Can I train my dog to stop excessively barking in most cases? Yes, now domestic dogs, do bark a whole lot more than their wild counterparts. So we are a little bit sort of fighting an uphill battle in some cases and depending on the reason for your dogs barking, whether it's coming from stress or excitement or maybe even because we've accidentally reinforced that behavior, it may be a little bit more challenging to address. It first things first, First, it's not necessary to escalate to Corrections or punishment or aversive devices that truly have flooded. The market. We don't have to use a pinch collar, we don't have to use a shock collar. We don't have to use any sort of bark, activated, collar, or anything along those lines. But we do need to find out to some degree. What your dog is trying to communicate if they're excited. Cool. Then maybe we can address that indirectly by giving them more enrichment, or more things to do with their time rather than barking if they're barking. Because They are worried or fearful, we can work with that too, and we can help that animal to feel a bit more comfortable, or secure, or even safe in those particular situations, if barking is a form of aggression or threat for them. Well, aggression, typically comes, when we've got an animal, whose needs are not being met, or they feel defensive, or there's some other reason why that's happening. So, rather than focusing just on the barking and saying, how do we stop that? I tend to focus more on. Do we have a sense of why that's happening in the first place? And can we address it there at the root cause or and what do we want that dog to do? Instead in the situation where the dog is barking? Maybe it's because the doorbell just rang. What do we want the dog to do instead, and have we given the dog, the learner enough information so that they're likely to be successful in those situations by addressing it in those ways? Yes, we can absolutely address the address aggressive barking. It may take a bit of an investment, Amount of time and effort to get there, but it's definitely doable.

What are the most common health issue concerns? You see in pigs as a veterinarian? Okay, so, I can only answer this as a general practitioner who sees pot-bellied pigs. I cannot answer this question on a broader scale in referencing to production animal medicine. I do not treat swine practices or swine communities. I only treat pet pot-bellied pigs, And hands down the most, the two, most common issues. Too that I see are there all over weight. Every single popular pig is obese to the point where they can hardly open their eyes, their fat folds are so huge. So obesity by just incorrect, calorie consumption from pet owners, just giving them anything they want to eat overfeeding them. And then the second most, Common issue. I see with them is behavior issues, pigs can be rude and bossy and B and they can be mean. So they need obedience training and they need somebody who knows how to deal with pot-bellied pigs. They're not a good first time pet, owner, pet. All right.

What's chronic eye dryness? Casey s or dry. Eye is a condition for a very serious irritating Condition. It's not a casual as it sounds chronic dry eye, doesn't sound too terrible, but it actually really is its. When the almost like, the immune system is attacking the tear, the tear ducts, tear glands. And the dog is still producing tears, but they're not protective tears. These Tears Don't coat the cornea. They don't, Protect the eye from debris and irritation and the environment. So if you have a dog that's been diagnosed with like actual dry or KCs those eyes are chronically irritated and they need some type of ointment, not a rewedding drop but an ointment that has a pharmaceutical in it. Like Optum unit which is cyclosporine and cyclosporine tells the immune system to hey leave my tear gland alone and Let me lighter gland, create actual tears that are, that can work. So you need an actual prescription medication to block the immune system attack on the tear duct. This is a really probably not the greatest explanation of it but I'm not a Veterinary ophthalmologist and just a general practitioner. But you need something that blocks the immune attack. So that the body can produce, projected, tears, chronic dry. I can create horrible, non-healing ulcers, and pain and discomfort. Effort and it can create extra pigment on the cornea from chronic irritation, all these things can affect vision and the comfort of your pet.

