproximam, e se o seu cão começar a ficar demasiado excitado, chame-o de volta, apenas permita abordagens calmas, de forma a evitar mal-entendidos e riscos. Após as apresentações, caso ambos os cães queiram brincar um pouco, não baixe a guarda. Apesar de na brincadeira os cães usarem normalmente numerosos sinais indicadores que o que estão a fazer não é para ser levado a sério, de forma a tranquilizar o seu companheiro, diferentes cães podem ter diferentes formas de brincar – uns gostam de ser mais físicos na brincadeira, outros preferem jogos mais calmos… Deve ser prestado especial atenção às brincadeiras entre cães de porte muito diferente, pois há risco de o cão maior sem querer magoar o mais pequeno. Aliás, essa é a principal razão para a recomendação de haver dois recintos separados nos parques para cães, para que animais de diferente porte possam interagir em segurança com cães do seu tamanho.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Respeite para ser respeitado&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por muita vontade que tenha de andar sempre com o seu cão bem educado à solta (independentemente da legalidade ou não da situação), tenha em mente que há pessoas que têm medo de cães ou que, mesmo não os receando, não apreciam particularmente tê-los perto de si. Muitas pessoas não sabem interpretar correctamente a expressão corporal dos cães, e podem sentir-se ameaçadas pela abordagem de um cão desconhecido. Não se esqueça que na maioria dos espaços públicos os cães devem circular à trela, e é-lhes inclusive interdito o acesso a vários locais. Apesar de tradicionalmente haver uma certa tolerância quanto a estas liberdades, há que respeitar os outros! Aprenda a interpretar a linguagem corporal dos cães, mantenha o seu cão à trela ou junto a si quando está perto de outras pessoas, não o deixe aproximar-se de pessoas ou cães sem autorização e nunca se esqueça de recolher os dejectos que o seu cão faz, mesmo quando este anda à solta. Se todos respeitarmos as regras elementares de bom senso, respeito e sã convivência, pode ser que gradualmente se comece a mudar as mentalidades e a conseguir o acesso legal dos cães a cada vez mais espaços públicos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-3656356462799179024?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/3656356462799179024/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/07/passear-com-o-cao-solta-sim-nao-talvez.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/3656356462799179024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/3656356462799179024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/07/passear-com-o-cao-solta-sim-nao-talvez.html' title='Passear com o cão à solta - Sim… Não… Talvez…'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1fHTJRHiXnw/ThOTci3J_EI/AAAAAAAAAGA/KHOmgXqWWVY/s72-c/PICT7771.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-6869320355351247705</id><published>2011-05-10T13:38:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T12:36:17.853+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dog Bites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citizenship'/><title type='text'>People meeting dogs / Dogs meeting people</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/pessoas-conhecendo-caes-caes-conhecendo.html"&gt;Versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yzp9tcjLc7E/TckuXjIgXgI/AAAAAAAAAFk/XYSJ1nFCAk0/s1600/Nikko-4meses.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yzp9tcjLc7E/TckuXjIgXgI/AAAAAAAAAFk/XYSJ1nFCAk0/s320/Nikko-4meses.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first dog I had from puppyhood, Nikko, was afraid of people. And he was lucky enough (or unlucky enough, form his point of view) to be very appealing, with his scruffy look. When I took him out for walks, if we were lucky enough for people to ask me if they could pet him (because most wouldn’t even bother to ask, they’d just do it), I’d tell them no, and explain them that he didn’t like it so I didn’t want to force him into an unpleasant situation. My mother, meaning well, would say yes, go ahead, and if necessary would pick the puppy up so people could pet him better. Which, of course, would only make matters worse, as he was left without the possibility to choose what t do and eventually walk away.&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If it was you, would you like it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just imagine… You’re calmly enjoying your walk, contemplating the views, watching passers-by when out of the blue comes a stranger to you, holds you, gives you a tight hug ad a long-time friend, pokes you all over and walks away. Confused? A bit up ahead, another person comes by, picks you up, smooches you all with kisses and baby talks at you and goes away. What the hell? Shortly thereafter these situations repeat. When will you run out of patience? In my personal case, I can say I’d quickly become a hazard to people’s physical integrity… ;)&lt;br /&gt;Surreal? Without a doubt! Yet this is a reality for countless dogs on their walks – to be frequently intercepted by people who want to touch them, while they are expected not to have any negative reaction!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A dog on the street is a good dog?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you see a child on the street, do you immediately assume he is well behaved? However, when they see a dog on the street, most people assume the dog will tolerate anything that comes their way. And indeed most dogs do know how to behave in public. But what about those that don’t? Oh, those their owners leave at home! What does that solve? A dog permanently locked up at home will never learn to behave on a human society. It is necessary that the dog comes outside, calmly and controlled, to lear the rules he is expected to follow. And for that it is necessary that the owner is willing to teach them, with or without professional help depending on the situation, and that other people respect the dog’s space and his need of learning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ask first&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-42ttJFNhfmE/TckuY7ZqEyI/AAAAAAAAAFo/hvo_vLw8YCo/s1600/CQ-Bingo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as they see a dog on the street, most people, and specially children, will immediately go to him and start touching him. However, get used, and teach you children, to ask the owner for permission first. It is so &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-42ttJFNhfmE/TckuY7ZqEyI/AAAAAAAAAFo/hvo_vLw8YCo/s1600/CQ-Bingo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-42ttJFNhfmE/TckuY7ZqEyI/AAAAAAAAAFo/hvo_vLw8YCo/s320/CQ-Bingo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;simples and so much safer! And it is a sign of respect for the owner and the dog. And respect what the owner tells you, whether you agree or not! I remember that in the rare occasions people asked my if they could pet Nikko and I told them no, explaining why, the typical reply was “oh, but he is so cute, of course he can’t be afraid of people!” What does being cute has to do with being afraid of people? In principle, the owner knows his dog better than anyone and is the best person (except in some situations a specialized professional) to assess how the dog will react in different situations. Indeed it is often because people will disregard the owner’s statement that leads some owners to systematically refuse any contact between their dog and other people, creating a vicious cycle in which the dog may even start to be (even more) afraid of people.&lt;br /&gt;But don’t fall on the opposite extreme either! It is so common to hear parent to say to their children approaching a strange dog “Don’t touch the dog, he bites!” Why make children afraid of dogs? If you don’t want your child to touch the dog, would it be more sensible to explain him why they shouldn’t touch strange dogs and teach him to ask the owner for permission first?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Watch the dog&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if the owner allows you to touch his dog, watch carefully if the dog really wants that contact. Many people accept strangers to pet their dog not because the animal likes it or because the owner really doesn’t mind, but because socially it “looks bad” if they refuse it. And forcing a shy or fearful dog to contact may worsen his fears and lead to situation which may endanger the person’s and/or animal’s physical integrity.&lt;br /&gt;But is you watch the dog’s behavior, he will usually show a number of signs indicating if he is comfortable or not with the situation. Some stress signs (or calming signs, as they are more often called) are subtle and may go unnoticed for those who don’t know them – like the pulling back of the lips, or pupil’s dilatation, which is a physiological fear response and can be a preparation for a “flight or fight” response. Other signs are not so subtle but many people do not know how to interpret them correctly. Like the dog that turns the head sideways avoiding facing the person approaching him, he is not doing it because he saw something more &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QibaX8isPUk/TckuXFDtWxI/AAAAAAAAAFg/MYDeTPr40fU/s1600/Pulga.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QibaX8isPUk/TckuXFDtWxI/AAAAAAAAAFg/MYDeTPr40fU/s320/Pulga.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;interesting elsewhere. Or the dog that starts yawning or licking his lips or nose, after all he hasn’t just eaten something delicious and a walk is not a time to be sleepy. But some signs are obvious – the unsure dog that approaches slowly and crouching, the dog that steps away from the person or hides behind or between his owner’s legs is clearly saying he is not comfortable with the situation. All this, of course, without the extremes of growling or snapping (a bite in the air, discouraging further approach). In this situation, why force? And run the risk of making this a very complicated situation to everyone involved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;How to approach a dog?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, so you asked the owner for permission to pet his dog and the animal doesn’t seem uncomfortable with the situation. Despite that, it may not be the best idea to reach out to the dog, give him a big hug and a huge kiss on the face! Generally, dogs don’t like being hugged, even by people they know well. Actually, all it takes is to think that not only this gesture does not exist among dogs but also it takes away their choice to move away if they want. Even if dogs with a strong bond among themselves sometimes like to be in tight physical contact, usually the most similar to a hug dogs have is during hierarchy rituals or fights. It is thus easy to figure that this gesture has a totally different meaning in dogs and humans.&lt;br /&gt;What to do then? Do not approach the dog straight forward, which is intimidatory for the animal. Avoid looking him straight in the eyes (do you like it when a stranger does that to you?), specially in the first moments until the dog is relaxed. Crouch down beside him, thus becoming more accessible while following canine protocol – unlike people, dogs great side by side, not straight forward. Let the dog decide to come to you. This is very important, as it allows the dog to decide if he is comfortable with the situation. You may even drop a hand, so he can sniff it. He may approach you and stay there sniffing, he may come, sniff and move away… respect his decision and do now go after him if he leaves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Where to touch?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3-BWRv8u_E/TckuZmyG6MI/AAAAAAAAAFs/_j5IysCk4B8/s1600/CQ-Mel.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the dog seems to be comfortable and seeks contact, usually the next step is people trying to pet him. This &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3-BWRv8u_E/TckuZmyG6MI/AAAAAAAAAFs/_j5IysCk4B8/s1600/CQ-Mel.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3-BWRv8u_E/TckuZmyG6MI/AAAAAAAAAFs/_j5IysCk4B8/s320/CQ-Mel.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;also often requires some self-control. Avoid sudden movements, which may scare the dog. People tend to go for the head, but most dogs don’t particularly like being petted there. Ask the owner if the dog has a preferred spot and/or try the cheeks behind the lips, behind the ears, the chest, shoulders, in the back near the tail… It is important that you do it gently, always watching the dog, and stop if the dog starts to show signs of discomfort or stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In short…&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order for everyone (people and dogs) to enjoy the sunny days approaching, all it takes is some mutual respect and common-sense. Most dogs like to interact with people, but unlike many seem to think, not all dogs are comfortable in that situation. All it takes is some common-sense from the owners and other people for walks to turn into a pleasant experience for everyone involved, and not a nightmare for the dog and the owner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-6869320355351247705?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6869320355351247705/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/people-meeting-dogs-dogs-meeting-people.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6869320355351247705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6869320355351247705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/people-meeting-dogs-dogs-meeting-people.html' title='People meeting dogs / Dogs meeting people'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yzp9tcjLc7E/TckuXjIgXgI/AAAAAAAAAFk/XYSJ1nFCAk0/s72-c/Nikko-4meses.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-1855624578243496608</id><published>2011-05-10T13:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T12:36:00.297+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mordidas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cidadania'/><title type='text'>Pessoas conhecendo cães / Cães conhecendo pessoas</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/people-meeting-dogs-dogs-meeting-people.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yzp9tcjLc7E/TckuXjIgXgI/AAAAAAAAAFk/XYSJ1nFCAk0/s1600/Nikko-4meses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yzp9tcjLc7E/TckuXjIgXgI/AAAAAAAAAFk/XYSJ1nFCAk0/s320/Nikko-4meses.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;O primeiro cão que tive desde cachorro, o Nikko, tinha medo de pessoas. E tinha a sorte (ou o azar, sob o ponto de vista dele) de ter um aspecto muito atractivo, com o seu pelo desgrenhado. Quando eu o passeava, se tivesse a sorte de as pessoas me perguntarem se lhe podiam fazer festas (isto porque a maior parte nem se dava ao trabalho de perguntar, faziam-no logo), dizia que não, que ele não gostava pelo que não o queria forçar a uma situação desagradável para ele. Já a minha mãe, cheia de boas intenções, dizia que sim e, se fosse preciso, pegava no cachorro ao colo para as pessoas lhe poderem mexer melhor. Ora, naturalmente isto só agravava a situação, pois ele ficava sem a hipótese de escolher o que fazer e eventualmente afastar-se.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se fosse consigo, gostava?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine… Está você calmamente a disfrutar o seu passeio, a apreciar a vista, a ver quem passa, quando de repente vem um perfeito desconhecido ter consigo, agarra-o, dá-lhe um abraço bem apertado como se fosse um amigo de longa data, apalpa-o todo e desaparece em seguida. Confuso? Um pouco mais à frente, aproxima-se outra pessoa, pega-o ao colo, enche-o de beijos enquanto lhe fala como se fosse um bebé e vai-se embora. Mas o que é que se passa? Passado mais um pouco, estas situações repetem-se. Quando é que a sua paciência acaba? No meu caso pessoal, posso dizer que certamente rapidamente me tornaria num perigo para a integridade física das pessoas… ;)&lt;br /&gt;Surreal? Certamente! Não passaria pela cabeça de ninguém comportar-se assim com perfeitos desconhecidos. No entanto, esta é a realidade de inúmeros cães, quando vão passear – serem frequentemente interceptados por pessoas que lhes querem mexer, enquanto se espera que não tenham qualquer tipo de reacção negativa!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um cão na rua é um bom cão?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando vê uma criança na rua, assume imediatamente que é uma criança bem-educada? No entanto, quando vêm um cão na rua, a maioria das pessoas assume que o cão irá tolerar tudo o que lhe aparecer. E efectivamente, a maioria dos cães sabem comportar-se minimamente em público. Mas e quanto aos que não sabem? Ah, mas esses os seus donos deixam em casa! O que é que isso resolve? Um cão que fique permanentemente confinado em casa nunca aprenderá a comportar-se numa sociedade humana. É necessário vir para o exterior, calma e controladamente, para aprender as regras que deve cumprir. E para isso é preciso que o dono esteja disposto a ensiná-lo, com ou sem a ajuda de profissionais consoante a situação, e que as outras pessoas respeitem o espaço do cão e a sua necessidade de aprendizagem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peça autorização primeiro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A maior parte das pessoas, e principalmente as crianças, assim que vêm um cão na rua, de imediato se dirige &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-42ttJFNhfmE/TckuY7ZqEyI/AAAAAAAAAFo/hvo_vLw8YCo/s1600/CQ-Bingo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-42ttJFNhfmE/TckuY7ZqEyI/AAAAAAAAAFo/hvo_vLw8YCo/s320/CQ-Bingo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a ele e começa a mexer-lhe. No entanto, habitue-se, e ensine os seus filhos, a pedir primeiro autorização ao dono. É tão simples e tão mais seguro! E é um sinal de respeito pelo dono e pelo cão. E respeite o que o dono lhe diz, quer concorde quer não! Lembro-me que, nas raras ocasiões em que as pessoas me perguntavam se podiam mexer no Nikko, e eu lhes dizia não explicando a razão, a resposta típica era “oh, mas ele é tão lindo, claro que não pode ter medo de pessoas!” O que é que ser bonito tem a ver com ter medo de pessoas? À partida, o dono conhece o seu cão melhor que ninguém e será a pessoa mais avalizada (salvo, em algumas situações, um profissional especializado) a aferir como o animal irá reagir em diferentes situações. Aliás, é precisamente o facto de as pessoas muitas vezes desrespeitarem as indicações do dono que leva a que alguns donos comecem sistematicamente a recusar qualquer contacto entre o seu cão e outras pessoas, criando um círculo vicioso em que o cão poderá inclusive começar a ganhar (ainda mais) medo às pessoas.&lt;br /&gt;Mas também não caia no extremo oposto! É tão frequente ouvir os pais dizer aos seus filhos que se dirigem a um cão desconhecido “Não mexas que o cão morde!” Porquê incutir às crianças o medo aos cães? Se não se quer que a criança mexa no cão, não seria mais razoável explicar-lhe porque é que não deve mexer em cães desconhecidos e ensiná-la a pedir primeiro autorização ao dono?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observe o cão&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mesmo que o dono o autorize a mexer no seu cão, observe atentamente se o cão quer efectivamente esse contacto. Muitas pessoas acedem a que estranhos façam festas ao seu cão não porque este gosta da situação, ou porque os donos efectivamente não se importem, mas porque socialmente “fica mal” recusar. E forçar um cão tímido ou receoso ao contacto poderá agravar os seus medos e levar potencialmente a situações que ponham em risco a integridade física da pessoa e/ou do animal.&lt;br /&gt;Mas se prestar atenção ao comportamento do cão, normalmente ele irá dar muitos sinais se está confortável com a situação ou não. Um cão que voluntariamente vem ter com a pessoa é um cão que, à partida, estará mais predisposto a estabelecer contacto físico. Mas e os outros? Alguns sinais indicadores de stress (ou sinais calmantes, como são frequentemente designados) são subtis e poderão passar desapercebidos para quem não os conhece – por exemplo, o retraír dos lábios, ou a dilatação das pupilas, que é uma resposta fisiológica de medo e que pode ser preparação para uma reacção de “fuga ou ataque”. Outros sinais não são tão subtis, mas muitas pessoas não os sabem interpretar correctamente. Como o cão que vira a cabeça de lado, evitando encarar a pessoa que se aproxima dele, não o faz porque viu algo mais interessante noutro &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QibaX8isPUk/TckuXFDtWxI/AAAAAAAAAFg/MYDeTPr40fU/s1600/Pulga.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QibaX8isPUk/TckuXFDtWxI/AAAAAAAAAFg/MYDeTPr40fU/s320/Pulga.