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I wish my Hugo was more interested in watching television. Every time I leave the house for work, I leave the telly on so that he can watch it and not get... well, bored I guess. He ignores the telly. And sleeps through the day when I'm not there. Well, the telly was supposed to be a measure against separation anxiety, but seeing since he just drops asleep every time I walk out of the house, I don't think it's needed much..

Thank you!

Do you want to harpoon me because I carried one of my chickens in a box on my lap to the vets when she had an injured head instead of strapping her into the back seat with her standard grade chicken car harness?For doG's sake, it isn't even any of your business whether I buy a harness now, later, or not at all. How about I look after my poor dog and you look after your poor dog? Does that sound okay to you? I said I'm getting a harness, but Hugo will have to brave those four traumatic car trips until then, but for now, just back off me please.

From what I see from the breed pages, you're looking at around $1500.

Mine too. Especially used ones. Hugo loves apple and carrot the most. He gets pretty angry at the carrot when he's trying to eat it though. Ends up barking his head off at it and ferociously attacking it before he is certain that it's dead and he can begin chewing properly.

Don't be embarrassed, I'm absolutely sure many others do as you do. Just think though about what would happen if you/someone else driving had to slam on the brakes, or god forbid, got in an accident.. There is massive force involved and however good your intentions, you probably couldn't restrain Hugo. I'd suggest a seatbelt harness, I just got mine from the supermarket - KraMar car harness, size small, which I've had on Sax from when he was a 1.8kg puppy to a 5kg adult, adjusting the size - we've used it with the booster seat, just on the backseat with the seatbelt, and now in the footwell. I know pups want to be with you, and can freak out in the car, but seriously, I feel like it has to be worth the effort to teach them to deal with being strapped in. Look at the research about humans, especially babies, without seatbelts - surely animals need the same protection!! I wanted to get him a booster seat but with mom in the driver's seat and me in the passenger side seat, I didn't know how to attach the booster seat! I will get him a harness when he's a bit older though--right now the only time we take him with us in the car is when we're going to puppy preschool. And how does your only taking him to puppy preschool protect him while he's in the car in your care? Have you not got a crate? A travel crate (airline approved) is recommended for smaller dogs and you can even put the seatbelt around it for additional protection in the event of emergency braking. How do you think you'd manage in a crash with an unrestrained and probaby terrified pup? The minute a door opens or a window is smashed, what do you think a frightened pup would do, wait calmly for someone to pick it up? Of course not. This is one of my pet hates...I mean it's not as if the dog can harness itself into a seatbelt, nor can it put its crate in the car and then put itself in the secured crate. It's up to us to make sure our dogs and cats are SAFE while we are transporting them - would it be okay with you if an airline allowed your dog into the cargo hold without it being crated? Uhm, because puppy preschool is ten minutes drive on a 50 km-an-hour suburban road away from our house?I have a crate, but it's a metal crate that is too big to fit in the car's boot, let alone the back seat. It's weird, from the PMs I got, some people are acting like every time me and Hugo step into the car, we're all like ten seconds from being in this massive road collision and witnessing our pup go flying through the windscreen before shattering into a million pieces, then spontaneously combusting mid-air. People have just got to stop.. freaking out. Chances are if by some unlikely event that my mother has her first accident in thirty years and it happens to be while driving on a Sunday to and from Puppy Preschool, and that accident is big enough to cause any impact that isn't just a little bump on the fender, not only will Hugo probably be launched into the glovebox (considering how low my seat is and the fact that Hugo is fast asleep the very second he climbs into my lap when we get in the car) and fall onto the floor, but any worse than that and we're all dead, there's no airbags in our car and if something bigger hits it with enough force, it's going to be utterly destroyed anyways. He will have a harness, as soon as he gets a bit bigger.

Don't be embarrassed, I'm absolutely sure many others do as you do. Just think though about what would happen if you/someone else driving had to slam on the brakes, or god forbid, got in an accident.. There is massive force involved and however good your intentions, you probably couldn't restrain Hugo. I'd suggest a seatbelt harness, I just got mine from the supermarket - KraMar car harness, size small, which I've had on Sax from when he was a 1.8kg puppy to a 5kg adult, adjusting the size - we've used it with the booster seat, just on the backseat with the seatbelt, and now in the footwell. I know pups want to be with you, and can freak out in the car, but seriously, I feel like it has to be worth the effort to teach them to deal with being strapped in. Look at the research about humans, especially babies, without seatbelts - surely animals need the same protection!! I wanted to get him a booster seat but with mom in the driver's seat and me in the passenger side seat, I didn't know how to attach the booster seat! I will get him a harness when he's a bit older though--right now the only time we take him with us in the car is when we're going to puppy preschool. Yes, good point. The two cars I've had since having Saxon have had split-fold rear seats (yay Honda), which seem to be needed to loop a booster seat around. However, I intend to put next puppy in a harness on the floor with Saxon asap, or at least on the back seat - I think the booster seat added to Saxon being Mr Noisy Whinger in the car... So if you can get away with just a harness either through the seatbelt on the back seat (no airbags to hit their head, a risk in front passenger seat) or in the back footwell, I'd try that first, for your driving sanity Airbags, what are airbags, we can't afford no damned airbags, LOL. He already has a webmaster harness with a handle on the back actually, I wonder if we could get away with threading a seatbelt through the handle?

