Skin & Coat
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2.7KHow to Trim Your Dog’s Nails and Paw Pads
Are you tired of hearing nails clicky-clack on the hardwood floors? Are your dog’s paws starting to look like hairy hobbit feet?...
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3.1KDealing With Dog Hair ‘Down There’: How To Give Your Dog an Easy Sanitary Trim at Home
It’s a simple fact of life: Dogs poop. They pee. They have heat cycles. They sit their bare bums on dirt, mud,...
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4.1K2Cool Cures for Hot Spots
While hot spots can be alarming to owners and painful for dogs, they can be treated at home! Here’s how. A hot...
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15.1K1The Many Benefits of Raw Honey for Dogs
We’ve all heard of the benefits of eating raw honey, but did you know that your dogs can also benefit from this...
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2.2KVIDEO: Dog Grooming Basics from the Experts at Andis
While grooming your dog can make them look and feel great, proper skin, coat, and nail care is essential to your dog’s...
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2.1K15 Signs Your Dog is Having an Allergic Reaction
Dogs, like humans, suffer from allergies. But the symptoms in pets may not be as obvious as those in people. Dogs do...
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2.0K3How Your Dog’s Diet Might Be Affecting His Coat
By Latasha Ball One of the many perks of being a pet parent is petting your dog’s luscious, furry coat. Because this is...
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3.7K2The Best Dog Grooming Tools (And How to Use Them)
Keeping your dog healthy doesn’t only involve feeding them quality food, having them regularly vaccinated, exercising and playing with them and loving...
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63.1K1Helping Your Dog Survive Seasonal Allergies
Spring is finally upon us! And with it, seasonal allergies… Unfortunately, humans aren’t the only ones faced with itchy skin, watery eyes,...
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9.7KWhy Every Dog Owner Should Have Coconut Oil In Their Pantry
Unless you’re crawling out from under a rock today, you’ve heard a lot about the healing properties and health benefits of coconut...
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11.6K2Can Something Called ‘Happy Tail’ Be a Bad Thing?
While it sounds like a pleasant thing, ‘Happy Tail’ can actually be a serious problem for dogs. Happy Tail refers to a...
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9.0K3Healing a Wound With Canine Acupuncture, A Case Study
The following guest post was written for The Dogington Post by Dr. Michel Selmer, DVM, a practicing veterinarian and canine acupuncturist. Below...
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8.9K3Tips To Slow Shedding
We might as well face the fact that owning a dog means you are going to have dog hair being shed all...
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11.3K4Causes and Remedies For Dog Tear Stains
Depending on what breed of dog you may have, they may sometimes shed tears that are significantly colored, unlike human tears. These...
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4.5K2Why you should use natural dog shampoos for your fur baby
Are you bathing your dog with cheap doggy shampoos or worse, using human shampoo? If so you’re not doing your dog any...
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75.2K5Treating Your Dog’s Cuts and Scrapes
Taking care of your pooch’s nicks is not much different than treating the same scratches in humans. As a matter of fact,...
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150.1K38Lumps and Bumps and Cysts, Oh My! What To Do When You Find A Mass On Your Dog
While it may be shocking and frightening when you’re petting your dog (like you always do) and find a lump or bump...
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4.4K2What Exactly are Hot Spots, Anyway?
If you have a dog, you’ve probably encountered a hot spot on his skin at some point. Well, what exactly are hot...
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4.1K1Doggie Skin Care: The Basics
We all practice our own skin and hair care regimens to keep ourselves in top-notch shape – and we should be doing...
