BigDaz

What about Bull Chews, Bully chews or whatever they are called. Dried Bull's Penis, my staffys love them.

I always thought a deposit was surrendered if you did not follow through with a purchase, isn't that the nature of a deposit. There would be no point having a deposit if it was just given back each time someone did not follow through.

I have two Staffy's that are 9 months old, they lick everything and anything, if its within tongue reach its licked. I dont concern myslef too much about it but do try to deter them, especially when its my new LCD TV they take a licking to. The only thing I would suggest is removing anything that can be swallowed, we had to fence off half the backyard as they kept finding something to chew on.

Are the poos firm? What are you feeding him? I am not an expert but I dont think Staffy's are that good off lead, they tend to be very excitable, especially when young, so I dont think it is a good idea to let him off unless you are in an enclosed area.

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I got a lot of the same advice you are currently recieving when I posted 7 months ago that I just picked up two Staffy Pups, I made the added mistake of getting 2 females. I also bought from a registered breeder and was not advised not to take 2 pups. You will get a lot of negative advice, thats the nature of a forum. So, these are my thoughts, being someone that has been through it, there are a lot of negatives, but there are also a few positives. It will be harder work that you can imagine, seriously, you will be regretting it for the first 3-6 weeks, but it will get easier. It could get pretty expensive, double the food, double the vet bills. One of my girls has OCD and just had an operation, this alone has cost over $2500. Toilet training may be harder, especially in the first 4-5 months, they tend to learn off each other more than you. My girls did not get it until around 6 months old, they were not extremely bad for that whole time, but were not reliable. People mentioned the dogs not bonding with you, this may happen but I did not find this a problem, although the seperation anxiety between the dogs will probably become a bit of an issue. A couple of positives are we have never had any issues with night time crying. We have also not had any issues with escape attempts, they seem quite content in each others company during the day. Personally I would not do it again, I should have stuck to my original plan and got 1 pound dog and a puppy. BUT, if you choose to go ahead, and have the stamina, go for it, if you do all the right things as far as training and socialisation are concerned, I am sure it will work out great in the end.

I agree, my girls love the old barf patties but would not eat the new ones. The new ones seem more watery, I suspect it may be the packaging method. Maybe they have now automated and have to make the patties more watery to nicely flow through the injection moulding machine, just a theory.

Just a quick update to this,. We ended up getting a referral to a specialist who took some more xrays. He advised it is OCD and will need to do an arthroscopy on her front left elbow, so we booked her in yesterday. She did have quite a large fragment in her elbow, which you can see him removing on the youtube video He says she will recover quite well, with a small bit of arthritis and the additional ongoing maintenance things we will now have to do. Now the hard part, stopping her running or jumping for 3 weeks, not easy with two 9 month old Staffy's.

I bought a trial pack from Pet Maniacs, nice little shop, my two Staffy's are not that fussed with Orijen though, I was hoping they would be more excited, I was. Thought it would be the end to their refusing to eat dry food, not so.

She is about 16KG at the moment. We have booked into the Vet on Saturday to see what they have to say.

Sorry guys, I should have mentioned I have already had XRays done, which did not show any issues. She may have had the problem for a couple of months. We first asked the Vet about 3 months ago if they noticed anything wrong, at this point we were not really sure ourselves if she was limping or not. It was only when it became noticeable that we rested her for a couple of weeks and then when that did no good we had the Xrays done. I dont believe crating her would go down well, she would rip it apart or hurt herself trying if her sister is outside having all the fun. Ill go back to the Vets and see what they say, just wanted to make sure there were no other options, thanks.

One of my girls has a limp, it seems to be the right front that seems to be the problem. I though maybe when she was speyed that keeping her under control for a week or two may help, no running or jumping, but it did not help. Maybe almost 2 weeks of quiet was not long enough, but having 2 x 8 month old Staffy's it is not easy keeping them quiet. The limp is more pronounced when she first wakes and has become more noticeable in the cold weather, although when she is playing she runs flat out. The Vet mentioned the step would be an ultrasound, but I don't really know if I want to put her through all that. Someone else mentioned a Chiropractor for dogs, does that sound like a valid route to go down, if so does anyone know a reliable one around Essendon Victoria? Any other suggestions are also appreciated.

When I was a kid and let our dog roam the streets (wouldn't do it now obviously) it was pouring with rain one night. We were all out for the night so my dog walked around to my mum's friends upstairs flat, scratched on the door, when she opened the door he walked in jumped on the couch and fell asleep. In the morning she opened the door and he came home. The distance was only about 1km but it was quite tricky to get to with 4 or 5 turns and he had only been there once in the car. Luckily there were no major roads to cross although he would probably have been OK as he used to look both ways before crossing the road. He had no idea what sit or drop meant, but he had street smarts. Edit: My two current girls are Staffy's, they amaze me, but rarely for their obedience.

