Sleep, who needs it? Apparently most people and animals do.  Humans love to sleep, you may have a few of us who just hates sleeping and will do anything to deter themselves from sleeping. But majority of us snooze off at any chance we get. Contrary to what many people think, Dogs do sleep and they like doing it too. But where do dogs sleep and how many dog owners are actually sleeping with dog in bed? Apparently a whole lot.

Even though you have a million and one dog beds online. Many fashionable and really fun built, dogs still end up sharing bed with their master.  This practice of sleeping with your dog in bed can have good and even negative impacts on yourself and your dog too.

What? How can sleeping with a dog in bed have negative reactions? Well let's see.

Dog Becomes Too Attached
Even though you as a dog owner loves your pet and want to show the dog love at every chance you get. Too much love may not be a good thing either. You want to ensure that your dog has his/her own space and can feel independent at nights or even day while sleeping. If your dog becomes attached to sleeping in bed with you, it may become difficult to make changes at a later time. Changes such as having a baby and you may not want your dog in bed with your baby.

Get Bitten by Fleas
Dogs are treated for tick and fleas, but what if for some reason you forgot to treat your dog and the dog manages to get flea then sleeps in bed with you and you end up getting bitten or worse a child ends up getting bitten. Tick bite is never a healthy situation.

Bed smells like Dog
Yes, we cuddle them, love them, play with them and everything else, but if you have high shedding dog, you may have to think more than once about sleeping in bed with that dog. Dog dander and shedding will cause you sheets to transform from Downy to doggy.

So, if you plan to continue sleeping with your dog in bed go ahead, have fun, cuddle your canine! But remember that at some point everything needs it's own space. Maybe it is time for you to start looking at dog beds and give your dog some sleeping freedom.

 Dog modeling is nothing new, it is just a bit more plush than it used to be back in the days. Today's dogs are extremely well groomed and are prepared to model by top dog talent agencies. So what does it take for your dog to be a model? Well, your dog must have some sort of training and understand basic dog commands, and of course should have that look which stands out.  But let's delve a little deeper and look at what your dog will need to become the next top dog model.

Dog Talent Agency
You may have to enroll your pooch into a Dog Talent Agency. This dog talent agency will see to it that your dog gets prepared for the runway by doing the following:

Harvest Your Dog's Talent

• They will assess your dog to see what hidden talent your dog has festered up.
  
• Will assess your dog's training and intelligent level.
  
• Will asses your dog's image to see if that image matches up with modelling requirements.
• Grooming. The Dog Talent Agency will recommend that a professional dog groomer comes in to look at your dog and do the best fit for the walkway.

But asides from the dog talent agency doing much needed work on your dog for it to become a model, you have to also do a bit of dog marketing if I may call it that. What do I mean by that?  You will have to go out there and letting people know you and your dog exist and he/she can be the next big thing. Start by doing the steps below.

1. Take Pictures of Your Pooch
The best way to get your dog recognition to become a model is to take glamor shots of your dog. These glamor shots should be high definition and enhance your dogs magnificent looks and features. Don't be restricted to inside your house or yard. That will never work. Go outdoors and find beautiful scenery to help enhance your dog's photos. Look for unusual backgrounds, get creative with the pictures. Make those pictures happy, beautiful and memorable.

2. Create Your Dog's Blog/Website
It is not about you, it is about your dog you plan to model. The best way to gain social media buzz is to create a Blog featuring you dog. Post pictures and videos of your dog so people can get to know, follow and love your pooch. You can create easy websites on Weebly without knowing anything about coding by simple clicks of your mouse.

3. Enter Calendar and Poster Contest
There are many dog contest available where you can enter your dog to see if he/she will get selected to be on calendars, magazines, cute dog of the day etc. These contest will gain you and your pup exposure as to some basic requirement of dog modeling and set the pace for bigger things to come.

4. Create Cheap T shirts With Your Dog Pics / Ornaments
If you are really into modeling your dog and promoting, After you have created your dog blog, you can also invest in creating a couple T-Shirts with that stunning pic of your dog along with your website URL  and distribute them at certain doggy events to the right people. If you think T Shirts are a bit too much, do key-rings or any other cheap ornament.

