Saturday, November 3, 2012

Top Tips For Choosing the Best Dog Breed For You

By Lina U. Zook


There's a really very good reason that the pet dog has picked up a massive reputation as man's greatest companion . Over the centuries the pet dog has been attached to its human companions through a reciprocal engagement in which each partner takes according to their needs and chips in what they can . Through the course of this enduring relationship , dogs have been interbred to coincide precisely with the needs of human society in a huge range of hugely differing ways .

The result of this deliberate engineering and the situational needs of the various environments in which hounds have been bred means that these days one beast can be found in a huge array of breeds, each of which looks and acts differently and is capable of fulfilling a different role within human society. Most notable these days are working dogs- these are made use of by experts to smell narcotics and explosives and to subdue potential attackers, by rescue workers to find the victims of earthquakes, by visually impaired people to assist them in avoiding obstacles, by the deaf to assist them in responding to noises, and so on. Today there are even animals that can help to alert their keepers to an imminent epileptic fit, which can be life saver. And these days some people even are beginning to think that dogs are also capable of using their amazing nose to detect tumors . There's also the more old-fashioned job for working dogs of helping shepherds to control their flocks .

Other kinds of hound are made of use of picking up and bringing back animals that have been shot , for giving warmth and companionship on their human counterpart's sofas, for slaying deer like the Deerhound, offering protection from wolves like the Wolfhound does, for locating and killing rats like most terriers, for doing battle with bulls like the bulldog, or even for defending against lions like the Rhodesian Ridge back was originally bred for. Each of these different types of dog was originally bred to fulfill a specific purpose , but nowadays many of them are just kept as pets .

One of the most successful breeds of hound in this country was first of all bred to assist in retrieving woodcocks that had been shot and returning them to the shooting party. The cocker Spaniel emerged as a defined breed in the 19th century and since then has in stages been allowed out of the fields and into the family fold as our civilization has matured over the intervening period. Consequently, currently you are massively more likely to witness a Cocker Spaniel asleep on an armchair before the telly with its owner than sprinting over a stream with a dead woodcock in its teeth.

If you're looking for a new loving dog then the Cocker Spaniel is a massively good choice, especially for a first pet dog . They are straightforward to look after, kindly and kind-nature pets . They are quite high-energy dogs though , and require lots of wearing out if they are not going to be overly jumpy at home. One of the easiest places to begin your search for new cocker puppies to buy is on the web; try looking for the phrase " cute puppies for sale ".




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