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maybe he needs to have a look to see if he wants the thread open or closed

as far as my comment goes, the truth is a defence under the legal system

i see you've met him too!! he is all that and more, you just forgot the being drunk bit

excellent news, now lets all hope the new ones are in the right position

when i had my dog on a diet i fed her 1% of her body weight per day and that included all meat veggies everything. the weight dropped off her. now she is on more as a maintenance amount

or it could be someone who has english as a second language

excellent news i am very happy for you all

thanks jb --- i'll take a look at this when i'm home and thank you soooo much for going to that length to help me understand you are welcome. as anne said it can be very distressing to watch if you dont know what it is. luckily i researched just about everything before i got my boston so i had come across information about reverse sneezing which i am glad i did because when it was happening for the first time it would have been difficult to know its wasnt serious!! also having the vet look at her soft palate gave me peace of mind that there was nothing physically wrong with her

for me the issue isnt the 3 yearly vaccinations but that dog obedience and kennels wont take dogs that arent vaccinated yearly. we all need to be on the same page for this to work

here is a video of a corgi reverse sneezing so you can hear what it is i find it quite distressing when my dog (or any dog) has this. thankfully it has only happened to my dog a couple of times. it sometimes happens if the dog has an elongated palate which the vet can check. mine was checked when she was getting desexed and the vet said she has a lovely palate :-)

this is honestly one of the most difficult things to describe. was there a quick intake of breath and a sort of snort coming out? in my dog the coming out breath is as noticable as the going in breath

my dog enjoys frozen whole fish, canned sardines and canned mackeral

no need to be alarmed its not clamping and the dogs is very happy to have this done as it reassures her. dont read too much into something that is hard to explain :D It wasn't you who used this terminology and that I was quoting. You said "....when i hold her mouth gently closed...." which is a little different. The term 'clamping shut' would give readers the idea they should use force to close the dogs mouth. Nothing needs to be done and doing this may stress the animal more. oh sure. i am very gentle with her and if she doesnt want this then i dont do it. its hard to explain but if she is happy to have this done she points her nose at my mouth its almost like a little game that takes her mind off it and makes her swallow. i agree that this should never be done with any force.

no need to be alarmed its not clamping and the dogs is very happy to have this done as it reassures her. dont read too much into something that is hard to explain

its sort of like a cough/sneeze where the dog sucks the air in not cough or sneeze it out. it sometimes sounds like they are clearing their throat. sorry its hard to explain.

i think the blowing just makes her swallow come to think of it

x2 this is what i used to great effect

yep its what i call a reverse sneeze, as aussielover said, not harmful but soiunds bad. i stop them because she seems so uncomfortable so that when i hold her mouth gently closed and blowing into her nostrils until she stopped.

i have a brachy breed and she does this. i have found blowing gently into her nostrils stops it the quickest

the first thing i taught my puppy was to look at the treat and sit calmly and look at me not the treat. as soon as she looked at me i gave her the treat. be patient and make sure as soon as she even looks quickly at you you treat her. then once she was reliable at looking at me all the time i put a command to the behaviour i used "look at me" this got her to be patient and behave when she saw a treat.

We stop playing with her and give her a OUCH whenever she does it- and she pretty much ceases straight away- but its not so far stopping her from trying again to see how far she can go... I think she is getting gentler though.... if she jumps or nips my eldest he stops dead, and stands still- again she stops straight away as she isn't getting the response she wants. He then starts playing with her again once she is calm. If she heads towards my youngest and I see her I only need to give her a uhuh and call her and she comes- her saving grace is that she has brilliant recall, and a water tight sit response... I can get her to sit from across the room. The frustrating thing I think is that she knows what is expected of her- eg she knows she can't go in the pantry- so when I go there she follows me and sits at the door... then she gets treat for doing the right thing... but if I am not watching her she will often go to the door to try her luck if it is open. She knows she is not allowed on the couch- when we sit down, she sits at our feet to wait till we invite her up.... but if we aren't there she will try to jump up anyway. If I am supervising her play with 1yr old she will be ever so gentle.... really great... but if I am not right there- she will jump on him and nip at his ears... I guess the moral here is that I need to supervise her at all times!! I think I am getting the picture!! just a thought but maybe she doesnt see the kids as her leaders, maybe get her to understand she is lower in the pecking order than them

I'm with PF here. You need better management. Lay down the groubd rules with her, get some leadership happening. She shouldn't have the opportunity to jump on/nip/scratch your kids. She should either be on lead or crated in the house at all times until she earn the right for you to extend her freedom. Toilet training is 100% your issue not hers. If you can't be supervising her -as in you can't control her every move at that time, she needs to be crated, penned or outside. If she is destroying or stealing yours or kids belongings you need to be confining her to a smaller area where this can't happen. This might sound harsh and in reality it's not easy. Toilet training is not easy, dealing with a screaming puppy at 2am is not easy, watching puppy have a tantrum at the end of her leash in public is not easy. But laying down the law now will pay off big time as she matures. Promise i agree as well. when my puppy was little she was either in her crate, outside peeing or pooing, sleeping or tied to my waist with her lead. I gave her no opportunity to be bad she could only be good. then she got lots of praise and she was housetrained in 2 weeks and her breed is supposed to be hard to toilet train. she chewed one thing up because i didnt watch her one day. she is 3 now and still has only chewed that one wrong thing. if a puppy can only do good things then they learn really quickly. i just saw your post above. dont give the puppy too big an area to be in as this lets them do the wrong thing. that is why a crate is good, they wont wee or poo where they sleep so keep the area small.

Oh their grooming table with all the gear, or outside on the grass so to suit the other green photos? outside on the grass i think would look good

i just had another thought, what about a pic when they are being groomed? i think it is good to see dogs being handled as a dog owner would handle them, to show temperment