I put in a doggy door, that stopped my two Staffy's chewing their house, now they come inside and chew my house, doors walls, floors..........even the doggy door!

Why do people feed a big meal at night? My train of thought is that if I feed them the bigger meal in the morning, they are more active during the day, so would need more energy. The big meal at night would be sitting in their stomachs while they are sleeping so I also though it may digest better while they are more active during the day. It seems most people give them the bigger meal at night, can someone explain this reasoning to me so if I am doing the wrong thing I can change it.

Thanks for your interest, they have been pretty good today. Almost back to their usual selves, so keeping me busy trying to stop them running, jumping and play fighting too much. I took a week off work to look after them, im looking forward to getting back to work for a break

I did catch one licking the incision area earlier, I would prefer they wear them when I cant be watching them, but generally when not wearing them they havent been to bad.

Judging by how much the surgery cost, I hope they used the more expensive one She seems much better this morning, even ate a decent amount of food. They are getting back to their old selves, the sicker one a bit more slowly, now I just need to keep two Staffy's quiete for 10 days. They hate the collars they have to wear, it can be aquite amusing at times though.

Thanks, for your reply, she seems to be sleeping OK now which is a good sign.

I specifically asked for pain relief and they said the injection lasts for 24-48 hours, so dont really need it. We are leaving the ducted heating on overnight so it should be warm enough, I am a bit of a panic merchant when it comes to my girls. Hopefully she is better by the morning.

Hi, My two female English Staffordshire's were desexed today at 6 months. They have been home for about 4 hours now and one of the is still shaking, at the moment it is more of a shiver, like when she is cold, but now and then it becomes a bit more pronounced. The other is fine, she was shivering for an hour or so but it improved. We rang the Vet earlier and they said it was normal as their body temps would have been lowered during the operation, once they regain their body heat they should stop shaking. Could someone with relevant experience please advise if this sounds all normal.

Thanks Toughgirl, what you have said is pretty much along the lines of what we have done. There were a few posts that said feed mainly or all raw but as you mentioned, we were also concerend about them becoming to fussy. We spoke to the Vet and he advised that we should continue with Dry Food with the occasional raw food as a treat. They are eating a lot better, stilll not with the same gusto they used to, but they are getting a bit older as well. To be be honest, I was really surprised in the improvement in their coat since changing from Supercoat to Eagle Pack, they are a lot softer and more shiny.

This is what the breeder was feeding them when we got them, so wanted to keep them on it for a while until we gradually moved them off it. They dont always get milk, sometimes just water which they liked up until a week ago. We have tried a new bag of the same food, even dry with no milk or water but they wont eat it. Unless I put it on the kitchen floor, then they may eat it sometimes, maybe they think that is a game or something, but I dont want to get them used to that. When you say they should be eating a vast array of food, I have read numerous times not to change a dogs diet dramatically, are you saying this is ok to do? So I could simply go from Supercoat Puppy straight to Eagle Pack and\or BARF? They ate a bowl of chicken and rice this morning, this time they actualy ate the rice instead of picking out the chicken.

What I am looking at is feeding them a mixture if Eagle Pack and BARF, as we have a supplier of BARF food down the road, I just havent looked into what is required in addition to feeding BARF, like calcium supplements etc, but I am sure the suppliers can tell me. It's just wierd that they both went off their food. We have some chicked and rice left over for tomorrow, plus I will pick up some different food tomorrow night, I just dont want to cause them intestinal problems by switching food outright.

We have two 5 month old English Staffordshire Bull Terriers who wont eat their food. We feed them Supercoat Puppy at the moment but was looking at other options even before they stopped eating. One went off her food about a week ago, she has been eating but reluctantly, the other went off her food a couple of days ago and will eat but only after a lot of encouragement, they have been eating, but with a lot of work to do so. I missed out on chicken last night because we had to cook it up for with rice the girls. ( This only happened once, so I don't think we are setting a precedent) We generally soften Supercoat up with water or puppy milk, which is just something we have been doing since they were young. Basically, now, they just sniff it and walk away but will eat some either out of our hands or off the floor, but not out of the bowl, I have tried different bowls. We are going to the Vet tomorrow just to ensure there is nothing physically wrong, but I was wondering if there are any other ideas about why they would stop eating.