pei obssessed

Hippo the hippoppotamus! need I say more?! :lol: She looks like a hippo (all shar-pei have hippo faces :D ), rolls in the dirt like one, and definitely sounds like one :lol:

I'm so glad everything went well for Paddy... [quote name='mouseatthebusstop']I think he got off early for being naughty not because he was well[/quote] Yep, this happenned to us too---Hippo started barking her head off when she woke up (because we've abandoned her and allwed her to be put in a cage), drove them crazy, and when I called to ask if I can get her in the evening as planned, they said, you can get her now, please do :lol:

Hippo eats twice a day (and has a big biscuit against tartar build-up right before going to sleep). Why? Because I hate to see fat dogs and I wanna make sure there is no way this is hapenning to my baby, and because with our current arrangemnet she eats when she comes home from the park and this way she's hungry when off-leash at the park and responds to treats very eagerly :lol: Also, she likes to do a lot of wrestling at the park and I have noticed that if she ate before going there she has so much less energy...and I want her to be able to take those bernese down :lol: Kendalyn, you were asking how do you know how much to feed--it says on the food bag, and depending on the level of activity of your dog, you can decrese that amount or increase it a little.(eg. Hippo's 40lb, and on her food bag they recommend 1 3/4--2 cups a day for dogs 40-60lb. Because she is young, and very active and gets between 3 and 4 hours a day at the park, off leash, she eats almost 2 cups a day and is very slim). Hope this helped :wink:

[quote name='DeafAussieLover']Pei--- yes :( poor boy has no girlfreind sad isn't it[/quote] that's ok, tell him Hippo will be his girlfriend--she's everybody's girlfriend and quite a big kisser :lol:

mouse, it's the end of Wed now--how's paddy doing? you have to come over and tell us :D

absolute favourite: all and any new toy that's not a kong (she hates the rubber of the kong) for the first day. old time favourite: orange ball, not to fetch, just to chew on :roll: [img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TgDeAmUYudIq7QzZYv8RjnIqxUb9uOMoqWj0m0daQSQz59XjrHrbXjLagMqUi*w9MyVu!sv1VXb!3zCxZ3WO4pIJo459VYp4sYD2XvI42q9YKjfMNjVnqg/ball.jpg?dc=4675450796889431760[/img]

The only advice that I have is to excersie your dog a lot more--a tired dog is a well-behaved dog :D and your dog sounds like he's very hyper. If my monster only gets walked for one and a half hours in the morning and doesn't get at least another one-hour walk in the afternoon (which only happenned a few times), she's a terror, she bounces off the walls :lol: If she can run around and play with other dogs, she's the best behaved dog... Now I know that you're having all kinds of problems with your dog and just started obedience--but you can't expect a fix overnight. Keep at it, and you''ll see some improvement soon :wink: Hope some other people can add more useful advice to this...

oh, NEW ideas?!! How come your "book" is a preposterous plagiarism of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"? You're lucky he's dead long ago, otherwise you'd have a plagiarism trial going on for sure! As I said, your book can never work--Swift's satire is based on the element of shock: by suggesting gruesome solutions to the Irish problem he means to raise awareness in society about this problem. By suggesting horrible things, you are just expressing your hatred. Hence, no publishing house publishing your sorry excuse for a book, and you publishing it yourselves. As to me keeping my dogs at home so as you never get to be bothered--I don't know why you'd assume that the beach or the park belongs to you (without dogs) anymore than to me (with dogs). that's it, I'm really done with you because you don't have any new ideas, just hatred.

Kat, how come the yoghurt is good for dogs then? Doesn't it also have lactose?

[quote name='Anonymous'][quote]I do not understand why people assume that Pit Bulls are vicious. [/quote] Are you out of your mind or just stupid? 5 1/2 million people are injured each year by dogs. Hear the screams. The only solution is to hunt and eat the dogs. Find out how!!! [url]www.wastedpress.com[/url][/quote] Oh, YOU, on the other hand, are smart :evilbat: Satire is wonderful, don't get me wrong, except that, in order to work, it has to be funny and this isn't. That you may not like dogs and their owners is fine, but that you are trying to infringe on people's liberty to do anything with their money and time is just scary. Satire is supposed to work toward destroying constraints, and not inventing new ones. That's all I had to say on the subject--you're free to call me names now.

that picture on the cover is horrible--what idiots :agrue:

:lol: Cody's single? such a good-looking fellow????!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Poor Paddy... can he still get fixed if he has an eye infection? I seem to remember my vet checking Hippo's health before spaying her... Hope everything goes well and paddy is ok.

