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after a year of iris demanding to be allowed to swim in any standing water deeper than a half inch, no matter how filthy, i finally took her to a swimmable lake she got scared and wouldn't go any further than knee-deep
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a strange fowl posted:after a year of iris demanding to be allowed to swim in any standing water deeper than a half inch, no matter how filthy, i finally took her to a swimmable lake That’s totally normal. It’s really hard for them to transition to not being able to touch the bottom! Having another dog there that swims enthusiastically can help. Scout has taught several dog swim lessons because she makes it seem so fun 
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May 12, 2023 14:28
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a strange fowl posted:after a year of iris demanding to be allowed to swim in any standing water deeper than a half inch, no matter how filthy, i finally took her to a swimmable lake I have a Newfoundland who is scared to go any deeper than his ankles. The breeder said that we should shove him off a pier or something and he would figure it out but uhhhhhh I didn't want to do that.
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May 12, 2023 17:00
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Yeah rescuing a panicked newfie from thinking its drowning does not seem like a winning plan
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May 12, 2023 18:28
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Pongo figured it out pretty quick at the creek, because ball is life and you gotta go get that ball.
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May 12, 2023 18:42
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Having some minor trouble with my otherwise great 9 month old golden retriever that I’d love any advice on. Basically, he’s very slow to obey sometimes, and I think he may be intentionally doing it to get treats. Bedtime is the worst-he’ll be snoozing while I’m watching TV, and getting him up and out is a chore. But if he hears a treat hit the floor, suddenly he’s not tired anymore. Once we get out he wants to do anything but pee-chew sticks, find rocks, etc. Again he definitely knows what ‘go teetee’ means-I don’t think he suddenly forgot that in the last 2 months. Treats here seem to be counterproductive as gets focused on me having a treat and sits next to me instead of doing his business. Getting out of the car is another difficult one. I use a ramp for him to get in/out which he is used to, but getting out can be a slow process. I think some of it is that he’s sort of cautious and likes to check things out, but he’ll stand at the top of the ramp looking around for 5 minutes before finally deigning to come out of the car. Again a treat on the bottom of the ramp helps, but even that doesn’t always work. Sometimes he stares at, continues looking around, and then comes and gets the treat. He knows he’ll get the treat, so what’s the rush? Any advice? I’m certainly not opposed ‘just give him more treats when you want him to do stuff’ but I’d also like for him to do the things quickly and do them when I don’t have a treat.
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May 12, 2023 18:56
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:9 month old golden retriever Welcome to the 'teenage'/rebellious phase! Keep rewarding the behavior you want (even if you have to wait for it) and you'll be through it in a month or two.
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May 13, 2023 03:25
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Doggo has the massive Cushing's coat and this year's shedding has overwhelmed both our Roomba and my 20 year old Dirt Devil vacuum. After exploring online reviews, and stumbling across a sale currently on at Canadian Tire, I got a Bissell Pet Hair Eraser upright vacuum. Holy christ why did I not get a modern vacuum sooner? Floor hasn't looked this good since its last steam cleaning. And the attachment has the dog's bed hair free. Seriously, this thing works that well. If Dysons are so much better to be worth their about double the (non sale on the Bissel--it is marked down half price right now so if you are in Canada g0g0g0) price I wonder if it just rips out our carpet and refinishes the floor for you.
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May 13, 2023 22:48
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A Dyson is a vacuum that costs twice the price so you can regularly clean it
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May 13, 2023 23:28
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sayoz posted:Welcome to the 'teenage'/rebellious phase! remember he still loves and respects you, it's just his brain is totally stupid with hormones right now and they're telling him to push back on every rule and be a wolf
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May 14, 2023 00:10
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HootTheOwl posted:A Dyson is a vacuum that costs twice the price so you can regularly clean it Dyson's are super easy to clean, and if you fill out the warranty card, you get a brand new one 13 years later when an irreplicable part breaks. But they are pricy.
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May 14, 2023 01:39
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I love my Dyson that thing is amazing
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May 14, 2023 02:46
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Does anyone else's dog do a comfortable wheeze? When mine is very content (getting petted whilst lying down comfortably, or getting his ears rubbed) he makes a very light wheezing sound. It's not like the sound of laboured breathing, more that he ever so slightly engages vocal chords - really hard to describe. Naturally, googling about this only turns up loads of stuff about breathing problems. He doesn't have any such issues, this is almost like purring.
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May 14, 2023 09:18
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Yeah Wren does that if I pet him while he's snuggling Granted he also starts dreaming and huffing and woofing as soon as he falls asleep so I just wrote him off as being weird as hell
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May 14, 2023 09:24
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Apollo LOVES to start sneezing whenever we get him on his back for a bellyrub. Not a wheeze but close enough I guess.
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May 14, 2023 17:11
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A couple of weeks ago Mr Froglet was playing fetch with Holly at the park only for a border collie to intercept the ball, then swallow it.  The owner apologised, then said this wasn't the first time their dog had done that. Anyway. Mr Froglet was at the park today and found out from some other regulars who know the border collies owner that said border collie ultimately had to have surgery to remove the ball from her small intestine, and seems to be doing well.  Good grief, glad the dog is okay and recovering well now, though.
