• CAVEAT Now HOWE, you have had your say. Just shut up and let these other people have a chance to say something themselves. Your name calling and insults are not necessary. I have all the information from you I need. I also have my OWN mind and I ...
  • Harriet has only been through one move with me. She's lived most of her life in this house, so it's not surprising that she's a little unamused at all the moving chaos that has suddenly taken over her world. There are piles and stacks and heaps of ...
  • Since I use food reward methods of training (and clickers at home), I often found myself missing a lot of good training opportunities because I couldn't get to a treat on time. At the seminar, I bought a marvelous bait bag. It's spacious, durable, ...
  • We recently acquired a young cockatiel a few days ago. I am trying to follow all of the instructions from the "bird person" at the pet store. I don't yet have a feel for the bird's range of behavior, or what might indicate a problem. Today the bird ...
  • Hello all. We have a 3 year old solid white male Siberian Husky that has been great until recently. I know all about the hard headed, "Ill do what I want" attitude huskies have. I have grown used to this and haven't tried to hard to teach him much ...
  • Yellow Lab who Won't Eat His Dish
    Hi everyone. I've got a 5 year old Yellow Lab male who more and more is not eating his dish of kibbles mixed with canned food. Without getting into too far back history, here is the most recent sequence: He used to eat Nutra kibble straight into ...
  • hey all, i'm back for a bit (been overworked at the new job)... Lola and Manu both hit 3 over the weekend, and both are beginning to calm down and grow up into real dogs. mostly. :-) we had a little incident yesterday and i'd love some feedback ...
  • New owner of this delightful creature ! Love the way he attacks his "shake and bake" crickets...raising up on his legs and shaking his tubby tail in anticipation! My question..can he be fed other insects captured around the house/yard, such as ...
  • I'm trying to quickly figure out what the heck we're supposed to do with puppies over the holidays in potentially deep (for puppies) snow. I'm reading about stages of development, and came across this: (http://www.ccc.govt.nz/animals/CriticalPuppyDevelopment.asp) "The optimum time for taking a puppy into a ...
  • The dogs and I have been in San Francisco for almost two weeks now. What can I say? I'd love it here anyway, but having dogs requires seeing things through their eyes. I think Solo can hardly believe his luck. I had worried that Solo would find the ...