For a dog that is very keen on water, it's easy to treat a 'release cue' to water by just rewarding them for following your cue by access to the...
A large group of dogs - that all know each other - is a pack, and they behave like a pack. The are braver because they are in a pack, back each...
She needs to be outside, playing and so on. You can't hold her head up all the time! Most puppies put absolutely everything in their mouths. The...
Just buy a bigger bed. It's the only sensible way to go. Charlie seems enormous in bed, but that's because his place is on the pillows, so he is...
Your routine won't work for the tiny puppy months - but there are ways round that if you are prepared to pay for puppy care, although you'd still...
I don't think that ambling along, at human walking speed is 'too much' - it's probably less exhausting for a pup than playing madly for an hour...
This isn't really about X person is fine with 8, and Y person can't manage 2 though - it's about what, on average, is acceptable. That obviously...
We've just taken the first tick off Charlie - so both dogs now dosed with Frontline combi, which I do not think is as effective as Advantix, but...
The up to date advice is most definitely not core vaccines every year, and I'd walk away from any vet who said that was the case. My adult dogs...
Peeing on people is sort of unacceptable - although Charlie did pee on my neighbour's shoes when he was about 5 months. Charlie was very much an...
Well, I talk to my dogs too - only I don't talk to my dogs instead of addressing a stranger! :D If I want to say something to a person, I say...
Sounds hilarious. :D
I'm not sure this is about poo - where I live it's about the practical number of dogs that can be managed on paths, and pavements, on lead and as...
No, it's not a girl thing. Betsy is keen to bounce and be bounced on at any time! It's a different types of dog thing. :D The thing I find the...
So long as I can afford it, I will always have a Labrador's elbows and hips x-rayed around a year old or slightly after. This is particularly so...
I'm not sure but I'm swaying towards having Betsy spayed. I don't have long before I have to finally decide. It wasn't terrible for me, but it...
Yep - it's normal. All entire bitches experience high progesterone levels dropping at the end of a season (this is part of preparing for...
Her eating stones is not a good thing - at all, of course. :-( Neither of mine have ever eaten stones. They have picked things up - constantly -...
Sounds a good environment for the pups...but that was just the place they went to sleep and so on, right? The pups had loads of access to outside,...
I have been "lucky" enough to have had 2 extremely sociably Labs...lucky in that if a young dog doesn't display this behaviour, then they might...
