Recent content by shells

thanks for the reply! my 7 y.o. - Tyson - is acutally a rescue who i've always thought has some anxiety and seperation issues (but seperation was minimal). we've managed to control them fairly well over the past few years by giving him some structure and not allowing him to perpetuate his own...

hmm, so no one has any advice, huh. i'm at a loss myself. i'm normally the one people come to for training advice too! i forgot to mention earlier that we are also cleaning all pee spots with regular cleaner in addition to an enzyme cleaner, and they are peeing on my laminate floor (i dont...

mine will sometimes do this, and with either one, they usually want to be pet. i know that u shouldn't give in, and should tell them to move...and we will, sometimes...but if i get the feeling that its dominant behavior, i automatically tell them to "off" and sit or lie down. as for the...

i've had trouble with my 2 boys as well. we are not able to go to the dog park like we used to, and now that i have a fenced in yard, i prefer to let them play by themselves. they are so used to each other and play well together. at the dog park, they are their own pack and can be quite...

could really use some advice... i've been crating my 2 neutered boys, ages 5 and approx 7 y.o. as long as i have had them. they are perfect gentlemen when we are home, no destructive behavior, no peeing/pooping as long as we are home (even if we are sleeping or in another room). recently, my 7...

well, he threw up - alot. not too much of an unusual event for him, but it was a pretty harsh vomiting. turns out my husband switched his food up completely instead of the gradual change i usually do. (we've been working on this food switch without any problem for awhile now) i refed him...

Tyler has been occassionally doing something that's downright scary when it happens, and I don't know what to do...right now, he looks like he's licking the air - just continuously licking (like there was peanut butter or something on his mouth), and he acts like he can't stop (usually for about...

i've considered whether he's just been eating too quickly - the thing is, he's always wolfed down his food! we even started feeding royal canin's boxer food because it has bigger, shaped pieces and forces him to chew at least a little bit. he's been eating this way since he was a puppy, so...

does anyone have any experience with hypertrophic gums? i had a consultation with one of the vets at the vet office and i was not reassurred by her answers. she insists that it is not necessary to cut gums (which in my opinion sounds absolutely horrific) until the teeth begin to rot. my...

My baby Tyler (ok, so he's not really a baby - he's 5 y.o.) has always been a bit of an easy vomiter, but now I'm becoming concerned....for the past several days, he has been throwing up at least once a day, usually immediately after eating. We have not fed anything new, he has his usual great...

maybe it's a boxer thing. i have found that the type of food they eat seems to affect the amount of poop they make. The least amount of poop i've seen so far has been royal canin's 'boxer' food. my boys now only poop maybe twice a day. (but then again, i count "one" poop as all poops made...

I have an appointment at the vet on thursday, but I thought I'd ask anyway...My baby Tyler, almost 5 years old, has recently been yelping when getting up from sleeping (or lying down for an extended period of time). The one noise that truly breaks my heart is when my babies cry like this, so...

i actually found that website this morning and the bug guy says its probably mites. the more i read about mites, the more paranoid i'm becoming about my fur babies' food - apparently mites love dog food and like to live in their storage containers! i'm almost disgusted at giving them those...

congrats on your future wedding! my only advice is to definitely bring your dress with you on the plane as a carry-on...you don't want to have to worry about your dress not making it there with you! If you have the funds, I would say go to a nice buffet - all of the casino's have them and...

I am completely grossed out and can't seem to find any information...Does anyone know of some type of minuscule larvae that feeds off of meaty dog treats? I keep my treats in (supposedly) air-tight, plastic containers with snap lids and I found tiny bugs - literally the size of a very small...