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;sítio. Ou o cão que começa a bocejar ou a lamber os lábios ou o nariz, afinal ele não acabou de comer algo saboroso nem um passeio é altura em que esteja com sono. Mas alguns sinais são óbvios – o cão inseguro que se aproxima devagar e agachado, o cão que se afasta da pessoa ou que se refugia atrás ou entre as pernas do seu dono está claramente a demonstrar que a situação não lhe agrada. Isto, claro, sem chegar aos extremos do rosnar ou do snapping (dentada no ar, para desencorajar uma aproximação). Numa situação destas, porquê insistir? E arriscar tornar a situação extremamente complicada para todos os envolvidos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Como abordar um cão?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, portanto pediu autorização ao dono para fazer festas ao cão, e o animal não parece estar desconfortável com a situação. Apesar disso, talvez não seja uma boa chegar ao pé do cão, dar-lhe um abraço e pespegar-lhe com um beijo no meio do focinho! De uma forma geral, os cães não gostam de abraços, mesmo das pessoas que conhecem bem. Aliás, basta pensar que esse gesto não só não existe entre cães como lhes elimina a hipótese de se afastarem se quiserem. Apesar de cães com um grande laço entre eles gostem por vezes de estar contacto físico estreito um com o outro, o mais parecido com um abraço que eles têm ocorre normalmente durante rituais ou lutas hierárquicas entre cães. Não será assim difícil imaginar que este gesto tem para eles uma conotação diferente da que tem para nós.&lt;br /&gt;Então que fazer? Não aborde o animal de frente, isso é intimidatório para o cão. Evite olhar o cão directamente nos olhos (gosta de ter um estranho a olhá-lo directamente nos olhos?), sobretudo nos primeiros momentos até o cão estar relaxado. Agache-se ao lado do cão, tornando-se assim mais acessível e cumprindo a etiqueta canina – ao contrário das pessoas, os cães cumprimentam-se de lado, não de frente. Deixe ser o cão a decidir vir ter consigo. Isto é muito importante, pois permite que seja o cão a decidir se se sente confortável com a situação. Pode mesmo deixar uma mão descaída, para o cão vir cheirar. Ele poderá aproximar-se e ficar a cheirar, ou aproximar-se, cheirar e afastar-se de imediato… respeite a sua decisão e não vá atrás dele se se afastar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Onde mexer?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3-BWRv8u_E/TckuZmyG6MI/AAAAAAAAAFs/_j5IysCk4B8/s1600/CQ-Mel.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3-BWRv8u_E/TckuZmyG6MI/AAAAAAAAAFs/_j5IysCk4B8/s320/CQ-Mel.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Se o cão der sinais de estar confortável e procurar contacto, a fase seguinte é normalmente as pessoas&amp;nbsp;tentarem fazer-lhe festas. Esta situação também requer frequentemente algum auto-controlo. Evite movimentos bruscos, que poderão assustar o cão. A tendência é tentar fazer festas na cabeça, mas a maioria dos cães não gosta particularmente de carícias aí. Pergunte ao dono se o cão tem algum sitio preferido, e/ou experimente as faces atrás dos lábios, atrás das orelhas, no peito, nos ombros, na base da cauda… É importante que o vá fazendo calmamente, sempre observando o cão, e que pare se o cão começar a exibir sinais de desconforto ou stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em suma…&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para que todos (pessoas e cães) possam disfrutar os dias soalheiros que aí vêm, basta um pouco de respeito mútuo e bom-senso. A maioria dos cães gosta de interagir com outras pessoas, mas ao contrário do que muitas parecem pensar, nem todos os cães se sentem confortáveis nessa situação. Basta um pouco de bom senso por parte dos donos e das restantes pessoas para que os passeios sejam uma experiência agradável para todos envolvidos, e não um martírio para o cão e o dono.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-1855624578243496608?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1855624578243496608/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/pessoas-conhecendo-caes-caes-conhecendo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1855624578243496608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1855624578243496608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/pessoas-conhecendo-caes-caes-conhecendo.html' title='Pessoas conhecendo cães / Cães conhecendo pessoas'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yzp9tcjLc7E/TckuXjIgXgI/AAAAAAAAAFk/XYSJ1nFCAk0/s72-c/Nikko-4meses.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-5906949308857381176</id><published>2011-04-25T16:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T16:12:29.392+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Animal Assisted Therapies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terapias Assistidas com Animais'/><title type='text'>Terapia Assistida com Animais / Animal Assisted Therapies</title><content type='html'>As terapias assistidas com animais são já uma realidade em Portugal, ainda que numa escala ainda modesta.&lt;br /&gt;Recentemente, duas equipas foram entrevistadas por televisões portuguesas, comentando o trabalho que fazem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Animal assisted therapies are already a reality in Portugal, even if in a limited scale. Recently, two teams were interviewed by Portuguese TV channels, commenting on their work&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.obediencenostressteam.ning.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;No Stress Team&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://rd3.videos.sapo.pt/play?file=http://rd3.videos.sapo.pt/Kgrzi1fZDyouklcB3B60/mov/1&amp;relatedVideos=none" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" width="400" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958872764"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958872765"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958872764"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958872765"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.educa-cao.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1958872764"&gt;Educacão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/4Rz5XoVkVHY/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Rz5XoVkVHY&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Rz5XoVkVHY&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-5906949308857381176?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5906949308857381176/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/terapia-assistida-com-animais-animal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5906949308857381176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5906949308857381176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/terapia-assistida-com-animais-animal.html' title='Terapia Assistida com Animais / Animal Assisted Therapies'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-1172774704649506994</id><published>2011-04-24T21:38:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T10:50:49.694+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canicultura'/><title type='text'>2ª Jornada do Fórum "Selecção de reprodutores - A luta diária de um criador"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A 2ª Jornada do &lt;b&gt;Fórum “Selecção de reprodutores – a luta diária de um criador”&lt;/b&gt;, subordinada ao tema “Cruzamentos”,irá decorrer a 15 de Maio de 2011 , na Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, em Vila Real.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A data limite de inscrição é o dia 2 de Maio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mais informações no site do &lt;a href="http://www.cpc.pt/"&gt;Clube Português de Canicultura&lt;/a&gt;, onde está disponível o &lt;a href="http://www.cpc.pt/archive/2011/forum2-jornada2.pdf"&gt;programa &lt;/a&gt;e a ficha de &lt;a href="http://www.cpc.pt/archive/2011/forum2-jornada2-inscricao.pdf"&gt;inscrição&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-1172774704649506994?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1172774704649506994/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/2-jornada-do-forum-seleccao-de.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1172774704649506994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1172774704649506994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/2-jornada-do-forum-seleccao-de.html' title='2ª Jornada do Fórum &quot;Selecção de reprodutores - A luta diária de um criador&quot;'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-3488671117166688605</id><published>2011-04-24T21:33:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T21:40:16.082+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Treino'/><title type='text'>Obedience 100 Segredos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A &lt;a href="http://portugalobedienceteam.blogspot.com/"&gt;Selecção Portuguesa de Obedience de 2011 &lt;/a&gt;organiza em Junho dois eventos interessantes:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A 23 de Junho, um &lt;b&gt;Seminário de Obediência Desportiva&lt;/b&gt;, no Montijo:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D4VX6zrosGc/Ta8Gz3icNEI/AAAAAAAAAIA/rsfiDHaZsKI/s400/cartaz+ob+100.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D4VX6zrosGc/Ta8Gz3icNEI/AAAAAAAAAIA/rsfiDHaZsKI/s320/cartaz+ob+100.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A 25 de Junho, o &lt;b&gt;Congresso " Treino de Cães" - " O seu CÃO 100 segredos"&lt;/b&gt;, nas instalações do Clube Português de Canicultura, em Lisboa:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pHAz65zWcGo/TbDYZYuQ63I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/4Gx2SxVxEdI/s400/CARTAZ+CONGRESSO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pHAz65zWcGo/TbDYZYuQ63I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/4Gx2SxVxEdI/s320/CARTAZ+CONGRESSO.jpg" width="226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mais informações no blogue "&lt;a href="http://portugalobedienceteam.blogspot.com/"&gt;Portugal Obedience Team&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-3488671117166688605?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/3488671117166688605/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/obedience-100-segredos.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/3488671117166688605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/3488671117166688605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/obedience-100-segredos.html' title='Obedience 100 Segredos'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D4VX6zrosGc/Ta8Gz3icNEI/AAAAAAAAAIA/rsfiDHaZsKI/s72-c/cartaz+ob+100.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-4471344132057273158</id><published>2011-04-24T21:23:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T22:51:20.318+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Professional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Research'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Profissional'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Investigação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estrela Mountain Dog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cão da Serra da Estrela'/><title type='text'>Congresso sobre o Cão da Serra da Estrela / Estrela Mountain Dog Congress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ixp9MfXbqM/TbSETRxtM3I/AAAAAAAAAFc/FG8rFZEaVpw/s1600/outdoorfinal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="147" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ixp9MfXbqM/TbSETRxtM3I/AAAAAAAAAFc/FG8rFZEaVpw/s400/outdoorfinal.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No próximo fim-de-semana, no dia 30 de Abril, irá decorrer o &lt;a href="http://www.congressocaoserradaestrela.com/"&gt;1º Congresso Internacional do Cão da Serra da Estrela&lt;/a&gt;, nas Penhas da Saúde, Serra da Estrela. &lt;a href="http://www.apcse.com.pt/images/stories/eventos/Congresso/congressoportugues.pdf"&gt;Clique aqui para ver o programa (pdf)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Irei estar lá presente, apresentando alguns resultados de trabalhos de investigação que tenho realizado nos últimos 14 anos sobre a raça, ou envolvendo a raça. Se passar por lá, venha dizer olá!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.congressocaoserradaestrela.com/"&gt;1st Estrela Mountain Dog International Congress&lt;/a&gt; will take place next weekend, on the 30th of April, at Penhas da Saúde, Estrela Mountains. &lt;a href="http://www.apcse.com.pt/images/stories/eventos/Congresso/congressoingles.pdf"&gt;Click here to see the programme (pdf)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I will attend it, presenting some results of research I’ve conducted over the last 14 years on the breed, or involving the breed. If you drop by, come and say hi!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-4471344132057273158?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4471344132057273158/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/congresso-do-cao-da-serra-da-estrela.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/4471344132057273158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/4471344132057273158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/congresso-do-cao-da-serra-da-estrela.html' title='Congresso sobre o Cão da Serra da Estrela / Estrela Mountain Dog Congress'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ixp9MfXbqM/TbSETRxtM3I/AAAAAAAAAFc/FG8rFZEaVpw/s72-c/outdoorfinal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7875352153358101593</id><published>2011-04-24T21:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T21:08:14.641+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dachshund'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Separation anxiety'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>New update on Kikko</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko.html"&gt;Versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;I haven’t been here for a long time, as I’ve been incredibly busy at my jobs. However, I’ve had people ask me how Kikko was doing, so I guess it’s really time for an update...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ES22uqB3zgI/TbR-0Qvj8iI/AAAAAAAAAFY/_k_CFxG4d8w/s1600/IMG_3148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ES22uqB3zgI/TbR-0Qvj8iI/AAAAAAAAAFY/_k_CFxG4d8w/s320/IMG_3148.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;You know that saying “you only appreciate what you no longer have”? Well, in this case the general idea applies, but in reverse.&lt;br /&gt;Over the last couple of months I haven’t had much time to work the dogs as I’d like to so I haven’t even been able to work well on the desensitization to the car noise. However, the question about how things were going got me thinking, specially about the last couple of weeks. And I realized that more and more often, when I arrive home, I think Kikko has “died” ;) – I am able to park and get home without having a choir of out-of-control barking. I also realized that during this time, he has been a lot more controlled on the leash, when I take him to the yard. Instead of continuing trying to “lift off”, when the leash pulls on the collar, he has been able to control himself and not pull – which my arm really appreciated! And when it is time to get home, he no longer starts to eat grass as if he was in a cow herd and there was no tomorrow!&lt;br /&gt;So, overall, I see Kikko’s having a lot more self-control than before!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Ok, granted, this weekend we’ve been having some set-backs, but my mom’s over for theEaster, so I’m hoping these are due to kikko’s excitement with her here, instead of one of those “2 steps forwards, 1 step back” situations.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little over one week ago, his barking went to an apparently totally out of control phase, it was really hard to get him to shut up (usually I just need to tell him to). However, since them there have been days he doesn’t even bark. So I think (or should I say I &lt;i&gt;hope&lt;/i&gt;?) we are starting to head towards extinction of the barking due to anxiety…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QP_35Ijvktg/TbR-NgfwXcI/AAAAAAAAAFU/1P4OhNmlXLI/s1600/IMG_3355.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QP_35Ijvktg/TbR-NgfwXcI/AAAAAAAAAFU/1P4OhNmlXLI/s320/IMG_3355.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A large Dachshund male on the left, a small Drever female on the right&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Having breed a Dachshund litter and a Drever litter (breeds with the same overall type and similar function) with a 15-days age difference, it was possible to do some interesting comparisons. I know it is a small sample, but then again there are no Drevers in this side of Europe for a better comparison… but it seems to me that, overall, as puppies Drevers tend to be a much more immature than Dachshunds, taking longer to develop certain habits. They have a big difficulty in exerting self-control, they take a long time to house-break… but on the other hand they are also a lot “softer” than dachshunds, with less problems among them and eternal sweethearts! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my Drever females, I’ve noticed that after their first heat they tend to change a lot, behaviorally – they become more extrovert, less shy, more “lady-like”. Kikko’s last sister is in heat right not, so this may be a sign that he is also starting to mature himself. Finally! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;(You have no idea what I'm talking about? No problem, just read the &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko_07.html"&gt;first part of the series,&lt;/a&gt;the &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-on-kikko-or-separation-anxiety.html"&gt;second part of the series&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/separation-problems-update.html"&gt;third part of the series&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-7875352153358101593?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7875352153358101593/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-update-on-kikko.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7875352153358101593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7875352153358101593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-update-on-kikko.html' title='New update on Kikko'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ES22uqB3zgI/TbR-0Qvj8iI/AAAAAAAAAFY/_k_CFxG4d8w/s72-c/IMG_3148.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8100941147431374848</id><published>2011-04-24T21:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T21:09:17.160+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teckel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ansiedade por separação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Nova actualização sobre o Kikko</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-update-on-kikko.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Há muito tempo que não passo por aqui, porque tenho andado super-ocupada nos meus empregos. Entretanto, já tive quem me perguntasse como andava o Kikko, pelo que achei que realmente já ia sendo tempo de fazer uma actualização…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ES22uqB3zgI/TbR-0Qvj8iI/AAAAAAAAAFY/_k_CFxG4d8w/s1600/IMG_3148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ES22uqB3zgI/TbR-0Qvj8iI/AAAAAAAAAFY/_k_CFxG4d8w/s320/IMG_3148.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sabem aquele provérbio “só damos valor às coisas quando deixamos de as ter”? Neste caso é mais ao contrário, mas a ideia geral também se aplica.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nos últimos 2 meses não tenho tido tempo para me dedicar a trabalhar com os meus cães como gostaria, acabando por nem fazer uma grande dessensibilização ao barulho do carro. No entanto, a pergunta sobre o ponto da situação pôs-me a pensar, sobretudo no que se tem passado nas últimas duas semanas… E apercebi-me que cada vez mais frequentemente, quando chego a casa, penso que o Kikko “morreu” ;), pois estaciono o carro e entro em casa sem ser presenteada com um coro de latidos desenfreados, ou com cada vez menos latidos e, sobretudo, mais controlados. Apercebi-me também que, neste mesmo espaço de tempo, ele anda muito mais controlado à trela, quando vai para o parque de recreio. Em vez de continuar a tentar “levantar voo”, quando a trela estica na coleira, anda a conseguir controlar-se e não ir a puxar – o que é bastante o meu braço agradece! E na hora de voltar para casa, já não se põe a comer erva como se fosse o digno representante de uma manada de vacas e não houvesse amanhã!