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What has your dog done that is silly, ridiculous and infuriating? I feel like there has to be some great stories out there. I've got 2 right off the bat... and they both happened within about a month. 1. Hugo ate and entire loaf of garlic bread off of the table. A loaf that contained WHOLE...

I was talking to someone on facebook yesterday about how their spouse interacts with their dog and her's was the complete opposite of mine. I thought I'd make a thread to see what your families look like! Basically the question is- how involved are the people in your house with your dog...

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I feel like I've heard it from a lot of dog people so I don't think it's rare. Is there a dog out there that you almost, fostered and almost kept or maybe wanted but it wasn't the right time? Sort of a "what if" dog that you wonder about sometimes? My...

Since someone brought up Chaz being pretty empty, I'll make a thread! : p So, since we're all a bit more "dog people" than the average pet owner, what got you started? Was it one dog (yours or not)? Seeing a demo? A trainer? Reading stuff online? How did you get to where you are now? For...

So my friends and I decided to pack up thanksgiving weekend and spend 3 days in Idaho Springs, CO. We're basically going to just hike and we've rented a small cabin to stay in. I found a giant mountainous off-leash dog park that I know we're going to explore, but I was wondering if anyone had...

Is there anything about your dog (or dogs in general) that you're surprised that you ended up liking or disliking? I never thought I would like having such a physical dog. Hugo wasn't super physical until I started teaching him to jump into my arms and do back stalls. Now he flings himself...

Hugo is 16 months and I started biking with him today. We've been training commands (left, right, pass, whoa, go) for several months since I knew I wanted to bike with him. He took to it like a PRO and loved it, but he really wanted to get out front and pull. We were on a secluded trail so I...

My SO and I have been talking about fostering a dog for several months, and we've finally decided to do it! We've sent in an application and are just waiting on our home visit and we'll be cleared to foster. I've told them we can foster 1 dog of just about any age, and long as they are dog...

I can't imagine that this hasn't been brought up before, but a search and 20 pages of manual searching didn't pull up anything so I thought I'd ask about it. I also googled it but there's a HUGE amount of information that seems to all contradict itself... Hugo was running with another dog at...

Okay, so I'm not sure I've posted about this before but we've had ongoing issues with Hugo's digestive system. He started out on Blue and he had soft stools and just wasn't doing well overall. We switched to Fromm Grain Free after we did a sample run and his stools seemed to firm up a bit. Still...

I don't share pictures very often, mostly because almost all of mine are taken with a cell phone. But I have accumulated some decent ones that I wanted to share. Plus- on Jan. 27th my boy turned 1!! These were taken over the last four months. He experienced his first snow (that he'll...

I have a really bad habit of teaching Hugo something and then ditching it once he gets it. I never end up working on duration or distance or anything like that because I had such a long list of things I wanted to teach him. I've realized that we have plenty of time to learn things and I wanted...

Hugo got his secret santa package and he absolutely loves it, thanks so much KayKay21! (sorry for the somewhat giant and mediocre pictures. I'm not sure how to resize them) He pretty much dove right in as soon as I tore the top off He ripped out the rope and ran off playing so fast that...

Okay, so I preemptively apologize for how long this post is going to be, but I wanted to include as many details as I could. My fiancee and I currently have a wicked smart herder mix (shelter says ACD mix) that we have had for about 3 months. We adopted him at about 5 months old. Training...

So this questions/solicitation for advice is two fold. I have a 7 month old herder mix named Hugo, who is just an all around wonderful dog. He loves the dog park more than anything in the world, and is great at hiking off-leash when there are no dogs close by. His problem is the fact that...

I've never had a puppy and I don't know any of the weird things that puppies go through when growing and naturally I'm freaking out at everything thinking he's sick and needs to go to the vet. He's between 6 and 7 months old and a medium size breed. Currently sitting right at 30 pounds. When...

Hello All! I searched through the forum, but I didn't see many mentions of anyone using a varsity ball. Is there anyone on here that uses one? Does your dog like it? What sort of games do you play with it? I know it's advertised as "needing no human interaction" but I like interacting with my...

Hi! My name is Amber and I'm a new member from Lawrence, Kansas. I recently adopted a 6 month old puppy from a shelter (not my first dog, but my first puppy!) and am looking forward to talking about our dogs! Here are a few pictures of Hugo. They're mostly while he's asleep because he rarely...