Once you have gotten your dog modeling engine running and have created the much needed ground work, you should start seeing great results. Remember, Social media creates a very big role in online marketing. Once you get that blog rolling in Weebly, sit back and watch all the likes rolling in too.

I begin to ask myself, is that title a rhetorical question? Dogs dig a lot of things, they dig the garden, they dig holes in the back yard to bury your favorite slipper and socks, and of course dogs do dig food.  Then again, which animal you know doesn't like food. Whether it is just for having a full stomach or enjoying the taste of their favorite chow, dogs simply dig food. But do dogs like every kind of food their sensitive noses sniff? Well, as a Dog owner I just have to say yes. Once my dog venom smells it and its good it is down his throat hole, likewise my ever playing Nica. But asides from dry dog foods and regular wet tin foods, my dog digs it when I make a homemade special.

Home Made Special Foods

1. Beef Liver with Macaroni
2. Chicken Gizzard with rice
3. Chicken Fat boiled or stir fried
4. Sardine Steaks with macaroni
5. A Nice Lamb Bone!

My dogs seem to have this six sense of knowing when I am back from the supermarket with stuff to prepare a homemade dog recipe. They know that I have something nice up my sleeves to unleash on them and that is some good, juicy, tasty salivating dog homemade food.  And for sure, I know my dogs dig this food!

 It is always chow down time when it comes on to dogs. No matter what, they will always find time just to stuff a little bit more down their guts. But getting the best dog food for the money is all that counts when it comes on to making dog food purchase.  So what really is the best dog food for the money you ask? Well, it has to have these basic characteristics:

Good Price
It makes no sense buying expensive dog food that doesn't do jack for your dog’s health. People love to spend on brand products and sometimes that is just all there is to it, "Brand." A good value dog food must not be too costly yet have all or most of the benefits of providing a good nutrition for your dog.

Less Grain = More Meat
Let's get one thing straight right now. Dogs are carnivores and by nature’s law are meat eaters. Their digestive system was designed to break down meat much more efficiently than grains. I am sure if you let you pet dog out to go wild he would be picking off a few chickens and goats instead of twigs and grass.  Part of getting the best dog food for your money includes purchasing a dog food with at least 75% meat content to grains.

Size Matters - Count Every Penny
Yes, size does matter, who says otherwise has never purchased dog food. It makes no sense purchasing two tinny bags of dog food for let's say $6.99 that only contains 900 grams of food, when you can purchase a 1 Kg bag for $5.99. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish. Pick up large bags and save on dog food cost and get the best dog food for your money.

Content Counts
What is in the dog food that is on the shelve matters.  Read the package ingredients carefully and try to avoid the following below:

• Corn and wheat gluten.
• Meat and grain meals and by-products.
• BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole)
• BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene)
• Ethoxyquin.
• Food Dyes (Blue 2, Red 40, Yellow 5 and 6, 4-MIE)
• PG (Propylene Glycol)
• Rendered fat.

All that is in the bullet list is not good for your dog and if you love your pet, don't slow poison them. Look for dog foods with natural preservatives, vitamin C/E or no preservatives.

Now that you are armed with these great information about choosing the best dog food, why not simply go out and make your dog a full one today.

Have you ever wondered how animals are classified? Who puts what in which group and why are the animals classified as how they are? You have so many classification of animals. I am really not looking at the scientific classification, (The domestic dog is a member of genus Canis that forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant carnivore.....wickipedia) but the general name type given to these animals. But this specif article is going to look at what classifies an animal as a dog. I know some of you have already started guessing in your head, well, I did the same thing when the question popped up while petting my two dogs Nica and Venom.

Venom, the bigger dog is mixed with rottweiler and Labrador. You could call the mix rottlab or labrott. Whatever makes your day. My other dog is a much smaller dog, a mix breed poodle and a shihtzu. Well, you could call her a shipoo, shihtzoopoo, pootzu, what ever really makes your day.  I sit and carefully observe their movements, character and general similarities and have come up with the list below which I believe is suppose to be the general traits in classifying an animal as a dog.

Well, that is as just amount of traits which I can pick out of my head to classify an animal as a dog. What do you think? What do you see that may be more unique to dogs than any other animal. Comment below.