Recent content by mavendark

Thanks for all your answers! It really helps me get some clarity when I know what others (who are much more experienced than me) are doing. But I am amazed that you can finish line brushing within 30-40 minutes! Maybe it's because my dog fidgets around so much and I spend 1/3 the time chasing...

Just curious, when you rake or use the pin brush and are not line brushing, you just brush all the way down like you would brush your hair right? No special techniques to that? (Maybe I'm just thinking into this too much...) :P:P

I'm still a bit of a noobie at brushing/combing so I wanted to ask some general questions in regards to maintaining the coat -- 1) How often do you line brush? 2) How long does it take when you line brush? It takes me 2-4 hours per dog (my 50lb non-sheltie takes 4+ hrs to comb and my 24lb...

Great tip, I'm going to look this up and see if I can try it next. I've used the additives for a while already and it is not helping at all. I'm going to probably remove that from the routine and try doing a more routine bone/bully stick gnawing session and try this ProDen thing.

Thanks for all your suggestions guys, unfortunately only one of my pups likes to eat bully sticks. The other turns his nose up at them big time. Their diets in general are very healthy, high protein, premium food, grain free, etc. etc. Even when I give one of my pups bully sticks, his back...

I'm starting to notice little black stuff near my pups' gums and some yellow stuff on their back teeth (only their back, not on canine). Both my pups get both rawhide chews and bones all the time but their teeth is still a bit dirty. There's yellow stuff that I can't scrape off from their teeth...

Something similar happened with our pup at around 1 year of age to his back hind legs. Vet couldn't find anything wrong with his xrays, took tons of anti-inflammatory and pain meds. It helped a little on and off. We took him to see the specialist (Orthopedics). He diagnosed the condition within...

This is actually really helpful for curbing my adolescent's barking as well. For me, not only does my adolescent bark at stuff outside windows, and sometimes at people, he also barks at other dogs too. Unfortunately, this makes it very hard for him to meet other dogs, he scares a lot of other...

I like the chicken broth method, may have to do that if it gets bad. In the last week or so, he actually had a great improvement and was able to pee 3 times outside (on 3 separate days)! Of course I made a HUGE deal about it and rewarded him plentifully. So I'm glad he's improving. Hopefully...

Thank you for all your advice. I've actually tried a majority of the tactics above, haha. Pretty much everything except squatting and peeing in front of him outside. I do have another dog who pees perfectly fine on command anywhere, and Tybalt has watched him do so numerous times. But he...

I guess posting here is probably the most suitable area; I guess my 1 year old Sheltie is still considered a "puppy". :P Ever since we've had Tybalt as a puppy (from 12wks old and on), he's had an incredibly hard time "getting it". It was incredibly hard to get him to not pee on the carpet...

Hmm... For sure he is not fat as sometimes he doesn't finish his meals. I will look up information on dysplasia, but from my understanding, doesn't this happen later on in their life more oftentimes? Possibly...but I have also brought Tybalt to work with me (only him) and he has about the...

Hello all! My 11 month old Sheltie, Tybalt, used to be super hyper and energetic. He would have the craziest zoomies, and we used to have to give him 3 walks a day and then some playing and running inside the house to get him tired out. Now, he is reduced to one walk a day, because at the end...

I am so sorry this happened to you. My puppy was also attacked a month ago by a pitbull (a friend's no less). He lost his eye, and he is only 4 months old. It's hard for us humans to get over it... but dogs are incredibly strong. Plus, I always tell myself everyday that at least he's still alive :)

Thanks guys, it seems I'm mostly on the right track. :smile2: For the most part, I keep them separated when food is involved, but like I said, there are those off 10% chances where Tybalt's treat drops down from his mouth and the other puppy comes in and snatches it before I can even react...