The Pomeranian Of Today Make Good Professional Therapy Dogs

The Pomeranian is a toy-sized member of the German Spitz family of dogs. Some of the Pomeranian’s relatives include the Samoyed, Keeshond, Siberian Husky, Alaskan Malamute, Norwegian Elkhound, Finnish Spitz, Chow Chow and American Eskimo.

The Pomeranian had ancestors who were used by the Nordic people as sled pulling dogs and to herd reindeer. Of course, these ancestors were much larger than our present day Pomeranian.

Today’s Pomeranian is well suited to city and suburban households. They are alert and highly intelligent, very active little dogs, which are easily trained. Many Pomeranians successfully compete in obedience, agility, tracking and flyball.

You won’t see a 3 to 7 pound Pomeranian pulling a sled in Iceland or herding reindeer. That would certainly be a spectacular event, but it is very doubtful the little Pomeranians of today are hired to do such jobs as these. The Pomeranians we know today have indoor jobs as therapy dogs. They make excellent therapy dogs while visiting the sick and elderly in hospitals and nursing homes. It is my personal opinion that the ministers need to take along a little Pom while making their rounds visiting the sick and elderly in hospitals and nursing homes.

The Pomeranian is a compact, short-backed toy dog with a soft, dense undercoat and a profuse harsh-textured outer coat. He has a heavily plumed tail set high that lies flat on his back. The Pomeranian looks kind of “cocky,” commanding, and animated as he moves around.

The average size of the Pomeranian is from 3 to 7 pounds. The American Pomeranian Club does not like the Pomeranian to be referred to as “teacup” or “toy.” The ideal weight for a show specimen is 4 to 6 pounds, although the American Pomeranian Club says poorly bred Pomeranians will many times be overweight, and any dog over the limits is highly objectionable. The Pomeranian is medium-boned and when examined feels sturdy. He has an interesting looking plumed tail, which is one of the characteristics of his breed. The Pomeranian’s eyes are also of interest as almond-shaped, dark, bright, and medium in size.

The little Pomeranian has a vivacious spirit about him making him a great competitive dog. He is an extrovert in personality.

The Pomeranian was most likely bred down in the present day Germany and Poland. When the Pomeranian was first noticed in Britain in the middle of the 19th century, some specimens were said to weigh as much as 30 pounds and resembled the German Wolf Spitz in size, coat and color. These 30 pound dogs were most likely the sled dogs.

A Pomeranian named “Marco” was sent from Florence, Italy to the Queen Victoria of England. Marco became Queen Victoria’s beloved pet. Because of the Queen was a popular monarch, the breed’s popularity grew. Queen Victoria is known for advocating the trend toward the smaller Pomeranians.

The small size Pomeranian with its docile temperament and vivacious spirit helps to make this little dog an ideal and entertaining companion.

The colors and patterns of the Pomeranian are many. Among the colors are black and tan – tan or rust sharply defined, appearing above each eye and on muzzle, throat, and fore chest, on all legs and feet and below the tail. The richer the tan is more desirable. Brindle – the base color is gold, red, or orange-brindled with strong lack cross stripes. Parti-color is white with any other color distributed in patches with a white blaze preferred on the head. The Open Classes at specialty shows may be divided by color as follows: Open Red, Orange, Cream, and Sable; Open Black, Brown, and Blue; Open Any Other Color, Pattern, or Variation.

The larger size Pomeranian that once pulled sleds in Iceland surely worked hard for its masters. Today, our little 6 pound Pomeranians are happily performing more professional positions such as therapy dogs for sick and the elderly. He is an ideal companion for the adult, and not so highly recommend for children.

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As I completed my 30 day training program from my friend Stone Evans, I sat silently as he advised me to do for 10 or so minutes a day and think of my goals and relax. I continued to ponder different unique ways to market my business. I always went back to what he had said about coming up with my own ideas and implementing them into my strategies. And I did, in a BIG risky way. I don’t know if it has been done before but I’ll tell you this if it has I haven’t seen it published.

