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Tayter Swift posted:Good god my dog loving REEKS Yeah, Reek had his cut off too.
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Sep 12, 2023 18:02
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HootTheOwl posted:Yeah, Reek had his cut off too. This took me a minute but lol It's one of the cycsts I've posted about him getting on occasion, but this time it's on his disease-filled rump that I've also talked about. Poor dude has been dealt an extremely bad hand in life medically, and while I'm fighting the good fight it's days like this when I wonder why I'm bothering. Because I love him, I guess.
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Sep 12, 2023 18:40
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America Inc. posted:My girlfriend has been really worried about these sores she's seeing in her puppy's mouth:
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Sep 12, 2023 20:25
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Anyone have experience with detangling conditioner for dogs? Effective? I have a 3/4 cocker spaniel (remainder golden retriever) with really fine hair that basically makes felt. The medieval-looking tools I've accumulated so far aren't up to the task, including the nine-bladed mat cutter that I thought would get somewhere. He's surprisingly patient with grooming, so that's not a problem. There's a bunch of options on Amazon, but rather than rolling the dice I thought I'd ask if anyone has a recommendation. Recent photo for reference, he's on the left
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Sep 15, 2023 05:39
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We have good luck with cowboy magic, and the detangler (different from the conditioner) in particular helped us deal with nasty stuff that accumulated.
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Sep 15, 2023 20:43
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Wow that extra 0.18mL must pack a punch.
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Sep 16, 2023 05:04
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We recently adopted a rescue and she had some moderate barking issues which are getting out of hand. At first she would bark for a few minutes when crated but now she is literally barking all night. I don't know what to do since at this point anything we do is reinforcing it. She already struggles to hold it for 8 hours so we can't not take her out if she needs it but also there's no way of knowing whether she actually needs it. Do we just continually take her outside until she gives up? Do we ignore her and just deal with cleaning up an unholy mess of poo poo and piss every couple days (and also not get any sleep ourselves)?
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Sep 16, 2023 07:54
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the holy poopacy posted:We recently adopted a rescue and she had some moderate barking issues which are getting out of hand. At first she would bark for a few minutes when crated but now she is literally barking all night. I don't know what to do since at this point anything we do is reinforcing it. She already struggles to hold it for 8 hours so we can't not take her out if she needs it but also there's no way of knowing whether she actually needs it. Do we just continually take her outside until she gives up? Do we ignore her and just deal with cleaning up an unholy mess of poo poo and piss every couple days (and also not get any sleep ourselves)? I'd suggest having set times for taking her out and ignoring her otherwise for a bit.
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Sep 16, 2023 09:35
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Barking when becoming accustomed to a new place is super common for dogs, it's pretty understandable - they're past the point where they're too afraid to make any noise, but everything is strange and they're trying to warn you of stuff they think is scary. This is gonna go on for a long while because the main thing that fixes it is just time passing with nothing bad happening. Kikopup (youtuber) has a bunch of videos demonstrating behavior mod techniques relating to calmness and excitability, all pretty good stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUzF0g0PwY4 everything on her channel is pretty great. re: peeing/pooping in the crate, imo you should do your best to keep that from happening as it just gets harder to fix. This is probably somewhat related to the barking/high alertness during the night, if she was asleep she wouldn't be too likely to just unload in her sleep. Try to establish a routine, i.e. scheduled meals so you can generally predict when she needs to poop. I don't think restricting access to water is a really good idea but it's fine to do this with food. Try to have a good solid outdoor time right before putting her in the crate and give her a chance to get all that stuff out before bed time - hopefully this isn't coming across as too condescending.
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Sep 16, 2023 17:41
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The peeing/pooping is likely health related; she's had to go on a succession of prescription diets as we've been working with the vet to narrow down whatever health issues she has, and she tolerated some of them better than others. She's off the diet that she was having accidents on, we've gotten her a different crate and moved it to a different spot and so far we haven't had any more accidents, but I really don't want to press my luck on her ability to hold it because I know that is a habit we do not want to develop. Pre-scheduled nighttime breaks seem like they might be a good idea, I'm not looking forward to having to wake up in the middle of the night for the indefinite future but at least if it's planned it might work out better. Do I just gradually wean her off later by pushing the break time closer to bedtime and eventually merging it?