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ou seja, de uma forma geral, noto no Kikko um muito maior auto-controlo do que o que tinha antes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Pronto, ok, este fim-de-semana estão a haver alguns retrocessos, mas a minha mãe está a passar cá a Páscoa, pelo que tenho esperanças que sejam devidos ao entusiasmo do Kikko em a ter cá, e não uma situação de dois passos em frente, um atrás.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Há pouco mais de uma semana, os latidos passaram por uma fase que parecia totalmente descontrolada, sendo mesmo difícil fazê-lo calar-se (normalmente basta-me simplesmente dar essa ordem). Porém, desde então tem havido dias em que nem sequer ladra! Ou seja, parece-me (ou seria melhor dizer &lt;i&gt;espero&lt;/i&gt;?) que estamos a começar a caminhar para a extinção dos latidos associados à ansiedade…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QP_35Ijvktg/TbR-NgfwXcI/AAAAAAAAAFU/1P4OhNmlXLI/s1600/IMG_3355.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QP_35Ijvktg/TbR-NgfwXcI/AAAAAAAAAFU/1P4OhNmlXLI/s320/IMG_3355.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Um macho Teckel grande à esquerda e uma fêmea Drever pequena à direita&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tendo criado uma ninhada de Teckels e uma de Drevers (cães com basicamente o mesmo tipo morfológico e funções similares) com 15 dias de diferença de idade, foi possível fazer algumas comparações interessantes. Eu sei que é uma amostra muito pequena, mas também não há mais Drevers nesta ponta da Europa para comparar… mas parece-me, essencialmente, que em cachorros os Drevers tendem a ser mais imaturos que os Teckels, demorando mais tempo a desenvolver certos hábitos. Têm maior dificuldade em exercer auto-controlo, demoram muito tempo a aprender a não sujar em casa… mas em contrapartida também são muito mais “macios” que os Teckels, com menos problemas de convivência entre eles e uns eternos doces! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nas minhas fêmeas Drever tenho notado que, após o primeiro cio, o seu carácter muda significativamente, ficam bastante mais extrovertidas, menos tímidas, mais “senhorinhas”. A última das irmãs do Kikko está neste momento em cio, pelo que isto poderá ser uma indicação que ele está também a começar a alcançar a maturidade. Finalmente! ;)&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(Não faz ideia do que é que estou a falar? Isso resolve-se falcimente - veja a &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko.html"&gt;primeira parte da série,&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko-ou-ansiedade.html"&gt;segunda parte da série&lt;/a&gt; e&amp;nbsp; a &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/problemas-por-separacao-actualizacao.html"&gt;terceira parte da série&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8100941147431374848?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8100941147431374848/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8100941147431374848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8100941147431374848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko.html' title='Nova actualização sobre o Kikko'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ES22uqB3zgI/TbR-0Qvj8iI/AAAAAAAAAFY/_k_CFxG4d8w/s72-c/IMG_3148.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2139598999988195246</id><published>2011-03-26T21:58:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-03-27T19:48:13.312+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>Lessons for dog food sales representatives</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/licoes-para-os-representantes-de-marcas.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(versão portuguesa abaixo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dog breeders are often contacted by dog food companies, trying to get them to switch to their brand(s) of kibble. Nothing out of the ordinary in that, that’s pretty much standard operating procedure. However, following a particularly frustrating (to say the least) recent couple of phone conversations and one e-mail, I decided to turn my rant about them into a “manual” for dog food salespersons, of mistakes not to make… or, as a friend called it, “&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marketing for Dummies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;”! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s1600/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s320/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s1600/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember it is you who are seeking a new client, it is not the potential client who contacted you. So:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Do not base you conversation about your brand of dog food on the price. Saying to a potential client “we want to know what brand of food you use so we can compete on the price” is not necessarily the best opening line and motto of the whole conversation. If you focus only on the price, the potential client may start to wonder about the quality of the food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Even if your clients (who in theory are not as informed about dog food as you should be) say that “all premium foods are pretty much all the same”, that is not necessarily a good premise to base your conversation. After all, if you are selling a particular brand of food, you should be able to point out what’s the difference between it and the others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. You say you will send the prices by e-mail, but if the potential client asks you for more information – nutritional table, ingredients, special conditions for breeders – also send that information. That may be information you usually only send on a 2nd or 3rd contact, but if the potential client asks you for it and you do not send it, you may have ruined your chances at a 2nd or 3rd contact. Even if your price is better, the quality of the food will naturally be influential. And the conditions offered to the breeder – for each X bags bought you offer Y, advertising space, etc., can and will be a tie-breaker! &lt;br /&gt;3a. Do not limit yourself to sending what you send to 95% of the clients because they “only” care about the price. There will be potential clients who want other information, and you need to adapt to that. Maybe it is only a minority, but everyone is a potential client (remember, &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; seeked them out, not the other way around!). And besides, often the most enquiring people are those who are a source of information and references to their peers (other potential clients)!&lt;br /&gt;3b. Do not blame the person in the office sending the e-mail for the e-mail not getting everything the potential client asked for. As it is you contacting the client, it is &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; responsibility to ensure that the person receives what was requested!&lt;br /&gt;3c. If you do not have the requested information about the quality of the food available to send by e-mail (and I am sure you &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; see the mistake in that, right?), ask for the person’s address and send the paper information. If the information is on a website, it will only take you 5 minutes to copy and paste the info from the site to an e-mail. Do not expect the potential client to do your homework for you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. When you do a follow-up phone call after the e-mail, it is bad policy to say “I’m sorry, I don’t remember your name”, that definitively does not help to build a confidence relationship! It will only take you a few seconds to read the name from the list when you’re dialing a number, so as not to embarrass yourself! And do not blame you having a list of hundreds of names to call for not checking the potential client’s name - that is &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; job!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2139598999988195246?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2139598999988195246/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/lessons-for-dog-food-sales.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2139598999988195246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2139598999988195246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/lessons-for-dog-food-sales.html' title='Lessons for dog food sales representatives'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s72-c/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2064497824869494019</id><published>2011-03-26T21:48:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-03-27T19:46:52.465+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Desabafos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alimentação'/><title type='text'>Lições para os representantes de marcas de ração</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/lessons-for-dog-food-sales.html"&gt;english version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os criadores de cães são frequentemente contactados por empresas que vendem ração para cães, tentando convencê-los a mudar para a(s) sua(s) marca(s) de ração. Isto é um procedimento normal. No entanto, após um par de telefonemas e um e-mail no mínimo particularmente frustrantes, decidi transformar o meu desabafo num “manual” para os representantes das empresas de ração, relativo aos erros a evitar… ou, como uma amiga lhe chamou, “&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; color: black;"&gt;Marketing para Totós&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;”! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s1600/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s320/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lembre-se, é você que está à procura de um novo cliente, não é o potencial cliente que o contactou. Logo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Não baseie a sua conversa sobre a sua marca de ração no preço. Dizer a um potencial cliente “queremos saber que marca de ração usa para podermos competir no preço” não é necessariamente a melhor frase de abertura nem o tema da conversa. Se se focar apenas no preço, o potencial cliente pode começar a ter dúvidas sobre a qualidade da ração.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Mesmo que os seus clientes (que teoricamente não estão tão informados sobre ração como você deve estar) lhe digam que “todas as rações premium são basicamente a mesma coisa”, essa não é necessariamente uma boa premissa para basear a sua conversa. Afinal, se está a vender uma dada marca de ração, deve ser capaz de indicar o que a diferencia das outras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Você diz que irá enviar os preços por e-mail, mas se o potencial cliente lhe pedir para enviar mais informação – tabela nutricional, ingredientes, condições especiais para criadores – envie também essa informação. Essa pode ser informação que normalmente apenas envia num 2º ou 3º contacto, mas se o potencial cliente lha pede e você não a envia, pode ter arruinado as suas hipóteses de haver um 2º ou 3º contacto. Mesmo que o seu preço seja melhor, a qualidade da ração irá naturalmente ser influente. E as condições oferecidas ao criador – para cada X sacos comprados oferecem-se Y, publicidade, etc., podem ser, e sê-lo-ão, um factor de desempate!&lt;br /&gt;3a. Não se limite a enviar o que envia a 95% dos clientes porque eles “apenas” se preocupam com o preço. Irá encontrar potenciais clientes que querem outra informação, e terá de se adaptar a isso. Talvez sejam uma minoria, mas todos são potenciais clientes (lembre-se, foi &lt;i&gt;você&lt;/i&gt; que os procurou, não o contrário!). Além disso, normalmente as pessoas que colocam mais questões são uma fonte de informações e referência para os seus pares (outros potenciais clientes)!&lt;br /&gt;3b. Não culpe a pessoa no escritório que enviou o e-mail por o e-mail não ter tudo o que o potencial cliente pediu. Uma vez que é você a contactar o cliente, é &lt;i&gt;sua&lt;/i&gt; responsabilidade assegurar que ele recebe o que foi pedido!&lt;br /&gt;3c. Se não tiver a informação pedida sobre a qualidade da ração disponível para enviar por e-mail (e tenho a certeza que &lt;i&gt;consegue &lt;/i&gt;ver o erro nisso, certo?), peça a morada da pessoa e envie a informação em papel. Se a informação estiver disponível num website, só lhe demora 5 minutos para a copiar e colar num e-mail. Não espere que o potencial cliente faça o seu trabalho por você!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Quando faz um telefonema de seguimento, após o envio do e-mail, não é uma boa ideia dizer “desculpe, não me lembro do seu nome”, isso definitivamente não ajuda a estabelecer uma relação de confiança! Apenas demora uns segundos ler o nome da lista, quando está a marcar o número, e evita envergonhar-se! E não atribua ao facto de a lista ter centenas de nomes a culpa de não ter verificado o nome do potencial cliente – esse é o &lt;i&gt;seu &lt;/i&gt;trabalho!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2064497824869494019?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2064497824869494019/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/licoes-para-os-representantes-de-marcas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2064497824869494019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2064497824869494019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/licoes-para-os-representantes-de-marcas.html' title='Lições para os representantes de marcas de ração'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nPP8KKdH3nM/TY3xFNsqYVI/AAAAAAAAAE0/r53xLFs2Spo/s72-c/Lupiini%252BNikko%252BPulga-comer-juntos-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-1092987082088987228</id><published>2011-03-20T16:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-03-20T16:46:26.228Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barbado da Terceira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Grooming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heat'/><title type='text'>Hot and Cold</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/quente-e-frio.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(versão portuguesa abaixo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xxfw0imJ_Os?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the Barbado da Terceira comes from an island with a relatively hot climate, it does not fear heat or cold. The dogs love the snow, as you can see in the video above. I have a female living in Finland, and even there her owner says she loves the snow.&lt;br /&gt;The breed’s thick undercoat provides good thermal insulation. If the dog’s coat is properly maintained, water and ice will hardly reach the skin. However, naturally you should dry the animals after they have been out in the snow, to avoid the body’s cooling, as water can accumulate in the outer coat. You should also check for snow balls between the toes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--K_YUtggzFQ/TYYt_g1EL2I/AAAAAAAAAEw/Dbm7v9JLB1s/s1600/Sheila_Talavera_ALG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--K_YUtggzFQ/TYYt_g1EL2I/AAAAAAAAAEw/Dbm7v9JLB1s/s320/Sheila_Talavera_ALG.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The coat also provides a good insulation in the summer. Traditionally, long-haired bearded dogs are clipped in the beginning of the warm season. However, if the coat is well kept and regularly brushed, the coat and undercoat will be loose, allowing for the proper airing of the skin without compromising the thermal insulation provided by the undercoat.&lt;br /&gt;When partial shearing is done (without cutting the hair very short) because people think that the dog will be hot in the warm season, it is usually the outer coat that is clipped and the undercoat remains intact. However, it is the undercoat that is responsible for the thermal insulation, so cutting just the outer coat will not significantly influence heat regulation. Keeping the coat in good condition will, even without clipping it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-1092987082088987228?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1092987082088987228/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/hot-and-cold.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1092987082088987228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1092987082088987228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/hot-and-cold.html' title='Hot and Cold'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/Xxfw0imJ_Os/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-5800981369646476933</id><published>2011-03-20T16:43:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-03-20T16:46:49.070Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barbado da Terceira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Manutenção'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Neve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Calor'/><title type='text'>Quente e Frio</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/hot-and-cold.html"&gt;versão inglesa acima&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xxfw0imJ_Os?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apesar de o Barbado da Terceira ser proveniente de uma ilha com um clima relativamente quente, não teme nem o calor nem o frio. Os cães adoram a neve, como se pode ver no vídeo acima. Tenho uma fêmea a viver na Finlândia, e mesmo aí a sua dona diz que a cadela adora andar na neve.&lt;br /&gt;O denso sub-pelo que a raça possui fornece um bom isolamento térmico. Se a pelagem do cão for mantida em condições adequadas, dificilmente a água e gelo chegarão à pele. No entanto, deve naturalmente ter-se o cuidado de secar os animais depois de andarem na neve, para evitar o arrefecimento do corpo, pois a água poderá acumular-se na pelagem exterior, e verificar se não ficam bolas de neve entre os dedos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--K_YUtggzFQ/TYYt_g1EL2I/AAAAAAAAAEw/Dbm7v9JLB1s/s1600/Sheila_Talavera_ALG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--K_YUtggzFQ/TYYt_g1EL2I/AAAAAAAAAEw/Dbm7v9JLB1s/s320/Sheila_Talavera_ALG.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O pelo também fornece um bom isolamento no Verão. Tradicionalmente, os cães de pastoreio de pelo comprido e barbudos são tosquiados no início da época quente. Porém, se a pelagem for mantida em boas condições e penteada a fundo regularmente, o pelo e sub-pelo ficarão soltos, permitindo um bom arejamento da pelagem sem comprometer o isolamento térmico fornecido pelo sub-pelo.&lt;br /&gt;Quando se faz uma tosquia parcial (sem ser cortando o pelo curto), por se achar que o cão terá calor na época quente, normalmente o que se corta é o pelo exterior, mantendo o sub-pêlo intacto. Ora, este é que é o responsável pelo isolamento térmico, pelo que cortar apenas o pelo de fora não irá influenciar significativamente a regulação da temperatura. Manter a pelagem em boas condições fá-lo-á, mesmo sem tosquia!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-5800981369646476933?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5800981369646476933/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/quente-e-frio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5800981369646476933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5800981369646476933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/03/quente-e-frio.html' title='Quente e Frio'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/Xxfw0imJ_Os/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-5591426510291675952</id><published>2011-02-25T13:05:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-03-20T16:18:35.109Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dog Shows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exposições Caninas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Drever na Exposição Mundial 2008 // Drever at World Dog Show 2008</title><content type='html'>Vídeo do julgamento da raça Drever (Fêmeas) na Exposição Canina Mundial na Suécia, em 2008. Participámos com a nossa &lt;a href="http://www.aradik.net/drever/caes/lupiini.html"&gt;Track-Action Lupiini&lt;/a&gt;, pois era uma oportunidade única de ver e competir com vários outros Drevers – sendo uma raça praticamente desconhecida fora da Escandinávia, é difícil ver outros exemplares “ao vivo e a cores”.&lt;br /&gt;Podem ver-nos a partir do minuto 2:23. A Lupi é a 4ª cadela no alinhamento, a sua mãe Track-Action Certtu é a 2ª e a sua avó Mira pode ser vista a partir do minuto 3:13.