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Jun 28, 2023 00:14
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Pochi is finally starting to come out of her shell at small dog play group  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7kxbCESD3s
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Jul 1, 2023 20:07
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Pochi looks super happy.
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Jul 1, 2023 20:24
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Postin my dogs From right to left Piper: Greyhound Freya: Whippet Luna: Potato
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Jul 3, 2023 03:50
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alg posted:Pochi is finally starting to come out of her shell at small dog play group Zoooom!!
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Jul 3, 2023 12:52
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Just had our first audible fart from puppy and it loving stinks. This is my life now with a bulldog isn't it? gently caress me. I did not think this through.
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Jul 3, 2023 15:26
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hope you like slobber! Today in Totally Normal Dog Having: We had pasta and I gave Gabriel a noodle. He carried it around in his mouth very proudly for. THIRTY. MINUTES.
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Jul 3, 2023 15:44
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 Iliana is a weird dog that has ZERO interest on getting up on bed. Unless I'm changing the sheets, then she takes every opportunity at every stage of changing them to get in my way. See the highlighted drool on my freshly cleaned sheets. I love my big gross goofy girl.
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Jul 3, 2023 15:54
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Just had our first audible fart from puppy and it loving stinks. This is my life now with a bulldog isn't it? gently caress me. That breed is notorious for sensitive stomach. Our Staffy is the same, switching her to a grain free feed helped massively.
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Jul 3, 2023 16:01
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Flesh Forge posted:Look at this rear end in a top hat lmao Apples are a top-tier treat for Holly. When she was a puppy and I was cutting them up she'd sit right by the kitchen counter, tip of her tail wagging in excitement.  Anyway, last week Holly went on holiday, first to my parents, then to her bff, the school traffic crossing man because I had a baby Monday last week. She came back yesterday and is adjusting to the change pretty well - she is intrigued by the baby and was all wags when she first met him. Fingers crossed we're able to manage all this! 
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Jul 3, 2023 17:17
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Mega Comrade posted:That breed is notorious for sensitive stomach. Our Staffy is the same, switching her to a grain free feed helped massively. She's just starting to have some raw food in her diet and my partner accidentally put yoghurt in the food rather than the lactose free stuff I'd purchased... She thought it was mine as I also can't digest dairy without making GBS threads myself
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Jul 3, 2023 17:23
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Pavlov eats the Blue Buffalo chicken kibble, because he has a grain allergy and they're grain free. So imagine my reaction when I went to get more dog food and found them loudly advertising their NEW RECIPE NOW WITH WHOLESOME GRAINS. gently caress  They do still have a grain-free kibble, which I've ordered, but I don't know how different it is from the old stuff.
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Jul 3, 2023 22:29
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I feed my dudes Taste of the Wild, they have a bunch of grain free types: https://www.tasteofthewildpetfood.com/taste-of-the-wild/grain-free/
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Jul 3, 2023 23:18
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My cat is in the ER with a bowel obstruction and Umbra (the dog) keeps looking around the house for him and is too worried to eat regularly. It's heartbreaking.
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Jul 3, 2023 23:23
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Mostly I don't want to try to transition Pavlov's food right now, because I'm going on vacation soon. He's been on this food for a decade now, and it's always been fine. I get that it's not amazing stuff, plus the general hazard of grain-free dog food, but when your dog has a grain allergy to begin with...
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Jul 3, 2023 23:23
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Taste of the Wild actually offers samples if you want to just try a little bit first: https://www.tasteofthewildpetfood.com/faq-posts/taste-wild-offer-samples/ Probably there are other higher-quality dog foods out there that do too, this is just what I use 
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Jul 3, 2023 23:48
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Pickwick and I were visiting family for a few days and he did soooooo much better than at christmas. He's totally exhausted and has slept all afternoon since we got home.  We REALLY need to work on not pulling on the leash when we smell a neat smell or see some geese or a new person or the same person but we need to be next to them right now because maybe they'll pet me if I can get close to them in the next half second.
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Jul 6, 2023 02:38
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What a good dog
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Jul 6, 2023 04:16
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Flesh Forge posted:I feed my dudes Taste of the Wild, they have a bunch of grain free types: I just transitioned my puppy (she’s 1) from victor limited ingredient food to Taste of the Wild Prey and she’s been a lot happier with it. Everything seems all around better. quote:
https://www.tasteofthewildpetfood.com/prey/
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Jul 6, 2023 04:29
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Oh yeah, I got the grain-free food in. It looks suspiciously similar to his old (grain-free) food, but I don't have the bag the old food came in, so I can't compare ingredient lists. So I'll have to do a gradual transition to this stuff, even though I'm pretty sure I'm just blending the same food with itself. Once vacation is done and things settle down a bit, I can consider switching him to something else, maybe.
