frankiejoo

Hi! I have seen there are a couple of meets around the Brisbane area but nothing really central for owners like myself who live in the city. I would just like to see if there is much interest in a regular (fortnightly perhaps?) play group at New Farm or Paddington where the dogs can have some supervised play and the people can have a picnic and meet some new friends. Unfortunately we only know two people who have dogs also and I would love my girl to meet some new doggy friends and have a play. Thanks, Ash (and Frankie)

What time on the 2nd? I have a Maltese who needs some friends!

She told him to leave her alone and most of her behaviour is saying the same thing. No need to be horrified - it was a perfectly appropriate response. Many bitches do not appreciate strange dogs sniffing them and as her owner I suggest you stop it from happening. Lots of adult dogs show little interest in meeting new dogs. Keep other dogs away from her. She's clearly not interested in being sniffed by dogs that are probably a hell of a lot bigger than she is. Many "friendly" dogs are actually quite rude in dog terms. The fact that some dog wants to greet yours doesn' mean you have to let it happen. I would recommend you read the article "he just wants to say hi". here He did waltz straight up to her and put his paw on my leg. ;) She's always been a very 'precious' dog as my vet said. Hopefully it is just her correcting another dog's rudeness and not fear aggression. My last Maltese had fear aggression after being attacked and hospitalised by a stray. I would hate for her to have that ingrained fear of other dogs. I don't mind if she doesn't want to meet every dog we see but I don't want her barking at dogs even if they are across the road and down the street a bit!

My girl is 7.5 months now and up until a little while ago was a very good girl. :D She was spayed 5 weeks ago and her behavior in the last 2 weeks has changed for the worse. Not sure what started it but she now barks at random things which previously wouldn't budge her. She runs to the door or window and barks at people, cars or nothing.. We sternly say No or Enough and when she keeps doing it (80% of the time she does) she then goes into time out (her den). Although the last few nights, she keeps barking in her den so we have been putting her into another room for 5 minutes. :D She also has become very funny towards other dogs. Before she was fine, going over to sniff and wag her tails at them. Sometimes a little nervous but ok when she saw that they were friendly. BUT NOW she barks at dogs across the road, she barks at dogs walking past and when they go to sniff her, she bolts. She even snarled at a big Lab x Goldren Retriever tonight and snapped at him!! I was absolutely horrified. He was a lovely, friendly dog and definitely showed no aggression at all. We want to take her to a behaviorist but won't be able to for a few weeks and I really want to start towards a solution straight away. I was thinking of upping her walking and more consistent regular training every night to combat the barking but I don't know if I'm doing the right thing in terms of discipline? Help please? I just need some guidance until we can get professional help and I don't want it to get worse then it already is. THANK YOU!!

We thought we were over this issue but today she has resumed yelping and running around whilst trying to poo.. :D

My maltese has the same issue. It only seemed to start at 4-5 months and constant cleaning has lessened it but not got rid of it completely. We even tried to clip the hair right back to the skin but to no avail. If you find something that works, let us know because I would also be interested in finding a safe solution. Some websites I looked on suggested stupid treatments such as peroxide and other chemicals

My gorgeous was desexed last Tuesday and whilst her operation went well, her recovery was not so smooth. The painkillers which had been prescribed to her (Tramal) were to strong and she had a bad reaction to them. Her behaviour became really erratic and she yelped often, running from things we couldn't see and very twitchy. I called the vet first thing Thursday and took her off the painkillers. The vet checked her out on my insistence and although physically she was recovering she had become very stressed through her 'over-dose'. She is much better now the drugs are out of her system but she had me very, very worried and she was so freaked. She is becoming my happy, exuberant puppy more and more each day now. Now my issues. ;) Firstly, it took us longer then expected for us to toilet train her then expected as she picked it up super quick and then regressed to the point where she toileted everywhere but her paper. As we live in a high-rise with no yard she toilets on training pads with newspaper over it. Prior to her op, she was weeing 95% on her mats but only pooing 60% for some reason. The problem is now we're not getting anything on the pads. For about a week before the op she was yelping nearly every time she did a poo but after changing her wet to dry food ratio and constantly taking her to her water bowl (plus bribing with ice cubes) her poos softened a little and she's ok now. :D We just can't get her to toilet where trained to and she weeing on the bed a couple of times! Also on the tiles which is a first. Secondly, she seems to have developed extreme separation anxiety Previously, we had a little trouble and more then a few sleepless nights as she always wants to be at our side. My partner works from home so she does spend a lot of time with one of us but she had finally become used to sleeping in the living room on her bed without too much fuss. She sometimes would cry a little upon us leaving the house but only for 5 minutes max. We had success and then... we spent 5 days looking after her around the clock. She was so fragile and precious I hated leaving her with my partner while I was at work. Then today came and we went to lunch. As soon as I closed the door she went off. I could hear her howling and whining when I was down the street!! She screamed the place down. 40 minutes later I arrived home and she was still going, just as loud Tips, Strategies or any advice would be so appreciated. She is a stubborn, willful little girl and so can be hard to train. I fear we are back to square one.