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video of the Drever (Females) judging at the World Dog Show in Sweden, 2008. We went there with our Drever &lt;a href="http://www.aradik.net/drever/caes/lupiini_en.html"&gt;Track-Action Lupiini&lt;/a&gt;, as it was an unique opportunity to see and compete with other Drevers – as the breed is virtually unknown outside of Scandinavia, it is difficult to see other dogs “in person”. You can see us from minute 2:23. Lupi is the 4th dog in the line-up, her mother Track-Action Certtu is 2nd and her grandmother Mira can be seen from minute 3:13.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rjMKigrjuww?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-5591426510291675952?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5591426510291675952/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/drever-na-exposicao-mundial-2008-drever.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5591426510291675952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5591426510291675952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/drever-na-exposicao-mundial-2008-drever.html' title='Drever na Exposição Mundial 2008 // Drever at World Dog Show 2008'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/rjMKigrjuww/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8493923647741649947</id><published>2011-02-23T00:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-02-23T00:13:46.806Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teckel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dachshund'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barbado da Terceira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Alguns dos meus cães // Some of my dogs</title><content type='html'>Este é um slideshow de alguns dos meus cães feito por uma amiga há algum tempo. É uma boa altura para o recordar! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a slideshow of some of my dogs made by a friend sometime ago. It's a nice time to remember it! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-f3.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=lt&amp;il=1&amp;channel=2954361355583842803&amp;site=widget-f3.slide.com" style="width:426px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:426px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&amp;at=un&amp;id=2954361355583842803&amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-f3.slide.com/p1/2954361355583842803/lt_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&amp;at=un&amp;id=2954361355583842803&amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-f3.slide.com/p2/2954361355583842803/lt_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&amp;at=un&amp;id=2954361355583842803&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-f3.slide.com/p4/2954361355583842803/lt_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8493923647741649947?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8493923647741649947/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/alguns-dos-meus-caes-some-of-my-dogs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8493923647741649947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8493923647741649947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/alguns-dos-meus-caes-some-of-my-dogs.html' title='Alguns dos meus cães // Some of my dogs'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2325433678416042761</id><published>2011-02-22T23:53:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-05-10T13:49:19.157+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dachshund'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estrela Mountain Dog'/><title type='text'>Pawprints in the heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pegadas-no-coracao.html"&gt;versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Like people, some dogs come and go, and some leave permanent footprints in our hearts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Through the several dogs I've had, worked with or lived with, I am fortunate enough to have had 3 I can call "dogs of a lifetime" - dogs that, due to particular circunstances, I've created a very special bond with, and vice-versa... As someone said - it gets easier , it doesn't get better!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpEGnqxPtco/TWRJ9I3rEnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/qVmyJtm2Le4/s1600/CaesDaVida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="142" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpEGnqxPtco/TWRJ9I3rEnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/qVmyJtm2Le4/s320/CaesDaVida.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;(And for those who think that breeders only like dogs that do well in shows or breeding... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Top was a stray we picked up from the street, Nikko came from a backyard breeder, had no papers, incorrect coat, a temperament that left much to be desired and was never bred from and Leão wasn't even mine! Breeders are people too!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Top&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dle36ldoEBY/TWRKQyUKLQI/AAAAAAAAAEk/OJ-6eWZeEa4/s1600/top.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dle36ldoEBY/TWRKQyUKLQI/AAAAAAAAAEk/OJ-6eWZeEa4/s320/top.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Top was my first dog. As I used to say, he was a “90% Smooth Haired Dachshund” – too much like a Doxie to be a mutt or a cross-bred, too bad to be a pure-bred! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;He was found on the streets on December 27, 1985. No one claimed him back, despite our efforts to find his owners, so we ended up keeping him. He came into my life at a very complicated phase for my family and was my companion during the most important phase of my growth. And he influenced decisively my personal and professional life. It was thanks to him that I acquired my passion for dogs, that I chose my work (well, after I decided I did not have the guts to be a vet), that I chose “my” breed – the Dachshund is and always will be my first and last breed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;He was probably one of the most famous dogs in Oeiras, the town I grew up in, at a time when dogs could still walk free on the streets. Actually, at the time I was known as “teacher Margarida’s daughter”, “Paula’s sister” or… “Top’s owner” :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;And even if he died so long ago, the void he left in my heart is still unfilled…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Nikko&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5O0VrYClaso/TWRLTzsdOFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/BQRdPsOmT_k/s1600/nikko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5O0VrYClaso/TWRLTzsdOFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/BQRdPsOmT_k/s320/nikko.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;If Top was my company in what I consider the most important phase of my growth, Nikko was mine as I entered adulthood. He went with me through 4 different homes, shared the best and worst moments of my life, taught me the joy of training dogs and the differences in motivation caused by different methods, When he wanted, he sure knew how to be a brat, and would grumble when he did not want something (specially after he was run over by a car and broke his hip), but he soon learned to comfort me when I was down – it was difficult to be sad with him fooling around! Until the end he was an eternal puppy, and nothing would make him happier than playing with balls, of all possible sizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;You left too soon Nikko…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Leão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4YJgHKMvpsQ/TWRKuSlu_dI/AAAAAAAAAEo/fa-GzG6ZwuU/s1600/Cabal-perfil_antigo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4YJgHKMvpsQ/TWRKuSlu_dI/AAAAAAAAAEo/fa-GzG6ZwuU/s320/Cabal-perfil_antigo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I only knew Leão as an adult, or rather, as he was leaving his adolescence, at 1.5 years., when he was taken back by his breeder. We clicked since day one! He came highly suspicious of people and afraid of men, and for about one year I was virtually the only person with whom he was able to relax. Which helped in us creating a very special relation, he was the type of dog who knew what I wanted and felt, and reacted accordingly, without me saying anything. He taught me a lot about the relationship between people and dogs and about inter-dog behavior. He was the dog that we took to schools and TV in divulgation activities, who we’d let loose among children, and the same dog was a formidable farm guard. He was the dog that could be with several other dogs, males and females, adults and juveniles, without any problems, capable of disciplining youngsters without aggression – if you didn’t know what to look for, you’d only see dogs playing, if you knew what you were seeing, you could see all the discipline signs in the necessary degree and nothing further.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;But above all, and despite having a different owner, we both knew he was “my” dog…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2325433678416042761?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2325433678416042761/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pawprints-in-heart.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2325433678416042761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2325433678416042761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pawprints-in-heart.html' title='Pawprints in the heart'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpEGnqxPtco/TWRJ9I3rEnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/qVmyJtm2Le4/s72-c/CaesDaVida.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8335431278875477613</id><published>2011-02-22T23:50:00.004Z</published><updated>2011-05-10T13:49:36.144+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teckel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nikko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cão da Serra da Estrela'/><title type='text'>Pegadas no coração</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pawprints-in-heart.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Tal como acontece com as pessoas, alguns cães vêm e vão, e outros deixam uma marca permanente no nosso coração. Ao longo dos vários cães que tenho tido, com que trabalhei ou que vivi, tenho a sorte de ter tido não um, mas 3 a quem posso chamar “o cão da minha vida”, cães com os quais, por diferentes circunstâncias, criei uma relação particularmente especial, e vice-versa. Com alguém uma vez disse… Vai-se tornando mais fácil, não se vai tornando melhor!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpEGnqxPtco/TWRJ9I3rEnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/qVmyJtm2Le4/s1600/CaesDaVida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="142" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpEGnqxPtco/TWRJ9I3rEnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/qVmyJtm2Le4/s320/CaesDaVida.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;(E para quem acha que um criador apenas gosta dos cães que dão bons resultados em exposições ou na criação… O Top foi um cão recolhido da rua; o Nikko veio de um criador pouco recomendável, sem papéis, tinha um pelo incorrecto, um carácter que deixava muito a desejar e nunca criou; e o Leão nem sequer era meu! Os criadores também são pessoas!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Top&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dle36ldoEBY/TWRKQyUKLQI/AAAAAAAAAEk/OJ-6eWZeEa4/s1600/top.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dle36ldoEBY/TWRKQyUKLQI/AAAAAAAAAEk/OJ-6eWZeEa4/s320/top.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;O Top foi o meu primeiro cão. Como costumava dizer, era um "90% Teckel de Pêlo Curto" - demasiado parecido com um Teckel para ser um rafeiro ou um cruzado, demasiado mau para ser um cão puro! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Encontrado na rua a 27 de Dezembro de 1985, ninguém o reclamou, apesar dos nossos esforços em encontrar os seus donos, pelo que acabou por ficar connosco. Entrou na minha vida numa fase complicada da minha família, e acompanhou-me durante a fase mais importante do meu crescimento. E influenciou de forma decisiva a minha vida pessoal e profissional. Foi graças a ele que adquiri a minha paixão por cães, que escolhi a profissão que escolhi (bem, depois de decidir que não tinha estômago para veterinária), que escolhi a "minha" raça - o Teckel é e será sempre a minha primeira e última raça.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Foi possivelmente um dos cães mais famosos de Oeiras, onde cresci, numa altura em que os cães ainda podiam andar à solta na rua. Aliás, lá eu era conhecida como "a filha da professora Margarida", "a irmã da Paula" ou... "a dona do Top" :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;E apesar de ter morrido há tanto tempo, o vazio que existe no meu coração ainda é grande...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Nikko&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KdAq1fcOFPA/TWRKOi1048I/AAAAAAAAAEg/fhA3955cOA8/s1600/nikko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KdAq1fcOFPA/TWRKOi1048I/AAAAAAAAAEg/fhA3955cOA8/s320/nikko.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Se o &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7832969098480100784&amp;amp;postID=8335431278875477613"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Top&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; me acompanhou naquela que considero a fase mais importante do meu crescimento, o Nikko acompanhou-me na minha entrada na vida adulta... Foi a minha companhia em 4 casas diferentes, partilhou comigo os melhores e os piores momentos da minha vida, foi com ele que descobri o prazer de treinar cães e as diferenças de motivação causadas por diferentes métodos de treino. Quando queria, sabia ser uma peste, e resmungar quando não lhe apetecia algo (sobretudo depois de ter sido atropelado e partido a anca), mas cedo aprendeu a consolar-me quando estava em baixo - era difícil estar triste muito tempo com as macacadas dele! Até ao fim, foi um eterno cachorro, e nada lhe dava maior prazer do que brincar com bolas, de todos os tamanhos possíveis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Partiste demasiado cedo Nikko...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Leão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4YJgHKMvpsQ/TWRKuSlu_dI/AAAAAAAAAEo/fa-GzG6ZwuU/s1600/Cabal-perfil_antigo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4YJgHKMvpsQ/TWRKuSlu_dI/AAAAAAAAAEo/fa-GzG6ZwuU/s320/Cabal-perfil_antigo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Só conheci o Leão em adulto, ou melhor, a sair da adolescência, com 1.5 anos, quando foi retomado pelo seu criador. Ele veio desconfiado com as pessoas e com medo de homens, e durante cerca de um ano eu era virtualmente a única pessoa com quem ele era capaz de estar relaxado. O que contribuiu para criarmos uma relação muito especial, era o tipo de cão que sabia o que eu queria e sentia, reagindo de forma adequada, sem lhe dizer nada. Ensinou-me muito sobre a relação entre pessoas e cães, e sobre comportamento entre cães. Era o cão que levávamos para as escolas e TV em acções de divulgação, andando à solta no meio de crianças, e o mesmo cão era um guarda incorruptível da quinta. Era o cão capaz de andar juntamente com vários outros cães, machos e fêmeas, adultos e juvenis, sem problemas, capaz de disciplinar os jovens sem precisar de recorrer a agressividade – quem não soubesse o que estava a ver, apenas via cães a brincar, quem soubesse, via ali todos os sinais de disciplina no grau necessário e nada mais do que isso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Mas acima de tudo, e apesar do dono ser outro, ambos sabíamos que era o “meu” cão…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8335431278875477613?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8335431278875477613/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pegadas-no-coracao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8335431278875477613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8335431278875477613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pegadas-no-coracao.html' title='Pegadas no coração'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TpEGnqxPtco/TWRJ9I3rEnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/qVmyJtm2Le4/s72-c/CaesDaVida.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-1811892074935295548</id><published>2011-02-22T21:09:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-02-22T21:09:16.784Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dachshund'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Separation anxiety'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Separation problems - update</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/problemas-por-separacao-actualizacao.html"&gt;Portuguese version below&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;I haven’t updated the blog in a very long time, partially due to an excess of professional work. So, let’s update the situation regarding the separation problems I’ve been dealing with…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Most of Kikko’s problems became quite manageable with time, as he settled into his new life. Most of his anxious bark ended, he now typically only barks with the normal situations – like seeing strange people or tractors passing in front of the house. He is not pulling a lot on the leash, even without the halter, although he will still do it when he’s excited. In his crate, although not totally relaxed during the day, he will stay quiet in the normal situations – like when he is locked up to sleep at night. The main problem remaining is his anxious (and noisy!) bark when he feels me arriving home after I left for a few hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;About a couple of months ago, I started to realize (and my neighbor confirmed it) that the dogs would start barking and howling when I left home to go to town (something that doesn’t happen every day, one of the perks of working from home most of the time). Personally, it is something I don’t particularly consider a problem (after all, several dogs together tend to bark easily), but to avoid potential hassles with the neighbors, I’d have to do something about it. But, having several dogs, to assess what I should do, I first needed to know who was the noise-starter – howling is a social act, where several dogs join in after one starts, so it is important to know who starts it to know whom and how I have to manage… But the fact that they only make noise when I leave and there is no one at home (if there’s someone there they don’t make any noise) makes it hard to evaluate the situation. The only option – filming the dogs! I don’t have a video camera, but my photo camera allows me to record small videos. Unfortunately, they are limited to a 10 minutes length, but from my feeling and my neighbor’s comments, the dogs would start the noise almost after I left and only do it for a couple of minutes, so that length should be more than enough. So, first I aimed the camera to the most likely suspect – Kikko, who was still adjusting, was the most anxious dog and the least used to being in the crate (all my house dogs are used to being crated when I have to go somewhere for relatively short periods). Well, imagine my surprise when I come back home and saw the video – 10 minutes in which the dog, although not totally relaxed, is quiet and even lies down to sleep near the end of the video! Hmmm… ok, we have another unanticipated (but not totally unexpected) guilty dog… So next time I aim the camera at suspect #2 – Pinhão. Although Pinhão is used to being crated (actually, he often prefers to go sleep and relax in his crate than being with the other dogs), his anxiety level has increased since Kikko came back – probably a conjugation of Kikko’s anxiety with my excess of attention towards him and unintentional lack of attention towards the other dogs, thereby breaking Pinhão’s routines, which are essential for him to have some stability and relax (Pinhão is a very anxious dog, although he has made a huge progress since I have him). So, I started filming Pinhão and &lt;i&gt;voilá&lt;/i&gt;, the “guilty” one was found. It was indeed Pinhão who started the whining and howling. Trough several days of filming, I realized I had actually been very “lucky” when I first filmed Kikko, as actually both Pinhão and Kikko would start the whining and howling. And once they started to howl, the rest of the dogs would follow – I realized Drevers love to howl, and Dachshunds are not that far behind, although they are easier to shut up! ;) Interestingly, normally the Barbados da Terceira would not join in the howling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So…now I knew who was starting the noise when I leave… Now, how to deal with it? First, I thought of getting Kongs for everyone, not just Kikko as up to then. However, this did not work with Pinhão, his problem was not boredom, and he is not especially motivated by food (not even chew bones).