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My little idiot terrier got in a fight with a snake today!! It didn't bite her at all, but drat did it terrify me. She full on picked it up and shook it around, and only came back to me after another dog spooked her away from it. I dunno what kind it was, but being Australia it was probably poisonous. Anyway, that teaches me two things: - her recall is not as good as I thought it was - even well-trodden paths you walk every day can turn out to have snakes! So I will definitely not be letting her off-lead again until snake season is over. Terrier prey drive!! Not to be underestimated!! Dunno what I'm looking for posting here really, just real freaked out!
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Any tricks to make a puppy cope better with me injecting ointment into her ears for the next six days? She really hates it, plus the syringes the vet gave me are really fiddly and take ages to inject so the whole painful process gets extended. She's a 14 week old lab, so small but surprisingly strong and wilful when stuff is going in her ears. edit:  photo taken moments after her last treatment Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 11:53
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Yeah, I've been teaching her to be comfortable with being handled since she's a seeing eye pup, but I'm worried this'll set her back quite a ways. I'll try out some of your suggestions and see how today goes. edit: peanut butter on toy worked for one ear, but she figured out the game for the second one. I might start fiddling with her ears a lot throughout the day and reward her for it to at least take some of the edge off. Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 22:23
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Two things that might help: 1. Warn whoever is at home that you're at the door, so they can take the dog out to toilet, and hopefully with an empty bladder they won't have an excitement wee. 2. This will be a longer term project, but try to make you arriving home a much less exciting event. Same goes for guests visiting the house. You can practice on weekends by going out for five minutes, then knocking on the door or whatever a guest might do, then coming in and not acknowledging the dog at all. It might be easier if the other person has them on the lead, and then you could sit quietly somewhere, and only say hello to them once they've calmed down. I'm working on this a lot at the moment, since we're in lockdown we don't have any visitors and so it's been much harder to socialise my puppy to get used to people, but it's a pretty important thing for a future guide dog to not throw herself all over people as soon as they walk in the door.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdOcrUtE-UQ&t=7s footage of my puppy learning how to open the back door
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Dango Bango posted:Any tips for giving ear drops? Just got prescribed some for an ear infection and my guy hates me even going for his ears. I had this issue a few weeks ago if you want to look at my post history for what people suggested for me. I found the best way was to wait until my puppy was fast asleep and then do both ears really fast. Might be more difficult if you've got an adult dog, since puppies sleep like rocks.
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I have no helpful advice, but holy poo poo. I've never heard of a dog hurting itself like that! Maybe you should try bandaging her tail? If you go there relatively frequently whatever wounds she has on her tail probably aren't getting enough time to heal up before she whacks them open again. Otherwise... padding the walls of the hallway??
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Nov 28, 2020 02:48
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Schwza posted:He's good in a crate. We have him pretty well trained to go in it now but occasionally he needs a treat to coax him in. The trainer we are working with mentioned something about a behaviorist but the one we worked with from the shelter just kind of brushed us off. Sounds like the shelter really isn't doing their due diligence between this and the fact that they didn't give you the details of his full history. Sorry you're having such a tough time, and I hope a strong intervention from a vet behaviourist can help you guys out.
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Dec 6, 2020 02:47
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I had no idea that was a thing, I'll definitely take my own shampoo if I ever use one of those again.
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Dec 24, 2020 06:27
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The lab I raised for guide dogs loved getting tablets so much she would come running at the sound of me popping painkillers for myself. I had to be so careful to never drop any or she'd kill herself eating them. I never had a lab before doing this but they're such funny dogs.
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If you limit it to dead-of-the-night toilet breaks and stick to taking him outside during the day and just before putting him to bed I think that's a good idea. Eventually he'll be able to sleep through the night so you can just eliminate that part of the routine. Puppy bladders are so small that you probably will want an emergency spot for if you see him sniffing around before you have time to get downstairs. For three months old I'd recommend taking him out to toilet every hour at least, especially as he settles in to your home. In other news, the seeing eye dog I raised is graduating soon!! I'm very proud of her.
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Yeah dog dna tests are fun. My little mutt was about what I expected, a bunch of different kinds of terrier with a splash of poodle. I don't put too much stock in the exact breeds (so this set of grandparents was exactly one jack russell and one tenterfield terrier? sure.) but the general idea makes sense.
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Sorry I don't have any advice, but he is gorgeous. Look at that model pose in the second pic.
