Whether you get your pet at a breed-specific rescue or from a normal shelter, you'll often have access to resources about your pet, and maybe even classes on how best to take care of it

Each dog should have its overall health and behavior assessed daily. Any deviation in health condition must be addressed expeditiously and appropriately. Dogs should be free from internal and external parasites. Dogs should be afforded regular grooming to ensure the health and comfort. When euthanasia is necessary, it must always be performed humanely.

While many traits have high heritability, litter size is not one of them. It has a low heritability, around 10 -15 % which means that one can not count on the genes to increase the number of pups born.

You don’t need to buy anything special to groom a Labrador Retriever for anything, or to groom any dog for an agility, obedience, or similar type of show.

Stacking is the process of positioning a dog's legs in preparation for being judged. Usually a ShowDog will be trained to stand from a very early age to do this on its own, niche training equipment is available to help dogs in later life that have missed out on training to stand in the show ring

If the dog is sadly for one reason or another has to be resold the erc721 asset token ownership passes with a new care conditions contract including welfare milestones to the dogs new responsible keepers wallet an immutable record is kept on blockchain

Without water, life cannot exist. Water makes up 70 to 80 percent of a mature dog’s lean body mass

A dog show judge must be able to choose the one dog out of a group that embodies that breed the best

Find out about the health of your puppy and its parents. Breeders should be honest about the breed’s strengths and weaknesses and knowledgeable about the genetic diseases that can affect their breed

Everything a pregnant dog puts into her body has the potential to affect the development of her fetus. This applies to humans as well as our dogs. Remember to review her water, food, nutritional supplements as well as drugs

Dog Blockchain is a public decentralised family tree of dogs, owned, created, managed verified by the world’s dog breeders, without language or data mistakes made regularly by the Kennl clubs entering data onto their server systems

Depending on the shelter, shelter dogs may already be vaccinated and microchipped (or the shelter will perform these services for a small fee) which means you can get straight to cuddling your new pet instead of making vet appointments.

If you have particular worries about your dogs, or they have previously been very inactive, it’s worth consulting with your veterinarian to create an exercise plan. Remember that, like humans, dogs need to warm up and warm down.

For “coated” breeds showing in conformation, you could get away with a “good but amature” job on many breeds at smaller shows

DogData will use an exchange to support the purchasing of dogs open to all currencies through the peer to peer decentralised market place, improving both dog care practices and supporting adoption of peer to peer cryptographic currencies

Yes, legally, a dog is property. AND most good breeders make you sign a contract about how you will raise it.