Fun Briard Dog Training and Understanding Guide Book

By Vince Stead

You can have a lot of fun learning about your Briard puppy and dog with these fun and helpful to make your dog a good dog! 
 
1. The Characteristics of a Briard Puppy and Dog 
 
2. What You Should Know About Puppy Teeth 
 
3. How to Select Treats To Train Your Dog With 
 
4. Some Helpful Tips for Raising Your Briard Puppy 
 
5. Are Rawhide Treats Good for Your Briard? 
 
6. How to Crate Train Your Briard  
 
7. When Should You Spay Or Neuter Your Dog? 
 
8. When Your Briard Makes Potty Mistakes 
 
9. How to Teach your Briard to Fetch 
 
10. Make it Easier and Healthier for Feeding Your Briard 
 
11. When Your Briard Has Separation Anxiety, and How to Deal With It 
 
12. When Your Briard Is Afraid of Loud Noises 
 
13. How to Stop Your Briard From Jumping up on People 
 
14. How to Teach Your Briard to Sit 
 
15. Why Your Briard Needs a Good Soft Bed to Sleep In 
 
16. How to Stop Your Briard from Running Away or Bolting Out the Door 
 
17. Some Helpful Tips for Raising Your Briard Puppy 
 
18. How to Socialize Your Briard Puppy 
 
19. How to Stop Your Briard Dog from Excessive 
Barking 
 
20. When Your Briard Has Dog Food or Toy Aggression Tendencies 
 
21. What you should know about Fleas and Ticks 
 
22. How to Stop Your Briard Puppy or Dog from Biting 
 
23. What to Expect Before and During your Dog Having Puppies 
 
24. What the Benefits of Micro chipping Your Dog Are to You 
 
25. How to Get Something Out of a Puppy or Dog's Belly without Surgery 
 
26. How to Clean Your Briards Ears Correctly 
 
27. How to Stop Your Briard from Eating Their Own Stools 
 
28. How Invisible Fencing Typically Works to Train and Protect Your Dog 
 
29. Some Items You Should Never Let Your Puppy or Dog Eat 
 
30. How to Make Sure Your Dog is eating a Healthy Amount of Food 
 
31. Make it Easier and Healthier for Feeding Your Briard  
 
32. How to Clean and Groom your Briard  
 
33. How to Trim a Puppy or Dogs Nails Properly 
 
34. The 5 Different Kinds of Worms that can harm your Dog 
 
35. How to Deworm your Briard for Good Health 
 
36. What You Should Know About Dog Rabies 
 
37. Some Helpful Healthy and Tasty Homemade Dog Food Recipes

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vince Stead
• Release date: Oct 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781516369867

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1.  The Characteristics of a Briard Dog

The Briard dog is a large and very powerful herding dog that originally originated from France.  They were originally bred to herd and guard flocks of sheep on farms. 

The Briard dog breed was most commonly used as a farm and herding dog in the lush green valleys of France farm lands, to herd sheep that would clear foliage between the rows of crops, without eating the crops themselves. 

The Briard dog is a very loyal and protective breed of dog.  Once they are added to your family, they will be very protective of the family members, thus making a great guard and watch dog. 

The Briard dog head is large, long and rectangular in shape and size. The wide muzzle has a long mustache and beard like appearance. The square shaped nose is black with open nostrils. Their teeth meet in a scissors like bite. The large eyes come in black or black and brown colors.  The ears are either cropped or left natural, as it is getting more and more illegal to crop their ears in some countries lately.

The dog usually has double dewclaws on their hind feet and they may or may not be removed by the owners. The Briard dog breed has a double coat of fur. The outer coat is coarse, hard and dry, lying flat. The undercoat is fine layer of fur.

Briards come in all colors except for white color. Common colors include black, various shades of gray and various shades of tawny color.  Adult coats of hair are 6 or more inches long, giving the dog a bushy look with a shaggy beard, eyebrows and mustache appearance.

The Briard dog is a dog that has a big heart, and they are very easy to teach and train.  The Briard possesses an excellent memory and a sincere desire to please his master. The Briard dog makes a great family companion and house dog.  They will protect their family members, and they will sense strangers with a protect the family type approach.

It is also important that your Briard puppy or dog be introduced to everyone in the family, including pets and other animals, so that they learn to socialize and get along with each other at the first opportunity.

The Briard has a very good memory, as stated earlier. Once a lesson is learned, be it good or bad, the knowledge will be retained for a long time to come in the dog. 

The average height for a male Briard is 24 to 27 inches, and females are 22 to 25 inches tall on average.  Their life expectancy is about 10 to 12 years on average, and the average weight for a Briard dog is about 75 pounds.  When a female Briard gives birth, there are usually about 8 to 10 puppies per litter. 

The Briard breed is generally a healthy breed of dog, but some are prone to PRA, cataracts and hip dysplasia. Briards, like other large breeds, can experience bloat and stomach torsion. The condition can come on very fast and, if left untreated, is fatal.

The Briard dog will do okay in an apartment if it is exercised on a regular basis. They are moderately active indoors and will do best with at least an average sized yard to romp around in.  They are happiest in the home being a part of the family, but they do love to be outdoors the most.

Some famous Briard dogs you might remember were Buck from the Married with Children TV show, Tramp from My Three Sons TV show, and Ruff, from Dennis the menace, and there are other famous TV show dogs also, but too many to list. 

2.  What You Should Know About Puppy Teeth

There is no doubt about it; puppies are going to chew on things!  Dogs will have 28 baby teeth, and 42 permanent teeth.  When a puppy is roughly 2 to 3 weeks old, their baby teeth start to come in.  All their baby teeth should be in place by roughly 8 weeks of age.

The puppy’s new teeth are very tiny and sharp, and will hurt your fingers when they get a hold of them.  Most mothers will start to wean their babies at 5 to 6 weeks old.

Your puppies baby teeth will start to come out around 8 to 12 weeks of age.  By roughly 8 months old, your dog’s permanent teeth should all be in.  You should make sure that all baby teeth are out, so that a tooth does not get left in, and another one comes in and crowds the space, and also gives your dog pain.  You would need to visit the vet if you see this happening.

Your puppy is going to want to chew on something, just like a real baby, their teeth are coming in, and they want to relieve some of the pain. It is good for them to chew, to help the teeth come thru.  You would want to get some appropriate chew items to help them.

You could start to train your dog to have their teeth brushed.  You can pick up doggie tooth supplies at your local pet store usually, and get down and dirty and brush your doggy’s teeth.  Rawhide chews are an excellent source of good tooth hygiene, as they are good for your dog’s teeth, and can help take off build up plaque, and dogs usually love it also!

A lot of puppies and dogs end up getting human food usually from the weakest link in the family.  If your dog is under the table, they usually will go to the person they think will mostly likely give them some food scraps.  If you do, just remember, chocolate and some nuts can kill your dog, never give chocolate.  Raisins can be just as deadly for your dog, do not give, they can shut down your dog’s kidneys, so be very careful of these products and your puppy or dog.

3.  How to Select Treats to Train Your Dog With

Dogs need to be rewarded the way we humans love being treated.  Would you like someone hanging a treat over you, and then just patting you on the head for a good round of tricks shown?  The answer is obviously a NO!  The same thing happens if you do that to your pet, he gets de motivated and annoyed as well.  He would not trust you the next time around if he doesn’t have an incentive to bank on.

You may have seen your friend or neighbor offering treats to their dogs for a good job done.  But remember, your dog needs one, but maybe not the same treat as other dogs.  Some dogs would love a certain treat, while others wouldn’t care for that treat as much as a different kind. They would certainly want more than what the other dog is getting at