Dogs

The book I read to research this post was Dogs All in One for Dummies by various authors which is an excellent book which I bought from Amazon. A kind of trend among mixed breeds is designer breeds where types of cross have a kind of breed name. Some people do pay quite a lot of money for these types of dogs but I would suggest having a look at your local rescue centre which may have that type of dog & may have one about a year old that's already house trained. Some types of these breeds are the goldador a cross between labrador & golden retriever, the borador a cross between border collie & labrador & the labradoodle a cross between labrador & poodle. The relevance of the labradoodle is poodles don't tend to shed their hair. The borador is particularly good for agility trials & is also good if you want a dog that is like a labrador but smaller. You do find a lot of labrador crosses in rescue centres because a lot of people have them as pups & don't realise how energetic they are & how much exercise they need. If you have quite a dominant you have to let him know his place & one way of doing this is if you eat before you feed him. I know it sounds cruel but if you were both dogs in a pack you would kill something ie a deer, & the dominant dogs would have their share first then the less important dogs would have their share. If your dog is quite docile it doesn't matter that much that he knows you are in charge he will probably automatically accept it but especially if you have something like a rottweiller it's a good idea.