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About a week or so ago I posed the question Boxer dog training, Is it too late? Well my two bouncing boys are now on a residential training course, I took them on Saturday, drove 100miles to Lancashire to their home for the next 3 weeks, I am soooooo missing them....I feel like I've failed them as i...

I have 2 boy boxer 4yrs and 2yrs.....they are very unruly, can't mix with other people, or dogs.....I know its my own fault, lack of training......but is it to late to turn them into super obedient dogs. I'm at the end of my tether and not sure where to turn for help/advise.....opinions gratefully r...

Just a quick update and a thank you to Fundog and Duffy. Been adding butternut squash and some fibre pellets to the boys food and it really has worked well. Jonte in particular is a lot better. Thinking of trying oats as well as butternut squash is seasonal and hard to get frozen, peas don't go down...

Hi guys thnx for the advice....sounds as though that may be the problem. As I said pumpkin isn't really popular over here and I've never seen tinned pumpkin.....I know big boy likes sweet potato and cooked carrot, are there any veg to avoid?

Haloween poo sounds fabulous........lol

Not sure canned pumpkin is that popular over here though......so might have to try something else

My big boy loves veg, and ickle en is starting to get the taste for them, I just thought veg would make them worse, when you say frozen veg, dog you add it to there food frozen? Or am i now sound really thick.....lol

Hi peeps Just curious as to opinions. My 6mnth old boxer, like alot of boxers, has loose stools. First stool of the morning is fine, then when I arrive home its fine, then after his lunch its really quite loose, then after any he does seems to be loose. He has nothing different to eat in between, hi...

I have found some harnesses make the dog pull more the just take they pressure off the walker rather than stop the dog pulling. I find a harness I saw VS use works best, goes over the head and under the arm pits so to speak, when he pulls it lifts him off the ground. I still aim to walk both without...

once again i'm sorry to all......offended, i've had enough now!

apologies i missed your post and read mattie's i thought "sweetie" at the beginning of there post was talking to me...lol so sorry......and was inferring i was a lazy dog owner..sooooo sorry.....my post wasn't aimed at you but mattie.....lord i hate forums sometimes....Apologies to all i w...

I'm confused, I agree that the head collar gives the feeling of less control and could damage the dogs neck, but I have seen Victoria use just a head collar on dogs that pull, thought that was the point of them, using them on dogs that pull.....never seen them used with a harness as well...............

Sweetie these are not positive training, there are times when they may be useful like with a deaf dog but for normal dogs they are usually used by lazy owners who can't be bothered to put the work in to train their dogs. Dogs trained with these are never as reliable as dogs trained positively. &quo...

Hi guys my boys are doing quite well together, I've seen some people locally using vibrating collars to break the distraction of there dog when they can't get there attention. On the whole the boys are getting better and I feel more in control than before, though trying to walk a 2yr old and 6mnth o...

Thanks for the words of support, really helps, I am obviously going to continue trying my best with Jasper, summer is here and we will be spending most weekends at our holiday home, he will get to meet more people and dogs and there will be more distractions than ever, so we will be forced to confro...

All advice is helpful, we do sometimes double back on ourselves to avoid other dogs, I've tried the backward forward move with Jasper to get a loose leash walk but he actually gets quite excitable, tenses up and tries to predict when I'm gonna turn if he walks in front of me, never had a dog like hi...