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anyone know of any in the central arkansas area? I feel so bad on wednesday especially, since we work all day then come home for an hour before going to church for a couple of hours. Layla gets left at home almost all day by herself and then we "expect" her to only play for like an hour or two...

I live in Conway, AR and was hoping to take Layla out to a dog park or something this weekend, weather permitting and all, but I'm not really sure where I can or should go. Anyone want to show me the ropes on this one? I'm willing to drive to Little Rock or whereever if needed...

layla is also on chicken soup and loved it when she first came home but now (about 3 weeks later) we have to mix 1/2 CS and 1/2 Pedigree for Puppy's (or something like that) to get her to eat it... I wonder why that would be? I thought it was strange that she took to it so quickly and then...

this is so funny to me, our little Layla gets hiccups all the time! and its funny because all she has to do is drink a little bit of water and they will go away, but she never does. She'll come over to the couch just hiccupping constantly, so I'll get up and take her to her water bowl and I...

Last night was a good night, we put her in the kennel and just ignored her whinning, which I had a hard time w/ at first. But she seemed to get quiet and maybe even fall asleep in about 20 mins or so. She only wailed two other times durring the night. Once to go outside, the other b/c she was...

all good suggestions! She knows that if she wines and is coming out of the crate at night it will be to go outside and then back in (hopefully). The problem we are now having is that she wails at night in the crate, but will fall asleep on the couch. So the last couple of nights we have laid...

Our littlle girl has been so great so far, except when it comes to sleeping through the night. The first night she was in a kennel in the living room and she woke up about every hour. When I would go in there sometimes she needed out to relieve herself and other times she just wanted to know...

I was never saying that it was unfair to crate them, my only point was that a little puppy of 7-8 weeks doesn't have the bladder control to hold it for 8 hrs while we are working. As she gets older then thats one thing, but I was concerned that she would have to releive herself on her bed or...

great question, I've struggled w/ it for awhile now. I at first thought it might be mean to leave her in a crate all day but I would have been fine if there was a seperate place to "take care of business". My solution, right or wrong I have no idea, will be to allow her free roam durring the...

great idea thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to check into that. I would have never thought of it!

I'm bringing a new boxer pup home this weekend and had some questions about when and where to start training. I guess she'll be 7 weeks this weekend and I was planning on waiting at least a month to 6 weeks. Should I wait longer or start sooner? Also I'm wondering which type of training to...

thanks for the advice! Yeah, honestly I totally forgot about locking cabinets and TP and such. She'll be in a bathroom w/ lineoleum(?) so clean up should be easier but I'm sure she'll be wanting to explore the rest of her surroundings, including the toilet and cabinets, lol. As for the...

I have seen different methods of crate training and some suggest to crate her for different amounts of time depending on her age, sounds reasonable and all. But my thiniking with the crate training is that we will basically just use a bathroom to keep her crate in and then put up a puppy gate...

RE: geaux?! Your from Arkansas and Cajun? Sounds like my in-laws, my wife and her family are transplants from LA, but they seem to like AR pretty good now. We had to go back and visit her again this past weekend, which was fun. She seems to be very content when we're around and she even...

Re: thanks for the reinforcement, I think we are going to visit this weekend and the breeder said we could take her with us friday, but honestly everything I've read says that 8 weeks is really the earliest you should get the pup. She'll only be 6 weeks at the time so I'm trying to be...