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My late dog Molly did this anytime she was stressed. That meant: In the car, amazingly LOUD when she realized the vet was where we were going..The first time I heard it, I thought my car had something wrong with it. At the Vet. Along with chattering teeth, and a pulse so fast it was...

My 25 pound cat, Orville, was more than a handful when he flipped his lid. If he went to the vet and spent more than a couple of minutes inside, he would start to lose it. To even get to that point, we had to stop using the carrier while driving as if we did, he would be screaming in rage before...

King had trouble with a lot of dogs at day care, I always kind of felt bad about it, but the workers there all said, "He never starts it, he just retaliates!", so I just kept bringing him. He was basically a loner and I watched him (on the cam feed)walk around other dogs that would keep it up...

I know this is late, but I couldn't post for some reason, it kept saying the answer to the random question didn't match. My Lab Joe, born in 1976 was 96 pounds, the smallest male in his litter by about 10 pounds. Most of the Labs presently in my area are about Joe's size, and my neighbor's...

A friend of mine has a huge field type black Lab, the biggest one I've ever seen, and he's, well, pretty hyper. He is the biggest of his 4 dogs by about 30 pounds (He's a not fat at all 140!!) His brother visits once in a while, and he, like the rest of the 12 pups in the litter is a normal...

If you have a black light, if not, they are really cheap on Ebay, etc, take a look at him with it and see if something lights up. My old dog Gus had some kind of nasty fungus on the bottom of his muzzle and I have never smelled anything like it, kind of like a garbage can with a slight pine...

I can't find a pic that shows the amazingly big set King had, or I would post it, but they were big enough to get comments from people on walks, and from vets and dog trainers. We nearly named him "Snowballs", but chickened out. I had him neutered at about 3 so he wouldn't have any change in...

When I was buying Vetoryl for King the last 4 years of his life, the price difference between buying it from the vet was at least (And I priced it at several places that had seen him in emergencies) and it was nearly 3X what I paid for it online from a couple of places. My regular vet said that...

Yep, but a Hyacynth Macaw's beak is REALLY scary. My friend had one for 55 years, named Fernando. He loved to climb up on my shoulder and play with my eyebrows. He would lick them and groom them. I got used to it after a while, but the first couple of times, I kept thinking I was about to get an...

It happens, you can't really avoid fights sometimes when you walk a dog. I have lived in a very dog heavy area for almost 32 years and there have always been a lot of large dogs, a few of which have either same sex DA issues or they will try to repel any dog "invader" from their self determined...

I've had 3 purebred dogs, a Dachshund, a Beagle, and a Lab, the Lab and Dach were pretty much as expected, but the Beagle, Farfel, was something else. He was a field type, not the dainty kind I see now almost exclusively, but a 38 pound "tough guy". His first vet called him, "The Screamer", as...

A bunch of my neighbors have had them over the last 15 years or so, and they have all been great dogs. King was "in love" with one of them, a dark brindle female who had a limp from a serious racing injury. They always all seemed so calm, it was kind of spooky sometimes. I was offered one...

A neighbor of mine had a dog, "Chin" that looked like a darker colored twin of "Maxim". He lived to be almost 15, and wasn't exactly a friendly dog, he was pretty DA. He liked me pretty well, and tolerated King and another neighborhood dog, George, who looked a lot like a Hyena, I wish I could...

My old dog Gus used to bang into stuff, mostly my thumb and bushes, and do the same thing. We bought a big bottle of some eyewash stuff and any time I saw him blinking, we would wash his eye(s) out, and sometimes we would get a seed or a piece of bark, but most of the time, we saw nothing, but...

Some dogs are nervous their entire lives, they never really "calm down". Molly would pant and pant, about whatever, and at times, it drove me nuts. When I first brought King and her home, she was up all night, panting and looking at me. King would eventually get fed up with it, and lock eyes...

You never can tell. It's totally random. All my dogs before King were intact. King, who went last December was neutered at 3, and as far as I could see, he didn't change at all, he still was peeing constantly, and had ZERO tolerance for a dog that was aggressive towards him. My Pit Mix Gus did a...

I chalk this up to one of those, "Well, it happened to my dog" things, that are pretty rare, at most, and the cause isn't really known. It's kind of like the "Don't give your dog rawhide!" messages. My old Pit mix Gus must have eaten (they didn't last long) a dozen or more strips a day, for over...

Now that I'm dogless :(, it's kind of odd that suddenly I see a lot of coyotes around now, maybe King and Molly, as old as they were, scared them off. There seems to be some kind of animal population explosion this year, baby raccoons all over the place, possums, groundhogs, and logically...

I've had mostly males. Of my dogs, the males have been a lot more "fun" to be with, compared to the females, who were kind of serious. Blackie, my Beagle/Lab would occasionally get very moody. One time, for no apparent reason, suddenly bit my Lab, Joe's face. They were sitting on the couch on...

My experience is with mostly intact dogs. I didn't have a neutered one until I had King done around the age of 3.5. I waited until then for a couple of reasons. 1, I didn't want him to change, like I've seen other dogs do over the years. Time after time, I saw friend's dogs go from playful, in...