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Idea number 2 was to put Pinhão’s and Kikko’s cratesside by side. They have become best friends, so I thought maybe the problem was being anxious for not being together (despite the fact that at night there was no problem). That also did not help, the noise continued…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Letting them out in the yard to do their business before I left also did not help…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So, then I thought of something that, although would not solve the core problem, could make the situation more manageable… My oldest Drever Lupi is the dog that will more easily start howling – when she hears other dogs whining, when she hears sirens on the street, when she hears different and prolonged noises… She usually sleeps in the crate with the house dogs, but when I leave during the day I leave her in the garage with the other dogs. When Pinhão and/or Kikko start whining when I leave, she is the first to start howling. So, if I could stop her from starting to howl, hopefully I would not have the usual “symphony”. So, before I left, I started bringing Lupi home and to her crate, with the rest of the house dogs. Good result! Pinhão and Kikko will still make noise, but as Lupi is with them, she does not begin to howl, so the rest of the dogs also do not howl. Ok, so I don’t have the ultimate cause solved, but the neighbor’s problem is controlled while I look for a better solution!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;At the same time, I also began to change my exit routines. Normally I follow a predictable sequence – I lock up the dogs that are out on the yard and close the garage door, I let the house dogs out while I change clothes, I put the laptop in the backpack, I crate the house dogs, I get the keys and I leave. I am now changing that order, for example, change my clothes and go do other stuff, let the dogs out (or not) and continue my usual life without crating them, etc., to try to break the fixed pattern of leaving. In the mean time, a few days ago I had to go without my car for a few days while it was being worked on at the shop. And that allowed me to identify one situation I had not realized before – when I followed my normal routines to leave the house, but by bus instead of by car, the dogs would not make any noise! And when I came back home by bus, Kikko would not bark so quickly and so loud, only when I was about to enter the house. Which means, apparently the main trigger for the dogs’ noise was not me leaving &lt;i&gt;per si&lt;/i&gt;, but the noise of the car. Great! So I have finally (I hope!) identified the trigger for Pinhão’s and Kikko’s anxiety when I leave. And if it is indeed the car, I think it will be relatively easy to desensitize them – it should be enough to turn the car on and off at different, without necessarily me leaving, leave and come straight back, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Now, hopefully it is a matter of time to see if the problem really gets controlled this way or not…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;(If you have just arrived to this post and have no idea what I'm talking about ;), please read the &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko_07.html"&gt;first part of the series &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-on-kikko-or-separation-anxiety.html"&gt;second part of the series&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-1811892074935295548?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1811892074935295548/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/separation-problems-update.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1811892074935295548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1811892074935295548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/separation-problems-update.html' title='Separation problems - update'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7465148030240476640</id><published>2011-02-22T21:04:00.005Z</published><updated>2011-02-23T10:41:39.183Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teckel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ansiedade por separação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Problemas por separação - actualização</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/separation-problems-update.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Há bastante tempo que não dou novidades, em grande parte devido a um excesso de trabalho a nível profissional. Vamos então fazer um ponto da situação quanto os problemas de separação com que tenho andando a lidar…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A maioria dos problemas do Kikko tornou-se bastante manejável ao longo do tempo, à medida que se foi acomodando à sua nova vida. A maioria do ladrar por ansiedade acabou, tipicamente já só ladra nas situações normais – como ver gente estranha ou tractores a passar em frente a casa. Já pouco puxa na trela, mesmo sem o halti, apesar de o fazer quando está excitado. Na caixa, apesar de não estar totalmente relaxado durante o dia, fica sossegado nas situações normais, como quando é fechado à noite para dormir. O principal problema que ainda persiste – o ladrar ansioso (e barulhento!) quando me sente a chegar a casa depois de ter saído durante algumas horas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Há cerca de 2 meses, comecei a aperceber-me (e foi-me corroborado pela vizinha) que os cães se punham a ladrar e uivar quando eu saía de casa para ir à cidade (algo que não ocorre todos os dias, vantagens de se trabalhar em casa uma boa parte do tempo). Pessoalmente, é uma situação que não considero particularmente problemática (afinal, vários cães juntos tendem a ladrar mais facilmente), mas de forma a evitar potenciais problemas com os vizinhos, seria necessário fazer algo a esse respeito. Mas, tendo vários cães, para determinar que acção deveria tomar, precisava primeiro de saber quem era o culpado pelo barulho – uivar é um acto social, em que vários cães se juntam quando um inicia o acto, logo é importante saber quem começa a fazer barulho para saber com quem e como terei de agir. Ora, o facto de eles só fazerem barulho quando eu saio e não fica ninguém em casa (se ficar alguém em casa, não fazem barulho), torna complicado avaliar a situação. A única opção – filmar os cães! Não tenho nenhuma câmara de vídeo, mas felizmente a máquina fotográfica permite gravar pequenos vídeos. Infelizmente estão limitados a 10 minutos de duração, mas pela minha impressão e comentários da vizinha, os cães começavam a fazer barulho quase logo a eu sair, e apenas durante um par de minutos, pelo que esta duração deveria ser o suficiente. Primeiro, apontei a câmara ao suspeito mais provável – o Kikko, que ainda estava em fase de adaptação, era o cão mais ansioso e o menos habituado a estar em caixa (todos os cães que tenho em casa estão habituados a ficar fechados nas suas transportadoras quando tenho que ir a algum lado durante períodos relativamente curtos). Ora, qual não foi a minha surpresa quando regresso a casa e visiono o vídeo – 10 minutos em que o cão, apesar de não estar totalmente relaxado, está calado e chega mesmo a deitar-se para dormir perto do fim da filmagem! Hmmm… ok, então temos outro culpado não antecipado (mas não de todo inesperado) … Na vez seguinte, aponto então a câmara ao suspeito nº 2 – o Pinhão. Apesar de o Pinhão estar habituado a estar na sua caixa (aliás, frequentemente prefere ir dormir e relaxar para lá que estar com os outros cães), o seu nível de ansiedade aumentou desde que o Kikko voltou para cá – provavelmente por uma conjugação da ansiedade do Kikko com o meu excesso de atenção para com ele, inadvertidamente prestando menos atenção aos outros, quebrando as suas rotinas, essenciais para ele encontrar alguma estabilidade e relaxar (O Pinhão é um cão muito ansioso, apesar de ter feito enormes progressos desde que está comigo). Portanto, filmei o Pinhão e &lt;i&gt;voilá&lt;/i&gt;, o “culpado” estava encontrado. Efectivamente, era o Pinhão a começar com gemidos e uivo. Ao longo de filmagens subsequentes, apercebi-me que tinha tido bastante “sorte” quando filmei o Kikko da primeira vez, pois na realidade quer o Pinhão quer o Kikko são os iniciadores dos gemidos e uivos. E começando eles a uivar, os restantes seguem-se – apercebi-me que os Drevers adoram uivar, e os Teckels não ficam muito atrás, embora sejam mais fáceis de calar! ;) Curiosamente, normalmente os Barbados da Terceira não se juntavam ao coro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Ora bem… então já sabia então quem começava a fazer barulho quando eu saia… agora, como lidar com isso? Primeiro, pensei em arranjar Kongs para todos, não apenas para o Kikko como tinha até então. Porém, isto não funcionou com o Pinhão, o problema dele não era o aborrecimento, além de ele não ser particularmente motivado por comida (nem mesmo ossos de roer).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A ideia número 2 foi por a caixa do Pinhão e do Kikko lado a lado. O Pinhão e o Kikko tornaram-se os melhores amigos, pelo que pensei que talvez o problema fosse ansiedade por não estarem juntos (apesar de à noite não o estarem e não haver problemas). Isso também não resolveu, o barulho continuou…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Soltá-los para passearem e fazerem as necessidades no quintal antes de sair também não ajudou…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Entretanto, lembrei-me de uma coisa que, não resolvendo o problema de base, poderia tornar a situação manejável… A minha Drever mais velha, a Lupi, é a cadela que mais facilmente se põe a uivar – quando ouve outros cães a gemer, quando ouve sirenes na estrada, quando ouve barulhos diferentes e prolongados... Costumo pô-la a dormir dentro de casa, mas quando saio durante o dia ela fica na garagem com outros cães. Ora, quando o Pinhão e/ou o Kikko começam a gemer quando saio, a primeira a começar a uivar é a Lupi, e os restantes cães começam a uivar depois dela. Portanto, se conseguisse evitar que ela começasse a uivar, à partida já não teria o “concerto” habitual. Portanto, quando vou sair, comecei a trazer a Lupi para casa e para a sua caixa, ao pé das dos restantes cães de casa. Bom resultado! O Pinhão e o Kikko ainda fazem barulho, mas como a Lupi está ao pé deles, já não se põe a uivar, pelo que o resto dos canitos também não. Ok, não tenho a causa última resolvida, mas tenho o problema com os vizinhos manejado enquanto procuro uma solução melhor!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Adicionalmente, comecei também a alterar as minhas rotinas de saída de casa. Normalmente seguia uma sequência previsível – fechar os cães da rua e a porta da garagem, soltar os cães de casa no quintal enquanto mudo de roupa, colocar o computador portátil na mochila, fechar os cães de casa, pegar nas chaves e sair. Agora ando a alterar essa ordem, por exemplo, mudar de roupa e fazer outras coisas, soltá-los (ou não) e continuar a vidinha normal sem os fechar, etc., para tentar quebrar a associação da rotina fixa com a saída. Entretanto, há poucos dias passei uns dias sem carro, enquanto estava na oficina a ser arranjado. E isso permitiu-me identificar uma situação de que não me tinha apercebido – quando seguia as minhas rotinas normais para sair de casa, mas indo de autocarro em vez de carro, os cães não faziam barulho! E quando voltava para casa de autocarro, o Kikko não se punha a ladrar tão rapidamente e tão alto, só quando estava mesmo a entrar em casa. Ou seja, aparentemente o principal iniciador do barulho não era o facto de eu sair em si, mas sim o barulho do carro. Óptimo! Finalmente identifiquei (espero eu!) o factor que inicia a ansiedade no Pinhão e no Kikko quando saio. E se for efectivamente o carro, penso que será uma situação relativamente fácil de dessensibilizar – deverá ser suficiente ir ligando e desligando o carro em diferentes alturas, sem necessariamente sair, sair e regressar logo, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Agora é esperar pelas “cenas dos próximos capítulos” para ver se efectivamente se controla o problema assim ou não…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Se chegou agora a este post e não faz ideia do que estou a falar, veja a &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko.html"&gt;primeira parte da série &lt;/a&gt;e a &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko-ou-ansiedade.html"&gt;segunda parte da série&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-7465148030240476640?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7465148030240476640/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/problemas-por-separacao-actualizacao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7465148030240476640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7465148030240476640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2011/02/problemas-por-separacao-actualizacao.html' title='Problemas por separação - actualização'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-6246835176834213192</id><published>2010-12-20T23:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-12-20T23:28:50.733Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Feliz Natal / Merry Christmas !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko-ou-ansiedade.html"&gt;Versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;This post is an update on what’s been going on with Kikko since he came back. You can read the &lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko_07.html"&gt;initial description here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEz3MMDyJI/AAAAAAAAACw/d3qUlgZQUMM/s1600/kikko_halti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEz3MMDyJI/AAAAAAAAACw/d3qUlgZQUMM/s320/kikko_halti.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So… Kikko hás been here for 4 weeks. Some days have been better, some days have been worst, but the good days are becoming more frequent. Specially in this last week there has been a great improvement! We’ll get to that…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;His adaptation to the rest of my dogs was awesome! It seems as if he never left! Since day 1 I have been letting him loose with his siblings, his mother, his “cousins”, “uncles” and “grandmother” (i.e. with the other Drevers and Dachshunds) and there has never been any aggressive reaction from anyone, no one kept aside, no one trying to dominate. I’m not surprised about that with the Drevers, my experience with them is that they are not dominating dogs. I was a bit surprised with the Dachshunds, but I suppose the age of all the puppies – 10 months – aids in no one trying to impose themselves or posing a “threat” to the older ones. All my dogs are also used to being with dogs of different sizes and ages, which also helps to build tolerance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Actually, as far as adaptation goes, Kikko has been doing wonders to Pinhão, a 4 year old Dachshund. Since I’ve had him 2 years ago, he has always been very shy and interacting very little with other dogs. However, for the first time I see him playing like a puppy! It seems he found his soul mate on Kikko! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;However, Kikko’s coming here had one drawback for Pinhão. He is an extremely sensitive dog, the type that when he feels a bit more stress from people will lie down on the floor, avert gaze and do absolutely nothing. It takes a lot of encouraging and some patience for him to build up enough confidence to come back to me. Well, these days have been quite stressful for me – I’m already naturally stressed, and with Kikko’s problems I’ve been even more stressed, especially with the near constant and persistent barking. It took me a while to realize this situation, so I’ve been doing an even bigger effort for self-control. And the progresses done with the puppy are also helping all of us to be more relaxed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;After a little more than a week, Kikko adjusted to our normal rhythm. He has always been an apartment dog, going out for walks on a leash (and, until very recently, a very thigh leash, because of his arm problems). Here, the dogs spend a good part of the day loose on the yard, in different groups. At first, he would not want to stay there for more than a few minutes at a time before starting to bark anxiously, as when he sees me disappear. But gradually he started to relax on the yard for longer periods, and now he does not bark to get out during all the time the dogs are there. He just does it when I start taking dogs out and I don’t take him, even if the order of the changes is the same every day – after all, both the dogs and myself like our steady routines. But that is changing… we’ll get to that…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;In the mean time, as Kikko adjusted to the routines and a steady feeding schedule (before he had food &lt;i&gt;ad libitum&lt;/i&gt;), his hygiene at home improved greatly. In the past 2 weeks, give or take, there have been no more accidents at hom. And when he needs to go out, he is starting to ask for it. He is still peeing at home, but now it is possible to find a context – lately he has only been doing it when I leave the house momentarily to take care of the other dogs. In this situation, he either barks or pees in the house. But that is also changing… we’ll get to that… (Are you staring to get the idea many chnges have happened in the past few days? ;) )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;There was however a little setback, quickly resolved. After a couple of weeks after getting Kikko back, I had to leave for the weekend. So I asked the girl who sits for my dogs to come. All the other dogs know her well by now – except Kikko. Despite not having any more problemas apart from the usual (barking, peeing), I noticed that in the first days after that Kikko got a little worse, barking more and with a more anxious pitch and peeing more. But towards the end of the week he was back to normal. I guess he realized I was not going to disappear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Regarding his crate training, there has been some progress. Thanks to sleeping and eating in there every night and using the kong during the day, he already goes happily to this crate!... Even when he does not need it but thinks he may get something by going! ;) However, if I crate him during the day, after a short while or if he thinks I’m leaving, he starts to bark a lot. And the kong is not helping here - even stuffed with treats he really likes, he will play a bit but when he realizes I’m about to leave he’ll start barking. During the night I have no problems, only when it gets close to getting up time. In this case, although he will not bark continuously as during the day, he will whine and bark sporadically until I get up, get ready and let him out; sometimes he will even soil the crate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Against my expectations, I managed to find a head halter in town. Before I started suing it to attach the leash, to teach Kikko not to pull on the leash, I spent about a week and a half to get him used to using it without signs of discomfort or stress – many sessions of feeding treats through the loop, then with the loop on the muzzle, then attaching and releasing the halter, then having it on for a few minutes, then for several minutes. When I felt him at ease with the halter on, I started taking him out to the yard with it. In the beginning he still tried to fight it when he felt the resistance on the head, but with some treats he quickly realized where he could go without pushing on the leash. I’m also always using the same leash with him, so it is easier for him to learn the limits than if I was using leashes of different length or a retractable leash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Even after I started taking him out on leash with the halter, I continued putting it on at home in different situations, so there would be no strict association between the halter and going out. And this brought me some unexpected benefits! And now yes, we got to that! