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Please don't feel guilty. You have done your absolute best for Miya and no one can ask for more. Plus you have to think of your family as well. It sounds to me to that Miya is stressed/excited and doesn't know how to cope with it, so there is every chance that she will be a fine dog for someone with...

Could you consider a house sitter/dog carer for next year, so he can stay in his own home? Alternatively, once his health issues are sorted, you could try him for one night at a good kennels to see how he copes - it's possible he'll do better than you expect. Re the muzzle - what did you do to accus...

IF you get a pup and raise that pup with your own cats, you shouldn't have any worries there. Unless you have a Jasper.... :roll: To be fair, he only wants to play... but he will still chase if I don't intervene, and I'm not 100% sure that if his chase starts as a game, different instincts won't ta...

ladybug1802 wrote:And Judy....do you get other owners being a bit 'funny' about it?

I'm very lucky that round here, most people are more likely to say 'I'm glad your dog's doing that, because my dog needs a good telling-off to teach him some manners'

Why does he react like this to male entire dogs? Is it as if to say "hey, I am just as much a man as you are!"? Ladybug, Jasper does that too! I'm not sure if it's entire males, but it tends to be males around a year old. My reading of it is that a) having always been the underdog in most...

As Secret Someone says, it's not always possible to see your dog and dogs it might meet at all times - we often walk in the woods and Jasper will go on ahead of me quite often. I always put him on the lead if I see another dog on lead (unless he's already decided it's a scary dog and is hiding behin...

I'm sorry you're having such a stressful time. Best of luck with the medical matters. Obviously Hubby has then come home to a very excited dog. She was all giddy when the lead came out, something we thought we had cracked last night. He took her out and just walked her around the garden, again becau...

Gorjuss!

I know nothing about tracking, but wondered if it would help to start in the house or garden, so you could lay the trail when she's not around, and not lose it yourself.

Though smooshing sausage into the carpet may not be a good idea....

I thought the standard method of overcoming phobias in humans was very gradual exposure. So if you're scared of big hairy spiders, as I am too, you start by sitting several yards away from a tiny spider. You gradually increase exposure, each time to the point where you're just feeling slightly stres...

I'd be tempted to do a bit of training, maybe asking him to pick up and eat each bit in turn on command. If there's too many bits for this to be practical, maybe give him less food so he's more motivated to clear up after himself? Though I do have a dog who wouldn't dream of leaving a crumb uneaten,...

Someone did mention to me that if I had a matching dressin gown made, I'd best ensure that the design, fit and fastenings were slightly different

I know it's not a training solution as such, but I wonder if something like this http://www.traininglines.co.uk/walkydog ... hment.html could help? You could have Pan attached to that while you're moving, then disconnect it when you're stopped.

I heard a few days ago of an elderly woman planning to get a 10-week-old border collie pup. When it was suggested that this might be the wrong choice of dog, and that at the very least they would need to go to training classes, the woman said 'Oh no, I can't be bothered with training. That's why I'm...

It didn't stop him waking up and wanting to go out at 2.30am and 6.30am But apart from that, he looked snug as a bug in a rug