PandaGirl

I'm sort of going through this myself, my girl is getting tested for it tomorrow. Any treatment that will keep her with me and healthy is worth it IMO.

Ours was about 10 metres of chain mesh, but really the concept is the same. Block his vision of other dogs and he'll hopefully forget they're there.

I've recently solved this issue myself. We bought a HUGE roll of black weedmat at Bunnings and ran that along the fence. Now that they can't see the dogs nextdoor they don't care about them even when the neighbours dogs are bouncing off the fence and barking.

Choosing the qualities you want in a puppy is far more important than what colour it is.

She wanted to be in her crate tonight for the first time in months, so she's now dead to the world. I on the other hand can't settle down, I wish I could squeeze in her crate to

I just feel so useless and horrible. I hate having to keep her separate from our other dog and the rest of the family. I hate knowing I've growled at her while she's been feeling so crap. It really only occurred to me last night that it might be medical, and then she had her accidents today. Because she doesn't show when she's hurting and it's not until she's really bad that she show signs of being sick it's so hard to know when something is really off or it's just in my head. She's eating normally, but she's still always hungry which we've always put down to worms but it doesn't really change even after worming her. She always knows when I feel lousy, it makes me feel guilty that I can't always tell! Thanks for your PM persephone.

No nothing prescribed yet. She's never been much of a water drinker, and as far as I know it hasn't really changed. They were meant to run a full blood scan today.

Over the last month or so: She's been urinating more frequently 6 or 7 times a days when she's always been a 2 times a day girl highly aggressive to our other dog, often out of nowhere Lethargic (we'd put that down to the heat but she spent today in aircon and is still tired) loosing visible weight, we can see her ribs but she still seems to weigh the same She's been vomiting once or twice a day (which nobody bothered to tell me about until today!!) and today she was incontinent on the carpet. She didn't even realise until afterwards and looked so ashamed. I put her straight outside where she peed again, then when she came back in she peed again while she was standing there getting pats. So also went in the car on the seat which she has never ever done. She's been 4 or 5 times since she's been home from the vet. The vet says her potassium and electrolytes are abnormal and has ruled out bladder infection type things.

Double posting They're testing her for Addison's disease. From what I've read it can cause depression in dogs, but is it likely to cause aggression?

The vet cleared out bladder infections and such, but said she's got high potassium which might indicate the she's not making some hormones? She's going back for another test of friday where they'll inject her with the hormone and retest her blood in a couple of hours and see what her body is doing. Can that kind of stuff cause sudden dog aggressiveness?

In the process of talking to Cosmolo about the issue, and have dropped the troublemaker at the vet to rule out medical issues. I know there used to be a bark-busters up here, but I have heard nothing but bad things about them.

I am in desperate need of a behaviourist in Darwin. Does anyone know of anyone they'd suggest? My vet only knows of someone who does... that bonding thing? I can't remember, it starts with an A. Thanks

Interesting point about the FROGS! I had her outside with me late last night to do her business and she saw a cane toad - I think ''Leave it'' might be the next one I start on asap!!! I've taught my dog to avoid Toads by making seeing one a very unpleasant experience. Lots of shouting which she doesn't like. Now she barks at them but won't got within 2 metres of them!

Daisy used to share the odd Pascall's bonbon with me, but since they changed their flavour, she spits them out!

My Border Collie X shivers and gets full muscle spasms when she's asleep, sometimes it's so freaky I have to wake her up.

Puppies get super sleepy when they're having a growth spurt.

Our neighbours are of the 'disposable dog' types. Luckily we don't have much to do with them, but my girl likes to kiss the puppy through the fence so she's been banned from that.

Our neighbour has just told us her pup has been at the vet recovering from parvo. What precautions should I be taking to ensure our furkids don't get it? My girl is up to date on her vacs, but my parents old boy isn't.

Doesn't a certain puppy farm have a good website and tons of litters?

My girl won't toilet in public. Just crosses her legs! If she absolutely has to, it's always done behind a tree/in tall grass/out of sight.

My girl just had a lump taken off, the vet said it was a infection to a small cut she'd had.

Set your alarm and take her out every few hours at night.

My girl loves her sardines, the stinkier the better!

I've found that tails with the fur on slow my girl down a lot more than ones without fur, takes her a couple of hours to get through half a tail.

My dog can't eat roo, makes her tummy so sick. Which is good because I hate handling it! She get mostly chicken or beef, what a bad owner I am.