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Some days ago, a Facebook friend shared a &lt;a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/11/prweb4811824.htm"&gt;link about the use of a face wrap&lt;/a&gt; to get a dog to stop barking inappropriately. I had heard of body wraps to help control fear and anxiety, but it was the first time I had heard about something similar for the muzzle. Initially, it seemed like a silly idea, the dog could easily take it off, or if he stopped barking it was because o the stress of having that thing around his muzzle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;(But then again, the first time I heard about clicker training, over 10 years ago, it also seemed like an unnecessary concept and after learning how to do it and seeing the behavior change in my own dog I became a total fan! So I will not immediately dismiss something I don’t know)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So… I read the text in the link, made a mental note and didn’t think about it again. Or rather, I probably would not have thought about it again, but something happened which I probably wouldn’t have even noticed if I hadn’t read the piece! And I said above, I was getting Kikko used to the head halter for several days, and could not longer see stress signs when he was wearing it. Back then I was already having him use the halter at home for some stretches of time. And it happened that during one of those periods I went out to switch the dogs I had loose on the yard. And for the first time I left home and he was not barking! Nor peeing! Nor jumping up my legs when I got back, he just came quietly. Hmmm… weird, this is not the Kikko I know! Well… a coincidence, I though… But that situations and the piece I had just read were tumbling in the back of my mind. So, since a week ago, I decided to start putting the halter on each time I had to leave the house for a bit (switching dogs, taking care of the others, etc.). And lo and behold, he did stop barking, when in those situations he would systematically do it. And the peeing in those situations also stopped! Yeah, one problem controlled! And as for barking on the year when I start taking dogs out and not him? Well, let’s give it a try too… I put the halter on when I start to take the dogs out and &lt;i&gt;voilá&lt;/i&gt;, he stopped barking on that situations also. One more problem under control!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I was thinking… did he stop barking because he was uncomfortable wearing the halter? I don’t think so. I’ve been noticing that, either at home or outdoors, even with the halter on he still barks on “normal” situations (when he sees strangers, when he plays with other dogs, when he’s disputing a toy), it is just the anxious barking that stopped. Indeed so, I’m actually considering starting to use the halter when he’s on his crate, to see if it also works on that situation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;And after one weeks using the halter on this “secondary” role, I see that even when he’s not wearing it, I can change the dogs on the yard or leave the house for a while and the bark has considerably decreased. And despite that in this situation the peeing has returned (well, it’s fairly ok, I’d rather deal with pee that with the dog with the lungs from hell!), I notice Kikko is less anxious and excited when I get back home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEzv4Fd50I/AAAAAAAAACs/qBJgPgCaliQ/s1600/kikko_alfinete_pinhao.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEzv4Fd50I/AAAAAAAAACs/qBJgPgCaliQ/s200/kikko_alfinete_pinhao.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kikko, Alfinete and Pinhão&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So, in short, I think this week remarkable progress has been made! Kikko’s habituation to the home rhythms, his friendship with the other dogs (specially Pinhão and Alfinete) and, most especially, the major behavioral changes I saw this week with the help of the halter point towards an excellent recovery. Although I am aware it will be a long path!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Righ now, my main question is about if whether or not a full habituation will happen in the sense that the halter will no longer work on his “secondary” role. However, as I see some behavioral changes even when Kikko’s not wearing it, I’m hopping improvement will become more permanent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(P.S. – His serious look on the photo is not because of the halter, it’s because he was not too happy about being on top of a table, but it was the only way I could manage to get a decent photo of him all by myself)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-6061970174196158814?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6061970174196158814/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-on-kikko-or-separation-anxiety.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6061970174196158814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6061970174196158814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-on-kikko-or-separation-anxiety.html' title='Update on Kikko (or... can a head halter help with separation problems?)'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEz3MMDyJI/AAAAAAAAACw/d3qUlgZQUMM/s72-c/kikko_halti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-3516807488596798557</id><published>2010-11-27T16:46:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-12-21T00:04:09.254Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ansiedade por separação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Actualização sobre o Kikko (ou... pode um halti auxiliar em casos de problemas por separação?)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt;&lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;&lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;&lt;m:dispdef&gt;&lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;&lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;&lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;&lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;&lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;&lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Este post é uma actualização ao que se tem passado com o Kikko desde que para cá veio. Podem ler o &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;post inicial aqui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEz3MMDyJI/AAAAAAAAACw/d3qUlgZQUMM/s1600/kikko_halti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEz3MMDyJI/AAAAAAAAACw/d3qUlgZQUMM/s320/kikko_halti.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Bem… O Kikko já cá está há 4 semanas. Houve dias melhores, houve dias piores, mas os dias melhores estão a ser os mais frequentes. Sobretudo na última semana houve uma grande melhoria! Já lá vamos…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A adaptação aos meus restantes cães foi um espectáculo! Parece que nunca de cá saiu! Desde o primeiro dia que o solto juntamente com os irmãos, com a mãe, com os “primos”, “tios” e “avó” (ou seja com os restantes Drevers e Teckels) e nunca houve nenhuma reacção de agressividade de parte a parte, ninguém se manteve à parte, ninguém se tentou impor. Quanto aos Drevers, isso não me espantou, a experiência que tenho tido é que não são cães que se tentem impor. Em relação aos Teckels, surpreendeu-me um pouco, mas suponho que a idade da cachorrada toda – 10 meses – ajuda a quem ninguém tenha ideias de se tentar impor ou de constituir uma “ameaça” aos mais velhos. Todos os meus cães estão também habituados a estar com cães de diferentes tamanhos e idades, o que também ajuda à tolerância.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Aliás, a nível de adaptação, o Kikko fez maravilhas ao Pinhão, um Teckel com 4 anos. Desde que o tenho há mais de 2 anos, ele sempre excessivamente muito retraído e pouco interactivo com os outros cães. No entanto, pela primeira vez vejo-o a brincar como se fosse um cachorro! Parece que encontrou a sua alma gémea no Kikko! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;No entanto, a vinda do Kikko teve uma desvantagem para o Pinhão. Ele é um cão extremamente sensível, é o tipo de cão que se sente um pouco mais de stress da parte das pessoas, deita-se no chão, evita encarar-me e não se consegue fazer nada dele; é preciso muito encorajamento e alguma paciência para que ele recupere a confiança suficiente para ele voltar ao que estava a fazer ou vir ter comigo. Ora, estes dias têm sido bastante stressantes para mim, pois se eu já sou stressada por natureza, com os problemas do Kikko ainda tenho andado mais, sobretudo com o ladrar quase constante e persistente. Demorei um pouco a aperceber-me desta situação, mas tenho feito um esforço ainda maior de auto-controlo. E os progressos que andam a ser feitos com o cachorro também estão a ajudar a andarmos todos mais relaxados!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Ao fim de pouco mais de uma semana, o Kikko acabou por se integrar no ritmo normal cá de casa. Ele sempre foi cão de apartamento e a ida à rua era à trela (e, até muito recentemente, bastante controlado por causa dos problemas da pata). Aqui, os cães passam uma boa parte do dia à solta num parque, em diferentes grupos. De início ele não queria ficar mais do que alguns minutos de cada vez, depois começava a ladrar, ansioso, da mesma forma que quando me vê desaparecer, mas gradualmente começou a ficar descontraído no parque cada vez mais tempo, e agora não ladra para sair durante todo o tempo que lá está, apenas quando começo a tirar os cães para os trocar e não o tiro logo a ele, apesar de a ordem das trocas ser a mesma todos os dias – afinal, quer os cães quer eu própria gostamos das nossas rotinas fixas! Mas isso está a mudar… já lá chegamos…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Entretanto, à medida que o Kikko se foi adaptando às rotinas, e a um horário de alimentação fixo (antes tinha a comida à disposição) a higiene em casa começou a melhorar bastante. Nas últimas duas semanas, aproximadamente, deixou de haver acidentes em casa. E quando precisa de ir à rua fazer algo já começa a pedir. Tem continuado a urinar em casa, mas desta vez é possível contextualizar a razão – nos últimos tempos já só anda a fazê-lo quando eu saio de casa para tratar dos outros cães; nestas situações, ou fica a ladrar ou vai urinar em alguns locais da casa. Mas isso também está a mudar… já lá vamos… (Já perceberam que estão a ocorrer muitas mudanças nos últimos dias? ;) )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Houve porém um pequeno revés, rapidamente resolvido. Ao fim de 2 semanas, precisei de sair durante um fim-de-semana. Ficou cá em casa a rapariga que me costuma tratar dos cães, e que os restantes já conhecem bem – menos o Kikko. Apesar de não ter havido mais problemas que os que andavam a haver (ladrar, urinar), reparei que nos primeiros dias o Kikko regrediu um bocado, voltando a ladrar mais e com um tom mais ansioso, e urinando mais. Mas mais para o fim da semana já tinha volta ao normal, lá há-de ter percebido que eu afinal não ia desaparecer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Em relação às estadias na caixa, há alguns progressos… Graças a dormir e comer nela todas as noites, e à utilização do Kong durante o dia, já vai para a caixa feliz e contente!... Mesmo quando não precisa mas pensa que pode ganhar algo em ir para lá! ;) No entanto, se o fecho na caica durante o dia, ao fim de pouco tempo, ou se pensa que eu vou sair, começa a ladrar muito. E aqui o Kong não está a ajudar; mesmo recheado de coisas que ele gosta bastante, brinca um pouco com ele mas quando se apercebe que me estou a preparar para sair começa a ladrar. Durante a noite não há esse problema, apenas quando se aproxima a hora normal de me levantar. Nessa altura, apesar de não ficar a ladrar em contínuo como de dia, fica a choramingar e a soltar alguns latidos até eu me levantar, arranjar e o soltar; por vezes chega mesmo a sujar a caixa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Contra as minhas expectativas, consegui encontrar um halti à venda onde vivo. Antes de o começar a usar para prender a trela, para o começar a habituar a deixar de puxar, passei cerca de uma semana e meia a habituá-lo a usá-lo sem sinais de desconforto ou stress – muitas sessões de guloseimas dadas através do anel do halti, depois com o anel posto, depois começando a apertar o halti e soltá-lo, depois a usá-lo durante alguns minutos, depois durante vários minutos. Quando o senti à vontade com o halti posto, comecei a levá-lo com ele para o parque. De início ainda tentou lutar um pouco quando sentiu a resistência na cabeça quando puxava, mas com algumas recompensas rapidamente aprendeu até onde é que podia ir sem puxar a trela. Estou também a usar sempre a mesma trela com ele, pelo que se torna mais fácil aprender os limites do que com trelas de diferentes tamanhos ou com uma trela extensível.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Mesmo depois de o começar a levar à trela com o halti, continuei a pô-lo em casa em diferentes situações, para não criar uma associação estrita entre o halti e a rua. E isto trouxe-me alguns benefícios inesperados! E sim, agora vamos lá! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Há uns dias, uma amiga no Facebook partilhou um &lt;a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/11/prweb4811824.htm"&gt;link relativo à utilização de um face wrap&lt;/a&gt;, uma tira elástica que se coloca no focinho do cão para o desabituar de ladrar. Já tinha ouvido falar dos &lt;i&gt;body wraps&lt;/i&gt;, bandas elásticas que se põem à volta do corpo do cão (há mesmo empresas que fazem tipo uma “camisola”), e que ajudarão a controlar medo e ansiedade nos cães, mas foi a primeira vez que ouvi falar em algo semelhante para a focinho. De início pareceu-me uma ideia tola, que o cão facilmente poderia tirar aquilo, ou se se calasse era por causa do stress de ter uma coisa à volta do focinho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;(Por outro lado, da primeira vez que ouvi falar de treino com clicker há mais de 10 anos também me pareceu um conceito desnecessário, e depois de aprender como se fazia e ver a diferença de atitude no meu próprio cão, tornei-me uma fã convicta! Por isso não digo desta água não beberei…)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Bem… li o texto do link, registei mentalmente mas não voltei a pensar nele. Ou melhor, não teria voltado a pensar se não me tivesse sucedido uma coisa que possivelmente nem me teria apercebido se não tivesse lido esse artigo! Como disse acima, andava há vários dias a habituar o Kikko ao halti, e já não me apercebi de sinais de stress com ele posto. Na altura andava a pôr-lhe o halti em casa durante algum tempo de cada vez. E calhou durante esses períodos começar a sair de casa para ir trocar os cães que andavam à solta no parque. E pela primeira vez, pude sair de casa e o cão não ficou a ladrar! Nem urinou! Nem me saltou para as pernas quando voltei a entrar em casa, apenas me veio cumprimentar calmamente. Hmmm… estranho, este não é o Kikko que conheço! Bem… coincidência, pensei… Mas essa situação e o artigo que tinha acabado de ler ficaram aqui a remoer no fundo da minha mente. Então, desde há uma semana, resolvi começar a pôr-lhe o halti cada vez que tinha de sair um pouco de casa (trocar cães, cuidar dos restantes, etc.). E efectivamente o cão deixou de ladrar, quando antes o fazia sistematicamente. E o urinar nestas situações também parou! Boa, um problema controlado! E quanto ao ladrar no parque quando começo a tirar cães e não o tiro a ele? Bem, vamos experimentar a ver se também resulta… Ponho-lhe o halti quando começo a tirar e vou arrumar outros cães e &lt;i&gt;voilá&lt;/i&gt;, parou de ladrar nessa situação também. Mais um problema controlado!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Pensei… será que ele parou de ladrar por se sentir incomodado com o halti na cabeça? Não me parece – tenho reparado que, quer em casa quer na rua, mesmo com o halti posto ele ladra em situações “normais” (quando vê gente estranha, quando brinca com outros cães, quando disputa um brinquedo), é apenas o ladrar derivado da ansiedade que parou. Aliás, tanto que estou seriamente a considerar experimentar pôr-lhe o halti quando fica na caixa, a ver se também funciona nessa situação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;E ao fim de uma semana a usar o halti nesta função “secundária”, estou a constatar que mesmo quando não lho ponho, o ladrar quando estou a trocar cães do parque ou quando saio de casa por momentos diminuiu drasticamente; e apesar de nesta última situação o urinar ter voltado (bem, menos mal, prefiro lidar com uns quantos xi-xis que com o cão com os pulmões do Inferno!), noto o cão menos ansioso e excitado quando volto a entrar em casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEzv4Fd50I/AAAAAAAAACs/qBJgPgCaliQ/s1600/kikko_alfinete_pinhao.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEzv4Fd50I/AAAAAAAAACs/qBJgPgCaliQ/s200/kikko_alfinete_pinhao.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kikko, Alfinete e Pinhão&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Portanto, em resumo, penso que esta semana foram feitos progressos notáveis! A habituação do Kikko ao ritmo de vida cá em casa, a amizade que tem com os outros cães, principalmente com o Pinhão e com o Alfinete e, sobretudo, as grandes alterações comportamentais que vi esta semana com a ajuda do halti indiciam uma excelente recuperação. Apesar de ter a noção que vai ser um caminho longo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Neste momento, a minha principal questão tem a ver com a dúvida se o irá ocorrer um processo de habituação tal que auxílio que o halti tem dado na sua função “secundária” desapareça. No entanto, como noto já mudanças comportamentais mesmo quando o Kikko não o está a usar, espero que as melhorias se tornem mais permanentes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(P.S. – O ar sério que ele tem na foto não é por estar a usar o halti, é memso porque ele não estava particularmente feliz de estar em cima de uma mesa, mas foi a única forma de lhe conseguir tirar uma foto sozinha)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-3516807488596798557?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/3516807488596798557/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko-ou-ansiedade.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/3516807488596798557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/3516807488596798557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/actualizacao-sobre-o-kikko-ou-ansiedade.html' title='Actualização sobre o Kikko (ou... pode um halti auxiliar em casos de problemas por separação?)'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TPEz3MMDyJI/AAAAAAAAACw/d3qUlgZQUMM/s72-c/kikko_halti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-631703164014342301</id><published>2010-11-19T11:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-11-19T11:31:54.765Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canicultura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Educação'/><title type='text'>1ª Jornada do Fórum "Selecção de reprodutores - A luta diária de um criador"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A 1ª Jornada do &lt;b&gt;Fórum “Selecção de reprodutores – a luta diária de um criador”&lt;/b&gt;, subordinada ao tema “&lt;b&gt;Escolha e preparação dos reprodutores. Tipos de selecção. Fenótipo e Genótipo&lt;/b&gt;”, decorrerá no dia 4 de Dezembro de 2010, na Sede do Clube Português de Canicultura, sita à Rua Frei Carlos, nº 7, 1600-095, Lisboa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A data limite de inscrição é o dia 25 de Novembro (há limite de inscrições).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mais informações no site do &lt;a href="http://www.cpc.pt/"&gt;Clube Português de Canicultura&lt;/a&gt;, onde está disponível o &lt;a href="http://www.cpc.pt/archive/2010/forum2-jornada1.pdf"&gt;programa &lt;/a&gt;e a ficha de &lt;a href="http://www.cpc.pt/archive/2010/forum2-jornada1-inscricao.pdf"&gt;inscrição&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-631703164014342301?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/631703164014342301/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/1-jornada-do-forum-seleccao-de.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/631703164014342301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/631703164014342301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/1-jornada-do-forum-seleccao-de.html' title='1ª Jornada do Fórum &quot;Selecção de reprodutores - A luta diária de um criador&quot;'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8755631729990926108</id><published>2010-11-07T17:43:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-12-21T00:08:07.202Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Separation anxiety'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Kikko</title><content type='html'>&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko.html"&gt;Versão portuguesa abaixo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbj-tXzF4I/AAAAAAAAACU/snQtQQMiQHs/s1600/kikko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbj-tXzF4I/AAAAAAAAACU/snQtQQMiQHs/s320/kikko.