Recent content by huskyloves

MissMosaic, everyone here is right on the money, co-ownership is a good thing, especially since the good Siberian breeders are pulling their collective hair out over the number of dogs in petshops and rescue. Contact Gerry Delakian, I believe she's still involved with the breed club, she...

Even the "designer" dogs are already showing some serious issues, they're seeing a high number of puggles with liver shunts, "doodles" with temperament issues and seizure disorders, and don't get me started on the Klee Kai, what started out as a program with good intentions went to the crapper...

You DID get a new pupper, congrats :)!!! And oh my, am I jealous, she's adorable!

Nope, at least with none of my working dogs. If a working breed of dog is bred right in the first place, with the correct drives, neutering won't change those drives. My GSD made Sch. I and II intact, and got his Sch. III not so intact ;) . And all of my Huskies could pull with the best of them...

See the line under my username :D? Seriously, with 4 permadogs and up to 3 fosters at any given time, I WALLOW in fur twice a year, so you have my sympathies. Furminator, brushings in between, and when they get bathed, I use a trick a groomer told me. She said get a bottle of Herbal Essences...

:yikes: Holy crap, I just looked up their franchise price, a minimum investment of $71,000 ????? For that kind of money you can go to college and get a degree in ethology!!

No fan of them here, either. My biggest problem with them is the cookie cutter approach, it's a "one size fits dog" policy, and that's just not very productive. I'm a believer in using a method that works with the dog, not trying to make the dog fit into the method. Not to mention the fact that...

Oh, and I think what Sue Sternberg knows about dogs I can fit on the head of a pin and still have room for angels to dance, JMO.

And I just did a search on Petfinder for Vermont, I only checked the numbers of the public shelters in each county, but they seem to have an abundance of dogs available for adoption (approx. 200), and not just pit mixes either. I saw plenty of WFD's and small breeds (plus a strange amount of...

In the kitchen sink with no bumpers or cushioning of any kind like I did :D? Or right into the bathtub once they got a bit larger? We didn't have those baby bathers in the day, feh, we didn't have a LOT of the nifty stuff they do now!

Here's a partial list of the commands in German, see how many she actually knows :). ENGLISH - GERMAN Heel - Fuss (Fooss) Sit - Setz Stay - Bleib Down - Platz Come - Hier Stand...

Nope, absolutely not :), I'm all for quality, responsible breeding, which in my book is done to better a breed and for the love of the breed. Every excellent breeder I know produces for temperament and health first, conformation and working ability next, and everything show quality is co-owned...

My orthopaedic vet specialist here has done some fairly new surgical procedures on dropped pasterns, but the one thing he recommends is a high protein diet and lots of supplements (flax and salmon oil, Missing Link, glucosamine, etc).

The difference is that dogs are companion animals, livestock is not, and I cannot remember the last time I saw a herd of homeless cattle clogging up a shelter for becoming unuseful. And yes, as a matter of fact, I have indeed worked in a kennel, except it wasn't a for profit one, it was a...

When I say a lifespan of 10 months, I mean as it pertains to the environment in which it was spread from the original host. As a virus, yes it can be carried and spread for years, but not from the original host. And this isn't debatable with me, my career was in this very field. Parvo's...