• I have a six-year-old neutered Doberman. We keep him inside. When we leave the house, we keep him in a kennel in our bedroom. When we go on vacations, we have a pet sitter (that is her full time job) come-by the house to let him out to the yard, ...
  • Hello all: I have tried to find a similiar situation by searching Google before posting, but have not, so please forgive me if this has been asked and answered before. My wife and I have adopted a pair of pound-puppies, which were found in a ...
  • The dog is 8 weeks old, it's ribs were showing, we found in the middle of the street unsupervised. For 2 days we knocked on doors, put up a sign, but no one claimed him. We assumed he was dumped, so a good friend took him. 3 days later, the ...
  • I am creating this post to answer a comment that was made in another post. The choice of making this a new topic is because the issue of no-kill shelters just clouded the original topic's issue. It is an important enough topic to rate a post. I have ...
  • Why do dogs always plant themselves in the highest traffic spot in the house so that you have to step over or on them to get to where you want to go? I've got a big dog (100 pounds) and he takes up the whole passage, isn't quick to move if he ...
  • It is with a great deal of sadness that I inform you of the untimely death of my good feline pal, Photon. As I was leaving for work this morning, I called and whistled for her. Usually she would come running out of the bushes to have me pick her ...
  • Hi, About a week ago we got an 8 week old Bichon Frise. He is adorable and full of energy, but his eating habits are troubling us. When he got here, he went two days without eating anything. The breader has given us some of the dry food she had been ...
  • () ... for me, anyway. One of the women down at the feed store told me that there are a couple of experienced sleddogs at the SPCA, so I went up there to have a look. They turned out not to be experienced, but they were both awfully sweet and I ...
  • I recently adopted a 5 year old dsh/declawed/spayed female who was taken from her home when the owner threatened to dump her in the street. She was put into a waiting shelter for one month before I adopted her. I've had 2-cat combos twice before ...
  • have an 8 week old puppy. Just had a vet check and first shots. All's well. `cept I didn't think to mention to the vet that the dog doesn't exactly have the shits, but they are a little, shall we say, slushy ? not firm stools. more a thick slurry ...