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I have always been confused as to why a long line is so often recommend for reactive dogs. It seems counterproductive to me, giving too much space, and therefore time for the reactive dog to without guidance make a decision of their own and react. But I had a reactive dog who needed to be...

I had read that spay/neuter could bring out underlying reactivity. Trixie is a little nervy. SO I was ready to potentially deal with this, or something else. I was expecting dog reactivity to be honest, given her arousal levels around dogs. So far, although excited, she's been not too bad there...

Trixie does not currently have an ear infection, but she is prone to them. And they always prescribe ear drops....and I always end up having to get the vet to put the medication right back inside her ear because Trixie doesn't "do" ear drops. She'd rather chew the shringe than let it go near...

Trixie pulled her staples. She's 17days post spay. House arrest is driving her mad and even the mild sedative I insisted on is not enough to take the edge off. My girl needs a RUN. I contacted the ER vet, and sent pics....they aren't concerned. Said she can wait til Monday. Of course I'm...

Trixie is not keen on harnesses. She also hates Halti. She basically hates anything but a collar. And she pulls. And she will choke herself to get to things. I've tried various harnesses, and I'm ruling them out based on her various preferences...here's where we're at: No going over her head...

Trixie found a nest yesterday morning. We called Animal control to take the one injured baby who survived. They will relay it to the local wildlife reserve. Two died of their injuries, 6 are unharmed in a now fenced-off nest. We were left to bury the dead. So I put the dead in one of my...

Trixie has taken to negotiating with me lol! I ask if she wants a walk, she gets excited..but when I pick up the halti, she hides on the couch(still wagging her tail.) She doesn't want it. So I put the halti in my pocket and she runs over for leash on flat collar. She is allowed leash and...

WE finally had had it with living in the gloom of ever-shuttered windows. We have lived with our windows closed since we got Shamas, because any time someone walked past the house he went ballistic. Had to be physically pulled away from the glass. Things put in front of the window to keep him...

As the title says, these are the factors going into the decision of when to spay. We think we're nearly grown....coming in on a year and starting to put on muscle now. However, we haven't seen heat---which I feel is odd. Angel went at 9m and I keep reading dogs can go as early as 6m. 9 was...

Trixie is 24.5 or so inches tall now. Her back meets the roof of the living room crate. Now we don't crate her often in that room, and have a 42" airline crate with 30 inches of clearance for her to sleep in....but she does like to den in the living room sometimes, and the 36" crate is obviously...

I have fence hopper on my hands she's up to 4 foot fences, and is eyeing the 6 footers now. 6foot is the highest I believe we can legally go......so we need a solution. Hubby's thinking invisible fence. I'll never forget the story of the little lab who went to run to see her best friend and...

Rather than chasing Trixie down to find out what she picked up THIS time, we have taught her "bring it here' As long as I have identified it as something that will not harm her, I simply stand with my hand out, and say "bring it here" as I would to a toddler. She gets a reward for dropping it...

Shamas lost a tooth this morning. I found Trixie playing with something, and identified it as a tooth...the crown of a back tooth. I've established it's from Shamas. calling the vet. Here's the issue: Both times Shamas has gone under aenesthetic, there've been complications. I'm unclear on...

Just got back from picking up my eldest, with Angel. There was an emergency vet visit, with a swollen, painful tail, Turns out Angel is SO happy that she wagged it too much and sprained her tail! Imagine being so happy that you injure yourself expressing it!

This is part vent, part putting it down to try and figure it out, part open to suggestion. I'm hesitant to mention it to the trainer, because She will tell me to ignore her, and not let her out unless she's quiet. If she learns that yelling in the morning wakes us up to let her out, she'll yell...

Any suggestions/modifications to the plan for teaching Trixie to leat me cut her nails? She doesn't mind her paws handled...we've done that since she was young, and apart from a bit after a paw injury, she's been good having them held. The issue is this: She thinks the trimmers are a new and...

I was in the dollar store today, and I saw the Sporn no-pull harnesses for a couple of bucks. This happens occasionally, they'll stock a few of a name brand items. So I figured it didn't hurt to look at the items for that price. I'd browsed them in the pet stores but wasn't willing to spend...

Shamas has been on a diet for a while now. He got up to nearly 90lbs and his hips got so bad he stopped joining us on walks more than 20 minutes. He was on daily pain meds, and along with pain maneagement, we decided to go full tilt to get his diet down. Now the vet's not very helpful in the...

I've been asked to look after Angel overnight for New Years... last time the "girls" were in this house at the same time, it was chaos---I had Trixie at one end of the house, frantically trying to reach Angel, and Angel at the other end, frantically trying to reach Trixie. We had a handler for...

Shamas has colitis. He got it while on vacation, and the vet started him on Metronidazole the day we got back. this stopped the overnight accidents, and he was good as long as he was on it...but within 24 hours of finishing the meds, he's having accidents again. So the vet wrote him another...