The concept hit me by surprise! One day I went on a Sunday after noon (beautiful day)72 degrees sunny breezy and just plain gorgeous for New Orleans weather! Uncommon for late September. I parked my truck in the shade and cleaned inside and armor all, wipe down, you know the routine. Then a li’l wax job. I was alone with the exception of my daughters 10 week old beautiful Siberian husky puppy, on a rope tied to my trailer hitch. Well this dog was a people magnet everyone that passed wanted to see it, pet it, hold it, and asked questions about it. Which immediately brought back memories of when I was young, myself and a friend would go to Florida every weekend, leave on Friday and stay till Sunday. We had Labrador puppies and soon found they were girl magnets, so as single guys we brought the puppies as conversation starters and the results were amazing. If we were without the dogs we talked to only a few people a day, when the dogs were present we talked constantly to people wanting to look at them and not us. Not that we were ugly or scary looking, but just normal guys at the beach.

Before I left the lake and I called a friend who lived nearby that I hadn’t talked to in several weeks so I thought I’d call n see if he was home and id swing by and talk to him. He is in the real estate business and is doing very well for himself he has a beautiful home by the lake. I got in touch with him and to my surprise he was about a mile away on the lake, doing what I was doing cleaning and waxing one of his cars. I drove that mile and met him, as we hung out and sat by the car everyone stopped to ask about the puppy and they would ask about the car as well. We actually had to walk out to the water to get away from the car and take the puppy with us so that we could actually get a few words in because we had some catching up to do. We talked for a half hour or so in peace then went back to our vehicles; as soon as we got there people flocked near again to question about the puppy and car. The questions were, Dude is this your car blah blah blah or Dude thats such a cool dog. My friends reply was yeah thats one of my cars and my reply was yeah he is a pretty cool dog. Not to be rude to anyone but it was time for us to go cruise. Before we left I told him man u gotta let me drive this thing. He said anytime u wanna go right now? I said no not with the dog he will get hair all over your car. He said no take it Ill stay with the pup, and of course I did. It was a black 2006 corvette convertible. Beautiful car, and NICE to drive! When I got back he said how was it? I replied awesome. He said if u like that one your love my new one. I was like its better than this? He laughed and said believe me. Its a 2005 mint condition Ferrari. He said follow me home n take it for a ride. I said no I have to pick up my daughter in 30 minutes but Ill take a rain check. He said anytime dude, I said great Id love to and we split.

On my ride home I thought about what had just happened . These 2 things combined are the perfect match. It clicked bring a fine car and a puppy to the lake, have people flock to me and question me. I am in marketing of course. I have online businesses so I started getting excited about what I just put together and thought don’t get too excited till you give it a try. A few days passed and I called Steve on a Wednesday and said looks like nice weather again this weekend are you going to the lake Ill meet you. He said he had plans with his in-laws, but maybe next week. I said o.k., and he asked if I was still going to go. I said yes I was planning on it and his reply was you wanna take that hot li’l ride out there and give it a test drive? I was ecstatic, I said DAMN RIGHT dude! He told me to come early before he left and i was like Ill be there at 10 am sharp, he said thats perfect I will be leaving at 11. I was pumped up now I had a feeling this car had to be awesome if he was enthused about it because cars are his passion along with his family and work.

Sunday I’m up at 7 am ready to roll. I have my business cards flyers and of course my daughters puppy, and was out the house by 9 am . I arrived at about 9:45 and was shocked to see what he pulled out the garage. It was that 2005 custom yellow Ferrari. My heart was racing, pounding! He hands me the keys and says your going to LOVE it!! I said I just love looking at it! He just laughed and said no you’re going to love the power.( He knew I loved power because we use to ride moto-x together for years).

I get the pup, business cards, flyer s and head to the lake. I was lit up like a light bulb, this was a machine of pure adrenaline. I even considered skipping the lake and just drive, drive, drive…… I didn’t though but I did take the long route there, haha. I arrived at the lake at about 10:40. There were few people I guess people were still in church or recovering for the nights before so I just rode around smiling and loving it. By noon the place was inhabited by many so I parked and got the puppy out. Within 5 minutes people were coming up to the car and the dog. I proceeded to give the car a spray wax, not that it needed it, but I just thought it would be nice to return it waxed.

