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 ... | |
There is no fence between our neighbors' house and ours (yet). We have an informal system with them. We've each agreed to not let our dogs out for a pee if the others' dog(s) are already out. Monday night our system failed. I failed to see through ... | |
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, ... | |
My family just adopted an adorable Bassett Hound. She is 5yrs old. Her previous owner informed us that her diet was strictly canned food. We were also informed that an attempt was made once to switch her to dry food that was disasterous. The dog ... | |
When shelly reproached me that certain people in this group were offended by my posts, I told her that I had no respect for people who were offended by the truth. That all that those offended people had been doing was to scream that Jerry lied, ... | |
I hate being guilty of ignorance, but now that I'm committed, I need a little help! Please be gentle with me :-) and see if you can help me come up with some logical solutions. I really like these babies and want them to be healthy, happy, and ... | |
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 ... | |
Did a little googling around and read some of my early opinions on e-collars. Many of my feelings about them are still the same - not for every person and dog; needs to be taught, not just turned up to high and pushed; prefer to not use one as ... | |
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 ... | |
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