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My wife and I dopted a big boy, one and a half year old, from boxer rescue Quebec the past January. When we got him, he was extremely stressed out and had lost a lot of weigh. But he was such a nice dog we couldn't understand why someone would leave him. He and our female became buddies and had...

sounds like a bored dog Does she excercise enough during the day? Do you leave plenty of toys in the crate? Do you ever catch her in the act and if so, how do you react?

replacement behaviour I found it helps if you give an alternate behaviour when you correct. Example, she bites your hand, tell her it's NOT okay and stick a toy in her mouth. She chews the coutch, same thing. Untill she realises that the only thing okay to chew is a toy. Never play with the...

The fawn on the left is our new boy Buster. We just got him from Boxer rescue Canada and he's just wonderfull. The on in the middle is our java. 11 Month old female brindled. And the one on the right well...that's Sydney!

Harness? Our Java as a pupy had a "pulling problem". No matter what kind of collar we used it seemed she just always pulled as hard as she could on it. Then I tried a harness instead of a collar for walking her. Being a pup, she couldn't pull on it because the harness, being attached between...

We just did the opposite!!!! My baby girl turned 1 in december and we decided that since me and my wife both grew up with a dog it was time to get one. Since becaused we have a kid now, we won't be on the go so much, we'll actually have more tikme at home and it'll give us the opportunity to...

Make sure you use a toy when playing When you play with the puppy, use a toy and make sure you let him know if he bites to high and catches your skin. Don't play with the puppy with your bare hands untill he "gets it". You don't want to play rough with your hands and then try to calm him and...

Do other dogs always get that it's "play" We just got a 10 weeks old female that likes to play rough. So rough that at first we weren't sure she was playing. We're still not sure so we keep an eye on her all the time when she's with other dogs. I've noticed that most other dogs will play...

She's 8 weeks old. This is a picture of her in the puppy pile.