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This. All the videos were cute - but heck Zack is super cute!

Scottsdad is away this week. There's currently 1/2 a king sized bed not being used.... but noooooooooo....

Bargain I'm not commenting on the actual topic - but I do know that facebook boosting is basically daylight robbery. On my own dog walking FB account I can boost a post so 1000 locals who I can select as targeted (gender, age, location, likes) for $14 a day - meaning my posts will come up with that annoying "sponsored posts" thing you get. So 14 days at $14 ($196) Plus - that's the low rate - at times (for reasons I can't explain) they offer the same service for up to $28 a day (14*28= 392) - which I think is crazy. Anyhow - Greyhound adoption NZ - often "boost" adoption profiles so - maybe that's a thing which is being proven to work? Just a thought

Just reading about it give me the horrors. :cry:ETA a thought. Could you build something like a cat run for her? I was going to say same thing as DD - cat run?

#21 Wellington Zoo IMG_3709 by Superspanger, on Flickr #22:The view from work one morning last week: 22/52 by Superspanger, on Flickr #23: One of my cattery cats. 23_cocoa by Superspanger, on Flickr

Deaf, velcro dog with dementia. It's all good. ;)

Wow T. Stunning. and yeh it's quiet - I was thinking tonight I need to raid the phone to see what I have for my last few weeks. A sunrise... and .... hrm...

Yep. one x 10 kilo foxie and I've been known to do the same thing on occasion. I'm often trapped between hubby and the dog - hubby is more accommodating and will move for me. He didn't sleep with us the other night - it was super mild and I had the best sleep I've had in weeks.

Well, if you'd asked at the start of the week I'd have said brilliantly. But this week he's been a clingy mess. You know on a scale of 1-10 for the CCD I think we spend most of our time at about 1. For the separation stuff - we hover around about a 5 I suppose. Not sure really - it feels bad some times but then you read posts like the one on here about the little frenchie and realise things could be worse Nah - I think I get what you're saying. It is just so hard -we rely so heavily on the crate - I hate saying it but if it was to become an untenable option ... we'd really be ... stuck. Like I said - we're really at a 1 - we only have a handful of symptoms and they seem to be mostly under control with the drugs... I don't know... Coming up for a long few weeks - hubs is away a lot over the next 6 weeks so all routine and management will be on me.

top one - nearest her ears. Or one on Saturday and an outfit change for Sunday?

I assume that the stuff which can be re-sold is, the stuff which needs to be returned to the manufacturer is too and the other stuff goes to a shelter or staff member who owns a pet with a cast iron stomach ;)

To the OP: Who wouldn't take the returned good? The retailer or the manufacturer? Some brands and some stores offer a guarantee your dog will eat it. I have returned two bags in the time I've had Scottie - once to PetO and once to Petbarn. Both times the food was very expensive and I was broke. He would not eat it. Both times I took store credit and re-used it in store - both times buying multiple items (flea treatment+ some treats one time and another bag of food + treats + some cat treats the other time). There has been a number of other foods I have given away (friends, family, neighbours) donated to the shelter or thrown out If it was a small independent I wouldn't but if the offer is there - why not take it? https://www.petbarn.com.au/returns-policy My bolding.

Hey Jackie - the resource Mackiemad mentions is still around. It's here & is a good place to start: http://www.greatdanerescue.com.au/Docs/Separation%20Anxiety.pdf First question is Have you spoken to the breeder you bought her from? We live with something kind of similar - our dog destroys things if left unattended - usually the carpet. He also howls and carries on if left in the back yard. As we rent - this is entirely unacceptable (as it would be if we owned). I'd say ask around for some suggestions for good a behaviorist local to you. Don't go it alone - I wish we'd acted a lot faster and with more gusto than we did when we realised what we were dealing with - and as our old dog (quickly) ages his behavior becomes harder to manage. To be brutally honest - we had signs of this being a problem within a month of bringing him home and we decided to keep him. But having lived with SA - if I was ever offered another dog and was told it had "issues" I'd be very wary and if I realised (or was told) it was SA - I think i'd probably decline to take it on. I'm not telling you to return your dog (but that is an option you can consider) but I am saying living with it is really hard and not something I'm likely to knowingly do ever again. Edit:Jules posted while I was - I do agree with her. As I said - not something I am likely to knowingly do ever again! As for the crate - it's do-able. We do it but I do hate it. We try to have someone come home at lunch to give him a break. Lots of work goes into the dog - but especially when he's got to be crated - he's walked at least twice a day, has a treat to chew on an has extra games to help tire him out mentally - he has music or an audio book left on for him (even now he's basically 100% deaf). Even with all of this extra effort it's still hard - especially on the days (or weeks) when he doesn't want to be in there. This week he's chucked a "wobbly" every day. & after only 2 or 3 hours of crating I have had to come home to a full bedding change and clean up 3 days in a row (his latest trick is to knock his water bowl off the hook) The other things I'd consider if I were you - would be restricting her access to parts of the house - so locking her in an almost empty kitchen or laundry (you can put pee pads down if you're worried about toileting). Point is - if she can't access the washing to chew and pee on then she can't chew or pee on it! But just be prepared for her to maybe destroy other things (when we moved into a house with floor boards I thought we were sweet. But our couches were next on the list of things to dig at!) Baby gates, kiddy play pens, fencing panels are your friends if you can't simply close the doors. We even went to Ikea and bought two bed heads from the discount section which fit perfectly in our door frames - they were lovely and solid and fit really well & it didnt matter if he scratched at them. Then our boy realised he could jump them! You could also look at giving her access to one part of the house and some of the yard (into a run or pen away from the neighbour) via a doggy door. Also google / search here for "nothing in life is free" or NILF - I was against the idea for a long time but we finally implemented a wussy version of it and it really helped. As a good mate said - its not about "being dominant" or bossing your dog around but it's about letting them relax and having you make the decisions for them - showing them that "it's alright mate, I have this" and when I took that on board it helped a fair bit. Good luck - keep reading - find a person in "real life" to help you out - and make sure you "click" with them - not all trainers or training styles suit every family or dog - there is nothing wrong with trying a few before you find someone who suits you.

