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Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Thu May 9, '13 4:46pm PST  So our little chihuahua, Louie is almost 6 months and still doesn't seem to "get" potty training. He is perfectly paper-trained in his tile sleeping area, but doesn't get it that carpet is not grass. He has been getting corrected every time he is caught going on a rug and in fact was punished twice for eliminating on the same rug. He is let outside often, but will pee on the carpet 5 min. after coming inside...and his last pee outside can be only a half hour prior. He knows the grass is where we want him to go and does so as soon as we let him outside. He knows the pee pad is a place to have accidents if he can't hold it any longer. He even whines at us to let him outside to go when he is in his sleeping area. But let him roam the house and he makes the occasional pee or poo regardless of how long it has been since going outside. My theory is that he sees the outside as a *preferable* place to go, but not the only place to go if he can hold it. We would crate train him, but he is absolutely terrified of the crate. He won't even step inside a half-crate with the top removed to take treats from the back. I would rather not go the crate route and put an already sensitive, fearful adolescent through a bunch of trauma like that if I can help it. Help? We have never had this much trouble before and my dad is starting to lose his temper with the dog over it. Clyde only made two accidents in his life and our adult rescues were both completely trained within 2 weeks. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Thu May 9, '13 4:27pm PST  I don't think flexis are safe for big dogs. I walked Clyde using my grandma's heavy-duty flexi (my uncle gave it to her after his GSD passed on) while I was in her large unfenced yard. He had the after-car-ride zoomies, hence couldn't be trusted off-leash yet. He pulled through the lock and nearly pulled the thing from my hand with how hard he was towing me. Most people I see with flexis seem to be fairly responsible with them, my grandmother included. I do tend to walk Clyde in the morning to avoid dogs, so it may just be a case of us going at a time when most of the responsible owners are out for similar reasons. Or maybe it's just that those types don't even bother to leash their dogs at all in my area... my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dogs & Travel > Pet Friendly 4x4 cars or trucks?

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Mon Apr 29, '13 1:30pm PST  A compact SUV like a 4 runner or a trailblazer would work very well. If you want to go full-size or be able to literally drive in anything, a 1987-1991 k5 blazer (what I drive) would be a good choice. You can go anywhere any time and the back seat folds back to make plenty of room for dogs. All are fairly cheap and the blazer has especially cheap and plentiful parts. Only issue with the blazer is that while it gets relatively good mpg it is still an old truck my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Food & Nutrition > Good Quality, Low Cost Dog Food

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Sat Apr 27, '13 8:47pm PST  Oh, didn't know that. Iams was recommended to me for the reasons I stated. Guess I'll stop recommending them for now. :/ Thanks for bringing that up, Sabi. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Service & Therapy Dogs > Has anyone heard of DOGWISH INC. service dogs?

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Fri Apr 26, '13 1:02pm PST  All the posters who are defending Dogwish on here have only one post and all the guest posters who did so joined the day they made their only post. Rusty's bio also sounds a lot like a success story I would expect Dogwish to put on their website, since it doesn't mention much about him outside the context of his SD training program. Sounds like someone is employing a lot of internet PR campaigning. I could be wrong, but... my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Fri Apr 26, '13 12:49pm PST  My next door neighbor is dealing with a situation that might lead up to an event like this eventually. Tired of covering more and more fence to protect his own reactive JRT mix from the neighbor's very angry digging dog, he said he talked to our local animal control officer. From what the officer said, it seems the owner of the escaping dogs is held responsible for any situations their dogs create versus the owner of a properly-contained reactive dog. To top it off, my neighbor talked to the dog's owner and she basically gave him a big attitude even though she is the only one causing any problems. And I live in California, which tends to be infamous for stupid legislation. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Food & Nutrition > Good Quality, Low Cost Dog Food

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Fri Apr 26, '13 12:27pm PST  We've found Authority, Diamond Naturals, Iams Healthy Naturals and Pro-Pac to be decent low-cost foods. My personal favorite is the Iams Healthy Naturals because the ingredients seem to be roughly the same quality as the others, and to top it off, it is by an old company with a big reputation to defend. As far as I am aware, Iams is really good about quality control/food safety recalls compared to other companies so I was excited to finally see them making a line of reasonably good food. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > running around like she saw a ghost?

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Fri Apr 26, '13 7:57am PST  What Fritz said. That is what I'm thinking. Try and see if there is any link between appliances or plumbing and her skittish behavior. If you highly suspect appliances, you could try and shut off your electricity while she is panicking. If she is mostly fine after you shut it off, it could be a sound she is hearing. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Rescue, Adoption & Happy Endings > Rescue groups too strict!

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Wed Apr 10, '13 5:36pm PST  Tell me about it... The main reason both dogs are from breeders is because all the rescues either lost our paperwork or flat out refused us over a small thing that really shouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things. It didn't help that the adoption applications were incredibly long. I'm just glad I have not been demonized for not adopting because we would have if our rescues weren't so inconvenient. Our last two were both rescues. The paperwork was short and the staff trusted us for the most part. But that was mid 2000's and late 90's. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Clyde Ice cubes? YES- PLEASE!     Barked: Wed Apr 10, '13 2:42pm PST  Pinch collars are definitely better than choke chains. One word of caution though. If your dog is lunging or pulling like mad on either, immediately switch to a halter or harness. Clyde managed to mess up his trachea a bit by pulling extremely hard on a pinch collar during his teen phase. And don't be so hesitant about using positive reinforcement training. We tried all the collars you could imagine to correct Clyde every time he strained on the leash. It always worked for one week and then he would start towing me around regardless of how painful it was. He probably could have been trained positively but he is so set in his ways now that he will never be fully trained in that area. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

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