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Sep 17, 2023 01:19
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I'm not any kind of training expert but I think it will probably be the other way around and the dog will be more inclined to just sleep rather than wake up and go out, as things become more routine and the health problem goes away.
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Sep 17, 2023 02:48
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Does she bark when she wakes up? Thats our cue Freja needs taking out, and it just got longer and longer and literally one night she slept straight through.. The other option is not setting an alarm for the last one of the night and seeing when the dog wakes up naturally, you can adjust your own alarms and sleep schedule to that timeframe rather than trying to micromanage it and risk getting it wrong or going back to bed when the dog wakes up 10 mins after for the toilet. (That was always a fear of mine). Freja has her surgery tomorrow, I'm strangely nervous about it even though it's minor and routine.
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Sep 17, 2023 18:14
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Does she bark when she wakes up? Thats our cue Freja needs taking out, and it just got longer and longer and literally one night she slept straight through.. This is what she would do at first, and she even managed a more or less full night's sleep a couple times, then that night she literally barked for 4 hours straight and would not settle even after going out.
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Sep 17, 2023 20:30
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Are you interacting with her at all in those four hours? If you don't leave her alone, she'll interpret your interactions as a reward for her barking, which will lead to more barking.
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Sep 17, 2023 20:50
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We'd take her outside every 60-90 minutes in case she actually needed to go, but otherwise didn't interact with her directly.
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Sep 17, 2023 21:08
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the holy poopacy posted:We'd take her outside every 60-90 minutes in case she actually needed to go, but otherwise didn't interact with her directly. Yeah, I don't think you can interact with her at all (not even being visible) if she's barked in the last, say, 30 seconds. Don't give her the opportunity to associate barking with anything that she wants.
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Sep 17, 2023 21:14
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Agree with that although you may find there's a different kind of bark for rewarded behavior vs. "Something is really wrong", there was for Darla. e: related to this, imo never intentionally teach your dog to bark on command, there is some training material out there that recommends this but in my experience the dog can learn "sometimes if I bark I get treats", Darla learned this when she was a puppy and she never forgot it.
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Sep 17, 2023 21:20
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Yeah, her attention-seeking bark is much more rapid fire and continuous than her "I have bathroom problems" bark. But we figured better safe than sorry on letting her out, since reinforcing that she can just go in the crate is probably worse than reinforcing that barking is fun. And I mean... if we're not able to get to sleep, then we're going to be occasionally getting up and going to the bathroom, there will be movement and bits of muffled conversation that I'm sure she can hear from the crate and maybe she decided that was fun enough to keep trying for. We did move the crate a little further away from the bedroom door the next night and maybe that was what helped. But we do still want to be able to hear her bark in case there is an actual issue.
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Sep 17, 2023 21:39
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I must admit, I tip toe around the house something crazy when I wake up for a pee and the dogs asleep, shes still too young and will 100% want my attention if she knows I'm up. Does she know down, stay and wait? Because Freja use to be the same for a short while, I use to raise my voice, tell her NO. Then make her lay down and stay/wait. She would only listen for a few min after I'd gone back to bed, but then I'd ignore her till I knew she needed the toilet again and closed the doors so I couldn't hear her. After a couple of nights it stopped when she realised it wasn't going to make any difference and she was gonna get told off and get no treats for doing what she was told.
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Sep 17, 2023 22:11
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We taught Nova to ‘bark’ on command but it is a very different sound to her alert bark. Sort of a long-rolled very quiet rhuff. I’m generally a fan of redirecting behaviors you don’t like into ones that are queued on demand. For us, anyways, it limited the times they happened (especially dig) to only be when I was around and a treat was likely.