I've worked every morning this week - that's meant 3 days of tantrums in his crate.... 3 days of extra laundry to try and get dry. Next week I have at least 2 AM shifts - and they're both slightly longer 5 hours - not the two I've been doing at the cattery. Going to trial a slightly different way of managing our mornings next week (hubby usually walks then medicates & feeds last thing) I will suggest medication before walk & some supervised feeding (hand feeding) to ensure he has something in his belly before lock up... Hope that helps... I know the "old" Scottie can happily crate ... goodness knows what we'll do if we continue to have tantys every time he's crated... Just hope the neighbours don't complain I suppose...

My mum is currently holidaying in Broome with 2 other sets of grey nomands in their own vans. + Mums doxie Mum & step dad couldn't get into the 2 regular caravan sites in town - the friends we not allowed into the dog friendly place without their own dog....

They are only toy breeds so not so difficult if its a full time job. Many Chi breeders have high numbers. Yuck. Sorry. Makes it sound like they don't deserve full and happy lives simply because they're small dogs.

We've got 15-20 cats in the cattery at the moment & it takes me just on two hours to feed, sweep & mop, wash bedding, bowls & litter trays and have a quick talk to each cat - handle & check over. Do a poo patrol in the outside areas and pick at least one extra from the "extras" cleaning list (dust, vaccum scratching poles etc) + do all the other things I've forgotten or haven't bothered to mention (fold washing as just one example) Admittedly I'm a slow worker - but cats also (as a huge generalisation) take a lot less work than dogs. So... if you do the worlds most basic math - 1 hour per 10 animals = 120 animals = 12 hours a day min work to (just) adequately care for these animals - this is not factoring in ANY exercise for these dogs. It is also assuming the phone doesn't ring & you have all supplies delivered to you... Like others - I don't get how this was allowed to go on for 6 years... Shame on all who turned a blind eye.

very nice

Steve - one of your links is premium only. Because they're bathed and wormed and treated for fleas and shipped off to pet shops? Because if they later develop a disease some people don't put two and two together? or they're returned to the petshop and treated/dealt with accordingly. (Pet's paradise used to have contracted vets who'd "fix" correct hernias in any pup they sold - free to owner - no question asked - the vets were contractually obliged to fix the hernia and not comment further on it) Or because some people like my ("silly" - I can think of better words) friend will buy "the sick looking puppy" because she "felt sorry for it and couldn't leave (her) there"? I'm sure there are plenty of other options - Take your pick

Oh man.

I was going to recommend K9 Pro - but the website says it's not due in til end of June http://k9pro.com.au/k9-showstopper/ :/

Yes! :) All of these. Except for the pushups. I love the sound of that, please tell me more. I'm sure Jumabaar will corrct me if I'm wrong but I believe "Puppy Push ups" are a combo of "quick fire" random, sits, drops and stands. I say "quick fire" because Scottie usually slows considerably - or is much slower after a big day. But that's basically it. It's our go to wet weather exercise because it tires him out physically and mentally :)

I couldn't read that the whole way through But i am so sorry for your loss

Re: Diet - We spoiled our last dog and it wasn't the best of moves. I could never stop Scottsdad form sneaking her really naughty food (like take away chinese and pizza) and when she got really sick and ended up living out her days on ID - it was really unpleasant as she hated it. Luckily we could still "spoil" her on occasion with BBQ chook (no skin) so all was not lost - and she had that every night for her last week :) But I do wish we'd been a lot stricter in her senior years ...