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- Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:03 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: food bowl aggression, help!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4063
And I agree, it's unconscionable that a shelter would put an 8 week old puppy to sleep for something that can be addressed rather easily with training. But I've seen so many shelters that will take the euthanasia route any time a dog shows any signs of food aggression (and you would think almost all...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:57 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: food bowl aggression, help!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4063
I agree that it is a shame that an 8 week puppy should be pts for this, but the reality is that there are too many dogs and not enough homes or resources to keep them safely or work with them on aggression issues. Human and dog aggression are traits that can have genetic roots and some dogs may alw...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:25 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Progress and then ewwww, and some backsliding
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1786
Progress and then ewwww, and some backsliding
For the most part, I've been making a lot of progress with Dodger lately. During the day, I only keep one set of blinds open, so that if something/someone is approaching on the sidewalk, I can control his reaction point, and the quiet command, along with a treat when he stays quiet (no barking) is w...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:00 pm
- Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
- Topic: The runs causing increased appetite?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2749
The runs causing increased appetite?
Okay, so if you read the food thieves thread, you know my Dodger got into a largish bag of M&M's. He's had the runs since then - not uncontrollable, but if he doesn't poo before we leave, or before we go to bed, enough that he will have an accident while we are gone/asleep. But at the same time,...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:50 am
- Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
- Topic: FOOD THIEVES
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7933
Just from my experience, I don't think he wanted to guard the chicken, he wanted the chicken for himself. Chicken in the trash was one of the things that would drive Loth into invading the trash can at night (and she was never quiet about it). But, if she did get into the trash at night, she usually...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Gracie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2384
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:01 pm
- Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
- Topic: FOOD THIEVES
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7933
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:26 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Help! puppy crying at night!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2468
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:24 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: Momma "Mia" .... Here we go again.....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2472
When we got Loth, my oldest son was about that little boy's age. My youngest son was about 3. Even with the most loving dog, the most trustworthy dog, because of the nature of children that age it is going to happen. It never indicated that she thought the kids were a problem (but eventually she did...
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:19 pm
- Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
- Topic: FOOD THIEVES
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7933
Oh, and just to share - my in-law's aussie shepherd is a champion table surfer. Once, he got about a half a block of cheese, and ate it all (including the saran wrap - which of course came out the other end. and um, my mother in law thought trying to take a half a block (and I mean a block about the...
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:11 pm
- Forum: Dog Training Advice
- Topic: I think I might have made a crating mstake
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5830
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:05 pm
- Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
- Topic: FOOD THIEVES
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7933
- Sun May 24, 2009 11:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: One of my favorite things
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4773
20 years ago I brought a very cute Mini Schnauzer home to live with my 17yr old daughter and I. My daughter at that time was like most teen girls, a raging slob. Her room looked worse than a bomb going off at a garage sale. I would warn her to keep her door closed everytime the puppy, John Buddy go...
- Thu May 21, 2009 6:30 pm
- Forum: Health, Diet and Exercise
- Topic: Chocolate and dogs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2905
- Thu May 21, 2009 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: One of my favorite things
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4773
My husband and father in law cut out a cardboard template to replace the part of the sub-floor in the bathroom that had to be taken out. This morning, it was laying out in the yard, so Dodger creeps on top of it, and then when he realized it could move, he started pawing at it and playing with it. A...