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May 15, 2023 02:15
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This is a HoF level of No Take
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May 15, 2023 02:22
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froglet posted:A couple of weeks ago Mr Froglet was playing fetch with Holly at the park only for a border collie to intercept the ball, then swallow it. today, in things I am SO glad my dog doesn't do....
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May 15, 2023 03:11
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Speaking of, while we had a fence lady over to get us a quote for a new fence, Apollo helped demonstrate WHY we want a new fence by wriggling out the back corner in front of the lady.  Thankfully she helped me retrieve him, and well, we're getting a new fence!!!
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May 15, 2023 03:14
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froglet posted:
My dog once let me play a game called “spot the duck” 
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May 15, 2023 04:17
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At a dog show once I saw one of the top cattle dogs in the country eat a feathery cat toy his handler was using as bait as the handler desperately tried to pry it out of his mouth without attracting attention from the judge. I guess he did it pretty regularly and the handler just made him barf it up back in their hotel room after winning breed.
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May 15, 2023 05:15
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A Maltese terrier my dad had like.. 15 years ago swallowed a hand towel and they didn't find out before it perforated his intestine and caused necrosis. Poor Basil..
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May 15, 2023 05:33
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My lab ate like a tea towel sized piece of a bedsheet a while back. Thankfully she digested it all. She has an incredible digestive system given the amount of stuff she's pushed through it. I try so hard to keep things away from her, I don't know how she still finds all this stuff!!
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May 15, 2023 07:12
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StrixNebulosa posted:Apollo LOVES to start sneezing whenever we get him on his back for a bellyrub. Not a wheeze but close enough I guess. Oh when my dog rolls onto his back I have learned to get out of the way for exactly this reason. He will sneeze without exception. froglet posted:A couple of weeks ago Mr Froglet was playing fetch with Holly at the park only for a border collie to intercept the ball, then swallow it. Our last dog was a malamute/collie cross and he had a problem with tennis balls for this reason. Even kept on a lead he'd manage to find ones we'd not seen and eat them - I think over the course of his 10 years he had to have around 4 surgically removed and it got to the stage where we were considering a muzzle just to stop this behaviour. He was epileptic and it was the drugs for that which gave him this problem with eating stuff. We joked with the vet that they should have installed a zipper on his stomach.
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May 15, 2023 09:39
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Alright, my puppy training was going well, but a wrench just got thrown in (don't they always?). I live in a rural area in a tropical country. Cockroaches are impossible to eliminate from outdoor areas, and since the weather has gotten warm my little nutjob (2 mo. Corgi) has become adept at hunting them down and eating them. So beyond the ick factor, I'm worried she'll eat one that has been poisoned or recently ran through something particularly nasty. Plus, the quantity... She got three of them last night just that I saw. In like, 20 minutes. She weighs 1.9 kilograms. It can't be good to have that much insect in your gut. Furthermore... It's interfering with her bathroom habits. She used to always go as soon as possible after getting out of her crate or going outside, but now she's feverishly hunting cockroaches and forgetting about eliminating. We'd (the wife and I) been trying to teach her "leave it" already but it was slow going and she's crazy for these drat bugs. She displays aggressive food guarding over these roaches, much moreso than her regular food. I don't like this habit. Is there any strategy I could try? Besides just waiting for her to finish all the cockroaches within a square kilometer? Tldr: the only outdoor area my pup can poop has roaches, and said puppy has become a Roach hunting expert with a taste for the crunch. Clowner fucked around with this message at 15:04 on May 15, 2023 |
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May 15, 2023 15:00
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I'd take her out on a leash for now and keep a billion amazing treats on hand to work on leave it. The second she looks at a roach cram a treat in her mouth so she starts automatically looking to you for snacks whenever she sees a roach.
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May 16, 2023 19:10
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I'd take her out on a leash for now and keep a billion amazing treats on hand to work on leave it. The second she looks at a roach cram a treat in her mouth so she starts automatically looking to you for snacks whenever she sees a roach. She's just started leash training so I'll try this. Puppy tax: 
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May 17, 2023 09:04
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Scout and I went to something called the cattle dog jubilee over the weekend and did all the sports. She got two new barn hunt titles in 5 trials with 2 high in classes and 2 second places, passed her AKC temperament test with the highest marks possible, did 3 fastcat runs (a 100 yard dash for dogs), 6 dock diving splashes, and showed in conformation twice.  All of that fun won her the versatility challenge and we got an obnoxiously large rosette and a gaudy belt buckle that I love.   The best swine Also she saw some baby kittens being fostered there one day and immediately start producing milk so she did all those sports with big ole swinging hog tits which I think should give us some extra points.
