WildatHeart

Thank you al for the suggestions. Some of you sound like you've had terrible neighbours! :-( We will get some shade cloth up this week and I'll also try the desensitising and LAT (read on another topic last night). The nervous dog is crate trained and the other dog is somewhat but only if the other dog is around. She's never taken to the crate and will scream all day (literally) if in the crate and alone.

I am completely at my wits end. Tired and stressed with no idea where to go from here. I'm seeking any helpful tips or advice please. Last month the place next door finally sold and new neighbours moved in. The place has been vacant since we moved here 12 months ago. A young couple moved in with three dogs. Prior to them living their our two dogs only barked if someone was out our front gate. Our dogs get on great with our other neighbours and their two dogs on the other side. All fences are dog mesh. Our dogs never took a liking to the new neighbours dogs and they would fence run and carry on. Their dogs would bark and carry on when tied up or in their back on the ute and would set our dogs off. Their bulldog appears to be dog aggressive had would go for ours through the fence which riled ours up even more. Speaking to the neighbours when introducing myself they mentioned that the bulldog gets a shock collar when they go to the dog park cause it doesn't play nice with other dogs (I wonder why...). I have installed another fence with dog fence 2.5 meters off the existing to try take the heat out if the confrontation. I have also just spent three days planting red robins to have a visual barrier, but alas that will take years to grow and doesn't block out the noise they make next door. When they let their dogs out of their pen they race over to the fence barking and the lady next door comes out screaming and waving around a stick or whatever she can find at her dogs. I think this has frightened my dog cause he can be at our back door (not in sight) and if he hears her talking she starts getting really anxious and whinges the races off to bark at her (but more so their dogs). Their dogs have stopped coming to the fence a but now but mine are so wound up they will bark when their dogs are running around. They have people coming and going all the time and the other day there were 8 dogs there that were other family members. I have tried reprimanding our dogs but for one I (the anxious one) think it's only making it worse making him worry more. At night it's not really an issue unless they are loud or have cars coming and going, as we lock them in our carport. In the early stages I tried giving the neighbour a huge bag of treats and asked if she would like to take them and just give them to our dogs here and there so they could get used to them, but she said no they'll get used to them. I have a bark collar but don't feel it's going to help. We have spent over $300 on the new fence and over $600 on plants. Its our problem to fix and I'm sure the other neighbours will just see it as our dogs barking. The anxious dog has now even started barking at other neighbours over the road pulling into their driveways he's that on edge. He's lost so much weight he looks like rspca case even through I've tripled his daily food. We have thought out a colourbond fence but the expensive is too much, and not even sure it will work cause if they make noise he might still go off.

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Does anyone know what this might look like? I'm unable to get to the vets until tomorrow afternoon. The video was taken this morning and today is pretty bad. Yesterday just slightly sore and then a few days prior only very mildly lame (that mild my partner couldn't even tell when i said she looked a bit sore). I have noticed her stretching her leg out like this, I've seen it probably once a day in the mornings. She's 5 months old. I have tried to restrict her activity as much as possible. I have a second dog and they romp and play alot but not sure if she's damaged something from that. New link My link

Thank you Rappie

I shopped around recently to try find a vet practice that did the cheapest needles. With that came conflicting advice on what needles were actually required for an 8 week old pup. All said 6-8 weeks they would give the c3. Then some said a c5 at 12-14 and again at 18-20 weeks. However, two practices said just a c5 was required at 12-14 weeks. Can someone that knows please shed some light on this. Don't want to do two if its not required.

Thanks, thought so, rather then punishment at this age.

Thanks guys. What would be a successful way to approach deterring her?

I have just witnessed my new 8 and a half week old pup (crossbred kelpie) hump my 2 year old neutered male kelpie x. He was in a drop and she just climbed on his back and grab the back of his neck growling and playing before really getting in and humping him. He didn't care, he just sat there. He's very tolerant of her. I'm assuming this is a dominance thing but should I be concerned when she's already doing it at such a young age?