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Jul 6, 2023 04:42
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Scout and I are doing a seminar on the Barn Hunt game Crazy 8s, where the dog has 2 minutes to find 8 rats (safe and secure in tubes) hidden in a maze of hay bales, climb a bale of hay, and go through a tunnel. You get points per rat you find, points off if your dog doesn't climb or tunnel, and points off if you say they found a rat but it's actually just a tube with bedding in it. By our third try of the night Scout got them all, including the climb and tunnel, in a minute and a half but bit her tongue in the process so all the tubes were covered in blood and she had a piece of hay sticking out of her eye. The other people in the class were a little horrified but Scout was ready to find even more. She's going to be mad at our competition next weekend when she only has 4 to find and a full 3.5 minutes to do it.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:12
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hello, i have only posted in the rat thread so far on pet island but i would like to introduce everyone here to Torgal, who i bullshit you not is 5 mos old apparently  we just got him today... never owned a dog before...
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Jul 10, 2023 03:37
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Nice! Strongly advise you to get a set of clippers and learn the basics of how to groom a dog because that is a very high maintenance dog there and he already needs to be groomed! e: not saying anything unfriendly or bad about how he looks, he looks great, I'm just telling you big poodles' hair grows crazy, crazy fast and trying to take him to a groomer to keep it under control is going to wreck you financially Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Jul 10, 2023 03:42
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What a strange looking rat! But seriously what sort of breeds are involved, if you know?
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Jul 10, 2023 03:43
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And dogs need to be accustomed to grooming when they're young, or else they'll be massive pains to groom when they're older. Good luck with Torgal! He looks like a cutie.
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Jul 10, 2023 03:43
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Flesh Forge posted:Nice! Strongly advise you to get a set of clippers and learn the basics of how to groom a dog because that is a very high maintenance dog there and he already needs to be groomed! TooMuchAbstraction posted:And dogs need to be accustomed to grooming when they're young, or else they'll be massive pains to groom when they're older. we got an appointment coming up with this awesome groomer who has like 1000 ratings of 4.6, very excited to let them take care of the maintenance because you said it forge, he needs it! TooMuchAbstraction posted:Good luck with Torgal! He looks like a cutie. Tad Naff posted:What a strange looking rat! he might be the cutest rat ive ever owned. he's a third generation bermese poodle mix, which means he's crazy hypoallergenic. which is good becuase otherwise id be sneezing and wheezing dead
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Jul 10, 2023 03:54
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cumpantry posted:we got an appointment coming up with this awesome groomer who has like 1000 ratings of 4.6, very excited to let them take care of the maintenance because you said it forge, he needs it! some crash course stuff you might want to do ahead of that to make it less stressful for him is just really basic "being handled is cool" stuff, stick yummy treats in his face while touching his face, touching his paws, things like that. things you are probably already doing
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Jul 10, 2023 04:02
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:And dogs need to be accustomed to grooming when they're young, or else they'll be massive pains to groom when they're older. Yeah and even then you'll get some that hate stuff no matter what. Wren will not tolerate being anywhere near a hair dryer, Henry is fine with nail clippers until he hears them. Dogs..
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Jul 10, 2023 04:09
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On the topic of grooming, Gabriel had his first trip to the groomer a couple of days ago, some before and after pics:    he has this semi fortunate behavior that he gets extremely passive when anyone touches his body and he goes completely limp when picked up. I'm not really sure if this is good or bad, he doesn't avoid being touched or picked up and he immediately goes back to being a bouncy little dude that gets the zoomies etc so it doesn't seem like fear but it's very strange, even if it's super convenient for the groomer
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Jul 10, 2023 04:15
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So on the topic of grooming, people ask me all the time if I'm going to give Jasper a "summer cut" (he's three parts Cocker and one part Golden, and all black). I've always let my dogs be natural, thinking dog is designed to be dog and what business do we have meddling with their temperature regulation, but it's kind of hot out there these days. Also not sure but it might help with reducing the mat production?
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Jul 10, 2023 05:56
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Mine are indoors 99% of the time and in the shade for almost all the rest so it doesn't matter a whole lot to me (Texas hot weather).