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May 17, 2023 14:03
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Instant Jellyfish posted:Scout and I went to something called the cattle dog jubilee over the weekend and did all the sports. quote:Also she saw some baby kittens being fostered there one day and immediately start producing milk so she did all those sports with big ole swinging hog tits which I think should give us some extra points.  what a dog
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May 17, 2023 14:38
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the biblical cattledog jubilee is when all the cattledogs of the world are set free and they reclaim australia
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May 17, 2023 14:41
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 This is Ziggy. This month he has had two seizures a week apart. He's about 3 years old now, nothing else wrong with him as far as I know. Taking him into the vet today so hopefully we can start trending that seizure amount back closer to zero a month. Today's seizure was scary, it lasted a good while but it seemed more like a partial seizure. Previously he would definitely vocalize before it started and paddle for the duration, but this time he just started shaking kind of violently and lost coordination, but still seemed to be aware of it happening and of other stimuli. What really scared me is that I timed it and it was getting drat close to 6-7 minutes before he came out of it (I was on the phone with the closest emergency vet by that point too) Love this little dude, really hope nothing major is wrong with him 
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May 17, 2023 18:41
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Not sure if this is the righ thread for it, but it’s puppy adjacent so I think it’s appropriate. I had to put down my wonderful doggo a month ago and it’s been a rough ride ever since. I miss her every single day and keep expecting her to still be there. Like when I’m cooking, I look behind me to not step on her. Or thinking about going for a walk the first thing in the morning when waking up as well as when I want to go to bed. Whenever I walk into the living room or kitchen I look at the spots she used to sit or chill, still sort of expecting to see her. The rest of my family is feeling exactly the same way. We’ve been so used to her being a part in every single day of our lives for over a decade that it’s incredibly difficult not having her around. We are a dog fam and we need a dog in our home… Which leads to my question, what’s a good amount of time to start looking for a new dog, is a month too soon?
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May 18, 2023 17:51
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LochNessMonster posted:Not sure if this is the righ thread for it, but it’s puppy adjacent so I think it’s appropriate. We lost our 15yo dog in April. We were going to take awhile and look for a new dog. We both WFH and so we had the same experience, plus sitting at home all day with no dog. My wife's family member reached out to us the same week. She is an American Eskimo breeder and had a dog returned to her because the owner died suddenly. She wanted to know if we wanted her. She checked almost all our boxes, and was really a unique dog. We saw some pictures and videos, and we thought about it awhile, and I decided that it doesn't matter how long we wait to get a new dog. Our old dog is still with us in our memories, in all the pictures on the walls, in her paw print and her ashes. We decided to take in the new dog 2 weeks after our old dog passed. It was the right choice, for sure. We bonded with the new dog quickly and we still think / talk about our old dog with her, almost like she was her older sister.
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Every person is different, every grief is different. There's no right or wrong way to navigate the heartbreak of losing a beloved pet. If you feel like you're emotionally ready to start looking, go for it. Much sympathy  I knew losing my old man was going to destroy me so I got a
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May 19, 2023 01:12
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The trick is to get a puppy every time a dog you own turns 5. Sorry for your loss 
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May 19, 2023 02:39
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Appreciate the kind words and advice. We’ve got a family vacation coming up so we’re definitely not getting a pup before that, but I know my wife already has been looking at suitable breeds and has been bookmarking reputable breeders (probably some on speed dial already as well  )Instant Jellyfish posted:coming home to an empty house. This is by far the worst thing.  No more happy greets when you come home. No glancing eyes when you come downstairs in the morning. No tailwagging and happy barking when you come home from work. It sure hits a lot harder than I could’ve ever imagined.
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May 19, 2023 07:00
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Yeah, I couldn't stand it myself, we got Jasper about three months after Angus died. I was going through some other stuff at the time as well, and lack of dog was not helping with that. I like to think of it as honoring his memory, that we were willing to go through it all again. Just remember that new dog is not old dog. Sure I still call him Angus accidentally from time to time, but he's a whole different animal.
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I sometimes call my son by my dogs name right now, so I completely get that  We’re looking at different breeds as well since our lifestyle has changed and we want to make sure our new dog fits in well. Also still considering if we should adopt one instead of getting a pup.
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I vaguely looked into breeders a while ago so I know what I'm getting into soonish here I don't want anything but another Akita now and my sweet girl is almost 12 and has lymphoma and is nearing the end  Mostly I'm just upset that since she was adopted at around 3.5 years I missed like a third of her
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LochNessMonster posted:Also still considering if we should adopt one instead of getting a pup. Most shelters and rescues get puppies often. They tend to go fast, sometimes before they're even listed on Petfinder. But they're around. So unless you have a particular need for a specific breed, you can adopt and still get a puppy. You could also find a young dog (10 months to two years) to adopt, which is what I've done the last two times. You'll have a better sense of what the dog's personality might be like, and as a bonus it may already be housetrained. It's worth getting on Petfinder to see what's in your area. If you're looking for rarer breeds/mixes, you may want to physically go to the shelters. New dogs from in-demand breeds (especially -oodles) show up frequently but usually get adopted fast.
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