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schwein11 posted:My dog, who turned a year old in March, has gotten a lot better about chewing things she shouldn't (i.e. the furniture), but has recently started gnawing on her leash when we're not looking. Her leash had gotten to the point where there are a couple places where it looks like it could tear completely if she pulled hard enough (seeing a rabbit while on a walk or something - she's generally pretty good at not pulling during walks, but rabbits cause all sense/training to vacate her mind - side note she caught two bunnies in the back yard the week prior to Easter appropriately enough, one died and one actually hopped away after it had been head down almost entirely in her mouth while I was trying to get her to drop it). So with the leash in the state that it was in, I went and bought a new one yesterday. Fast forward to the evening and we're about to go out on a walk with the extended family and while distracted for literally a moment she gets the new leash and bites it clean in two. I think we are going to have to move on to a chain leash from now on. lol my dog's chewed through about half a dozen gentle leader straps by now. they work very quickly! her actual lead is leather so she hasn't been able to do any damage to that.
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Please post photos of Iris
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Does anyone have any experience having a pregnant dog? I have a breeding dog for a service organisation and she's about to have her first pregnancy. They'll go over everything with me of course but I have first time nerves and would love to hear about anyone else's experiences, especially re: playing with other dogs and exercise. edit: some excellent puppy photos this page btw. Thank you all. Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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Jun 29, 2022 01:38
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Returning her, I'm not whelping thank GOD. I know some similar organisations have the raiser whelp the puppies but I'm definitely glad mine takes care of all that. That's cool to know about the embryos not implanting, I won't stress too much about those first few weeks then. She's usually the one instigating play with my other dog so that should be completely fine. I'm dogsitting for another service dog I raised for a few days when she'll be around four weeks in so I'll keep on top of them to make sure they're both happy playing. I'll have to check out that book, it sounds like a good resource! Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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That's much more attractive than the pitch black turds my dog has after she's been eating mud.
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I have my dog back from being bred, and while her pregnancy won't be confirmed for another couple of weeks with an ultrasound, she's sleeping 90% of the day at the moment so I'm pretty confident she's got some puppies brewing. I'm very excited! edit: vvv I love her eye patch! She's such a gorgeous pup.
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Get in contact with the breeder about it, if you're not already. They should be able to tell you if there's something in her history contributing to it and can help to rehome her if that's necessary. I'm really sorry, that's a very worrying situation and I feel for you and your wife a lot.
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My pregnant lab has started showing some food aggression to my other dog, a terrier, which is new and worrisome. Today she growled as the terrier approached her bowl to sniff it after she had finished but was still licking it clean. The things that have changed recently that I think led to this are: 1. Pregnancy, of course 2. She's having more frequent, smaller meals because she's eating more and threw up once from eating too fast 3. I got her a 'go-slow' bowl because, again, eating too fast made her throw up, and so she's still eating when my terrier has finished her meal 4. A guest dog is staying over and she gets her meals near my dog. She's leaving tomorrow though, so only one more meal together, and my lab hasn't shown aggression to that dog, only the terrier. I think them being fed together just makes my dog more sensitive. Obviously the first thing is to make sure my terrier isn't approaching the lab's bowl while she's still present. They eat in separate rooms so I'll make sure the doors are properly closed so the terrier can't get out early. I'm going to supervise my lab's meals to test that she doesn't develop food aggression to humans as well. Other than that, I'm thinking through how best to manage this. My terrier was pretty clearly ignoring my lab's boundaries and didn't back off when warned but it's also very undesirable behaviour from the lab so I want to work on it. I'm trying to research, but I just don't know how much it's situational with her pregnancy. Any advice or thoughts? I have access to behaviourists I can talk to about it in the next few days but it's evening now for me and I want feedback now lol
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That's good to hear! I'm probably a little overworried because it's her first pregnancy so I don't know what to expect. Had to wipe up discharge earlier, that was gross :/
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Thank you for your calming responses about my food aggression panic! It's all been fine since I've been making sure they're firmly separated for all their meals, no repeat incidents. Back when my broodie was still a guide dog in training that incident could've been disqualifying for her so I guess I still have to adjust my mindset for her new career path!
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Yeah I used to keep timetables whenever I got a new puppy to foster to track their toileting. When they're super young it's good for checking "oh, they haven't had a wee in half an hour, they'll probably need one again soon" but even as they get older it helps you figure out their natural toileting schedule. Although now that my dog is heavily pregnant she's basically back to the half hour timing again lol.