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Jul 10, 2023 06:31
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kirbysuperstar posted:Yeah and even then you'll get some that hate stuff no matter what. Wren will not tolerate being anywhere near a hair dryer, Henry is fine with nail clippers until he hears them. Dogs.. Freja is the same, she's decided that weekly baths are great fun and she loves playing with the water from the showerhead, she now attempts to get in the shower anytime we use it but thankfully she's not big enough yet.. When it comes to drying her though, she stops being a cute, lazy bulldog puppy and turns into speedy Gonzales when the hairdryer turns on. So I have resorted to towel drying her which I think she loves too as she's a giant attention whore. I don't think I personally could cope with a dog that needed crazy grooming though. We have 2 poodles that live together in our building and they got their hair clipped recently as they ran through a load of grass and got covered in foxtails etc, well, it's growing back so fast. I had no idea till recently! It's kinda impressive. Also, holy gently caress is she growing fast. She's gone from 4.5kg to 10.5kg in a month.
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Jul 10, 2023 08:50
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Tad Naff posted:So on the topic of grooming, people ask me all the time if I'm going to give Jasper a "summer cut" (he's three parts Cocker and one part Golden, and all black). I've always let my dogs be natural, thinking dog is designed to be dog and what business do we have meddling with their temperature regulation, but it's kind of hot out there these days. Also not sure but it might help with reducing the mat production? Also post the dog I better a cocker/golden mix is cute af.
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Jul 10, 2023 15:39
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Tad Naff posted:So on the topic of grooming, people ask me all the time if I'm going to give Jasper a "summer cut" (he's three parts Cocker and one part Golden, and all black). I've always let my dogs be natural, thinking dog is designed to be dog and what business do we have meddling with their temperature regulation, but it's kind of hot out there these days. Also not sure but it might help with reducing the mat production? We have meddled in our dogs a poo poo ton already, to the extent that many breeds have health issues. It's on you as the owner of the dog to understand where nature has been told to gently caress off, and thus where you must step in to pick up the slack. Shaving a coat can cause issues, but equally, not taking action can cause issues.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:39
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:In theory their coat insulates against heat and cold. We always left our natural in the summer, even our malamute-shepherd mix in the Deep South. We would definitely get his coat brushed out really well at the groomers when/after he blew it in spring. I’ve read you really shouldn’t shave or buzz double coated dogs (like a golden retriever) because their coat won’t grow back right, but idk if that’s really fact or not. Definitely don't shave a dog with a double coat - they will end up with really weird hair that is neither the guard hairs nor the soft undercoat.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:09
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Enfys posted:Definitely don't shave a dog with a double coat - they will end up with really weird hair that is neither the guard hairs nor the soft undercoat. Counterpoint - we give our Newf a buzz cut every summer and it grows back fine over the rest of the year.
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Jul 10, 2023 23:58
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I love how Pickwick jealously puts his paws over his buffalo horn and gives me suspicious eyes when I come to pet him. Dude, I don’t want want your gnawed in buffalo horn!! What am I gonna do with that?!
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Jul 11, 2023 04:17
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Poldarn posted:Counterpoint - we give our Newf a buzz cut every summer and it grows back fine over the rest of the year. I'm guessing there's a difference between a buzz cut and a full shave, though I am not even remotely an expert. Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I love how Pickwick jealously puts his paws over his buffalo horn and gives me suspicious eyes when I come to pet him. Dude, I don’t want want your gnawed in buffalo horn!! What am I gonna do with that?! Might be a good idea to make sure he's just playing and not showing aggression over his possessions. You need to be confident that if he gets something you don't want him to have (e.g. that might be harmful to him), you can take it away.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:28
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Oh yeah he’s gentle as a lamb and it’s definitely ‘oh please don’t take away my prized possession’ not ‘gently caress off this is mine’. I regularly dig around in his mouth take things he finds in the yard (surely he has found all the things in the yard he shouldn’t eat by now?!) He has a very adorable way of putting his paws over a toy when he wants to chill and chew on it vs wanting to fetch/chase it or tug-of-war.
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Jul 11, 2023 04:44
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Might be a good idea to make sure he's just playing and not showing aggression over his possessions. You need to be confident that if he gets something you don't want him to have (e.g. that might be harmful to him), you can take it away. Speaking of, does anyone know any good resources for working on resource guarding? Problem is growing along with the puppy (a corgi, which apparently have an above average inclination to the behavior).
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Jul 11, 2023 06:49
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