Recent content by DogstarAcademy

Bumping this thread to say that while I have no personal knowlege of Carolina Ferrets, my report came from a second hand source that yes, I don't know her real name, she's an internet friend for many years. Carolina Ferrets felt this was unfair of me and so I am retracting my post. I would...

I'd recommend checking out REI - they have a lot of great packs. THe Outward Hound pack is really long and the center of gravity is pretty far back on most dogs unless you buy a size smaller than you really need. Kaylee has a Ruffwear Approach pack and a little light Ollydog pack that will be...

Mal has a silken buddy from the dog park who is a really sweet (if a bit timid) dog. They're cool!

As annoying as Krista is, she followed instructions! :P

I did one last fall and I was actually NOT impressed with the evaluators, for whom anything LESS than an aggressive result with the crazy stranger was a failure, regardless of breed.

I was actually going to ask about that (I don't know what other forum you're talking about though)- how do you handle other dogs? I don't care if YOUR dogs are friendly, if my dogs are on leash and yours run up to them and get bit (theoretically- none of my current crew are leash reactive but...

Mal is 62 pounds and could probably weigh 70 once he really fills out with a lot of muscle. Kaylee is 48 and should be 52 or so; Rittie is 55 and perfect.

Renee - look at the Eurosport dogs (Czech lines- most of the ones on their site for sale are imported dogs they're brokering but they also have their own breeding program) - I've been exceedingly impressed with every dog I've met from them, including the pet quality ones.

I *do* think it depends. I've gotten two dogs (both male) who were 'showable ptes'- they were nice enough to show, but they were sold to me with the understanding that I might neuter them before they finished because if they didn't mature to be extraordinary dogs, I had no interest in...

Krista is incredibly obnoxious. Dear lord, does she EVER shut up? (I did kinda think that she had a point about whatshername being all "I met you all for a reason." though)

There's another form of 'invisible' brindling that is present in Cardigans. :) If you have a dog who is dilute red (chinchilla, called 'Texas Pink' in Cardis after a well known dog :P) they can actually be brindle (even homozygous brindle) without it being visible- the black stripes are diluted...

The big thing is that I think they LOOKED into Portie rescue. I'm not sure folks realize how FEW dogs come into rescue yearly from most rare breeds. I dno't have the numbers handy, but I believe Cardi rescue nationally had less than 200 dogs (the most recent year I know statistics for was...

I wanted a Smooth Fox Terrier, based entirely on the description in the Bruce Fogle "Encyclopedia Of Dogs".... (What?!! :P I was EIGHT. I didn't know any better! The only dogs I knew were labs, shelties, and toy poodles!) My next cohice was a sheltie and that was the closest my family...

I know some of the collie people shave htem, but more seem to use tiny scissors or (in my case) people nail nippers. ;P If you pull gently on the whisker and then clip close, it sinks back down and doesn't stick out at all. I like whiskers, but Mal looks SO elegant without them. :P

I'm not really a Pem person, but typically, if you want an undocked Pem puppy, you have three options. First is to choose a Cardi instead. The breeds have very different personalities, but similar exercise and care needs- a lot of people like both, and people who haven't fallen exclusively...