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Hi, thanks for the encouragement Christin. We have been working on both a "leave it" and "watch" to do something similar to what you describe. It's been slow going, but have been making progress in some areas. We've worked up to being semi-successful using it around small animals like...

You guys have given some good advice to me in the past. I could sure use some now as I am getting really frustrated. Delia is a female shepherd mix that is probably a little over 2 years old. I adopted her from the local humane society a little over a year ago. I don't know her background...

Oh man, I LOVE Keeshonden. What a sweetie. I recently discovered there is a Keeshond rescue only 45 minutes from where I live. My next beastie is definitely going to be one of these fuzzy beauties.

I can't figure out how to search multiple terms using the search function. None of the normal methods I know work. Earlier I tried to search for the shelf life of dog food so I tried searching "shelf life", shelf AND life, and +shelf +life. All of these just seem to default to shelf OR life...

I figure this has been covered before, but couldn't for the life of me come up with search terms that gave me any results. How long does kibble stay good for after you open the bag? What about if you put it in a tupperware type container? Also, how do you know it's gone bad?

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She is a clingy dog and does exibit some other behavior like obsessive tail chasing, but she's done that since I've adopted her. There were a couple big transistions about 4 months ago with a move and new job/schedule for me, but she seemed take those very well. I just can't think of...

She's probably about 20-22 months. I adopted her in April of this year.

No, nothing that I can think of off the top of my head. I recently switched foods but the licking episodes started before that.:confused:

Are there any medical reasons why a dog might become obsessed with licking all of the sudden? What about behaviorial reasons? Delia has never been a "licker". Maybe a quick one when she says hello, but that's it. However, in the last month that's completely changed. She's crazy about...

My dog was spayed about 7 months ago and you can still slightly see where her fur on her stomach hasn't fully come back in yet.

yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I only really thought about buying after I got my dog and wanted to look into renting a house with a fenced in yard. I'm my mid 20's and didn't really think I would consider buying a house until I got closer to 30, but when i started looking at the numbers...

Delia has always been very mouthy and we have been working on it in a couple areas for a while including nipping when playing and innappropriate chewing. We are seeing some improvement in those areas. What I am having a problem is trying to figure out how to overcome how she greets people...

I don't know. I guess it would depend on the situation, which I can't really ascertain from the original post. If the pit was running loose, I would have a different opinion than if the cat were injured on the dog owner's property. I live next door to a family that has 5 cats that come into...

I know a lot of people on here hate on Gentle Leaders, but I have found it invaluable in dealing with my dog who flips on the site of other dogs on walks. It gives me much more control than a flat collar and it GREATLY reduces the reaction that my dog takes when she sees another dog. No more...

I would be real weary to try to train a dog to be a guard dog without some intense supervision by a trainer experienced in such matters. You are dealing with aggression and fear issues and I think it could have some serious negative consequences if not done exactly right. I think it would...

I didn't really interpret the text that casablanca posted to mean that. Even if it did, it would never stand up. The right to legally boycott, picket and other forms of similar protests even those that cause severe economic damage to businesses (if done legally) have long been considered...

my dog actually splintered one of the hard plastic nylabones. although i wonder if the OP is referring to nylabone's version of greenies.

well, that's not really what i was trying to get at. if you notice at the beginning of my post i stated that i completely understand the arguments concerning proper health testing and other related issues. i'm actually not advocating breeding specifically for pets, but at the same time i...

i completely understand the arguments regarding lack of proper health testing and the greed factor. however, what exactly is so different from breeding for pets versus breeding for a breed standard with the likelyhood that most if not all of the litter are going to end up as pets anyways with...