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Sep 17, 2023 23:26
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cailleask posted:We taught Nova to ‘bark’ on command but it is a very different sound to her alert bark. Sort of a long-rolled very quiet rhuff. I’m generally a fan of redirecting behaviors you don’t like into ones that are queued on demand. For us, anyways, it limited the times they happened (especially dig) to only be when I was around and a treat was likely. Frejas the same, she barks when I ask her to say please as I feel she should have some manners. But when she's barking at someone or something it's entirely different, far less playful and fun sounding.
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Sep 17, 2023 23:52
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Had another bad night :/ This time she was somewhat better, she "only" barked for 30-40 mins on and off this time. So that's an improvement, I guess, and hopefully it will continue to get better with time. I still wish I knew why she was only going off some nights and not others.
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Sep 18, 2023 13:35
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Could it be outside? Or like the house settling? A neighbor five doors down? Train whistle?
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Sep 18, 2023 15:04
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30-40 minutes is what I remember from crate training my dog when he was young. It was a rough week or two, but he did eventually settle down once I learned to just leave him alone when he's barking.
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Sep 18, 2023 15:20
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Ugh, Freja is in for her eye operation today. We dropped her off at 08.30 and they said unless there are complications or a lot of emergency visits today, she should be out by 12.00, but worse case if there's a lot, she maybe staying over night but they'd let us know. It's now 16.00 and we haven't heard anything and their phone lines are awful to try and get through to someone.
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Sep 18, 2023 15:54
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And of course, as soon as I bitch about it, they call me to collect her.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:26
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:And of course, as soon as I bitch about it, they call me to collect her. Glad we could help! 
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Sep 18, 2023 16:39
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She probably just took a while to get up and about, dogs can get real woozy. Enjoy your wobbly, rubbery friend for the evening
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Sep 18, 2023 16:45
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She is very wobbly. It's hilarious in a slightly worrying way. She's gotta go back on Friday to check her stitches and swelling. Just ate half a can of chicken and banana dog food, a little bit of water and passed right out again after staring at the wall for 10 mins. Bless her.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:33
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HootTheOwl posted:Could it be outside? Or like the house settling? yeah Gabriel is still often growling/barking at poo poo like another dog barking from a mile or so away lol
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Sep 18, 2023 18:32
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Brisket is at my dad's this week and maybe some of next time. My dad is now texting me his normal behaviors like they're novel. "Brisket is engaging in a sit down strike on our walk"
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Sep 18, 2023 18:42
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HootTheOwl posted:Brisket is at my dad's this week and maybe some of next time. Hahaha. A sit down strike. I love the way he worded that. Ours like to lay down when we come back from a walk, in the middle of consierge, because it's got an A/C and the rest of the building has to make do. The number of times she's slumped down in the middle of the lobby between the elevator and front desk, but it always manages to give people a good chuckle watching me trying to get her moving again.
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Sep 18, 2023 19:02
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We call it "protesting" because usually he has demands: take a different route, go home, wait for my wife to join. My dad is the first person to call it a strike. Dogs are good, and showing solidarity
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Sep 18, 2023 19:16
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Been about a year since my last dog passed, but we finally bit the bullet and got another beagle puppy. Meet Bubbles:    Not sure I'll do another puppy again since I'll be way too old to keep up with the constant attention when they're this young, but enjoying this one. Just need him to get a little better warning about needing to pee, though we've been doing great taking him out enough most of his potty trips have defaulted to outdoors like they should (and I have enzymatic spray for the rest). Also I swear he goes around the world with his mouth open to chomp, miracle he hasn't drawn blood or fully devoured much he shouldn't have besides fallen leaves. Always an exciting experience reaching down to pet him!   
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Sep 18, 2023 22:00
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you got a good one, keep that one
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Sep 18, 2023 23:04
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What a tiny goof that is
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Sep 18, 2023 23:39
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Does anyone have a Ruff Land kennel for car travel?
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Sep 18, 2023 23:45
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That dog is av material, agreed
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Oh he looks like such a cheeky character
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