Pets Information ?

[denaka]

how good are bighomepets.com for pets information . please do let me know

 

[KathyM]

Had a peek for you. Only had a very basic look, but went straight to the dog training bit (that's where my interest lies). I wouldn't bother with that section if you're after training advice, they have based their advice on Jan Fennel's The Dog Listener which is sadly very out of date and not very well regarded in training circles. So that training might not work, but at least they're not advocating shock collars or alpha rolls, or anything along those lines.

Ooo oo - just read their info on Boxers (another area of interest for me) - not right cracking. Recommending ear cropping so the dogs can hear better *pmsl* - if I don't laugh I'll cry. Boxers got their name from the way they start fights with their feet up. Boxers are "cool" and quiet in temperament, and are "low maintenance". I wonder if they've ever met one. Some of the other info on them is okay-ish though, but is just the breed standard bit.

It looks like a friendly enough site, no bad intentions, just not very knowledgeable on the specific bits I've read. I see they have different people write different sections, so maybe I'll find better articles the more I look.

Edited to add: The more I read the training related articles, the less I like the site. There are some okay basics in there, but the pack ranking rubbish does my head in, and has been shunned by most decent trainers as a load of rubbish. If you can wade through that and ignore that "eat before your dog" kind of advice, there might be better advice, I'm going to keep looking and come back.

 

[KathyM]

I've looked at some more articles and although there are a couple of ok articles on dog behaviour/training, there are also some that are very concerning, and advocating physical punishment for dogs (including one saying you should bite your dog if it bites you!). It's a shame because the feel of the site is that it's there to help, but they really need to weed out the bad articles for it to work.

Edit: An article that says euthanasia is "murder". This site gets worse...

 

[LisaLQ]

This post has been made on other forums too - it's a spammer.