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Kikko (A Special One de Aradik), 9 month-old Drever puppy, has come back home for a while. He has been having some problems my mom can’t handle at the moment, for several professional and personal reasons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Kikko’s infancy was different from that of a normal puppy, to say the least, which has contributed to some of his problems. He had osteomyelitis, which lead to one of his arm’s radius and ulna break in several pieces. So, he spent several months with his arm on a splinter, waiting to grow up enough to undergo surgery. After that, he spent some weeks with the pins in the arm and then again with the splinter. So, he spent several months with very controlled and restricted movement, with short walks on a short leash. This is something very complicated on a naturally very active puppy, and unavoidably lead to him having a high stress level. Truth be said, Kikko has been the living example of how dogs have no notion of their limitations and has always been an overwhelmingly happy dog with everything and everyone. However, all his restrictions growing up built up frustrations, and those subtle stress signs (as, for example, the lips too pulled back) were always present. And stress led to even more activity (which is something a Drever puppy usually does not lack!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Kikko also has separation problems. Not the type leading to home destruction (fortunately), but the type where he barks continuously when there are no people around – and a Drever has a nice set of lungs! Something that probably did not help were the frequent visits to the vet – as my mom’s and the orthopedic surgeon’s work schedules were normally incompatible, he would often spend a good part of the day at the vet’s – barking continuously. This did not make him afraid of the vet office, quite on the contrary, he still happily goes there, but certainly added to his anxiety.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;And as only recently I managed to convince my mother to use a crate, to help solve Kikko’s lack of hygiene at home, especially when no one is there for a few hours, he is still in the middle of this learning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So, at the moment, there are several issues to deal with:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- excessive barking when no people are around (even if his favorite canine playmates are around);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- excessive pulling on the leash, due to excitement (and a Drever has a strength inversely proportional to his size!);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- lack of crate manners (despite him staying quietly at night);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- the somewhat frequent “accidents” at home (which I think are a combination of lack of hygiene and stress-related).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;So, what am I doing?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Kikko has only been here for 6 days, but there are already some progresses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A good part of his frustration was due to his restricted movement during growth. At the moment, his leg treatments are over, so he can finally start having a normal life. Here I can have the dogs loose in the yard a few hours a day, so the increase of free exercise is starting to show some results. Even his bark no longer has that tone of anguish. When he barks for a long time because no person is around, it’s no longer the rapidly succeeding barks, but rather a “normal and frequent” bark (hmm… how to describe it without sound?), intermingled with some (short) breaks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbkJTWAU7I/AAAAAAAAACY/uPxUCZF72YM/s1600/IMG_1488.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbkJTWAU7I/AAAAAAAAACY/uPxUCZF72YM/s200/IMG_1488.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I got a Kong, a rubber hollow toy, which can be filled inside with food and/or treats; dogs usually love it and can spend a long time (hours even) with it, trying to reach all of the inside. As it was an instant success, I’m using it to get Kikko to willing go and stay in his crate. I’ve started already to close the crate’s door for a few minutes at a time. The plan is to gradually increase the time he can stay in the crate without barking, so I can leave home and leave him quiet and safe, like the rest of the dogs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I’m also working on his “crate manners”, by only getting out when I tell him to, so he learns to control the anxiety – something he is learning so well a few minutes ago I opened his door and wondered why he was not getting out, only after did I realize he was waiting to be released! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;As for the separation anxiety, I’ve been ignoring his barks when I leave the house or the floor and ignoring him when I get home and he jumps over me. I only give him attention when he calms down. As my house has a balcony than runs along half of it and can be accessed by different rooms, as well as a garage at the ground floor, with an internal access to the upper floor. So I am leaving and entering the house from different rooms, so the front door isn’t exclusively associated with me going away. I’ve also putting my coat on and off without necessarily leaving, so as to try to break the associations the dog may have made regarding the different “rituals” people have when they’re preparing to leave home. This will be the most difficult issue to deal with.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Also, moments of petting and cuddling are reserved to when the dog is calm, and interrupted when he gets too excited. The idea is to start creating habits of self-control, decreasing over-excitement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The next steps will be to get a head halter, which unfortunately I can’t find where I live, so I can start working better on his pulling on the leash. I also plan to star teaching him basic obedience, so I can replace unwanted behaviors (like jumping up on people) by other, incompatible, ones (like sitting down). At the same time, as these are static positions, they may help decrease the excitement level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;As for his hygiene problems, I think they will work themselves out, as Kikko adjusts to our rhythm, to being out loose for quite some time and as the general stress level decreases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Finally, another thing I’ve been trying to do is… work on my patience! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I have the advantage of working mainly from home, which allows me to be more available to small details I can work with Kikko. Also, at this time of the year, temperatures are a lower, so when I leave home I can take him with me in the car instead of leaving him barking at home (in the car he stays quietly in his crate), at least until I can trust him there. However, I also have the disadvantage of having jobs that require too many hours and having several dogs, so I cannot pay the attention I would like to some details. But we’ll get there with time…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Kikko has only been here for 6 days. I can already see some improvements, such as an overall decrease in anxiety, but some days go better than others. And he is still adjusting to a new environment, which he only knew from the occasional weekend spent here. Only in the next days/weeks will he start feeling at home and showing his true “colors”. Anyway, this will be a lengthy path, but I think as his trust level (on others and himself) increases, and with some guidance, he will end up a well adjusted dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;If anyone has any ideas or suggestions to ease this process, I’d love to hear them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8755631729990926108?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8755631729990926108/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko_07.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8755631729990926108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8755631729990926108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko_07.html' title='Kikko'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbj-tXzF4I/AAAAAAAAACU/snQtQQMiQHs/s72-c/kikko.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-1811816722453211852</id><published>2010-11-07T17:41:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-12-21T00:06:11.330Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ansiedade por separação'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drever'/><title type='text'>Kikko</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko_07.html"&gt;English version above&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbj-tXzF4I/AAAAAAAAACU/snQtQQMiQHs/s1600/kikko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbj-tXzF4I/AAAAAAAAACU/snQtQQMiQHs/s320/kikko.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;O Kikko (A Special One de Aradik), cachorro Drever de 9 meses, vem passar uma temporada de volta a casa. Ele está com alguns problemas com que a minha mãe neste momento não está a conseguir lidar, por várias razões profissionais e pessoais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A infância do Kikko foi, no mínimo, diferente da de um cachorro normal, o que em muito terá contribuído para alguns dos seus problemas. Devido a uma osteomielite, que levou a que o rádio e o cúbito de um dos braços se partissem em vários pedaços, passou vários meses com a pata numa tala, enquanto se esperava que crescesse o suficiente para poder ser operado; depois da operação foram ainda algumas semanas com os ferros na pata e depois mais umas semanas novamente com tala. Ou seja, foram vários meses de movimento muito controlado e restrito, com passeios de trela curta a limitá-lo, algo extremamente complicado num cachorro já de sim muito activo e que inevitavelmente acabou por lhe criar um elevado nível de stress. Verdade seja dita, o Kikko tem sido o exemplo vivo de como os cães não se apercebem das suas limitações, e sempre foi um cão extremamente alegre com tudo e com todos. Porém, todas as condicionantes que teve durante o seu crescimento inevitavelmente acabaram por o levar a alguma frustração, e aqueles subtis sinais de stress (como por exemplo os lábios ligeiramente repuxados demais), estavam sempre presentes. E o stress manifestou-se em ainda mais actividade (coisa que já normalmente não falta num bebé Drever!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Adicionalmente, o Kikko tem também problemas por separação. Não do estilo de destruir a casa (felizmente), mas de ficar a ladrar continuamente quando não há pessoas presentes – e um Drever tem uns valentes pulmões! A isto também não devem ter ajudado as frequentes visitas ao veterinário – como o horário de trabalho da minha mãe e o do ortopedista que o acompanhou eram frequentemente incompatíveis, muitas vezes o cão passava uma boa parte do dia no veterinário – a ladrar continuamente. Isto não o fez ter medo de consultórios; antes pelo contrário, continua a ir para lá alegremente, mas há-de ter contribuído para a ansiedade dele.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;E como apenas recentemente tinha conseguido convencer a minha mãe a usar uma transportadora, para ajudar a resolver o problema da falta de higiene do Kikko em casa, sobretudo quando não está ninguém em casa durante algumas horas, o cão ainda está a meio desta aprendizagem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Portanto, neste momento, há vários problemas a lidar:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- o ladrar excessivo quando está sem pessoas por perto (mesmo que tenha outros cães com ele, com quem normalmente adora brincar);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- o puxar excessivamente na trela, devido à excitação (e um Drever tem uma força inversamente proporcional ao seu tamanho!);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- os “descuidos” algo frequentes em casa (que penso que sejam uma combinação de falta de higiene e de manifestação de stress);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;- o não gostar de estar na caixa (apesar de já saber ficar lá sossegado de noite).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;E o que estou a fazer?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;O Kikko ainda só cá está há 6 dias, mas já começam a haver alguns progressos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Uma boa parte da sua frustração derivava do movimento restrito a que teve de ser sujeito durante o crescimento. Nesta altura, os tratamentos à sua pata estão terminados, pelo que finalmente pode começar a ter uma vida relativamente normal. Aqui tenho a possibilidade de ter os cães à solta fora de casa algumas horas por dia, pelo que o aumento de exercício livre está a começar a mostrar alguns resultados. Mesmo no ladrar dele já não se nota aquela angústia que tinha; até quando ladra bastante tempo por não ter ninguém ao pé dele, já não são os latidos em rápida sucessão, mas apenas um ladrar “normal e frequente” (hmm… como descrever sem som?) e entrecortado por alguns (curtos) momentos de pausa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbkJTWAU7I/AAAAAAAAACY/uPxUCZF72YM/s1600/IMG_1488.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbkJTWAU7I/AAAAAAAAACY/uPxUCZF72YM/s200/IMG_1488.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Arranjei um Kong, um brinquedo de borracha oco no meio, que se enche de alguma comida gostosa, que os cães normalmente adoram e que permite que passem bastante tempo (horas mesmo) a entreter-se com ele, a tentar chegar a todo o interior. Como foi um sucesso instantâneo, estou com ele a habituar o cão a ir e ficar por sua vontade na transportadora. Já comecei a fechar-lhe a porta da transportadora, poucos minutos de cada vez, com o objectivo de ir gradualmente aumentando o tempo em que ele fica fechado sem ladrar, de forma a poder sair de casa e deixá-lo sossegado e em segurança, tal como faço com os outros cães.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Também ando a trabalhar as suas “maneiras” na transportadora, a só sair quando lhe digo, de forma a controlar a sua ansiedade - algo que está a aprender tão bem que há pouco quando lhe abri a porta fiquei a pensar porque é que ele não saia, só depois é que me apercebi que estava à espera que eu o autorizasse! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Quanto à ansiedade por separação, ando a ignorar os latidos dele quando saio de casa ou do piso e a ignorá-lo quando chego a casa e ele salta para cima de mim. Apenas lhe dou atenção quando acalma. Como a minha casa tem uma varanda que corre ao longo de metade da casa, com acesso por várias divisões, bem como uma garagem no piso inferior com acesso interno à casa, estou a sair e entrar de casa por diferentes divisões, de forma a que a porta de entrada não seja associada exclusivamente com o eu sair de casa. Também estou a vestir e despir o casaco sem sair necessariamente à rua, de forma a tentar quebrar as associações que o cão tem em relação aos “rituais” que as pessoas têm quando se preparam para sair para a rua. Este será o problema mais complicado de lidar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Além disso, os momentos de festas e mimos são reservados para quando o cão está calmo e interrompidos quando se começa a excitar demasiado. O objectivo é começar a criar-lhe hábitos de auto-controlo, diminuindo a sua sobre-excitação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Os próximo passos serão adquirir um &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;halti&lt;/span&gt;, que infelizmente não há à venda onde vivo. Este é um dispositivo que se coloca na cabeça e onde se prende a trela. Quando o cão puxa na trela, a cabeça muda de posição e o cão deixa de puxar. Isto será para começar a trabalhar no puxar demasiado na trela. Pretendo também começar a ensinar-lhe as ordens básicas de obediência, de forma a substituir os comportamentos indesejados (como o saltar para cima das pessoas) por outros incompatíveis (como sentar-se); ao mesmo tempo, por serem posições estáticas, poderão ajudar a diminuir o nível de excitação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Quanto aos problemas de falta de higiene, penso que se irão resolver por si à medida que o Kikko se vai adaptando ao ritmo de casa, ao estar à solta durante bastante tempo e o nível geral de stress vai diminuindo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Finalmente, outra coisa que ando a tentar fazer é… trabalhar a minha paciência! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Tenho a vantagem de trabalhar principalmente a partir de casa, o que me permite estar mais disponível para os pequenos detalhes que posso ir trabalhando com o Kikko. Além disso, nesta época em que as temperaturas estão mais baixas, quando saio posso levá-lo de carro comigo em vez de o deixar em casa a ladrar (no carro vai bem para a transportadora e fica lá sossegado e sem fazer barulho), pelo menos até confiar nele em casa. Porém, tenho também a desvantagem de ter trabalhos que me requerem demasiadas horas e de ter vários cães, pelo que não posso dar uma atenção tão dedicada como gostaria a vários pormenores. Mas com tempo lá iremos…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;O Kikko ainda só cá está há 6 dias. Já se começam a ver algumas melhorias, como a diminuição do nível geral de ansiedade, mas há dias que correm bem e dias que correm pior. E ainda está numa fase de adaptação a um novo ambiente, que ele só conhecia de vir passar um ou outro fim-de-semana de quando em quando. Apenas nos próximos dias/semanas irá começar a sentir-se verdadeiramente em casa e começar a mostrar as suas verdadeiras “cores”. Seja como for, este será um trabalho que irá demorar, mas penso que à medida que o seu nível de confiança (nos outros e em si-próprio) vai aumentado, e com alguma orientação, ele irá acabar por ser um cãozinho bem ajustado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Se alguém tiver ideias ou sugestões para facilitar este processo, gostaria de as ouvir!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-1811816722453211852?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1811816722453211852/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1811816722453211852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/1811816722453211852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/11/kikko.html' title='Kikko'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TNbj-tXzF4I/AAAAAAAAACU/snQtQQMiQHs/s72-c/kikko.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7753869508086673016</id><published>2010-10-05T12:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T12:36:04.676+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><title type='text'>Entrevista com / Interview with Dr. Patricia McConnell</title><content type='html'>&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Breve entrevista de &lt;a href="http://www.stevedalepetworld.com/"&gt;Steve Dale &lt;/a&gt;a &lt;a href="http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/"&gt;Patricia McConnell&lt;/a&gt;, especialista em comportamento animal de reconhecimento internacional. Neste vídeo, ambos conversam sobre a dominância sobre os cães como método de treino e porque não é recomendada. Ou, nas palavras de Steve Dale, “a motivação funciona melhor que a intimidação”. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;(Vídeo em inglês)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stevedalepetworld.com/"&gt;Steve Dale &lt;/a&gt;conducts a short interview to &lt;a href="http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/"&gt;Patricia McConnell&lt;/a&gt;, animal behavior expert of international merit. In this video, they both discuss dominance over dogs as a method of training, and why it is not recommended. Or, in Steve Dale’s words, “motivation works better than intimidation”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3JoJoPKUjsI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3JoJoPKUjsI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-7753869508086673016?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7753869508086673016/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/entrevista-com-interview-with-dr.