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My Buster, who is 5yrs old, just had a MCT removed from his leg. I had noticed it quite a few months ago but thought that he had aggrivated a cut he had gotten in the same spot. When he went for his check up the vet tested it and it came back postive for cancer. They removed the tumor and he...

Although we've had our Buster since he was 6 weeks old, we are dealing with severe seperation anxiety as well and he is now 16 months. I just bought a book called "I'll be Home Soon: How to Prevent and Treat Seperation Anxiety" and the outlined plan seems to be helping even if it is in the...

I was 5 months pregnant with our son Vincent when we brought Buster home who was only 6 weeks old at the time. Everyone voiced their opinion on what a bad idea it was. Once I gave birth to our son, dad would bring home a receiving blanket every night from the hospital with Vincents scent on it...

My two boxers, Buster and Bella, do the same thing. But through training and enforcing the "sit" or "no jumping" command, whenever a visitor comes to the door thier little bottoms wag and they wait for the visitor to pet them and then they go on thier way. We're still working with Bella on...

You know, that doesn't sound crazy at all. Actually, that was what we had intented to do. Friends of ours had also crated their pups together and never had a problem. When my husband went to PetSmart to buy a large enough crate to hold both of them, he spoke with one of the dog trainers there...

Thanks Megan - I'll try that. Anything at this point. But I know it's not so much a crate specific issue because Buster will go in on his own looking for treats. Sometimes, if there are none in there already and he gets no response from us when he sits by our pantry door where the treats are...

Thanks so much for your replies. It's nice to know we're not alone =) Our vet has actually recommended a behaviourlist who we were in contact with but we found her to be quite expensive. So I just purchsed on-line yesterday a book called "I'll be Home Soon: How to Treat Seperation Anxiety"...

Thanks for the suggestion - but we have tried that too. Honestly we have tried just about everything that we can think of and nothing seems to work to break him of this anxiety. We cleared out a large room in the back of our house that seemed the perfect spot for him and he managed to knock...

Hi Folks - Sorry so long - I'm new to BW and the mom to not only my 9 month old son, but 2 boxers, Buster, 16month old male fawn, and Bella, a 9 month old white female w/ Brindle eyes. We just adopted Bella from our local shelter this weekend and she is a real doll! Buster, so far, loves...