• 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • after having the appraisal for the real fencing coming out at over $11,000, we decided to put up an invisible fence, just until we can save some cash for the real one. after we put up the real fence, the invisible one will probably remain as a ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...