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7753869508086673016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7753869508086673016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/entrevista-com-interview-with-dr.html' title='Entrevista com / Interview with Dr. Patricia McConnell'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-7852795864969788837</id><published>2010-10-05T11:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-19T11:24:21.313Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><title type='text'>Adolescence is here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(versão portuguesa abaixo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I lived for some years with an Estrela Mountain Dog breeder. This is a breed o f livestock guarding dogs, selected over time to act independently from people. This breeder’s dogs in particular were still quite close to working stock. At the time, I used to have a joke for our “clients” who bragged about their 4/5 month-old puppy being very obedient, sitting and lying down on cue, etc. I would tell them “if your dog still does that when he is 2 years of age, &lt;i&gt;then&lt;/i&gt; I will be happy for you”! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The “sad” reality is that even if a puppy is very dependent on people and will do anything to try to please them, sooner or later (depending on the breed type) the dog will reach its adolescence… A time in which, just like with human kids, the world seems to be turned upside down, the dog seems to have forgotten all that he learned and can basically turn into a “rebel”. The good news is that now all dogs go through this stage in such a profound way and… sooner or later they will come out of it! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The link bellow points to an excellent piece describing what goes through in doggy adolescence. It is well worth reading and remembering.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="entry-title" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/dog-training-and-behavior-in-orlando/my-puppy-is-going-into-adolescence-or-what-alien-abducted-my-sweet-dog-and-left-this-monster-clone"&gt;My puppy is going into adolescence; or what alien abducted my sweet dog and left this monster clone?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-7852795864969788837?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7852795864969788837/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/adolescence-is-here.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7852795864969788837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/7852795864969788837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/adolescence-is-here.html' title='Adolescence is here!'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-6079524550512455350</id><published>2010-10-05T11:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T11:56:24.838+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><title type='text'>Chegou a adolescência!</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(english version above)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Vivi durante alguns anos com um criador de Cão da Serra da Estrela, uma raça de cães de protecção de rebanhos, seleccionada ao longo dos tempos para actuar de forma independente das pessoas. Os cães deste criador em particular estavam ainda bastante próximos dos cães de trabalho. Na altura, costumava ter uma piada para os “clientes” que nos vinham gabar que o seu cachorro de 4/5 meses era muito obediente, sabia sentar-se e deitar-se à ordem, etc. Costumava dizer-lhes “se o cão ainda fizer isso aos 2 anos, &lt;i&gt;então aí sim&lt;/i&gt;, ficarei satisfeita consigo”! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;A “triste” realidade é que se um cachorro é bastante dependente das pessoas, e tudo tentará fazer para as agradar, ao longo do crescimento, mais cedo ou mais tarde (consoante o tipo racial) o cão irá chegar à adolescência… Um período em que, tal como ocorre nos adolescentes humanos, o mundo parece ficar virado de pernas para o ar, o cão parece esquecer-se de tudo o que aprendeu e basicamente poderá vir a ser um “rebelde”. A boa notícia é que nem todos os cães passam por esta fase de uma forma muito pronunciada e… mais cedo ou mais tarde acabam por sair dela! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;No link abaixo indicado está um excelente artigo descrevendo o que se passa na adolescência canina, que vale a pena ler e recordar. (Texto em inglês)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/dog-training-and-behavior-in-orlando/my-puppy-is-going-into-adolescence-or-what-alien-abducted-my-sweet-dog-and-left-this-monster-clone"&gt;&lt;b&gt;O meu cachorro chegou à adolescência; ou que extra-terrestre raptou o meu adorável cãozinho e deixou este clone monstruoso em seu lugar?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-6079524550512455350?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6079524550512455350/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/chegou-adolescencia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6079524550512455350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6079524550512455350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/chegou-adolescencia.html' title='Chegou a adolescência!'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-5787191293252463193</id><published>2010-10-04T19:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-04T19:10:20.668+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teckel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dachshund'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humor'/><title type='text'>Atlas of the Dachshund Brain ;)</title><content type='html'>Encontrei isto no site &lt;a href="http://www.wiener-dog.com/index.html"&gt;Dachshund and Dog Art by Terry Pond&lt;/a&gt;, e é tão verdadeiro no que diz respeito aos Teckels! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found this at &lt;a href="http://www.wiener-dog.com/index.html"&gt;Dachshund and Dog Art by Terry Pond&lt;/a&gt;’s Website, and it is so true for Dachshunds! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wiener-dog.com/lg/btdoxbrainlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://www.wiener-dog.com/lg/btdoxbrainlg.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(O desenho está disponível para compra no site / The image is available for purchase at the website)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-5787191293252463193?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5787191293252463193/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/atlas-of-dachshund-brain.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5787191293252463193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/5787191293252463193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/atlas-of-dachshund-brain.html' title='Atlas of the Dachshund Brain ;)'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8471579862935734216</id><published>2010-10-03T15:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T12:37:21.134+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><title type='text'>Entrevista com / Interview with Dr. Karen Overall</title><content type='html'>Uma entrevista com a &lt;a href="http://abrionline.org/expert.php?id=21"&gt;Dra. Karen Overall, MedVet, PhD, Diplomada pelo ACVB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A Dra. Overall é uma especialista em medicina veterniária comportamental na Universidade da Pensilvânia (EUA)&lt;br /&gt;Neste vídeo, a Dra. Overall debate sobre cães e moralidade, deferência na construção social, dominância, treino de cães baseado na força e Pit Bulls. Vídeo em Inglês&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interview with &lt;a href="http://abrionline.org/expert.php?id=21"&gt;Dr. Karen Overall VMD, PhD, Diplomate ACVB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Overall is a specialist in veterinary behavioral medicine at UPenn. (USA)&lt;br /&gt;In this video, Dr. Overall discusses dogs and morality, deference in the social construct, dominance, force based dog training and Pit Bulls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VKNNbQjTjco?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VKNNbQjTjco?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8471579862935734216?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8471579862935734216/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/entrevista-com-interview-with-dr-karen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8471579862935734216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8471579862935734216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/entrevista-com-interview-with-dr-karen.html' title='Entrevista com / Interview with Dr. Karen Overall'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2458967429453553338</id><published>2010-10-03T12:17:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T12:36:43.365+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dog Bites'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mordidas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><title type='text'>Linguagem corporal &amp; Como abordar um cão / Body language &amp; How to approach a dog</title><content type='html'>&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Alguns dos problemas mais comuns na nossa interacção com os cães derivam de os sabermos interpretar correctamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Os cartoons abaixo “traduzem” de forma simples o significado de alguma da linguagem corporal dos cães, e indicam os erros mais comuns quando abordamos os cães (principalmente cães desconhecidos).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Some of the most common problems when we’re interacting with dogs come from us not knowing how to interpret them correctly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The cartoons bellow “translate” in a simple way the meaning of some of dogs’ body language and show the most common mistakes when approaching dogs (specially strange dogs).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TKhkdo7wtXI/AAAAAAAAACI/5uBq_wIq2pA/s1600/calmingsignals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="247" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TKhkdo7wtXI/AAAAAAAAACI/5uBq_wIq2pA/s320/calmingsignals.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TKhkxaqti0I/AAAAAAAAACM/Nrfqc3DgMsw/s1600/greeting_dogs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TKhkxaqti0I/AAAAAAAAACM/Nrfqc3DgMsw/s320/greeting_dogs.jpg" width="247" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Cartoons by Lili Chin, from her blog &lt;a href="http://doggiedrawings.net/"&gt;Doggie Drawings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2458967429453553338?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2458967429453553338/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/linguagem-corporal-como-abordar-um-cao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2458967429453553338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2458967429453553338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/linguagem-corporal-como-abordar-um-cao.html' title='Linguagem corporal &amp; Como abordar um cão / Body language &amp; How to approach a dog'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TKhkdo7wtXI/AAAAAAAAACI/5uBq_wIq2pA/s72-c/calmingsignals.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-6406892232845023925</id><published>2010-10-02T11:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T12:06:24.083+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Behaviour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comportamento'/><title type='text'>Abordar um cão receoso / Approaching a fearful dog</title><content type='html'>&lt;m:smallfrac m:val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin m:val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent m:val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim m:val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim m:val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:narylim&gt;&lt;/m:intlim&gt; &lt;/m:wrapindent&gt;  &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Vídeo sobre como abordar um cão com medo de pessoas, pela &lt;a href="http://drsophiayin.com/"&gt;Dra. Sophia Yin&lt;/a&gt;. A técnica usada no vídeo poderá ser difícil de aplicar se o cão não ligar a recompensas alimentares, mas é também uma questão de tentar identificar o que mais motiva o cão. Infelizmente, normalmente é mais difícil conseguir a cooperação das pessoas que o cão encontra do que propriamente dessensibilizar o cão.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Não é possível incluir o vídeo na mensagem, pelo é necessário clicar no link abaixo indicado. Narrado em inglês&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Video on how to approach a dog that is afraid of people, by &lt;a href="http://drsophiayin.com/"&gt;Dr. Sophia Yin&lt;/a&gt;. The technique used may be difficult to apply if the dog does not care about food rewards, but it is also a question of trying to identify what motivated the dog the most. Unfortunately, it is usually more difficult to get the cooperation of the people the dog meets than desensitizing the dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;It is not possible to embed the video, so just click on the link bellow. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://drsophiayin.com/videos/BanditBites.mp4"&gt;Approching a fearful dog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-6406892232845023925?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6406892232845023925/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/abordar-um-cao-receoso-approaching.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6406892232845023925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/6406892232845023925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/10/abordar-um-cao-receoso-approaching.html' title='Abordar um cão receoso / Approaching a fearful dog'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2858411308587446720</id><published>2010-09-25T16:45:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T21:34:14.571+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Training'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Treino'/><title type='text'>Seminário de Obedience com Mads Moller</title><content type='html'>Irá decorrer a 16 e 17 de Outubro um Seminário de Obedience, ministrado por Mads Moller, da Dinamarca, Campeão Mundial da modalidade em 2008. A organização está a cargo do &lt;a href="http://www.doggyclube.com/"&gt;Doggy Clube&lt;/a&gt;. Para mais informações:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="mailto:geral@doggyclube.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:geral@doggyclube.com"&gt;geral@doggyclube.com&lt;/a&gt; ou 919038198.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the 16th and 17th of October, Mr. Mads Moller, from Denmark, World Champion in 2008, will do a seminar in Portugal, organized by &lt;a href="http://www.doggyclube.com/"&gt;Doggy Clube&lt;/a&gt;. For more information: &lt;a href="mailto:geral@doggyclube.com"&gt;geral@doggyclube.com&lt;/a&gt; or 919038198.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TJ4YaYqiskI/AAAAAAAAACA/_Y-lKPYXZuc/s1600/SeminarioObedience.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TJ4YaYqiskI/AAAAAAAAACA/_Y-lKPYXZuc/s320/SeminarioObedience.jpg" width="190" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2858411308587446720?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2858411308587446720/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/seminario-de-obedience-com-mads-moller.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2858411308587446720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2858411308587446720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/seminario-de-obedience-com-mads-moller.html' title='Seminário de Obedience com Mads Moller'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TJ4YaYqiskI/AAAAAAAAACA/_Y-lKPYXZuc/s72-c/SeminarioObedience.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8159271387211502007</id><published>2010-09-23T10:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T12:17:51.028+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barbado da Terceira'/><title type='text'>6ª Concurso do Barbado da Terceira</title><content type='html'>Irá decorrer no dia 25 de Setembro, pelas 16 h, o 6ª Concurso do Barbado da Terceira, na Praia da Vitória (Terceira).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 6th Barbado da Terceira Match Show will take place on the 25th of September, at 16 h, at Praia da Vitória (Terceira Island)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TJsdGXlZ6TI/AAAAAAAAAB0/PwUkOK6mCyk/s1600/ConcBarbado2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TJsdGXlZ6TI/AAAAAAAAAB0/PwUkOK6mCyk/s320/ConcBarbado2010.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8159271387211502007?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8159271387211502007/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/6-concurso-do-barbado-da-terceira.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8159271387211502007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8159271387211502007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/09/6-concurso-do-barbado-da-terceira.html' title='6ª Concurso do Barbado da Terceira'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TJsdGXlZ6TI/AAAAAAAAAB0/PwUkOK6mCyk/s72-c/ConcBarbado2010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-2085360256379265515</id><published>2010-08-03T18:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T23:31:42.760Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General'/><title type='text'>Welcome!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Versão portuguesa em baixo)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to Aradik’s blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The goal of this blog is not to provide information about our dogs, litters or activities – for that, please check &lt;a href="http://www.aradik.net/"&gt;our website&lt;/a&gt;. What we intend here is to make relevant information available to those who have acquired or plan to acquire one of our dogs or to who visits our website. We plan on posting varied and current information on several technical issues about dogs, we may use the blog to post article drafts to get some feedback, etc.&lt;br /&gt;As most of the information is in English, and indeed for lack of time to do quick translations, the main language of this blog will probably be English.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-2085360256379265515?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2085360256379265515/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/welcome.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2085360256379265515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/2085360256379265515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/welcome.html' title='Welcome!'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832969098480100784.post-8204131330278050016</id><published>2010-08-03T18:10:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T23:32:32.869Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geral'/><title type='text'>Bem-vindos!</title><content type='html'>Bem-vindos ao blog Aradik!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O objectivo deste blog não é fornecer informações sobre os nossos cães, ninhadas ou actividades – para isso consulte por favor o &lt;a href="http://www.aradik.net/"&gt;nosso site&lt;/a&gt;. Pretendemos sim disponibilizar informações que consideramos relevantes a quem nos adquiriu ou pretende adquirir cães ou a quem visita o nosso site. Pretendemos divulgar informação variada e actual sobre diversos aspectos técnicos relativos a canídeos, poderemos usar o blog para apresentação de esboços de artigos para o site para ver o feed back recebido, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Uma vez que a maior parte da informação está em inglês, e por uma questão de facilidade na rapidez de transmissão de informação e, efectivamente, falta de tempo para fazer traduções e adaptações adequadas, que me perdoem os puristas, mas a principal língua deste blog será provavelmente o inglês.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832969098480100784-8204131330278050016?l=aradik-dogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8204131330278050016/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/bem-vindos.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8204131330278050016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7832969098480100784/posts/default/8204131330278050016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aradik-dogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/bem-vindos.html' title='Bem-vindos!'/><author><name>Aradik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07349560301192364013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPMbR2xSi3w/TU7ouws3W8I/AAAAAAAAAD8/gF-H5vlBeJI/s220/logo_aradik_verde.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
