MolassesLass

Why are you getting the harness? If it's because she was making choking noises, then you're looking at the problem wrong. You need to train your dog NOT to pull on the leash - which she won't learn overnight, esp. at just 12 weeks old - but this is why you go to training.

I used to feed Big Dog (which was the same recipie that they used for the DrB stuff but way cheaper). Fantastic food, I only changed because I'm lazy and there is another place that is no longer a drive for me. Unless the place has changed hands I would not call the owner of Big Dogs unethical in any way!

They don't stare or drool over food but nor are they sent anywhere. They sit where they usually do and act as they otherwise would. Probably because I've insisted that no one EVER feeds them from their plate, so they just don't expect it to happen. At my mum's place though! Her dogs beg and she always feeds them some of whatever you are eating. So at her place my dogs join in and beg from everyone.

Can you do it when you work fulltime?

Vet check was the first suggestion and I think they've booked one in already. But the sitting in poop is not new, the few times she pooped in her crate before all this she would be found, laying in it and quite content. I think being in a small paved courtyard as a pup made her a "dirty dog". I guess it's just now she's pooping in the wrong spots ALL the time, it's gone from being a gross rare event to a constant disgusting cleaning job. They could put a fence on the stairs to the deck. And if it's anxiety about being away from her mum, then they'd see something else develop and can go from there I guess.

Got a reply for the questions: Janey gets fed twice a day about 6am and 6pm. BARF patties, sardines, eggs, yoghurt and various chicken bones. Some offal twice a week also. No commercial treats. This is the diet she's always been on, no changes. No walks, just free running in the yard with my cousins kids (cousin still living at home). Though it's getting less because of the pooped on deck area and no one wanting to go out there. Thanks for the time you are taking to try and help persephone and dogmad.

Yanking on a prong collar "as hard as you can" to give an "extremely hard correction" for an investigative behaviour is abuse in my books. Totally unnecessary also.

Firstly, there's no way they will pay for a trainer or whatever even if they could get one in their rural area. If it's established that it's a leadership issue or something then I might be able to force the issue but paying someone to come hang out at the house and watch the dog poo? No way. Secondly, I wouldn't pay too much attention to breed specifics, in this case I say "JRT" as in, "looks mostly like a JRT" not because she has papers. Lord know what she actually has in her! She is at the moment because of the toileting everywhere. Prior to this issue, she was mostly inside - free reign during the day and slept in a crate at night. Now she's mostly outside and sleeps in the garage (since it can be sprayed out with a hose - she will do multiple poos overnight and then smoosh them everywhere).

My aunt has emailed me (the family dog guru ) about her little JRT and I'm out of ideas. Janey is about 3 years old and my aunt's family got her when she was about 5 months old. They answered an ad in their local paper and when they went to get her, they found she was kept in a little paved courtyard, not neglected but not really cared for either. She took quite a while to toilet train and probably wasn't really trained as she would go inside if left too long. Over the last few months, she's now gone completely backwards. She poops and pees everywhere in the house at any time, my aunt says she looks like she hold everything in just so she can do it when she's let in. Janey even crapped on the couch this week! She's pooping on concrete and the back deck where she wasn't before (never did). She will poop in a crate that is just the right size for her - she lays/sits in poo whenever and wherever it is. I've suggested it could be stress as she gets a lot of skin conditions when stressed and they have flared up. Or it could be a leadership thing since Janey snapped at my uncle when he went to push her down stairs (not down the stairs but gently pushed her bum to encourage her to go the few steps to the stairs and then down them). She has always protested about being outside, most of the time she will sit at the back door and just watch the family rather than toileting or doing anything in the lovely big yard they have. I was going to suggest putting her in a crate and taking her out every two hours like a baby puppy but if she poops in the crate I'm worried this won't work. Help?

Was there one this year (a second one)?

No option for me in the first bit. I got my first dog because I wanted a dog; I wasn't really aware sports existed, it certainly wasn't the reason I got a dog or the breed I got. Got into sports from meeting people doing them at obedience (which I just somehow knew every dog had to do). Two years ago I would have said terminally addicted, but aging dogs and big vet bills have seen me give them all, so not at all any more.

Search the forums here for "spay incontinence" you will find masses of topics.

I'd love to take them on holidays but unfortunately the dog friendly places mean "one dog friendly" and almost always mean "Medium and smaller one dog friendly" so having 4 dogs, one of which is a 75kg boofer means no place is friendly to us. I don't go on holidays though; except for the odd weekend away (where someone comes to stay at our place), I prefer to spend my time off work with my dogs at home.

They all lick to some extent but I have one who has a need to do it. Unfortunately it's how she appeases people, so it goes like this: she licks someone, who tells her "No!" and she says to herself "Oh dear, I've upset them, I better say sorry!" and gives them a few licks. They say "No!" ..... etc etc Licking doesn't really bother me.

Being such a small rural area, I'm not surprised. You might have to look at Sunshine Coast or even Brisbane if you really want him vasectomised.

It wasn't my intention to recommend it as a "charitable service", I was just giving information for anyone reading who is interested.

Care Credit accounts through GE, are 6 months interest free! Southern animal hospital at Morphett vale does these accounts You can get up to 12 months on interest free and up to 4 years with interest (depending on approval etc). I this line of credit, such peace of mind!

For me it would depend on largely on the circumstances. For this case, was it a single bite or was it a mauling? A single bite is not necessarily HA to me. I also can take more chances with no children or the elderly visiting and facilities to securely house a dog for other visitors.

Oh, if you insist. My terrible two, they were only babies when they did it 3 years ago (still haven't fixed it).

Eww, naughty Gus. My nomination (though it was a joint effort) - 10cm x 10cm x 2cm hole in the plaster wall + eaten skirting board

Thanks Piper.

Does anyone know of what training is available in Qld these days? (for ANKC-type herding) I know someone wanting to try their dog.

While I voted "Yes - I like a flashy website" it's not about being flashy but about being informative. Though if I wanted a particular dog enough I'd work around a crappy or non-existent website.

No injuries ever and never personally known any dog injure one. I remove back ones when the dog is desexed but would never remove the front ones (and I won't buy a pup that's had them removed).

Amazon posts to Australia - not sure which one you want but you should be able to find it from here