Forgot to also add, they ultra sounded her today and found suspicious areas in her spleen

Thank you CC. Yea it is either lymphoma of the spleen or IMHA. I opted for not doing the blood test to see if either one of the above two problems, as if it came back cancer and required removal of the spleen I wouldn't put her through it. So I opted for the up the treatment for the IMHA. Her pcv was 25% yesterday and now 21%. Unsure of those others.

Hi, just after any kind of info or thoughts that may help. My 7 7 1/2 year old gerb shepherd has just been diagnosed with what they think is some auto immune disease. I can't remember what the vet said it was but I think she said the abb. is IMAJ but unable to find anything on it. Background I went overseas for 12 days and got back three weeks ago. My aunt looked after my dog for me. Before I went away my dog was happy, healthy and fit. She would run 3-4 about three times a week with no problems at all following me while I worked horses. She fretted a bit while I was away and didn't eat much. I got home and it took her a couple days to start eating properly again (all her meal in one go, she was just picking at it and had some left over 12 hours later for first couple days). I could see she had lost a bit of weight so I started feeding her twice a day, which she did eagerly. Since I've been home I knew there was something 'up' with her. She wasn't her normal happy self and moped around a lot. She couldn't/wouldn't keep up when I rode the horses, didn't even take chase to a rabbit which she always would do if one ever crossed her path. Her coat is dull and losing hair. I thought maybe she was still sulking, plus the fact she had lost the weight and then thrown in a heat wave, she was just exhausted. However, the last two days I noticed she was a little unsteady on her hind legs. She would stop and her backend would sway a little and she would need to move a leg to stop. I took her to the vet yesteray afternoon where she had a temp of 40.8. She spent the night there on a drip, antibiotics and painkillers. She was right through the abdomen and would drop if light pressure applied near her hip joints. She also had a little bit of a pant for the past week but it has been very hot here. This morning she didn't look (to me) like she had improved any. The vet said her temp is back down to 38 something. They done a red blood cell count and it was low (20 ish I think, can't quiet remember). She said she would need to stay I over te weekend. Also said she would be on corticosteroids for the rest of her life starting with 2 a day and hopefully getting down to 1 every 2nd day. She mentioned thaty dog could relapse as well at any time. She neverentiomed anything about the unsteady hindquarters but I will check later.

I spoke to Steve (K9pro) yesterday and got some great advice and information. I did get a call from Animal Management yesterday afternoon as well which absolutely gutted me in thinking now that council have the case they have to at least declare my dog dangerous or menacing, just to cover themselves in the event if it happened again. The man reported my dog but the Animal Management officer said he was amendment that he did not want anything to happen to the dog but just wanted a record against her name. Fortunately, that's all the animal management did. I explained to him the new measures I was promptly going to undertake to ensure that it cannot happen again and he was very happy with that. I will only receive a warning in the mail. I rang the man that got bitten last night and he said he was ok and his leg was fine. He said its done and dusted and he isn't holding any grudges. I am going to see him after work today to give him some money to replace his ripped pants and give him a cake from the cheesecake shop (thanks to who it was that suggested that, I like the idea). All around, I couldn't ask for a better outcome and it was a big wake up call to never be complacent. New fence will be constructed by this weekend. Thanks again to all that offered such great advice.

that's easy, I have 4 panels (ones you see around construction sites, the wire mesh ones) stacked up in the backyard. I will be moving them and making a barrier from the house to garage. I go through there and can close that gate. Then I can open the other gate to drive out. Basically, its lock an air lock. By the time he rings me tomorrow, that will have been done and I will have talked to Steve as well. edit to add: The dog doesn't have access to the front yard. The back half of the yard to fully fenced, it was the side gate on the driveway being opened which allowed her access down the driveway and ultimately out the front.

I disagree, DOLer's are always advising people to report dogs that rush/bite. I would be doing all the above and as others have suggested but in no way would I be applying the slightest bit of pressure on this poor man. And just asking not to report is pressure. As much as I would like to ask him to consider, I do agree with Rebanne on this. I'm sure he's a smart enough man to work it out for himself to weigh up what he wants to do after I let him know that I'm taking the above measures.