busterboy

All good ideas thanks all. We will try them all and find which works best...

We have a 12 month purebred Staffy who jumps on our sliding screen door when we sit down for our evening meal every night. Does anyone have any ideas other than tying him up ( which we do currently ) otherwise he is a well behaved boy most of the time. Thanks :rolleyes:

Our staffy has a recurrent ear infection seems like ear mites again we have swabbed it with water and administered Dermotic ear and skin infection 5mls as per vet advice ) any other ideas as we are quite low and won't have enough to last for the next 10 days to treat thanks Seems like staffy's tend to get infections quite a bit in summer up here in QLD which recently has been damp and hot.

We are on petplan, www.petplan.com.au at $28.50 per month ( 1 month free ) Covers $8,000 vet fees. Excess $100.00 per claim / $500.00 per calender year kennell fees and Advertising and reward $500.00. A lot of T&C's in the fine print :-( Even says that they have a right to decline in paying anyone else has a better plan? seems most are similar / or like comparing pears and apples?? quite confusing.

Thanks, will consider these options. Wayne

Not sure if this has been posted before? If not feeding pups on science like diets is optimum canned food ok if mixed with dry food? Or is there similar canned food that is not as expensive as the top end stuff that is ok for puppys?

Sorry to hear about your pups behaviour. Our puppy is about 9 weeks now who is a Staffy purebred. He does mouth and nip sometimes only when playing though has only growled once when I took away his food bowl and patted him.. SInce then he has not growled at all when I have patted, taken his food bowl away on meal times to get him used to this in case our kids ( 4 + 8 yrs ) do this and to eliminate a chance of them getting bitten. Only once was my 8 year old nipped when he took away a doggy treat from him which immediatly our pup realised this and stopped and showed signs of non-dominent behaviour ( wanted a tummy rub ) I guess you can take him to training to help this kind of behaviour, though I would steer away from Bark-busters as our last dog got too stressed from this kind of training for some reason and turned agressive ???