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Osa managed to get an injury to the crease in her front foot. We are guessing she stepped on a stick or thorn and with all the activity she has had, the skin break didn't have the time to heal. Well we took her to the vet and he gave us some anti-inflammatory/antibiotic ointment to put on her...

We are in central Ohio and have seen a huge number of ticks in some of our favorite walking trails. In one walk, we counted ten on us and even though we thought we checked Osa, we found two dead ones in her bed the next day and I ended up getting bit in the head by one. It seems like they...

Well, I was out with Osa about three weeks ago playing ball and Osa re-injured her right hind leg. She just sat right down and pulled up her leg. I initially though that she got something in her paw because after about 10 seconds, she got up and ran off like nothing had happened. The next day...

Since spring is upon us and the shedding season is here, I just wanted to let you all know that Amazon has furminators that are much cheaper than at pet stores. I just bought a medium furminator for $29.95 with free shipping. For any of you who do not know about the furminator, they are...

Osa is almost 1 year old (we penned her bday at April 9th but who knows when she was born) and it starting to form a very annoying habit. She loves to play out in the backyard. We will let her out to play and she will come back onto the deck and look in the door. When we go to let her in, she...

Ok, so I read threads on this site that say the raw diet is the way to go. However, my vet says that beef and poultry are the two highest foods that dogs can have allergies to. So I don't get it? Why raw????? If a small amount of beef or chicken in Osa's food causes her to itch, I couldn't...

Hello all, I know this may not help but it won't hurt either, my in-laws lost their two 11 month old puppies last Friday. The pups are huge male 80 pound lab/hound/something brothers that are as sweet as can be. They live on a farm in northern Ashland county and were out one day and just...

Hi all, well, Osa had her first Christmas (she is 9 months old) and loved it. She got a bigger Kong as well as the biggest Petsmart weinerdog stuff toy thingy (the one from the commercials). She loves it. We stayed at my in-laws for a couple of days and Osa loves to be there. About a...

So our little Osa (8 months) loves going on walks and does a fairly good job when it is my wife and I walking with her. She still wants to sniff a lot but is getting better at "leave it" and continuing the walk. We are making small strides (litterally) every time we walk. The problem is...

Does anyone else use these for chew treats for thier dogs? Osa loves them. We get the 12 inch strips and it takes her a couple of days (we only let her chew on them for an hour at most a day) to go through one and they are suppose to be easily digested.

Ok, we are finding that it is difficult to get Osa to play outside for any length of time. She loves it outside but ever since we had to do the whole 2 week leash walking stint to heal her leg, she seems like she needs to be taught to play again. She will play fetch for about 5 minutes and...

I don't know if many of you know this (I am sure you all do) but Hawthorn berries are really good for dogs. We have a hawthorn tree in our backyard and Osa started to eat the berries. We were freaking out because we didn't know if they were poisonous and found out that they are actually very...

OK, so some of you may know from previous posts that Osa got a knee injury and we had to keep her on a limited exercise schedule for a few weeks. That is now over so we are trying to up her exercise a little more. Yesterday we went for a 2 mile walk with the first mile being slow and the 2 a...

Here is a pic of Osa helping us pick grapes last weekend. Since she was still on calm lease exercise, she got to sit in the Mule most of the day. She loved every minute of it. I would drive around and pick up the full buckets and drop off empties and she would great each person and would get...

Ok, why do dogs do this? Its when they slide their butt across the ground. Does it really mean anything? Osa did it last night when we got home from a walk on the hardwood floor. She did it a couple of times so we took her back outside thinking she had to poo. Well, she didn't and didn't do...

Our little Osa loves to cuddle so we call her our little cuddlebug. Even though she is getting bigger, she still loves to cuddle. She doesn't fit in my wife's lap anymore and just barely fits in mine but she loves to just lay on us when she is a little sleepy. She gives us her "I am just too...

Hi all, I already have a thread about this but since I am posing a different question, I though a new thread was needed. Osa sprang her right rear knee playing at doggy daycare and is now on a NSAID and has to have low activity for the next two weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions on...

Our puppy went to doggy day care last Tuesday and she came home with a bum back leg. There doesn't seem to be any soreness to the touch as we have felt it over and over. After she moves for a little bit, she seems to be fine. Its not Saturday night and she still hobbles a little bit when she...

Well, we got our puppy at the beginning of the summer when my wife was finished with school (she is a teacher). Now that she is getting ready to go back to school in two weeks, what would be the best way to get our puppy (now around 4 months old) ready to spend most of the day in her crate? We...

We got Osa who is a lab/boxer mix 5 weeks ago when she was roughtly 12 weeks old. I am not sure what we did wrong when we initially trained her on biting but now when she gets really playful, she growls, nips and tries to bite our ankles and feet. We started to flip her into submission which...