[quote name='mouseatthebusstop'] I through the box a few ft away I told Paddy to fetch Paddy did nothing [/quote] yep, that's how fetching goes with Hippo too :roll: giving us this look--"so you're throwing things, eh?" But I'm glad she doesn't like fetching: I love watching her wrestle with other dogs much better :lol:

I'll get Hippo something edible that doesn't get evryday--didn't anything yet, as I'm really bad at keeping gifts away until Xmas day :lol: I did get her a stuffed candy-cane stick (a stuffed toy that loooks like a candy cane), which I will be keeping for Xmas day, as my monster only likes the toys when they're new :roll:

funny indeed :lol: maybe "pick it up" can now become a command to bring over one of his toys :wink:

we went to the vet today for annual check up and vaccines. the vet commented on Hippo's good temperment (he knew her when she was a puppy, but now she's a grown up--sort of), on her clean teeth, and nice coat (told him that all the rolling in dead things at the park must be working well then :lol: ). after he checked her up and said she was healthy and in great shape, he started preparing the vaccines. Little monster took the chance to try and jump off the examination table (which is at my chest level--pretty high!), but I caught her :D So the vet is taking the different vaccine bottles and syringes and god knows what from pockets and drawers and they're all making crinckly sounds... and Hippo's watching him intently, sitting and giving a paw in the hope of some treats, obviously :lol: After a few seconds, when it becomes obvious that there are no treats there, but syringes, she's at the end of her leash, whining, pulling towards the door to leave :roll: I got her back on the table after she tried to hide under a chair, and she had her vaccines ... and we're happy to report to our dogo family: everything went well at the vet's and we hope we won't have to see him until next year :wink:

1. I like the look of this dog. 2. "The rare dog" site isn't very reliable--did you look at the tens of "rare breeds" they've listed? I don't know if this breed even exists or it's just a made up mix. 3. This website has the shar-pei listed too, although they're no longer "rare dogs", and while some of their information on the breed is correct, I find this kind of advice idiotic: [quote]The Chinese shar-Pei have ac onsiderable need for excercise, but keep them on a leash in public so they do not fight with other dogs.[/quote] after saying (which I agree), [quote]Good Shar-Pei lines will get along well with other dogs[/quote] My point was: based on these contradictions which I've found when reading about my breed, I don't think this website is to be trusted with information about any breed, be it "rare" or rare. 4. And last thing, I don't get it why anyone would need a "protection dog". I don't understand why anyone would need a human-aggressive dog and live with the fear their dog would bite somebody and be PTS... so I don't get it why anyone would create a breed that is "highly aggressive."

can't vote because I think they're tigers :lol:

[quote name='PatriciaT'] She is definitely living up to her name OP - Obnoxious Princess.[/quote] very funny, I'm glad she's gonna be ok... but is her name really Obnoxious Princess? :o

I won't tell her how impressed you guys were with her celebrity--she's already full of airs as it is :lol: Luckychaos, it's funny you like getting this newspaper too :D --Hippo's on pg 9, in the Dec/Jan issue. Patricia, you should visit Toronto--totally cool place, I love it here, and not only for the off-leash places :D

appeared in a doggie newspaper for Toronto, called "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs". Just wanted to show off my calendar girl--don't know if you can actually read her little story too :D [img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0XAD**7gdL5G3zGBLcRg1vjUOiiyfW7rlrEJTkVt0pNTn!rPx*JAQVMzVfrEE8uMcmy99Ik2w9ny!eN3YSFQr1ERXBqGTlEcqPPsqOZc6OPMj5A6OVdPhdTxysdoINyu0KgSBe14ffjM/little%20celebrity.jpg?dc=4675449528755176830[/img]

All I ever heard of is Rottweiler--not Canadian, German or American, unless it refers to the lineage of the dog being Candian etc.

she is beautiful... you can ask them her name and see if she answers to that :wink: also ask them to describe her nose--the colour, that is. the owner should know that she has that lighter line in the middle and her nostrils are black on the side... don't have any other ideas.

Yes, it is very rude--you shouldn't tell any kid "stay away from that dog, it's gonna eat you", but rather "don't ever approach any dog without asking the owner". These are two veeeeeery different things. First case--kid grows up afraid of dogs and hating them (because of idiot parent). Second variant--kid knows how to act with dogs and likes dogs.