Why would she be mortified from being awoken? Do dogs even feel embarrassment? Hugo is a light sleeper so we never have problems with this. When we first got him though, he used to do his "chasing a bunny rabbit" while asleep routine nightly though, complete with growling noises and limbs flailing in the air.

Don't be embarrassed, I'm absolutely sure many others do as you do. Just think though about what would happen if you/someone else driving had to slam on the brakes, or god forbid, got in an accident.. There is massive force involved and however good your intentions, you probably couldn't restrain Hugo. I'd suggest a seatbelt harness, I just got mine from the supermarket - KraMar car harness, size small, which I've had on Sax from when he was a 1.8kg puppy to a 5kg adult, adjusting the size - we've used it with the booster seat, just on the backseat with the seatbelt, and now in the footwell. I know pups want to be with you, and can freak out in the car, but seriously, I feel like it has to be worth the effort to teach them to deal with being strapped in. Look at the research about humans, especially babies, without seatbelts - surely animals need the same protection!! I wanted to get him a booster seat but with mom in the driver's seat and me in the passenger side seat, I didn't know how to attach the booster seat! I will get him a harness when he's a bit older though--right now the only time we take him with us in the car is when we're going to puppy preschool.

Dad told me the story about how a Bull Terrier that wormed its way under my dad's fence and attacked his wife's bunny-rabbit temperament GSD (ripped a huge chunk of his ear off actually). Dad ran inside and got his high-powered bow and arrow set out. The bull terrier never made it out of the yard. If a dog attack happened to my Hugo though, I'm not sure what I'd do. Adrenaline makes you do a whole lot of crazy things, like how my tutor beat up a guy who mugged her because her wallet had her whole month's paycheck in it. My dad told me to grab the dog's front legs really tightly and yank them apart because that would shatter the ribs, or something, but I don't think I have the balls for that. I mean, front legs, that end is the pointy end, dude! I would probably instinctively do a lot of kicking and grabbing though.

I feel embarrassed to say that we don't restrain Hugo. He sleeps in my lap whenever we drive anywhere. Of course I'm not stupid enough to open the windows if he's in my lap unrestrained though.

I believe that Frontline stopped working for a lot of people. Try Advantix this time around, every two weeks instead of monthly. Poor Splosh! Where do you live to have such a bad tick infestation on your hands?

Oh my gosh, poor dog..

Didn't you say in another thread that Hugo barked incessantly at the other puppies and had to be given a time out several times? That may have been constituted as bullying the other dogs... Knuckles did that once at puppy preschool, but it was a 'stop teaching me things I wanna play!!!' bark. Possibly the same thing for Hugo? sorry OT. He was incessantly barking while we were in preschool, not in playgroup. So yeah, it was more of a "I wanna play" bark then. He only kept getting put into time out because this bloody Cairn Terrier puppy wouldn't leave him alone and they'd both end up fighting (with Hugo always being on the bottom, growling at the terrier to get off him) every time the Cairny was set loose on him..

The guy at the puppy preschool has apparently been telling other trainers that Hugo "bullies" the puppies in his playgroup.. Which is complete bullshit, because more often than not, he's the one trying to get out from underneath another dog that's dominating him :rolleyes:

Oh that's interesting, my Hugo occasionally starts shaking/twitching while he's asleep, like full body jerks and stuff like that, while he's sleeping, I wonder if that's a normal thing or whether it could be epilepsy? It doesn't last for very long, maybe only thirty seconds and it only happened twice, both times I made a loud noise to wake him up because I thought he might be having a violent nightmare or something.

So are you going to link us to it, or make us hunt it out ourselves?

Rule number one-- Your dog's shit is your shit.

I'd say Advantix is a good option, but in my opinion you don't really need a heartwormer for every month, it's just more chemicals added to your doggy's system, and most people don't know how long it actually takes heartworm to grow into an adult stage--the stage in which they can do damage! We go by every three months instead. It takes about three months for microfilaria (baby worms) to grow inside your dog to a larval stage, and even longer for these larva to mature into adult heartworms.

Oh yay, I see it!

gremlins

;) How did he manage to slowly get rid of the cats? Now this is a guy that is definitely a control freak or she is simply a subservient type, heck I would not put up with that for one second. Some women are easily manipulated by men.....not all women though :D Well he said there was too many so he gave one to his mother.. then gave one to her mother.. and their numbers are depleting in the house, she had five or something, now only two. It's a mixture of his control-freak nature and her submissive nature, I think. But yeah, the poor dogs have to stay outside now ;) And they both have arthritis too!

As soon as my dad moved in with his new wife, he kicked both her dogs out of the house and is slowly getting rid of the cats, one by one.. Oh, and turned her from being vegetarian into a meat-lover like himself :D I think it's because women are easily manipulated by men *hides from feminists*

Can you link it then? What subforum is it under?

And being killed by dogs/cats when/if they fly over the fence and out of the yard also kind of makes them unable to do what they were born to do (to live, I suppose?). Guess one would have to pick the lesser of two 'evils' when keeping ducks.