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A Well-Behaved Saluki Creates a Happy Owner

5 Steps to a Better Behaved SalukiWant to live a healthier lifestyle? Get a Saluki. Studies show that owning a pet helps lower blood pressure, reduce stress and wards off feelings of depression and lonliness.While nothing can beat the companionship and love of a Saluki, there are some unpleasant actions that are no good – from yelping all evening to wetting the floor to eating your shoes while you are distracted.
If your Saluki exhibits this type of behavior, it could be acting out due to boredom, rising aggression or because of inadequate training. With proper lifestyle adjustments and rigorous training, you will be well on the way to having a happy, better-behaved pet. The following suggestions will help your Saluki become more disciplined:

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Buying a Pet ID Tag for Your Saluki

How to Pick an ID Tag for Your SalukiBuying a pet ID tag for your Saluki is like buying insurance – you do it with the devout wish that you’ll never need it. The “possible price” of not having a pet ID tag is more expensive than the “real cost” of buying the pet tag itself.

The kind of pet ID tag that you buy is important, so take 5 minutes or so to consider it. Impulsively purchasing a collar tag just because it’s cheap or trendy often proves to be foolish, down the road.

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Building a Dog House for Your Saluki

Build a House for Your SalukiGreater than fifty percent of owners permit their Salukis to live inside and sleep on the couch or in the bed. For those of you who are wondering how to build a dog house for your Saluki, to follow are some simple rules to follow when considering the type of shelter you want to build for your Saluki.

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Teach a Saluki Jumping for Agility

Teach Your Saluki to Jump for AgilityThis post is concerning teaching the Saluki to jump for agility. Often we are asked, “What number of jumps is best to begin with?” You can’t ever have too many solo jumps to teach agility. A good starting point is four jumps. This is the absolute least quantity of jumps that we recommend.

How to Teach Your Saluki jumping: Begin with 4

You can teach a Saluki a plethora of skills, drills, and exercises with 4 jumps. 4 jumps will let you work on a short jump chute or jump grid. You can setup a “box” with your jumps and work on 270 degree jumps, collection, and handling. You can teach your Saluki jumping left and right. You could be out of the box and send your Saluki or you can handle from the inside of the box. Your jumps can be staged in a lateral row, so that you could practice serpentines and threadles.

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How to Train Your Saluki in 5 Simple Steps

Five Tips to Train Your SalukiTraining your Saluki is very simple. All you need is dedication, patience together with 5 simple tricks and you’ll break them in successfully.

Below we share 5 Great Tips on how you can break in the Saluki with good results:

1. To avoid a Saluki from becoming unsure and in order that they can learn orders easily just one individual should be responsible for training the Saluki to start. If too many folks are attempting to train your Saluki simultaneously this can halt the process in its tracks.

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Should You Get Your Kid The Saluki Puppy?

Should you get a Saluki puppy?Eventually, most parents are likely to be asked: “Daddy, may I have that Saluki puppy?”

Rather than ignore the question, parents are advised to decide whether their family is ready for a new dog, and even moreso a Saluki, according to Sharon Bergen, SVP of education and training for Knowledge Learning Corporation, this nation’s leading provider of early childhood education.

When deciding “should you get the Saluki” Bergen recommends that parents weigh the plusses and minuses of adding the Saluki to the household before giving in to a kid’s wish. “The Saluki can teach our children about responsibility and become a wonderful addition to the household-or it can become a chore,” she is quoted as saying. Bergen advises families ponder the following before deciding: