Does your dog like to play in your cat’s litter box? You don’t have to be embarrassed. This is a problem that many pet owners have do deal with. We will never fully understand why, but many dogs like to eat the poop of other animals, especially your cat. The name for this is “coprophagia” which means, “the oral ingestion of fecal matter.” This may be really disgusting, but dogs think it’s perfectly normal.

The best way to keep your dog from this behavior is simply to prevent it from happening in the first place. To reduce how often your dog eats the poop you will need to scoop your cat’s litter box daily. Twice a day is even better. It also helps to feed your cat on a schedule opposed to leaving food available all the time. This way you will be able to predict more easily when the kitty needs to relieve himself and when you need to scoop out the box.

We are all busy people and your dog might beat you to it. I can guarantee that yelling at him is not going to do much good. He’s already been rewarded for his behavior. Some people go so far as to sprinkle cayenne pepper or Tabasco sauce in the litter box to deter the dog from eating it. I really wouldn’t recommend this. First of all, if you’re going to go through all that trouble you might as well just scoop the poop out of the box and be finished with it.

In addition to regular scooping, the best way to keep your dog out of the litter box is to make it less accessible to the dog. This can be achieved many ways, but one of the easiest is to use a cat door. There are many varieties available but the one I like best resembles a simple archway. It is easy to install and can be either painted or stained to match your décor. It can be especially helpful if you keep your cat’s litter box in a room where the door is closed often, like the laundry room, or in a closet.

If your dog likes to eat the occasional cat poop or two it probably won’t hurt him much. It is just nasty and no one wants to deal with that kind of dog breath. Proper dental hygiene is a must if you are going to allow him to kiss you. It also would be a good idea to have him wormed regularly by your veterinarian.

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Trend observers and the fashion fraternity are becoming more eco conscious each day, demanding more organic and eco-chic clothes, with the approach in their mind, ‘the better and healthier we will be, so will be our planet’. With Remanika’s new collection you can go green without comprising on great style. Open your doors to the world of Green Chic, which would not only keep you in vogue but also help you contribute in the fight against global warming.

Offering vibrant eco colors, incredible prints and captivating silhouettes, Remanika’s AW09 – PLAN IT EARTH collection reveals that being chic and saving the planet aren’t mutually exclusive. The collection takes the concept of eco-chic to an entirely new level. Soft and bold colors as well as unique and interesting patterns are combined to adorn this collection. Jumbled prints, exaggerated trims, layered textures, and unexpected color combinations symbolize the impact of environmental degradation. Modern, eye-catching, uniquely crafted elements combine smart style with sustainability. The result: Fresh, inspiring designs.

Embrace the fabulousness collection of the Plan It Earth and to Look gorgeous and a amazing wardrobe  GREEN CHIC – AND EASY WAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
- Ditch bottled water: refill a sassy thermos.
- Pop little purchases in your purse, not a shopping bag.
- Choose cashmere, not acrylic.
- Let your hair air dry for a while before you blow dry: less frizz, less energy consumed.
- Unplug (and put away) unsightly cell phone chargers.
- Opt for quality over quantity in everything you buy.
-  Limit your consumption of anything packaged in plastic.
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About Remanika – In 1998 remanika launched its first store in Mumbai, the fashion capital of India. Then, if you were hip, young, stylish, with loads of attitude, there was only one place where you could find clothes to match – remanika in uptown Mumbai.

With a customer base that has since grown manifold. Today, the remanika brand can be found in close to 100 outlets across 28 cities, In Exclusive Business outlets, Pantaloons ,Shoppers Stop, Lifestyles, Centrals and Reliance Trends. Also coming up in two new format stores Named “Store 1” launched by India Bull Retail

Stylish, sexy, unexpected; remanika brings the joie de vivre and vibrancy back to fashion. Carefully blending western cuts with traditional Indian embellishments, remanika offers its customers casual wear, club wear and accessories with a distinct style and attitude.

Every quarter, customers look forward to fresh collections from remanika that help them stay in sync with the latest trends and styles. The typical remanika customer can be identified as a young woman between 18 –30 years , bold, independent, stylish and full of beans. Interestingly, almost 70% of India’s population will be in this age bracket by 2010.