The attention of these combined human attractants was phenomenal it was person after person and question after question, needless to say it took me 2 and a half hours to spray wax a small car because I talked so much. And the question 7 out of 10 times were , Dude what do u for a living?. I’d give them a business card or flyer. Sometimes the first question was , Is this your car?. I’d say no its my friends car there question then was what does he do for a living. We both do marketing he does mostly real estate here is one of his business cards and mine. After 2 and a half hours I was actually ready to go, I was exhausted mentally from the excitement of the car experience and the questions and the overwhelming emotion of what had taken place in a short period of time. I gave out over 90 business cards of mine more than 50 flyers and at least 75 cards of Steves. What an amazing thing to see ! These were 100% laser targeted (interested) leads. I did not try to sell them anything but they were wanting my cards to see if they could duplicate what I or Steve were doing. So maybe they could by a Ferrari- WOW! I spent no money besides fueling up his car and a small investment for the cards.

By Tuesday I had 38 wanting more information and direction, because they were ready to try this out and make a change in their lives. I was amazed. I called Steve told him what I had done and he was flabbergasted. He said he was wondering why he had been getting so many calls from Sunday night until now. As we spoke his phone was ringing simply amazing he said. I never thought of doing that myself I get a lot of questions about that car it does happen often.I just answer questions about ,I never thought about marketing with it. Next weekend we will be on the lake Saturday and Sunday he said!

The moral is believe people with integrity when they tell you follow thought you never know what will click in your mind to become a creative marketer. I have many more new and exciting ways to market that will be as un-orthodoxed and OUT THA BOX ! approach to marketing as this article is. And they will be enjoyable at the same time.

My advice to you find a friend with a FINE car or rent one, go to the SPCA find a nice puppy and duplicate this for free.

Marketing at its best!

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THE TOP TEN MOST INTELLIGENT DOGS – How Intelligent are dogs and wolves? What breeds are the smartest dogs today?

1. “Left for the wolves.”

In the late Spring of 1902, Constable Richard Morris, of the North-West Mounted Police, reported an incident dealing with the native Cree Indians and their dogs. Stationed in a community north of Lake Winnipeg, he noticed that a number of dogs had been staked out in the forest. Each one was left alone and fastened to an iron stake by a chain. When he asked the reason for this, the Crees told him that the dogs were “left for the wolves.”

When Constable Morris objected to this treatment, the Crees explained that the dogs wouldn’t be harmed by the wolves. The dogs — Ungava huskies — were females in heat. Male wolves without mates of their own would be attracted to the females and mate with them, resulting in cross-bred puppies with “wolfblood.”

Morris said, “Oh, I see. This is so your sled-dogs will be bigger and stronger.”

“No,” said one Cree. “A wolf can outrace our dogs in a quick dash — but our huskies have much more stamina than wolves and can easily outlast them in a long run. Wolves make poor work dogs.”

“Then,” concluded Morris, “it’s because wolves are healthier.”

“No. They are the same.”

“Then — why?” asked the Mountie.

“Up here,” replied the Indian, tapping his forehead.

Father LeBeaux, an Oblate Missionary, later explained, “The Cree people believe that when an animal becomes domesticated, each generation loses in intelligence. That’s why wolves are more intelligent than dogs. The Indians say, ‘The closer to the wolf, the smarter the dog.’ If it is true of domesticated animals, what does that say of civilized man, eh?”

 

 

2. “How intelligent are they?”

Our ancestors might have asked this 15,000 years ago when they played with their adopted wolf or jackal pups — the first dogs.

Even the ancient Egyptians asked that question, and studied their own dogs to answer it.

The first modern attempt was by Rene Descartes, who only went one step beyond the cloudy thinking of his time, saying all animals were just soulless biological machines. Descartes set up the narrow, human-centered theory of behaviorism that would dominate until well into the 20th Century.

For decades, behaviorists put animals — including dogs — through sterile tests in sterile labs, looking for mechanical results that proved worthless.

In the middle of this muddle came one sane voice: Donald Griffin, professor of biology at Rockefeller University, who said, “Behaviorism should be abandoned not so much because it belittles the value of living animals, but because it leads to a serious incomplete and hence misleading picture of reality.”

