I never find myself agreeing with Ian Dunbar more than 50%! :D He is a bit of a dinosaur (although wonderful of his time) I think.
I think you do need to avoid - as soon as you saw that other dog looking not quite ok, you should have got Harv out of there before he reacted....
Betsy and Charlie were like this. Charlie is a total gent, and wouldn't tell a puppy off in a million years, and Betsy was SUCH a bitey puppy. At...
Ick - I hope you get it sorted. :( Charlie has a terrible intolerance to chicken - gives him terrible runny poo. So just the right food can help....
Oh yuk...I can't remember Charlie ever eating disgusting stuff. He probably has and I've wiped it from my memory. He usually either rolls in it...
My experience is that an adolescent male is definitely more likely to be 'put in his place' by other male dogs - but not by other intact dogs...
I can only give you my experience - I've lived with 2 entire dogs growing up (a Collie and a Labrador) and I have an entire male now. Sniffing...
I'm sure lots of dogs are not stressed by operations, but lots of dogs are - and I do not think it is going to be ok for Betsy, and I'm much...
mmm....not so sure about that! It's pretty anecdotal. In my dogs, it's definitely the other way round. Betsy has high and obvious hackles in a...
If either Betsy or Charlie have their hackles up I take it as a sign that they are at least slightly fearful and in some kind of fight/flight...
Pyometra is caused by progesterone priming the uterus and the only source of this in a bitch is the overies.
Although....having said I don't train, I do train dogs being tied up because I often tie my dogs to fence posts at training. So I suppose that...
I will leave my dogs if I can see them through a window etc. So I'll leave them outside the ranger's office on the Common, and outside a cafe in a...
Nope, I don't buy it, but I know lots of people and vets think 'it's all fine, nothing to worry about, doesn't impact on the dogs at all' etc. So...
Champion in what? This will tell you whether she is a show (English) or field (American) Labrador.
Before I got a bitch, I thought I'd prefer not to spay her - I still think this, tbh. I'd rather not spay a bitch until 4, 5 years old. I don't...
OH's recall is the Brrrrrrtttt! sound a dummy thrower makes. :rolleyes: It's extraordinarily effective with Charlie. :rolleyes: So there we are....
OH thinks it means 'stop doing that/don't eat that/stop sniffing Betsy's bottom' and so on. It actually means 'turn towards me because I'm very...
It's surprisingly effective - and makes me wonder just how much dogs pay attention to verbal cues anyway. OH walks to the back of the car and...
My OH is absolutely dreadful. Really. He once used a clicker as a noise distraction when Charlie was sniffing poo. :facepalm: He follows Charlie...