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Dogs do not like unfamiliarity’s and all the flashes and sudden bangs can make your dog extremely scared and afraid of what is happening. Unfortunately there have been many cases of dog deaths on bonfire night over the last ten years so it’s a must to keep an eye on your dog at this time of the year and any other similar time such as New Years Eve.



Accidents and injuries happen on bonfire night because of dogs or puppies being loose outside and the unfamiliar sounds and flashes causing them to go into a panic and running away from home, running into roads, or getting stuck in tight spaces trying to hide from the noises.



Fortunately, there are rules and advice that can be followed to prevent times like these and keep your dog in safe hands. To begin you will need to stop your dog being out at night and keep them reassured indoors and away from their outdoor home if they have one. This should be done from one week before the event to one week after the event so no fireworks before or after will scare them into trouble.



Make sure all the doors are locked and shut, if your dog sees an opening they will go for it if they become scared. Try to make a small sheltered area for your dog where they feel protected and in control, and cuddles and calmly playing with your dog may help your dog be less nervous and take their mind off the situation.



If your dog does escape, be calm and positive with them wile trying to get them back inside as quickly as possible, if all these rules are followed then everything should go to plan and you will be able to relax on bonfire night and not have to worry about your pet.

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David Hanson visited Allbrite UK’s eco-retail showroom on Chester Road to find out about solar power, solar hot water systems, energy-efficient under floor heating and domestic wind turbines.

It followed his recent backing of Government plans for an energy-saving revolution at home and work. The Allbrite premises are believed to be the only eco-retail showroom in the country. Powered by solar generated electricity, with a turf roof providing insulation, the store has minimal heating, lighting and hot water costs.

Managing Director of Allbrite UK, Russell White, said: “Allbrite aims to research and develop cost-effective green products which can be easily incorporated into existing and new buildings. “Any Government attempt to encourage consumers to go green has to be accompanied by the sale of affordable, energy efficient, easy to install systems.”

Mr Hanson said: “I am pleased that Allbrite UK continues to develop its business here in Flintshire. They continue to lead the way in the eco-product sector. “Having voted to bring in our first ever Climate Change Act I will continue to promote environmentally sustainable businesses and initiatives to Government.”

Russell added: “We road test all our products to ensure they are robust and meet manufacturer trial claims. “We’ve run a year-long trial of our products on our home in Northop Hall. We cut energy costs by more than 80 per cent. “Eco-energy generation has progressed a long way in recent years. Using the modern, efficient products we sell, it takes just three-and-a-half years to re-coup the installation cost.”

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Below are some basic tips that will help you effectively and successfully house train your dog:

Know your dog. Dogs, like people, have different personalities. You cannot expect your new dog to behave exactly the same as your previous puppy, despite numerous training hours. Dogs also need to be able to express themselves and let out their real nature.

To successfully house train your dog, you need to first determine the nature of your dog, its own personality quirks and traits. Observe your dog for a few days before you start the training. See the natural tendencies of your canine friend, particularly when it comes to pooping and urinating. Some dogs like to relieve themselves on dirt or grass, while others on sand or gravel.

If you know the natural tendencies of your dog, it’s easier to successfully house train your dog. For example, if your pup likes to urinate on concrete or hard floors, ensure that the designated poop and urinating area that you will assign is similar to its designated or preferred areas.

Allocate a small training area to successfully house train your dog. Another important factor that will help to successfully house train your dog is designating a small and specific area for training session. If you have a small dog, you can use a crate as a perfect training location. However, if your dog is big or is already an adult, you might want a bigger area, like a part of your garage, basement or bathroom to conduct training sessions.

It would be good to spend a lot of time with your pooch in the training area you have specified, this will help you to successfully house train your dog. At first, you will notice that your dog might start soiling and urinating in your training location. However, if you let your dog sleep, eat and play in that area, sooner or later it will stop soiling the place. Even dogs do not like to poop in their own sleeping and eating area.

Provide your beloved pooch a toilet area. After giving your dog a chance to determine or realize where its training or playing area is, you should now start introducing your pup to its toilet kingdom. To successfully house train your dog, it is best to accompany your dog to its poop and urinating space a few times so that it will be accustomed to the place. Dogs are usually good at developing habits; thus, if you teach them to do their “thing” on the designated areas, they will soon pick up the habit on their own. As mentioned earlier, remember the dog’s nature in choosing a perfect toilet area.