In 1953, Konrad Lorenz’s MAN MEETS DOG created an instant classic about canine intelligence. Written with humor, wisdom and great insight, the German Nobel Laureate almost single-handedly recreated our methods of exploring animal behavior.

In his ground-breaking 1994 book THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS — CANINE CONSCIOUSNESS AND CAPABILITIES, Canadian Stanley Coren, psychologist, dog trainer, “and avowed dog lover,” presented his controversial Ranking of Dogs for Obedience and Working Intelligence.

Coren ranked 133 breeds, from #1 on… The reaction was predictable: “The Poodle? He ranked a POODLE above my Belgian sheepdog?” “Come on! My Samoyed is smarter than any Australian Cattle Dog!” “No Papillon can out-think my Lassie.” “OK, maybe a Poodle is intelligent –but…”

“Controversial” doesn’t begin to describe the reaction to “Coren’s Ranking.”

But his observations have proven to be pretty accurate. Coren was testing, of course, pure breeds. The “purebred” Siberian husky, for instance, isn’t as quick-witted as the native husky of northern Siberia. This is even more true of the Alaskan malamute. We deliberately breed out some of the “wolfishness” in our pets.

 

 

3. “Never Cry Wolf!”

In 1963, Farley Mowat’s NEVER CRY WOLF appeared on the bookshelves. Described as “an intimate casebook in wolf sociology,” Mowat described how, as a biologist employed by the Canadian Wildlife Service, he had spent a summer on his own, studying a pack of Arctic wolves. The book sparked an avid interest in wolf research that has never dimmed.

IN PRAISE OF WOLVES and SECRET GO THE WOLVES described R D Lawrence’s close experiences with wolves in Canada. DANCE OF THE WOLVES by Roger Peters describes his three winters in the forests of northern Michigan. These and others have shown us the remarkable lives and intelligence of the wolf.

R D Lawrence wrote: “Reality, particularly in the case of wolves, means that these animals have keen intelligence, excellent memory, and demonstrable capacity of conscious thought. When Shawano fed his pack before keeping a piece of chicken for himself, he demonstrated not only that he could profit from experience in a profitable way, but that other wolves could do so as well.

“This demonstration is alone sufficient to discredit the mechanistic theory which contends that evolution, by means of hereditary imprinting, has led to the thoughtless or automatic responses of animals to any one of an enormously wide variety of natural stimuli…

“Memory, by allowing an animal to benefit from experience, plays an important role in the formulation of conscious decisions; the better its memory, the better able will the animal be to adapt to a changing environment.”

It’s the wolf’s intelligence, as well as its loyalty and great heart that caused our ancient Northern ancestors to bring the wolf into their families, or to interbreed their existing dogs (probably of ancient jackal ancestry) with wolves.

Today, we mingle with wolves, in sanctuary and in the wild.

And fictional works, from Jack London’s THE CALL OF THE WILD to the latest movie EIGHT BELOW have celebrated the wild wolf dog in Literature and in Hollywood.

 

 

“THE TOP 10 MOST INTELLIGENT DOGS!”

What, then are the smartest breeds?

Taking in the conclusions of dog trainers, psychologists and researchers, as well as those who work with dogs in life and death situations, such as police, search & rescuers, and wilderness inhabitants — and balancing the Cree wisdom: “the closer to the wolf, the smarter the dog!” with ongoing research into the evolution of dogs (remember, the earliest dogs were probably adopted jackal pups), here are the TEN MOST INTELLIGENT DOGS:

1. Ungava Husky, or Wolf Dog

2. German Shepherd

3. Golden Retriever

4. Labrador Retriever

5. Border Collie

6. Poodle

7. Doberman Pinscher

8. Papillon

9. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever

10. Alaskan Malamute

 

If your dog is not on this list, you can be sure it’s #11!

 

Brian Alan Burhoe, a chef by trade for three decades, is the author of many dog-related articles and short stories, including THE FREE ONLINE STORY WOLFBLOOD A Northwestern in the Tradition of Jack London. Many of his articles can be found at PUPPY DOGS INFO Dog Breeds Training Care & Literature.