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To keep Bruiser's attention I had to start pinching treats in the fingers of the hand I signal with, so my stay actually looks more like the letter F in sign language. He needed to be able to see the treat. Somehow or other it made him focus more since he's super food driven. Plus doing it this way ...

Yes they definitely do discriminate between the hands! When we had our puppy in class I worked A LOT with him. We went home every night and worked, on the weekends, etc--I wasn't one of the puppy parents that only worked with them Sunday night before our class on Monday because I really wanted it to...

Ibuprofen is Motrin--an anti-inflammatory medication.

My beagle is okay when we leave him alone with the other two, but if we have to crate them up (the older boys get the kitchen and Bru gets the bedroom) he has a fit. He really doesn't like to be on his own. He doesn't like to be outside by himself either. I think part of it is that beagles just like...

Really think about the time you have to put into your dog. In your other post you said that you lived by yourself and worked and didn't know if you had the time for a dog, but wanted a dog to watch over your house while you were gone. I'm not trying to be cute--but alarm systems are much easier to d...

That is awesome!!!

Our oldest doxie, Lu scares me like that in the afternoons when I come home from work. I'll go outside to wrangle them up and Lu's laid out on the grass on his side not moving, and seemingly not breathing. I'll scream his name, stomp my foot, the other boys will run up and sniff him then rung back t...

I think you could probably put any hollowed out stuffed animal on a stick and it would work ok.

I don't think there's a cup/pound conversion. Cups are volume and pounds are weight. 5 pounds of lead might not even fill a cup where as 5 pounds of feathers would well overfill a cup...

But that's just the dorky teacher in me.

I actually own half of the PetSmart shampoo aisle I've just quit bathing them unless they absolutely need it. I take care of their other grooming needs--nails, smelly ears, eye boogs, and teeth and just leave their fur alone.

We hired a trainer to come to our home and work with us and Bruiser when he was 6 months old. Pretty much because of the same issues you're having with your puppy and because our dogs would get into it fights over their food, toys, and me. She basically said the same things the one you met did--he w...

I never did bathe them in it. The more I thought about it, the more I was envisioning doxie sized oil stains on my couch :) Their dry skin got better when I stopped bathing them. We adopted them as adults from a woman who said she bathed them once a month, so I was trying to carry on what she was do...

I was wondering about olive oil!!! My doxies get super dry skin during the winter, and I tried everything for them (to the point that I actually considered bathing them in olive oil, but was worried it would hurt them somehow).

Could you keep a treat in your hand to entice her to walk more with you?

Petsmart sells a liquid fish oil type supplement to drizzle over their food. We gave that to the boys until I absolutely couldn't stand the smell anymore.