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  • Cin, my 14 mth old weimaraner cut her foot very badly Thursday b4 last whilst running across a freshly ploughed field. - flint is a big problem around here and she had a nigh on 2'' slice hanging off from her pad and into her leg, which of course ...
  • So far so good here, we're getting Saskia out a lot more, playing ball and things more instead of just taking her to places where she can run and play with other dogs, working more on reinforcing basic obedience, making sure she sees the baby as a ...
  • Hi all, Could I please have your views on the castration of dogs, both for and against. Jake is just over 6 months. He has, in the past week, started taking an interest in other doggie scents and attempted to *** his leg up. Tonight I have had, for ...
  • We have a 5-month old 50 pound lab and an 8-year old neighbor boy who love to play, wrestle, roll on the ground together. Unfortunately, the dog now thinks that any child it sees is fair game to play the same way. Whenever the dog sees a child, it ...
  • Have you heard this story? It infuriates me. What doesn't make any sense is that the original owners were at the shelter every day looking for Bella and she was there the whole time. If the Humane Society has explained how that can happen, it ...
  • Well, they all got adopted rather quickly this week-end. We don't often get pups and they are in demand. It was hard to let them go and I do believe a couple of the placements are likely to be trouble. Two of them went to families with 3 kids. In ...
  • So, okay. In my recovery from losing Mac, I left the shelter for several days. In my absence, a member of the 'Dog Welfare Committee" brought in a traditional trainer to deal with Mongo, a big, exuberant, Rottie/mix puppy. He dragged Mongo from ...
  • I have developed a draft version of an on-line Dog License Application, using basic HTML, and also some JScript (as a learning exercise). You can try it at: http://www.smart.net/~pstech/DogLicenseJS.htm You might need to enable the script if your settings block it. You can view the code to see ...
  • When I posted last week that all was going well here I wasn't aware, at the time, that all wasn't well. Not only has Joe Joe continued marking Fancy but its become a multiple times per day, almost every single day, event. I have to escort them ...
  • About 5 years ago, we rescued an abandoned Akita that wandered into our yard, completely emaciacted and loaded with ticks. He's been a very good dog, very loving and reasonably well-behaved, if not the sharpest tool in the shed, until the last 6-8 ...