Regular meal times. Like people, dogs also follow a certain body clock. Therefore, if your feeding time is regular and consistent, you are helping reinforce the pooch’s house training. After a few days of regular feeding or meal time, you will realize that the dog’s poop and urinate periods are also consistent and regular. And you will feel proud for doing a good job to successfully house train your dog.

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The first step to potty train your dog is to take him to the same spot every time he needs to poop or pee. This will train him to recognize the spot or place by smell where he needs to go back to pee or poop.
Take him outside on scheduled time daily. In the morning when he wakes up, after his meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks), after his naps and before bedtime.
You need to observe your dog’s behavior before he pee or poop to know the signs when you need to take him outside. Dogs usually sniff the floor and squat before they eliminates. Watch your dog carefully for signs to know if you need to take him outside.
It’s better for your dog to learn to go outside on his own. Your dog needs to recognize a definite word or phrase each time he needs to pee or poop. You can say “go outside and poop”, by repeating the words your dog will recognize this as a command each time he needs to poop or pee.You need patience to potty train your dog. If he pee or poop inside the house or in your carpet, don’t yell. Just ignore him and clean up.
Praise your dog when he followed your instructions and training.

You need a lot of patience and time to potty train your dog but bear in mind that if you succeed, your life will be easier. You will raise a well behaved dog that you can be proud of and enjoy.

There are cases that dog owners are unsuccessful in training their own dog due to dog’s behavior problems and aggressiveness. On this case you need help from the experts for your dog’s obedience training.

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It’s gross. No one wants to see the act, smell the breath, or even think about your puppy licking them afterward.


It’s bad behavior. Your intelligent and healthy puppy should be doing more appropriate things with her brain, mouth, and digestive tract.


It’s incredibly unhealthy. Poop contains toxins that her body got rid of for a reason. Additionally, if she eats someone else’s poop, she could expose herself to all sorts of parasites and worms.


One universal problem with dog behavior is that we don’t always know why they do things. Being the Humans In Charge, though, we like to make intelligent guesses. Some of the more intelligent guesses

include:


Imitation, mom dogs with new puppies will often clean up their poop to keep the area clean. This is an instinctive but temporary behavior. The theory goes, if a puppy sees mom eating the stuff, she figures that she can snack on it, too.


Diet Issues, If you are overfeeding your dog, her under digested poop looks a lot like what she had for lunch. If you are underfeeding your dog, she is scavenging for food and is willing to lower her standards. If your dog has a vitamin or mineral deficiency, she may be looking to cure it.


Boredom, She may be eating the poop for the same reason that she chews on your shoes or digs in the yard, she needs something to do.


Medication, some dogs have been known to start eating their own poop when they are taking certain antibiotics.


Habit. Whatever began the behavior, your dog will continue it just because it has become a habit. Dogs are as habit bound as we are, and once they have picked up a bad habit, it will take some patient persistence to break that habit.


Whatever the reason is for this disgusting behavior, it needs to be stopped. Now let’s move on to what you can do about it. Before you take any action, make sure you are acting appropriately. Yelling at your dog or physically punishing her will not give you the results you want. Getting angry with her is useless, because she is not doing this to bug you. Your dog only wants to please you and therefore secure herself a warm home and regular food. If she can please you by eating the right things, responding to your commands, and doing the occasional trick, most dogs will concentrate on those things. The Human In Charge just has to communicate her expectations.


Your first step, after wiping your dog’s mouth, should be to make an appointment with your veterinarian. She will help you rule out or fix any diet issues or medical conditions, and she will probably check for worms while you’re there. You may want to ask about medications, such as Forbid or Deter, just until you can break your dog of the habit. If the veterinarian has any other advice, take it. She does this for a living, you know.


Next, you should remove the opportunity for the disgusting behavior. Clean up the pen and the yard, and avoid the stuff when you are on a walk. If she can’t get to it, she can’t eat it. Go outside with her when she poops, and as soon as she does her business, distract her by calling her over to you. If you distract her well enough, you may get a chance to clean the stuff up before she remembers that it’s there and she’s hungry.


A corollary to removing one opportunity is providing her with another one. If your dog is keeping busy with training sessions, toys, and lots of exercise, she won’t have time to think about or develop any bad behaviors.


