Yep, keep your dog very slim, and do everything you can to build up muscle - good quality food, the right kind of exercise. I give my dog with...
Yes, @Beanwood - for sure, the turns in agility don't look good from a joint point of view, it looks pretty high risk for sure. Managing a dog...
I have two show line Labs that both came with the 'highly sociable' gene - they both love people. To the extent that proofing against people is...
Yep - my dogs both do gundog training, and I budget for orthopaedic vet check ups for them and my vet says the same. Not a visit goes by but he...
Is your dog only walked on lead? I know that in some countries there are leash laws, and this might be the case. But if it is possible for you to...
There are no quick fixes that do not risk significant fall out. Any 'fix' as in 'quick' would involve punishment and you could end up with an...
Oh good. So many people progress with a dog being completely inefficient, and confusing the dog (and also looking a complete prat in public :D...
It only seems confusing because you don't know how to put a behaviour on cue. Just learn about that one thing - really learn it - and the rest of...
Er....well, it depends what you mean by "ok", I suppose. I don't think it will be doing a great deal of harm, in that presumably he's just...
Day cares vary massively. In my book, free running daycares are the worst, and I'd never send a dog to them. Tipping a load of strange dogs into...
Lifting a dog in and out of a car is sensible - usually, cars are parked on hard surfaces such as concrete etc. No dog should be jumping on...
I assume it's the blanket on your bed, not his? Just distract him - make a squeaky noise, attract him over to you for a play, and so on. Then...
Yep, my younger dog - if left to her own devices in the garden - would bark her head off at any remote noise, or sense of movement in another...
At 15 months your dog is nearing the end of adolescence, the end of the teenage phase. Not the start, or the middle. Rather than thinking this is...
Puppies should be mainly off lead, scrambling over stuff, chasing butterflies, and splashing through streams....and getting loads of scrummy...
The thing about any training is...you first have to have a dog that is happy to give you some attention. :D Without focus and engagement, you...
It doesn't have to say....there is no reason why your dog HAS to be either working line or show line. For some reason, it's common for people to...
Closed gene pools aren't remotely sensible. While we are currently playing whack-a-mole with genetic diseases in pedigree dogs, which has a...
Yes, I imagine there are significant barriers. The individual dog and its pedigree would have to be recorded and then that data released. There...
That's not what I meant. :-) At all. I mean I should be able to look up all the dogs in my dog's pedigree, and the siblings and offspring and...