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My dog had her puppies!! Nine of them! Can't share pics until they're six weeks old but they're all healthy and she's being a good mother  She was five days early and had three of them on my birthday. Very good dog.
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They belong to a service dog organisation and that's their sharing policy.
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Judging by those ears, I'd guess one parent was a bat.
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Chin Strap posted:So how does one get their pup to play fetch or tug or anything like that? I had to teach one of my seeing eye pups to play tug (for some reason this was a vitally important part of her training but I cannot remember why at all. Maybe as part of training give? Stopping her from mouthing?). Part of it was having one dedicated tug toy that only came out when we played tug to make her extra interested in it. Then I'd dangle it in front of her and if she mouthed it or touched it even a little, I'd mark that and reward her for it, and just kept going with that with increased time increments etc as she figured it out. I'd never had a dog that didn't automatically love playing tug of war so I was really confused at having to teach her, but she loves it now! Can't help on fetch, we're discouraged from playing that with the training pups so they don't develop ball obsessions and the only other dogs I've had have been jack russels so I've never needed to teach them that lol.
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I met a woman once with a failed drug inspection dog that nevertheless insisted on inspecting every bag that crossed the threshold into her home.
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This is a completely unhelpful response but I saw someone cycling once with their dog in a basket like contraption on the back of the handlebars rather than in front, and it looked pretty secure. It was a westie, so a small dog, and it looked pretty relaxed in there. edit: oh I think it was this! https://buddyriderofficial.com.au/ I also used to see a guy who had a wooden trailer that his big old hound would balance on cycling around my uni. I was always fascinated by how that worked. Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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My dog got way more chill about a lot of things once we started treating her arthritis. She even started cuddling up with my other dog on cold nights, a completely new behaviour.
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Hellblazer187 posted:That's very interesting. What are you doing for treating the arthritis? I suppose I'll ask my vet what she recommends for that but I'd be happy to hear what the treatment options are. For my own bone pains I always figured it was like that old Louis CK routine about just being worn out and there's nothing that can be done about it. I can't remember what her medication is called, I'll check when I get home. But it's a daily pill. Could go up to twice daily if she gets stiffer but daily seems like enough for now. She's able to jump on my bed and go prancing across fields again. Real nice to see!
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My dog is coming back from raising her puppies in a couple days! Apparently she was a good mum except she's started getting bored of them in the last week because they won't play with her like she wants lol. She's still not even two years old yet so no wonder she just sees them as potential playmates. Sounds like she's back to her old tricks though, the nursery staff asked me if she always pounces like a fox on her favourite toys and yep, that's one of her cutest habits.
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When dog prices started going up around here during early covid I stopped leaving my tiny fluffy terrier tied up outside places bc of paranoia so I understand that lol. I met a gorgeous Afghan at a dog park once, with this incredible curly tail. A couple months later the benches at the park had signs saying it had gone missing from their front yard and I 100% think it was stolen. So sad. A GPS collar sounds like a great idea to accompany the training. On another note, I'm meeting my dog's puppies today! I'll ask if I'm allowed to share pics of them today, I think after six weeks it was meant to be fine. My girl was very happy to be home, she's gone right back into her old routine. Had to get her down from six cups of food to three though, since she was eating enough to feed nine whole puppies. And she's still having (slightly gross warning) bloody discharge which is normal but annoying to have to clean up. Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Oct 5, 2022 |
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I love her. Lavinia is a terrific name.
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pik_d posted:Gentle leader harnesses might be a good idea. It's like a harness but for the snout. When the dog pulls their head turns back, they really don't like it but it doesn't hurt. They do get the idea really quickly. I have one of these for my lab, it's particularly good for stopping her constant grazing on twigs and grass.
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I promised I would post a photo of my dog and her puppies a while ago, so here they are: I think this was at four or five weeks. They've started going out to their foster homes now, to become good little service dogs.
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Oh i had a pup that just went crazy for ice blocks, it was such a good way of entertaining her in the house in 2020 when we were on strict lockdown still
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My dog asks for her bed by going to the corner where her crate used to be (i piled her bed on top of it when not in use) and crying pitifully. They love their routines.
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Someone once complimented my labrador on her slimness and I had to tell him she was six weeks pregnant.
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