Hello! I have recently received a puppy (well a month ago) and we are crate training him. (If this forum is not the correct forum, I would love it if I could be pointed in the direction of the appropriate one.) He is now 5 months old. For the past month he has been really good about letting us...

today Manu, the husband and i went to a big box pet store to get some necessary supplies. Manu was being a butt head since they were doing kitten adoptions, and apparently the sound of kittens makes him kind of excited. ok, really really excited. so i took him outside, and put him in a down stay...

what do you look for in a dog friendly house? the SO and i are starting our search for a house of our own. the place we're renting is nice, but financially, home ownership makes a lot more sense. we've been looking at a lot of places, and we were surprised at how much the dogs figure into our...

It is 6:45pm. Since 1pm this afternoon upwards of 8" of snow has fallen. My normally 2.5 hr bus run took 4.25 hrs to complete. BLAH On a lighter note, when I let Macula out the snow tickled the bottom of her rib cage and she didn't even *try* to squat when she peed :-) Marie Meet Macula at...

I would post this in health, but I have seen threads like this go very bad, very quickly. We are getting to the end of Moogli's bag of puppy food (IAMS Lamb meal and Rice), and I was wondering what people in here feed. We are thinking of going with Royal Canin dog food. We know he likes it, and...

I've spoken of going out on my own in the future. But I've become aware of a piece of property available NOW that will so fit my needs that I have to try to find a way to have it. It's a 1248 sf mobile home (I've only seen pictures, but the inside looks gorgeous!). It sits on 5 acres of pasture,...

Ten weeks on and Chicco has finally begun acting like a happy young dog. Sunday the whole family (11 of us) gathered at a cousin's house for a bayram (holiday) dinner and because I still can't leave Chicco alone for extended periods of time he accompanied me. He was very well behaved, remaining in...

Hello all! this is my first post here, and i have a question for you all. my partner and i are wanting to get a dog, so we have been doing some research into breeds for our climate, yard and house size. we have it narrowed down to beagles. my question is.....what do you feel, if any, is the...

Since I've been accused of not being the same person in both places (hmm - sure seems like I'm still myself!), I thought I'd mention a few things that I may or may not have mentioned here over the years, that I've been raked over the coals for on AOL. Franklin is a sock/small cloth swallower. I...

Got my dog a ramp to get into the back seat. He has arthritis. For a long time now he has dithered at the jumping in point. He also has a tendency to hit his knee on the door frame where the wheel well takes up part of the doorway. So, you'd think this ramp, which is 6 feet long, would be the...

On Saturday, 11 March 1995 22:52:32 UTC+5:30, MBaroni wrote: My 15 Month German Shepherd will not bark when a stranger comes to the door. She is an excellent dog with the kids, has been obedience trained, and is very friendly. But she is so friendly that she won't bark when we want her to....

There is no fence between our neighbors' house and ours (yet). We have an informal system with them. We've each agreed to not let our dogs out for a pee if the others' dog(s) are already out. Monday night our system failed. I failed to see through some tree branches and didn't notice that their...

Dogs are the best people, so it's only natural to want to smother them with affection when you greet them for the first time. Most of them are too nice to say it, but this is actually a terrible way to introduce yourself to a dog. Here's a better way to make a good first impression. Read...

I have a high energy Black Lab - age almost 4 years For the last 2 and half years I have been using a Innotek SD 100 electronic collar. This collar has been nothing but trouble - had to replace the entire units after 11 months. The transmitter on the second unit lasted 7 months before the #4 button...

On Saturday, February 6, 1999 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, who? wrote: Hello, Can someone please help me. My dog has a bad smell once in a while that comes from his butt. It comes and goes, but I would like to know if there is some way of stopping this smell? Or what is it? We been dabbing...

I just wish it hadn't come at 5:45 in the morning, or in the way that it did. It wasn't that long ago that I posted about how Khan has never thrown up before. Well, now he has. The good news is, Khan signals to let us know that he needs to puke. The bad news is that we weren't nearly quick...

This story is taken from my local daily paper. The one thing about the whole pit bull controversey that stands out to me is this: it seems that either pit bull owners are very responsible, committed or they are ignorant, abusive idiots. I'm pretty ambivalent about the ban, having narrowly...

I was looking on-line for a good deal on an Easy-Walk harness for Muttley, and came across this collar. It is made so that it will stretch if not hooked to a leash, so the dog can pull out of it in a life-threatening situation such as getting it caught on a fence. It looks like it has two rings...

My daughter had a Border Collie who had several phrases: go outside, play ball, and grandma’s here. Here boyfriend didn’t believe until one day when Duke said, “ Go outside. Play ball?� When Duke was ignored he plopped down in front of the boyfriend in utter disgust. He then proceeded to...

This morning, on his regular walk, Muttley found what appeared to be the leg of a large bird like a buzzard, complete with orange talons. He did not want to let it go, and he dropped it once, but I could not get him away quickly enough to avoid his grabbing it again. As he walked, he chewed on...