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I would like to double heart that photo! Gorgeous.

She is so sweet. I love the interaction with Oreo :love:

That sounds horrendous. I hope the painkillers work and it heals quickly.

Oh gosh, that's a totally different level from ours. Must have been awful for you.

Anyway, the upshot of all this is that I am SO HAPPY that they have moved. I'm not really worried about another dog moving in as there are lots of other dogs nearby and we have never had a problem with any of them. We would have to be quite unlucky to get another aggressive dog I think. Jess...

That sounds great @Charlie. Well done for using it as an opportunity. I did try lots of things to train around this dog and I suppose we did make a lot of progress in some respects but Jess was always frightened of him and worried about him and that anxiety was just too much for her. It was...

It's great that Joy is getting her confidence back. It must be so upsetting for you. People with aggressive dogs often seem to be so deeply in denial, probably because responsibly managing an aggressive dog requires a lot of care and thought and they don't want to do it. I actually yelled at a...

Yes, it has been a huge drag. We were going to move ourselves last year, and getting away from That F-ing Dog was one of the main motivations! Imagine if we'd ended up back next door to them 😂 I can already see a difference with Jess in terms of barking and am so looking forward to a summer...

Oh, and another thing that has made me smile today - our neighbours with the nasty dog have moved! This is huge news. Their garden backed onto ours and they had an aggressive and very barky spaniel that twice tried to attack Jess and really caused a lot of reactivity in her. Every time he...

So annoying! I would have been seething too. My brother in law doesn't like dogs, and the first time he met Jess he started pretending to play with a ball with her. She loves people and loves to play so she was jumping to pounce on the ball. He immediately pulled it away with his foot and did...

This is so awful, poor you and poor little Joy. I hope the police take it seriously, that man is obviously in complete denial about how dangerous his dog is. So sorry for you both, and hope that Joy is able to get over it quickly.

Thanks - we could talk to a behaviourist, there is someone I like and trust locally who would be able to do it. We can test and see if Brodie reacts the same way outside. He is making his intentions clear, but my description maybe made it sound more intense and threatening than it is (at...

Brodie has started getting quite possessive of me. He has always had some resource guarding tendencies, and it's something I've been aware of and tried to address since we first got him (always swapping items for higher value, always adding more to his food rather than taking away etc). He is...

Funny, my dad is just about to collect a labrador pup in the next couple of weeks and it has been named Blue - he is deciding whether to keep the name. I like it, though have never met another one. It makes me think of cattle dogs, not labradors!

The Millie's whistleblowers arrived... :shock: they are enormous! I have no idea how to use them. @SwampDonkey and @Beanwood should I just give them to the dogs for half an hour or so at a time? How quickly will they eat them? They look gruesome, will they be ok to give them in the living...

:( what a horrible experience. I hope it doesnt leave any lasting anxieties for Nellie. It sounds like Reuben was a real star though, a lot of dogs would have reacted very differently. I hope the bulldog's owners learn from it.

Thank you! It's properly nose-to-tail isn't it?! Some pretty gristly bits (literally!). But really good prices and the dogs will be in heaven.

I think he would LOVE raw meaty edible bones! But I don't want them in my living room and definitely not on the sofa... I did think about maybe getting bones that he could chew in the garden when the weather is better, though again I am a bit unsure of which are safest to give him. There is a...

Ugh, that's a stressful morning. It's good that the vet thinks it will be ok and that it was emulsion. They probably weren't able to actually eat very much of it, but even getting it into their noses must be horrible for them. People leave the worst stuff lying around, I am always getting...

That's a good idea, will do that.