Finally, control your dog. Teaching her the command, “off” or something similar, will allow you to command her to stop eating. You can teach her this by saying the word “off” and then removing her food from her. Reward her right away so she doesn’t think you’re mad at her, and then give her the food back. Do this each time you feed her for about a week, and soon she will just stop eating on command. You should be able to use this if she is outside eating her own poop, or anything else she shouldn’t be eating. Sometimes you can also use this command to keep her from attacking. Doberman Pinscher owners, take note.


One final note: be patient. Bad habits can sometimes be developed overnight, but it takes time and patience to break those habits.

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Some use materials that can cause damage to the environment before they are processed. Leather, for example, comes from cows, which can destroy the millions of acres of land used to feed them. Some cheaper shoes are held together with potentially toxic glues, as well.

What special skills are necessary?

To be an eco shoe designer, a background in art, design or fashion is required. If such a skill is not had, then an ability to put the right textures and colors together should be demonstrated.

To be an eco shoe manufacturer, it is best to understand how the manufacturing process works as well to be able to define ecologically sound business practices for the factory setting.

Who is the target audience?

As previously mentioned, shoes are needed for everybody. Therefore, the people most likely to seek out eco shoes would be those who care about the environment as well as those who cannot or will not wear leather and other similar materials.

What are the income projections for this venture?

Depending on the style of the shoes themselves, the prices charged for shoes could be either quite high or reasonably priced. (Higher end shoes, especially those which are part high fashion could bring in a very high price.)

How much money is needed to get started?

To be an eco shoe designer may require only one excellent design to get started. If you have the right sketches and a well-made made prototype of the shoe, an excellent presentation would have companies vying for your products.

As an eco shoe manufacturer, you would have to have the facilities to build, package and ship out your shoes. Moving into a defunct factory could save you money as long as you are able to remove any previous toxins or environmental hazards.

From concept to reality: The beginning of any product is the vision. If you have a dream about the finished shoe, or see production of your line of shoes then you have completed one phase of the path to your profession. Next is the planning phase, followed by implementation and finally the culmination phase.

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It certainly is a worry when your dog spends most of their time scratching, itching and licking themselves to try and get rid of the annoying tingly burning sensation they are feeling, when all it’s doing is making it worse for them. There is no way to make it better for them but taking them to the vet and seeing what the skin problem is.



There are many different suggestions that could be made about your dogs skin problems and only after studying your dogs skin and possible other tests could an expert tell you the problem that your dog has



Possibilities of dog skin problems:



Parasites are a possibility for you dog itching and scratching, there are many different types of pests that cause your dog to itch but generally they are either ticks or fleas, easily found by rubbing the dog’s skin for lumps or looking for flea faeces in the fur.



Dog allergies are also another common cause for itchy rashes on your dogs’ skin, once you find the cause witch could be something in the dogs’ basket or sleeping place, the remedy is easily solved by removing the offending product from reach of the dog.



Bacterial and fungal skin infections are last on this list of common skin problems for dogs these can be found by either loss of hair in areas of your dogs’ body with dry skin in the centre and a general soar look to the skin, or by ulcer like patches on your dogs skin also looking soar and painful.



And that completes the main categories for dog skin problems, please remember to always consult your vet about your dogs’ skin issues to help ease the suffering and pain for your dog.

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Dogs tend to be able to eat as much as we choose to feed them at times and feeding your dog till he/she is full is a bad idea at the best of times. A set amount should be given to your dog each day and some notification next to your dogs bowl might help the confusion of who’s fed the dog and who hasn’t.



As your dog becomes older, you will need to check their weight more often as their metabolism will slow down and overeating will become out of control and a problem for your dog. Obviously dogs come in different sizes and shapes so there is not set amount of food that has to be given to your particular breed of dog and a small amount of research or a trip to the vets will be needed to see how much your dog should eat.



Determine the weight of your dog is correct by checking that your dogs’ ribs can be easily felt with little pressure, and are not visibly noticeable. Your dogs’ hips should be easily felt and not are surrounded by too much flesh and fat, and from looking down on your dog the body curves inwards after the rib cage slightly.



If these are all in place then your dog appears to be a healthy weight and this should be maintained throughout their life. Always ensure your dog has plenty of exercise and play time to maintain a healthy dog. If your dog becomes too thin then a vet should be contacted for advice and support as well as if your dog is very overweight.

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