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a strange fowl posted:
heelers are just so damned cute.
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Dec 2, 2022 22:42
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:heelers are just so damned cute. Hell yeah they are. I grew up having them and they are great.
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Dec 2, 2022 22:47
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HootTheOwl posted:That looks like a dog that demands all your apolstry be gray it's like the wild west with tumbleweeds of hair constantly rolling around my house
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Dec 3, 2022 00:13
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these past few weeks have been a real test of character for iris. first we had a friend land on us unexpectedly for a fortnight, then family for five days - all of them unwell and/or physically frail and needing to be kept away from the dog in case she accidentally knocked them over. so all her routines went out the window, she went from being a 100% inside dog to always outside except at night, went from always having somebody with her to being left alone for hours at a time, and she's had a constant stream of strangers through her house. all of which she has handled with grace and good humour. life is returning to normal on tuesday and i am very much looking forward to being able to have her inside again. my baby blue 
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Dec 3, 2022 00:34
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How the heck do I keep a 3.5 month old puppy with a great nose from eating unknown mushrooms in the yard?!
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:How the heck do I keep a 3.5 month old puppy with a great nose from eating unknown mushrooms in the yard?! But Mow the mushrooms and hold the leash with a stern No every time they go snuffling near mushrooms.
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Dec 3, 2022 04:53
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:How well do the inflatable donut style Elizabethan collars work? Sorry to hear about your girl  I had the same issue with Little Bear catching his hard plastic cone on things. This e-collar worked wonderfully (note the link goes to size small - you'll need at least large. LB is a 72 lb lab mix and we got the XL). It's also so much easier to get on and off. Just make sure you don't run it through the dryer on high heat without thinking 
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Dec 4, 2022 02:48
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Dango Bango posted:Sorry to hear about your girl Right on, thank you. I just assumed those were crap because they're soft, but after watching her for a couple days I think it might do the trick. She could actually have full ROM without getting caught on furniture so bad. A friend of mine has one I'm going to borrow.
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It's now a week and a half since I stopped giving Pavlov glucosamine supplements, and he's still suffering from allergies. Itchy throat, and every morning there's a big ol' eye booger about 10x bigger than usual in his eye. Poor dog I've been reading that it can take up to two months for allergies to clear up once you stop feeding them the triggering substance. Bleh. I have him on generic Claritin, and it may be helping a little, but it's clearly not providing full relief.
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Dec 4, 2022 05:14
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It’s Christmas time everyone and time to put your pets in silly outfits. Train em young lol 
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Hey internet, everyone meet Umbra, avatar of Anubis!  Despite her resting serious face she is a giant fuckin' goober.   Before anyone comments I am well aware she is severely underweight. I am feeding her as much as she will eat and giving her lots of treats and trying to beef her up.
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Dec 6, 2022 22:18
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Dats a cute puppy! You could also try adding goats milk to the food. It can really help put some weight on https://www.greatpetcare.com/dog-nutrition/goats-milk-for-dogs-benefits-and-uses/ Trader Joe’s sells it too if you can’t find another good source.
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Dec 6, 2022 22:23
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Of course he's underweight, he can't weigh more than a feather!
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Those are some very serious ears
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Gangringo posted:
 she honestly doesn't look all that underweight to me. how old is she? if she's still growing, she'll go through phases where she just uses all her body fat up overnight and wakes up in the morning looking like a xylophone, but that isn't necessarily unhealthy. she also looks like some sort of hound / shepherd mix, so naturally wiry. a friend of mine told me iris was too underweight the other day, their dog looks like a gentle wine barrel on legs a strange fowl fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Dec 6, 2022 22:55
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a strange fowl posted:holy poo poo what a dog The foster said they think she's about three years old. She was severely malnourished when they found her and she has put on some weight but she still has pronounced ribs and hip bones. 
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HootTheOwl posted:Of course he's underweight, he can't weigh more than a feather! Only her heart.
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Gangringo posted:Only her heart. Good luck getting just the heart on the scale.
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Gangringo posted:The foster said they think she's about three years old. She was severely malnourished when they found her and she has put on some weight but she still has pronounced ribs and hip bones. sorry about that, i should have guessed you knew better than i did! wishing you and your new jackal all the best 
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Gangringo posted:Hey internet, everyone meet Umbra, avatar of Anubis! Omg Edit: that faaaaaaaaaaace 
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Dec 7, 2022 00:42
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GSDs can be prone to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency so if she isn't gaining weight after you've had her for a while that's something you can ask your vet about. Hopefully she just needs some groceries for a while, she seems like a very good girl
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Gangringo posted:Hey internet, everyone meet Umbra, avatar of Anubis! That isn't Umbra, it's the Anti-Luca.  I'm gonna need you to stay 100mi away at all times.   
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Dec 7, 2022 03:56
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That's a rad dog! Thanks everyone for the info. She will eat one brand of kibble that her fosters were feeding her so I've just been putting a handful at a time into her bowl until she stops eating, then repeating after a few hours. I'm starting to mix in some high calorie fresh food from a local producer and she is taking to it well.
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 iris looks so grown up now, but a few nights ago she got herself tangled in the bedsheets while asleep and was so terrified that after i rescued her she was huddled up to me making squeaky baby noises a strange fowl fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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Dec 9, 2022 01:35
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She's so cute and I love her  My next one has got to be a blue.
