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Nugget, you are the same Nugget that hasn't got time to walk your pug. Make time to walk your pug, play with him/her, train some, then think again about working with animals. This isn't getting at you, but an observation based purely on your posts so far. Working with animals will take you to a stag...

No worries. Dogs lose heat through their tongues - so tongues can get hot.

The double-barrelled pee is normal and I do wish dog books would mention it. Stay out with your dog until she has had the second pee. She just lacks concentration, being a pup, and doesn't remember the next pee until indoors, then - whoops! There it goes. The peeing-when-corrected behaviour is a sub...

SUCH good news - well done Mattie.

Well done owners also for keeping faith with their dog.

Regarding the 'potential disease' - I have kept entire dogs and bitches for many years and only once had a problem, which was an enlarged prostate in an elderly dog. This was quickly dealt with. Most of these problems dog owners get threatened with never manifest at all. After all, you can't tell if...

I think you and H are doing amazingly well, and if there were emoticons for it, I'd send you a round of applause and a biiiig hug!

It's a case of you have taken away lots of nice things and replaced them with nothing. You are expecting the dogs to entertain themselves but not shown them how, or given them anything they can do. You need to replace the old regime with activities that tire your dogs but that they find enjoyable, a...

You should be able to feel the ribs under the skin, and see a 'waist' just in front of the back legs with any breed.

If not - less grub and more walkies

nuggetjr7 wrote:i also want to work with animals

I hate to sound like your parents but it's a better idea to get a job that earns you enough to have a decent standard of living, and do something with animals as a sideline. Most jobs with animals pay peanuts and mean long hours of menial slog.

Damn.

Hope you are able to resolve the situation to your satisfaction, Mattie.

This sort of discussion is another thing that is so good about this Board :D I think both of you are close together in your 'take' on training, and have more in common than you have differences. And trainers WILL have differences because we all have different experiences, sometimes vastly so. Dogs a...

Some dogs and some breeds have a very low 'play' need and simply don't. Mine don't. It doesn't mean there is anything wrong, just that they are not like that - same as some people love practical jokes and other people think they are stupid. Walk him lots instead. I've yet to meet a dog that didn't l...

Either your dog and you, or the male dog, needs to live somewhere else for the next three weeks. The alternative is constance vigilance 24/7. I have kept an experienced stud dog and a group of intact bitches together but all my dogs were well-trained. Sounds like the RR is a total lout - well-manner...

Here's to the Perfect Poo
Only doggie people woud understand - oh and horsey people!

have you had his sight tested?