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With the size difference and the possibility that both are bitches, I'd keep them apart or else rehome your new one.

Chill. She's a baby. She has zilch concentration span, a huge need to play and she doesn't understand what you want yet. You will need the patience of several saints for the first two years, lots of effort, all the help you can take from us :D and a trainer where you are, and at the end of it you wi...

Put the lid down on the loo and close the bathroom door. Feed the dogs in separate areas so they can't eat each other's food. Same with the cats. Clear up the waste in the back yard as soon as it is deposited. He's a typical puppy, he's a typical cross between food-oriented breeds which will make hi...

To take H's mind off his wound, bandage his other leg. :wink: he can fiddle with that. Humping neuter to neuter is part excitement part status and quite possibly part sexual because one of the many things we seldom get told about neutering is it doesn't remove all of the desire, the scent and in man...

Blended is easier for adding vegetables and generally starting off, but my dogs are weaned straight onto raw food and get it in big lumps because they exercise jaws and teeth eating that way. Some dogs would be horrified by big lumps :shock: and refuse to eat, so I suggest start small and work upwar...

I'd still go for one dose of honey. Tis amazing stuff. How do I know all this - I'm a Hedgewytch, dont'cha know :wink: I keep working dogs that get all kinds of cuts and scrapes, and I have a wonderful vet who understands about immune systems and letting dogs heal themselves where possible, keeping ...

Misunderstanding here that many people make. He is not rolling over to ask you to rub his tummy. He is rolling over in submission and maybe also because this creates a pleasant vocalising attention from you (as in aaaaw look isn't he cute) so he thinks you like it. When you bend over him to rub his ...

Now, it would be illegal for me to recommend anything :wink: so I'll just say what I do for mine, which is close to what you are doing. Bandage off. Trivial wounds heal best for being open to the air. Don't worry if he licks it. The first wash with salt water or colloidal silver or a few drops of la...

Just to clarify that - I mean goes out for an hour twice a day, covering 4 miles each time.

I never knew a cocker that wasn't very very active - is he healthy?

Depends how far you go in that time, whether you walk fast or dawdle along to let him sniff, whether he is still fit or has arthritis/is overweight. I have a similar-aged dog that happily does two hours' fast walking a day, covering about 4 miles each time. That might be too much for yours, but why ...

Hand-feeding is a good way to teach manners. If you are worried about accidental nipping, feed out of a cupped or flat hand the way we do with horses.

Get him checked out in case he has a urinary infection. If A-OK, assume it's stress (affects us that way as well). Do you have a room you can leave him in where it doesn't matter if he wets or soils? Sometimes if the crate has been a prison, they are better for having the freedom to go in and out of...

Thank you for the useful information, which does rather change my perceptions of what is happening in the car - and what is happening in your dogs' lives. This is not Happy Staffie Singing but Insecure Staffie Wailing (just as noisy but different roots = different cure). As Mattie says, best is a de...

OK done.

Sorry - no edit facility! - I mean ten minutes' walk away from your house - otherwise, unless you have a co-driver, you'll have rather a long walk to get your car back