Hey guys. So the question is what is your favorite way to teach your dog? Not to pull? So for me I like to do a couple different things. Depends on the dog first and foremost. So every dog is going to be different. So we have to first find out what our dogs are going to find to be the most effective for them. So each dog may have a different approach in terms of leash walking. So both of my dogs, for example, I've taught to walk on leash totally differently and it's based on their personality Their motivations are except ra. So one of the ways that I like to teach is backwards walking, there's actually going to be a link right here to my YouTube video on it. It's a couple years old so it's not the best quality but it gives some basic instruction on how you can start introducing backwards, walking your dog. And so, basically what that is is you're walking backwards, your dog follows you and you reward your dog on the side of your leg that you want your dog eventually walking on. So, if we want to walk our dog on our left, Side. I would reward the dog with a piece of food on the left side up against the seam in my pants. So I would keep walking backwards, keep reinforcing the dog. And then, over time, I build some duration with that. So, it's gonna be a video right here, so you can watch that on my YouTube channel. Then the other way that I really like teaching leash walking is actually from a friend of mine. You can hop onto his Instagram, it's called canine gesture. So canine gesture, on Instagram. He just posted a couple weeks ago and an awesome video on what he calls, three gears walking. And it goes over the way that he likes to teach leash walking and involves some leash pressure and teach your dog when they can be allowed to be released and when they're in working mode. So that's another way that I really enjoy teaching dogs to walk on leash. And then, the third option that I really enjoy is when a dog starts to walk and they start pulling. I stopped and I have a word. That means you made a mistake. So for my dog, I say, nope. And when he turns around and looks at me, and he acknowledges my presence, then I'll tell him good job. And we keep walking. And as soon as he starts to pull again, I'll stop. I'll say, nope, again and I wait for him to engage in pay attention to me, and then we'll keep walking and that's without food on that one. So, those are three different ways that I like to teach leash walking. I hope that helps guys,

What's been your favorite topic to cover on the by T? End of the dog podcast. This is a really tough question for me to answer actually had to jump into buzzsprout which is where I host all the episodes and kind of think about all the topics that wonderful topics. All these amazing guests have chatted about and brought their insight into the show. I'm gonna go with the listeners, though, and go with their vote in terms of the number of downloads and listens dr. Amber Batson's episode has had more than 20,000 downloads. I think it's because it's so packed with Incredible. Insight, especially about the gut biome or the microbiomes that impact Behavior, as well as the skin biome. So, if you haven't had a chance to check out that episode, it's the biting into the dog podcast. You can find it on Apple podcast and really any major podcast player, doctor a bath since episode is fascinating, she talked more about puppy socialization, neurobiology so many so many fascinating insights. So go check that out but definitely the discussion on the gut biome that's been my favorite topic. But again all the all the guests have been so amazing. So can't thank them enough.

Sometimes when my dog is off leash and doesn't recall, I have to chase so many things were playing a game. How can I let him know? This is not fun. So there's a couple things you can do here. The first thing is, instead of chasing your dog, I like teaching recall where the dog learns to chase me. So playing games like Susan Garrett's cookies in the corner. Exercise is a great game. Where you throw a treat you start inside or in your backyard. You throw treat across the room. The dog goes to chase. The treat they eat the A treat and then you run away from your dog, calling your dog to come. When your dog gets there, you can reward your dog with food or a toy and it becomes this game that you can just start playing. The other thing you could do is a running recall where your dog might be maybe in your yard sniffing a bush and you just decide to run away and pull your dog to come. When your dog gets to you again, reward your dog with food or a toy. And then once you're done with that, little play session with food or a toy, you can let your dog go back to whatever. Ever. He was doing and wait, another five minutes or so before you call your dog to do that again, the next thing is you can do a restraint recall where you're going to need two people. One person will strain the dog and the other door, the other person will call the dog to come to them and they'll run away from the dog in that process again with a food or toy reward. I'll put a example of that in a video in the link here below with a instructional on restraint recall that I have on my YouTube. Channel. The other thing you want to do is use a long line where you could use some negative reinforcement, where you're actually going to stop your dog. If your dog doesn't respond your stop, your dog, and wait for your dog to come to you, or you can even reel them in gently. So what you're using, the long line is a way to communicate to say, hey, I asked you to come here and if the dog doesn't respond, then you could start reeling them in or even try running away from them to get them to come to you. So I hope that was helpful.