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 Heartbreaking to see her this sad. Going to look into sterilization if she also has a long depression after her heat. This is her second and she's 1.5 years old. Last time she was depressed after and carried around toys that she licked. Anyone have any insights? Like how long is the recovery usually? Dreading trying to keep her calm for weeks. 
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Instant Jellyfish posted:She's so cute and I love her
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Sistergodiva posted:
Dog reproduction is weird so their hormones are almost entirely the same after a heat whether they are pregnant or not. It's completely normal for them to have some signs of a false pregnancy in the 63 days after ovulation, although the level and duration of symptoms is variable between dogs and heats. My show dog just had her 4th heat and this was the first time she full on started lactating. Yelling at her to stop licking her titties to get at the dog milk got really old. If your girl is really struggling with false pregnancies and you have no intentions of breeding her getting her spayed is a great way to eliminate them. Just make sure she is fully done with her false pregnancy first as getting spayed while those hormones are still going crazy can make them last longer. The last girl I had spayed was mostly healed after the 1st week but I was instructed to keep her quiet for 2 weeks since it is major abdominal surgery. I had my dog done at a low cost spay/neuter clinic that does a million spays a day and the incision was super tiny so I probably could have been more relaxed about it but she was fine sleeping on the couch for 2 weeks. If your pup is super active and you're worried about her being absolutely wild during recovery you can ask your vet for sedatives to make it go smoothly. You can also look into laparoscopic surgery which is more expensive but is supposed to have a faster recovery time. a strange fowl posted:people keep telling me "it's good you got a blue, the reds are vicious" and it makes me so sad. the reds aren't vicious! they're the same dog! i think people just treat them like they are, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I definitely joke about the reds being more spicy, but Scout actually has the sweetest temperament of any ACD I've met We're so often the only red or one of two reds at dog shows though. I'm biased but there's just something about a rich, clear red. So pretty!
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Let Pongo out this morning at 5am as per usual and he took off towards the fence. Then he started barking. I threw on some sandals and headed out there, he was barking at a possum from like ten feet away. I suspect that because it looks cat-like and probably hissed like one that Pongo left it alone, he’s afraid of our cat lmao. Good boy.
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devmd01 posted:Let Pongo out this morning at 5am as per usual and he took off towards the fence. Shown: my dog Pavlov, and a deer who absolutely understands how fences work. 
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I definitely joke about the reds being more spicy, but Scout actually has the sweetest temperament of any ACD I've met  sometimes i think it's just the red colour is closer to the wild, so people subconsciously make assumptions based on that. their wildly expressive eyes seem to stand out more against the red background too, which might make them look a bit more unhinged, but crazy cattledog eyes are beautiful and i will fight anybody who disagrees.
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How do you keep dogs from peeing on a rug? Our 3-year-old dog is generally really good at keeping her pee in — we recently had to do some traveling and she held it in for like 20 hours. And when she does need to do her business she almost always waits for us to bring her outdoors. That, except when there’s a rug in the house. We don’t have a rug at home but when she’s in a different house that does have a rug, she seems to be uninhibited about peeing there. She doesn’t whine or beg to be taken outside like she usually would. She just goes for it. I’ve read that vinegar keeps dogs from doing their business but obviously these aren’t our home so we can’t tamper with their rugs. I guess regular pee breaks might help, but like I mentioned it’s less about her needing to pee so much as she thinking rugs are a perfectly natural place to do it. Any tips?
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apparently talking gibberish at a dog is cringe now but I don't give a drat. she is a cubadoo, a hoobichoo, and occasionally even a big blue bubbalooby and if anybody has a problem with that they can also personally fight me
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a strange fowl posted:apparently talking gibberish at a dog is cringe now but I don't give a drat. she is a cubadoo, a hoobichoo, and occasionally even a big blue bubbalooby and if anybody has a problem with that they can also personally fight me What rear end in a top hat told you this was cringe and not required by law?
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Vegetable posted:How do you keep dogs from peeing on a rug? Our 3-year-old dog is generally really good at keeping her pee in — we recently had to do some traveling and she held it in for like 20 hours. And when she does need to do her business she almost always waits for us to bring her outdoors. Your dog appears to have been trained to do it on the rug. The rug probably has a texture close enough to outside, or different enough from floor to think it's ok. Maybe get a used rug from a dumpster knowing she will pee on it and just use it train her again not to.
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a strange fowl posted:apparently talking gibberish at a dog is cringe now but I don't give a drat. she is a cubadoo, a hoobichoo, and occasionally even a big blue bubbalooby and if anybody has a problem with that they can also personally fight me Silly dog talk is fine and good. In my house it is customary to constantly sing silly songs about the dog to the dog.
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a strange fowl posted:apparently talking gibberish at a dog is cringe now but I don't give a drat. she is a cubadoo, a hoobichoo, and occasionally even a big blue bubbalooby and if anybody has a problem with that they can also personally fight me I mean I'll cut it down when I have people visiting but the NSA agent who's bugged my house probably thinks I'm a basket case
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ba-a-a-by tater - - tater is the baby - - ba-a-a-by tater baby tater is the tot - - - tater wants to goooo tooo the dog paark tater wants to have a real good time dog dog dog dog dooog dog dog paark dog park dog park dog park all the time tater wants to goooo tooo the dog paark tater wants to see his friends and play every-one is goooing to the dog paark tater's going to have a real good day (I don't get to sing the latter one much any more since he's old, doesn't play and his friends long stopped showing up. He still likes walking there once or twice a week anyway.) Tayter Swift fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 11, 2022 |
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I just sing popular standards and replace random words with dog.
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