• Hello! I have recently received a puppy (well a month ago) and we are crate training him. (If this forum is not the correct forum, I would love it if I could be pointed in the direction of the appropriate one.) He is now 5 months old. For the past ...
  • Funny Melanie started a thread with my name in it, because I've been meaning to ask her and other Pap owners about them as family dogs. My neice has 2 small (but very dog-savvy) kids and a 15 year old Lhasa. She wants to be ready to bring in a new ...
  • I've taken my mother's two dogs (terrier and German shepard) since she is too sick to take care of them. They had been house dogs. Because my wife and son are seriously alergic to dogs (they go weekly to the Dr for shots) we can't have them in the ...
  • I just finished watching the Nova program "Dogs and More Dogs: The true story of man's best friend" and at the end, one of the experts they interviewed said that breeders should be focusing not on looks but personality. To breed the perfect pet. ...
  • 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 ...
  • I have a jealous boston terrier...Over the past week he has been going #1 and #2 in the house...Once even on the baby's bed!!! I love my dog, but I cannot have this. It's disgusting. What can I do to stop it??? Background:Kipper has been a very ...
  • Our Chow mix can bark, but mostly he doesn't. He makes a loud, very high-pitched, squeeky, yippy, howl-y kinda sound. He sounds more like a coyote than a domestic dog. One of our Plain Brown Dogs has completely unknown parentage. He resembles a ...
  • Oakland Cop Shoots At Celebrity Pit Bull by Hank Pellissier, special to SF Gate Monday, September 22, 2003 ©2003 SF Gate URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/09/22/urbananimal.DTL Rupert is a famously affectionate 70-pound pit bull who's been profiled in several TV, radio, and newspaper articles as the ...
  • A boy, left alone at home with two family pit bulls, in san francisco. Hopefully one of the parents will spend a long time in jail (not both because there are other children). AP June 4 SAN FRANCISCO - A boy was fatally mauled in a pit bull attack ...
  • ok, i've been thinking a lot about this Emotion: surprise. and i think that part of the reason i have such trouble resisting a cute dog (while everyone else can just walk by without even being tempted), is that i'm new to all of this. when i was a kid, we weren't ...