Staff'n'Mutt

looks like a fun outting. happy birthday boys

um yeah not something I'd do, different strokes I guess. Although at what roughly the pug is 14 months old she's sure as hell not doing it for the pug. Teething humans are bad enough ouch!

I'm glad you got an answer for what's wrong with your guy. We used Ester-C for our Bloodhound when he became an old man fantastic stuff and brought him relief.

I'm sorry your lil brown sound alerter has passed away big hugs lovely.

I'm so sorry your furry friend has gone. Give NuNu an extra cuddle or two from me and mine.

I pretty much said it all in the titles :) Are any DOLers going to the attend? We are, by we I mean Diva and I. would be great to meet up with others going.

congratulations! that's a fantastic win. I've only used the skin/coat supplement and found it great.

poor guy, hope whatever it is, is an easy fix

excellent! if it's Greenbeans AU they are fantastic people to deal with.

King size bed, my husband and usually 1 if not both of the twins (at that age they like to sneak in during the night) and Diva when it gets crowded, I sleep in the spare room. Diva isn't an all night dog but she bulldozes her way under your side so you are wedged up at an angle.

sorry hit post too soon, I have some black (yeah not my fav colour) you are welcome to try if you want to PM me :)

If it's microchamios you can buy it be the meter and it comes in a range of colours and occasionally you can find it in patterns. It is not waterproof but you can make it water resistant by washing it with a healthy dose of fabric softener. Ditto that to microfleece. Minky is also used but it has a longer nap. I sew nappies as a business so have quite a bit of this stuff laying around, if you need any links for suppliers let me know.

Do you mean microchamois? when you said synthetic ? sorry not up with the other names people call fabrics.

Canaan

Mudi

Xoloitzcuintle

love it, does he retrieve lost socks too?

I'm sorry your boy has passed on. getting to spend his last moments with him would have been priceless (for you both) big hugs lovely.

oops forgot to add in, where you live plays a huge part on how you keep your dogs, suburbia, without sounding melodramatic, is dangerous. Your dogs risk getting pinched by jerks who want them for fighting/breeding/selling or baited / run over / picked up by council because they annoyed a neighbour once too many times. sadly it's not a black and white issue.

I think you are a bit of base, we all do what works for us. I'm a stay at home mum so my current dog is out doing as she pleases. However pre kids I worked fulltime as did/does my husband. back then we had a rotti girl and a bloodhound boy. The boy was crate trained from word dot. he was happiest there so that's where he'd be "by choice" my husband made his crate it was h.u.g.e but had no top if at any point he wanted out he could easily jump out. he never did. My girl was happiest as a couch potato so she had a spare room of her own with a couch and some toys. based on the nanny cam those 2 didn't do much other than sleep the entire day. It wasn't cruel they were well loved and both of whom lived way past the average life of those breeds. I'm sorry your feeling ruffled by the responses made, like dogs not all of us get along all the time :) but give the girls and guys here a chance there is a wealth of knowledge and you'll find your mates if you give them a chance.

5 acres would do me just fine. fully dog proof which equals fully preschooler proof. I have the breed I want no money would change that but maybe I'd have another SBT or two. I'd love an agility course undercover so we could all play out there. And how cool would it be if there was room for weekend training from a "real" trainer people could come and stay for the weekend and get help from someone who flys up for the week whatever and who knows what they are doing not just someone whose tacked on the word behaviouralist onto their resume.

I'm sorry for your loss and that your boy is missing his friend. I babysit my mum's dog for her, after Sami passed away Ralph spent days looking for her he still does the rounds of their fav hidey spots in the yard. I don't know of any medication other than time to make it better. Hard isn't it.

My newest fav memory, After losing our Sami the kids were heartbroken, didn't sleep because Sami wasn't there to chase the monsters out etc, so anyway after a while we got Diva and said her mummy and daddy (my twins are 4) had sent Diva up here to have a nice holiday. That way if Diva hated being here we had an out with the kids if she had to go back to Sandra. enough background. it's been a couple of months now and this last tuesday week we were all down the park (not dog park) on the beach place was empty so Diva was offlead and having a ball. A lady comes along so I call Diva back and she stops to say hello to us all. Jack tells her that "Diva is our dog she's a girl and has boobies, but she is a superhero and she sleeps on my bed and is at my house for ever and ever and ever " He then proceeded to point out said boobies. Not only am I thrilled to bits the kids loves Diva and she's happy here, but Jack spoke a long sentence to a perfect stranger, he is shy. Probably doesn't sound like much but wow it's huge.

well done!! we're working on leave it too, Diva is doing pretty good with it, the kids on the other hand... yeah not so good for awhile there I was thinking Diva was the gobbler. A baby monitor with video feature proved the kidlettes were the scoffers.

Our bloodhound was bloat prone, first time at 14months old he had his stomach tacked, then yearly for the next 4 years. Our Stafford girl was 7 months old when she bloated. Neither dogs were exercised after feeding it's just something that happened. The bloodhound had raised feeding dishes and the Stafford had hers on the ground. Interesting tho both dogs were allergy freaks.