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What she said. It's almost like house training all over again but before you taught them to go in the yard now you're going to teach them to go in a paticular spot.

Door knocking, doorbells, dogs barking, or fireworks on tv will all get my boys going. :roll: The best has to be babies/kittens/puppies crying. Both boys become very alert, they cock there heads side to side, look at me, and sometimes even whine or go looking for the source, very cute.

Sadly I love the look of cropped ears but would never do it myself. It just seems that cosmetic medical alteration for purely aesthetic reasons is innappropriate.

I am oppossed to medical alteration for cosmetic reasons in pretty much every case in pretty much every species. Of course if a dog ends up damaging its tail or dew claws, paticularly repeatedly then a surgical option can be reasonably considered.

They look a little too furry for pit pups to me. However, I think you may have to wait at least 3-7 weeks for even a partly reliable guess. Puppies look mostly alike - there is poofy cute, sleek cute, course cute and curly cute in a variety of colours. :D

Beautiful. I think the smooths are stunning dogs.

Have her adopt an adult black lab or black lab cross? Already trained or mostly trained, temperment already known, adult size already known, often good with kids, has enough play and energy for kids usually, easily solid enough to deal with kids, there can be smaller labs between 50-70 lbs or lab crosses 30-? lbs probably and black labs are the most common dogs in shelters and black dogs are hard to adopt out. Good luck.

She is great isn't she. I always refer people with dog food questions to her site now. Welcome to Dogo BTW.

As much as I would have liked to have her stay out there the whole night at least letting her return to jail will allow the judge to keep doing what he does. If she'd been forced to stay out there and got frost bite or lost a toe who would have gotten in trouble and been hamstrung in the future.

Excellent as usual HF. Bathroom doors - have to train new borders but they are great so it shouldn't be a problem. Garbage can - I was hoping to get a different one with a better lid but putting it up/away might be better. Diversions - They already have stuffed dollar store toys that they gut and I sew up and reuse stuffing too. :lol: But I never leave them with them when I'm not home because my boys gut and CONSUME once in a while. However the tp rolls would be alright, they love those. :roll: [quote]The thing is, it's like it becomes a compulsion. It may start with nibbling on the bedspread, for example. Then it turns into EATING it[/quote] That seems to be the case here, it started with a little foray into the trash that had been left with the lid up and moved to full scale raiding. :roll: They are probably bored, I will have to do something about that.

:lol: I dog sat a 9 year old springer and I BELIEVE you. He was actaully extememly well mannered and behaved but a bundle of energy and play.

I would be less confused by it if they were puppies but Kavik will be 4 this December (gosh it is unreal that we've already had 4 years together) and Zaphod turned 3 this past October. Hardly puppies and almost completely out of their teens so to speak. :roll: Oh well, I'm sure it can be corrected I just wondered if someone who had to go back to basics had a timeline or storey.