Recent content by XxATCxX

Can't answer your question but you've given a couple of my own. When you hike with your dog, do you have them on a leash? I would love to take mine hiking with me but I feel like a leash would get in the way. I take her out into the woods for "hikes" all the time without a leash on and have...

And thanks for all the advice and I'll def start shopping around for a trainer in NY!

"Good for you for thinking about this now and wanting to get ahead of the problem before it's too late. The good news is that you have a couple of months to prepare and (I assume) pretty easy access to the new dog since it belongs to your girlfriend." Unfortunately this is not the case. My...

So Cerbi has an issue with being very jealous of dogs that get too close to me. She's usually fine with it at dog parks or other outdoor areas, but it becomes a problem in my house. She's started fights with a couple dogs that I've dog sat who she normally got along with great otherwise (she...

Fortunately I got Cerbs when she when she already potty trained (and had been for quite some time according to previos owner) and she was 8 months old when I got her.

For my own sanity I avoid squeeky toys. Cerbi likes rawhide bones, real bones I get from a butcher, and rope toys. I've tried other stuff but she's not really that interested in it and is perfectly content with a game of tug of war or just general wrestling. Ironically, she will chase a...

I'm glad you asked this when you did because I was going to ask the same question. Enlistment is up in January and moving from Florida back to NJ. My pup has only known Florida heat. Can't wait to see her with her first snow!

Am I the only person who it took a little while to realize the 7 year old was a human and not another dog?

A very intoxicated friend (who Cerbi didn't know) once let himself into my apartment to see if he could crash on the couch at 3am. I awoke to the noise and to find Cerbi just looking from me to the door and at me again wondering what I was going to do about it. She never made a peep.

a dish rack full of freshly cleaned dishes (plates, glasses etc). Cerbi dragged it right off the counter and everything shattered. She decided to make herself feel better by eating the bathroom trashcan. Not the trash in the trashcan, she chewed the plastic trashcan to shreds.

When I was a kid I used to wrestle and roughhouse with our dogs all the time. The dog gets bigger, but so did I. The dog learns what is acceptable and not when it comes to play on their own, no need to really teach them anything other than to stop when told.

Cerbi- I can't decide between "insane" or "retarded" (in the most loving way possible of course)

The under-the-sink cupboard would be ideal, but unfortunately in my house cupboard space is at a premium.

I'll have to look into those locking-lid trash cans. My trashcan now has a lid but it doesn't lock and she figured out she can just knock it over to get into it. At least she has stopped going for stuff in the bathroom. She once ate all my toilet paper and the grocery stores were closed, that...

So when Cerbi was younger (8 months) I had issues of her chewing up stuff and getting into the trash when I would leave the house. My solution, after general discipline didn't do anything, was to just keep her caged when I was gone. After doing this til she was 3, I started letting her out of...