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Just brought my new buddy Campion home, just about three months after losing my beloved Chuubo to a plastic squeaker (never touching a squeaky toy again). He's an eight-week-old golden retriever, and this will be my first time raising an actual puppy. Are there any best practices regarding where to register his microchip? It seems like there are a lot of options and Google is useless as per usual.
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Jul 17, 2023 19:14
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:A squeeky toy?... That's awful. I assume a choking hazard. Well, it stuck in his stomach and the operation to remove it went wrong when the ligatures came undone. It was a really bad time for me. It's really quite amazing that those things are so common given how determined dogs are to swallow the squeaky bit.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:53
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AlexDeGruven posted:Raised by Wolves? No, it's from the Golden Age of Detection.
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Jul 18, 2023 00:25
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Little Campion is now four months old and has been making really good progress on his house training, but today he's had six accidents, no matter how frequently I take him out. I'm not sure what's happened to cause this backsliding, or if it could possibly mean he's sick or something.
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Aug 27, 2023 02:04
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Flesh Forge posted:Indoor peeing is self reinforcing, once it happens a few times and the scent is there it gets harder to fix. Get some enzymatic cleaning poo poo ASAP and clean all the spots he peed as thoroughly as you can, and meanwhile watch him like a hawk, if you notice him sniffing at all, take him out. Eating or drinking any amount, take him out. Just woke up from a nap, take him out. Getting ready for bed, take him out. Don't go back in until he pees at least a little bit (dogs don't normally empty their bladders completely so this should be every time) Mysteriously, the next day he was back to being a perfect angel for no apparent reason.
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Aug 28, 2023 20:42
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Chewy will sell you pretty much anything cheaper if you set it to automatically order once a month.
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Oct 8, 2023 02:04
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Getting a lot of comments on how gentle and well-behaved Campion is, not to mention handsome, which is extremely flattering. Hopefully he continues this way as we approach the seven-month mark.
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Dec 9, 2023 05:53
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I got into an argument with an rear end in a top hat at the park the other day (or rather, my trainer, who was there with me did) after his dog pinned mine and he yelled at us for touching his dog and insisted that we remove his dog from my dog without touching his dog. Then he spent a lot of time yelling at us because Campion isn't fixed, which is technically against the park rules. As a golden, I'm told he shouldn't be fixed until he's two years old (he is now six months old). He told us the vet was wrong about this. I'm happy writing that guy off, but I do worry about what the year-and-a-half long gap before Campion can be neutered is going to mean for us in practice.
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Dec 11, 2023 18:38
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Campion brought in an old, dirty, cracked plastic spoon from out of the yard. I really hope he didn't eat any of the bits that weren't on it still.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:46
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I thought I should post a few pictures of this little guy! Campion is now eight months old and he's an angel who loves everybody, although for the sake of my dog-phobic mother we're trying hard to teach him not to jump on visitors. The snuffle mat is helping a bit, but it's a process.
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Feb 8, 2024 06:38
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Yes, three cheers.
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Feb 9, 2024 00:05
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I'm a little concerned lately at how much time Campion, a nine-month-old golden retriever, spends breathing heavily while doing nothing in particular. He's not panting, and he has plenty of water (not that it's hot), but he spends a lot of time breathing loud, short breaths that make me wonder if something is going on. Is this a sign of nervousness or something?
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Feb 22, 2024 22:55
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So far the vet seems confident that he's just excited and anxious as a puppy teenager (albeit loud).
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Mar 1, 2024 21:33
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I took Campion to the vet today and they confirmed that his heart and lungs are both strong, so it seems like the constant panting is just anxiety, although I'm still not sure exactly what could be causing it other than hormones.
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Mar 6, 2024 19:24
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Campion is now about a year old, and the doctor tells me he's a bit overweight (hard to tell with all the floof), which may be why he puffs so much. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get a call with some insight on what to feed him, which I'll appreciate because I've been feeding him 3 cups of Purina Complete Puppy Chow a day, and when I checked Purina's website, they think I should be feeding a year-old golden retriever 5 cups a day rather than reducing his intake.
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May 1, 2024 17:42
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