Diva

Terriers may be different for all I know of them, they may all see the 'game' in the sparring, but if you are sparring against a different sort of dog I think they can certainly feel threatened. I know mine don't see it as a game at the time - even though in different circumstances they might happily play with the same dog. On the other hand, I don't find my dogs overly upset by the occassional 'happy' bark of a samoyed or such. Nor am I.

Yep, I understand.

p-m, when Jas the same age I supplemented with the EP power formula for a few months to keep her weight up. She doesn't need the EP anymore, she outgrew the skinnies, but I think it helped for a while. I also fed quite a bit of lamb and pork. I'm not sure her skinniness was actually a problem, she is very active and I think it was a normal thing for her age, but it got to the point it worried me. Thankfully she keeps a good weight now without any extras, amazing the difference a few months of maturity makes.

Mine certainly know if there is anything different in one's dinner and not in the other's, but I don't think I'd blame the fight on that though. It may be that bones and raw food are higher value to them than what you usually feed, and that just the presence and scent of the raw food, if that is unusual, has sparked some competition. If they were mine, I'd try feeding them separately and not have them both in the vicinity when preparing the food, and see how that goes.

Beautiful coursing slips on that Saluki site Alyosha. You are a bad influence

To me, traditional working breeds, selected for working ability and breeding true to type for generations, are miles away from F1 hybrid designer dogs. I also thought the ANKC recognised the koolie as a working registry breed? I don't mean showable at ANKC shows, I know they don't have that kind of recognition, but I seem to recall some official acknowledgement of the working registry in some journal or other? EFS

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No bitches? or am I just too impatient?

The breeder has approached the owner to breed from the dog. As far as I am concerned, that negates any right the breeder may have had to get upset that it's shown in a local ag show. Breeding from a dog with a bad bite is much more serious to me than taking it around the ring at your local.

I hope she has fun cupcakes, as long as she can take it in the right spirit and the other people in your breed are pleasant she should do. Your daughter probably won't win but the breed is unlikely be non-awarded either if the judge has other options, and it doesn't sound like winning is what she is going for. And she may meet some helpful people who will be happy to have her involved at future shows. Like ellz, I'd encourage you to get advice on grooming and presentation if you feel you need to, unlike the bite that part is on show for all to see and it's nice to look the part.

never mind

They can take action on a single incident, every record starts with a single incident. If they stick to that line I would go to the local paper. With gory photos of your boy's leg and you in tears. Do you have the names now of some other witnesses, so it's more than your story vs hers?

You're bothering not only to recover your own costs, but to make this owner face up to the risk her dog poses to others. So that she might be a more careful next time and not just prioritise a chat on the phone over stopping her dog attacking another.

Mmm, you are giving me ideas!

That's a very cool rig idigadog! does it have sleeping quarters for people too?

'The above' is all the OP's given us as a basis for her fear, that and the fact that he is big. Perhpas when she has actually met him she might have a little more to go on? I'm not saying he's safe or not. But I think we are buying into a degree of panic here, and assuming that this situation hasn't been agreed to previously so we can put sole blame on the owner. I don't know how it was set up, but neither does anyone else that I can see. And if he is dominant, aggressive and very disobedient I don't think the OP working with a behaviourist is going to solve it either. If he is that bad, she should take her pup and move out. I certainly agree that it's a very unfortunate and probably unsustainable situation, but my reasons for thinking that are not first and foremost about the dog in this mix. He's been left in the lurch it sounds like, handed to strangers who aren't dog savvy and who fear him. Poor sod. If I were the owner of the dog and reading this, I wouldn't get a behaviourist in, unless there's some real evidence it's needed. In that case, sure. What I'd do is change my housemates and get someone in who I was confident the dog would be safe with. Maybe he thinks that's the OPs OH, who knows. Of course there is no evidence the owner is responsible enough either way, sadly.

Yeah sound like it, doesn't it.

Nope. BARF has become a particular approach to raw feeding. The BARF recipes have a lot more vegetables and fruit than I ever feed. And a lot more minced up mush too. BARF's the term coined by DrB. But it's not the only way to feed raw.

Rude and inconsiderate, or the very reason he has people living in HIS HOUSE while he's away at all? We don't know do we. This arrangement may be by prior agreement with the OP or her OH. We also don't know that this dog is aggressive, he apparently has a reputation for 'not listening', he lay on another dog's bed in a strange place, and he is reported as having shown his teeth - which or may not have been a growl - to a stranger staring at him thorough a window in a place that is strange and maybe confusing to him. I feel a bit sorry for this poor dog, he's been demonised with very little evidence. And he is now in the charge of someone who fears he will rip her face off and thinks there are magic 'silver bullet' techniques for 'dominating' a dog. Very sad.

It's the housemate's house, no reason he should find alternative accomodation. He might though prefer to find a housemate who is comfortable looking after his dog while he is away, and that may be the best outcome for all. Including his dog.

It's your housemate's house, so presumably you agreed to this arrangement as part of you staying there? To be honest, it sounds like you know very little about dogs and most of what you think you know sounds like dangerous pop psychology. Talk to your housemate, find out about the dog and how it behaves, be properly introduced to it and then figure out if you want to stay in the house or not under this situation. If the dog is at all aggressive towards your pup, I wouldn't stay. But he may not be at all. And whatever you do, don't try silly and irresponsible dominance techniques on an unknown adult male dog.

Mine don't like BARF either. They won't eat that much vegetable matter and they don't really like minced/sloppy foods. So they get a lot of meaty bones, meat, a variety of offal, and only vegies once or twice a week.

How about 'Rubin Carter' for one of the boys - black american boxer (man of action), nicknamed "Hurricane", subject of Bob Dylan's song Hurricane which was about his wrongful imprisonment.

Someone did - post 19

She sounds like a complete, irresponsible, idiot. If you try the electoral roll you might be able to get a lead on an address.