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Keeping Your Dog Safe
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Keeping Your Dog Safe In Your Home
Not many dogs owners have the luxury of being able to keep their dogs under watch all the time. There are a number of steps that dog owners can take to help ensure dogs are safe around the home when dog owners are not there.
Follow these tips to help keep your dog safe:
- Remove small toys, string and other choking hazards such as rubber bands from your dog’s area in your home.
- Dogs seem to love the smell taste and texture of rubbish, and they will go out of their way to play in that arena while you’re away. The problem is many things in our rubbish that may seem benign to us can be dangerous to dogs.
- Telephones with chords, make sure the chord is high enough and tucked away so your dog can't get it around its neck.
- Avoid trailing cables wherever possible, dogs like to chew. Try to ensure that your Tv cables etc are tucked out of harms way, avoid extension cables across floors.
- Brush and then Hoover the whole floor of a room if glass has been broken even if it only broke in one small area.
- Dangerous Foods out of their reach of your dog(s) like: chocolate, onion, garlic, macadamia nuts, Pear pips, the kernels of plums, peaches and apricots, apple core pips (contain cyanogenic glycosides resulting in cyanide poisoning), Potato peelings and green looking potatoes, Rhubarb leaves, Mouldy/spoiled foods, Alcohol, Yeast dough, Coffee grounds, beans & tea (caffeine), Hops (used in home brewing), Tomato leaves & stems (green parts), Broccoli (in large amounts), Raisins and grapes.
- Make sure any pins, needles or tacks are not left on sofas or the floor, even for two seconds to answer the phone or door or turn down the spuds.
- As with a child, don't leave the pots and pan handles over the edge of the cooker.
- Do not leave your dog locked in the kitchen when any cooking is going on. If you have a roast in the oven and need to go out but crate the dog in the kitchen, move the crate to the living room and have the kitchen door firmly shut to avoid gas poisoning and keep fire and smoke in. If your kitchen doesn't have a door put the crate in a bedroom with a door.
- Be careful if you use rat or mouse bate in the garage or in the area to make sure the dogs are never allowed in those areas (better not to use poison pellets). Use traps instead because even a dead rodent can still have poison in it and can be dangerous if the dog eats it.
- Gardens, check them regularly for dangerous objects left lying around, check fences for security daily and always fit internal bolts/locks and wherever possible closers on gates to prevent them being left open by visitors.
- Make sure they can't get out of the house ie no open windows, no open doors etc
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