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My thoughts exactly!

Ok thanks guys. I told the person I was asking for to see her vet and he gave her some tablets

Your dog is cute. I hope you manage to get him back

What tablets do you give a very small breed puppy that weighs 1kg? Can you cut tablets in half as the tablets I've seen start at dogs for 4kg?

I would imagine their also quite salty?

yeah, her nickname used to be bucket haha

Daisy had i when she was around 10 weeks old. I hadnt had her long and hers popped out. I was soo upset as I had no idea what it was. We had to wait till she was 6 months old to have it corrected when she was desexed. She had to wear a bucket because she scratched it and made it bleed and she didnt like that at all, but got used to it eventually. Being a puppy she would run along and have her head too low and scoop up a heap of dirt in it This one she has cream in her eye. She used to hate me putting it in! Poor baby Heres another one just cause its cute haha

What about tying a rope to a tree, perhaps with a toy at the end if just a rope isnt interesting enough, and he can play tug with himself I have one tied to my tree and Poppy loves playing with it, I need to encourage her a little though, but a pup should be more than happy to have a play with it. Perhaps a sandpit for digging, or a clam shell pool with sand in it, or water in it. Lots of chew toys and perhaps a treat ball, and kongs filled with frozen beef flavoured water for summer.

Also try feeding him dinner a little earlier as it doesnt sound to me like you are leaving enough of a break in between his dinner and his bed time for him to do his toileting. I feed mine around 5.30-6 and then leave the back door open for them to go outside until we go to bed around 10.30. I try to make sure they don't eat anything after around 8 as otherwise they are nagging me to take them to the toilet in the middle of the night!

My sister used to have two rotties, (before one passed from bloat, poor boy) and I used to help her walk them and people would cross over and give us a wide berth! They are/were big sooks!

Also make sure you don't take her out until she's at least had her 12 week vaccinations. I didnt take mine out till 16 weeks unless I was taking them somewhere I knew was safe.

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Poppy barks once to go out. I don't think I taught her that, she just does it. Daisy just goes and stands quietly at the back door and if I don't notice her she comes and looks at me and then walks back to the door and then keeps doing that till I let her out. I usually just wedge the back door open so they can all go in and out. Having your dog ring a bell sounds hilarious! I'd love to see a video of them doing that

I felt like a yoyo with the toilet training of my last stafford foster haha up down up down Show us some pictures please?

Sounds cute. Got any pictures?

Name and shame please. Hope the poor things recover!

I was just making a suggestion which you can take with a grain of salt if you like. You shouldnt feel bad if you think you have secured your dog in the best way possible. Then its not your fault is it. I was just attempting to say (which is hard to do in writing as everyone reads things differently), that perhaps a harness is safer as being secured by the neck can lead to unfortunate things like what I mentioned happening. But you didnt specify how you tied them in exactly so if you had them already in a harness good on you :rolleyes: I hope your dog is healing well.

Run free, without pain and a big grin on your face Benny. Your mum will be there before you know it to lead you over the bridge My thoughts are with you jacki

Why don't you secure them in the back with a harness and a shorter lead so they can't get over the side? It's much safer. You wear a seatbelt don't you. I was speaking to a man the other day who wanted to get a new dog as his dog had jumped out the back of his ute and hung itself the day before. I hope your dog recovers. Could have been much worse.

Are you sure you haven't taught her not to wee in front of you? Plenty of people do by buggering up their aversives, and then they wonder why their dog is "sneaky". I agree with Poodlefan that it's tether time, and it's also stubborn time. No point saying "she won't wee" outside, you have to outstubborn the dog. After meals, waking and playing dog goes out until it wees and then you throw a liver party. If that means you sit in a garden chair for an hour, that's what it means. Just don't eyeball her, no-one likes to go in front of someone else staring at them. So, your OH may in fact be the soft one - waiting outside isn't fun, but if you don't have the patience for it you pay in wet beds. This is how i taught my girls to the toliet before bed time, i can remember hubby, calling out after about 30minutes, (sometimes longer), are you still awake out there, and other comments.. But it works and now before bed all three go outside i say toilet and they do..whoo hoo, told hubby i could do it.. All my dogs do that too. Even my new foster pup, I've just taught to do this in a few days or so

I suggested he put her in her crate cause I knew she was looking for trouble. IMO she didn't need to go to the toilet, she was just being a brat cause she didn't get her way. I do give her lots of praise when she pees outside. This has been going on for over 2 years now. Clearly we're doing something wrong, but hopefully some consistency with NILIF will help matters. I think you're going to nmeed more than NILF if you think that she pees inside because 'she was just being a brat cause she didn't get her way.' !!!! They just don't do that - at least that's what all the experts say! Have you ever owned a Stafford then? Even if thats not why they're doing it, they make you think it is by their expressions

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