Recent content by Mike Needham

I haven't posted in quite a while,but this weekend something happened and I am worried about our 10 year old female rescue,she went out to potty Friday night ,and did her 3am potty break like she sometimes does ,and both times she came in (fenced yard) walking fine.Saturday morning when I got up...

Ok My male Boxer just ate part of a dectrotive candle ,not a whole lot of it left a couple of bits the size of your thumb ,and the wick and its base ,what worries do I have ,I don't think it was a scented one but not enough to tell he is acting ok for now ,but what about later ??

Our 7 year old female boxer got Me up this morning throwing up all over the house.I had put her out this morning about 3:00 am and she went and ate poop, she came back in and about 3hours later was sick,throwing up on the living room carpet and in the bedroom .How can I break her from eating...

Our Baby It seems like yesterday that our first Boxer crossed the rainbow bridge,and We were without Boxer loving.Then a friend of ours called and told us about a Boxer in a local APCA shelter .We went to look at this Boxer ,when the tech brought her out My wife looked at her and said "Darling...

Boxer Things We are on our second,and third Boxers Miss Maxie (a rescue)and Mr Zeus, one of my wife's co-workers gave us Zeus. What can I list ,Mad chases arround the back yard (I will have no grass in the yard this summer) Maxie likes to sun on her back with all four feet in the air.Zeus nick...

My daughter has informed us that we are expecting ! one of her customers is giving her a Schnauzer puppy. The Question is how do we introduce a puppy to our two year old adopted boxer Maxie .she has some problems with other dogs ,and the way she plays with her toys i think she has a high prey...

A strange thing happened this morning We all were on the bed and Maxie (our adopted Boxer) was laying at my wifes feet snoozing when we noticed that she had not taken a breath ,We watched and for several seconds (it seemed like an eternity) she still did'nt breath we watched and still...

Red patches on tummy Our miss Maxie also has a red patch that started just as a small aira (about a Quarter size spot) and now has spread to nearly all of her tummy. I can't tell if it hurst or itches but I am concerned that it is something more than it appears to be Mike

Our Maxie girl has started itching,and scratching too.We have wondered if she has allergys or what but she has a rash on her tummy and she has licked her feet till they are red ...I wonder if Linatone would be a good place to start Mike

Maxie girl Hi all tnx for all the good comments We intend to continue with Maxie's training even though last night was rough.Maxie according to the vet is somewhere around 12 to 16 months ????(two vets both put her in that range) she was found wandering with a Jack Russel dont know much more...

Well We took our adopted Boxer girl (Maxie) to basic obedience training tonight .And lets say it was stressfull. We were working on socialization and Maxie was standing at the rear of another dog (which was facing away from her)and she (Maxie)went postal she had growled on and off all evening...

Miss Maxie To tell all a little more about miss Maxie ,the vet estimated her age at about 14 to 16 months . She has a docked tail,and ears but the ears were never "set" I am not sure how to say it ,but the ears don't stand up.she is SMALL compared to our Millie girl she weighed 70 lbs. Maxie...

After a tramatic month(August,having to put both of our fur babys to sleep) fate worked in Her strange way.The wife of one of our motorcycling friends was applying for a job at the SPCA. Not knowing that We had just put our Shepard to sleep called to tell us that the SPCA had a female brindel...

I sit here in shock not realy feeling.My daughter and I just returned from the vet's we took our German Shepard in for her check-up and the vet found she had a uterine infection it was so severe that he would not give Cajin any chance of survival She never gave us any sign that she was sick or...

Millie came to us when she was about 7or8 yr old she crossed at 13