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If we're approved by the rescue organization, we hope to adopt a Keeshond from the Central States Keeshond Rescue group. However, we will be living in an apartment when we can rescue a dog in a few months, and so we obviously won't have our own back yard with a fence. We're hoping this isn't...

^^ Hahaha, thanks, honestly my girlfriend and I found it sort of amusing with how many people suggested breeds we totally aren't interested in (but that particular poster obviously was). We got a chuckle out of people with a certain dog breed in their avatar/signature suggesting we get that...

I was able to find a forum about Bichons that has been helpful. I thank you all for trying to help, but I don't think some of you understand how unique a breed Bichons really are, and how prone to separation anxiety they are (and how to deal with it). I know some of you may even be trainers...

My girlfriend and I have a Bichon Frise puppy that is about 10 months old. The first day we got him, I would try to play with him, but he would occasionally run and sort of hide behind my girlfriend's legs. We both thought he may be a bit fearful of me because I have a much deeper voice, and she...

We take him for a 20 minute walk in the morning, and take him out every 3 hours at the bare minimum for walks. The 20 minute walk in the morning is the shortest walk, because my g/f walks him before she goes to work. When he gets taken out every other time, it is a minimum of a half hour. He is...

We crate him during the day because my girlfriend is at work, and I cannot keep an eye on him all day. I am still in school, so the days that I work, he is in the crate during the day and at night, but that is only once a week. Even then he gets a long walk during my girlfriend's lunch break...

Whenever our puppy was by himself when we first got him, he would bark and shriek constantly. We didnt get any sleep the first week, but he became able to at least sleep when we weren't there. But during the day he would go crazy and bounce around in his crate so much it would be halfway across...