Recent content by yannao

I wouldn't have minded if you'd hijacked the "Beagle Rant" thread, it was just a rant afterall :lol: My guess is the BC owner simply saw the "high intelligence" status and thought, "well she should be easy to train myself!" I think many new dog owners don't realize that the flip side of...

Thanks corbinam, that is how I feel as well, on both the play break and potty training points. To their credit, our friends do recognize the need to intervene when it seems the dogs are getting too riled up. Either they pick up the puppy, we pick up our sheltie, or we both pick up our dogs and...

Our neighbors/friends have a 8 month old beagle puppy. He is stinkin' cute, but a huge rascal. Since they are over very frequently, the beagle and my 2.5 year old sheltie baby meet quite often. The trouble is, the beagle seems to think everything and every dog exists for the sole purpose of...

Fromm's is great! Don't deviate from that brand, instead try reducing the amount to 1/2 cup twice a day, as people have suggested above. Furthermore, if your furbaby is on the puppy food, then it might be time to switch over to adult, which has less fat content. In fact, 9 months seems like...

My furbaby Sherlock says it's great to see Watson doing better and hopes he will be fully well soon!

This literally just happened to my pup a week ago. The swelling wasn't really like a bump, but rather, it looked like his entire snout was subtly different somehow. Kind of like... a lack of definition, if that makes sense. This actually followed a bout of vomiting the night before, and was...

We love it when our puppy Sherlock sleeps with us. Sometimes, when one of us gets up at night, he moves over and claims the pillow, which we think is so cute! He loves to sleep in as well, some weekends he doesn't get out of bed until 11am, and even then it's because we had to coax him off...

My puppy had a sudden aversion to having his nails and pads trimmed too. It was right after he got neutered (apparently they cut his nails when they put him under...) Before then, he was perfectly happy to lie there and let me do my thing. But afterwards, oh man. It's been a struggle ever since...

I think with dogs it's less to do with the air temp than the ground temp since paws and belly are where they expel most heat from. The tile floor that your pooch rests on is probably several degrees cooler so he's probably fine. Have you considered shaving a patch on his stomach so that he can...

Up until two months ago my pup used to be a grazer. Not particularly into his food either. We would put out his morning portion and he would return to it periodically throughout the day, finally finishing it at about 3 pm. Then when it came time for dinner at 6pm we'd set out his food and he...

He's always had some hard to brush out hair on the back of his legs that he did not enjoy me trying to comb through with other brushes. Then I read a review about how the Tangle Teezer does not pull the hair, but instead glides through it, separating the strands, so I figure why not try it out...

I just thought I'd share this, because it worked so great for me. I recently bought myself a Tangle Teezer brush on Amazon to use on my own hair-works great by the way. Then one day as I was bathing my furbaby when I saw it lying there by the tub and decided to see what it could do for him...

I stumbled upon this again today, I last read it over a year ago, before I got my first dog, ever. Man was it tough keeping my eyes dry this time around, now that I know what it is like to have Sherlock in my life. The link is here, but I am copying the list below as well: 1. My life is...

My 5.5 month old just got neutered and microchipped this weekend and I could not be happier! He underwent a laser procedure, which was a little more expensive but resulted in a teeny-tiny incision that is healing beautifully. In fact, aside from a couple groggy hours right after he woke up...

So interesting to hear everyone's opinions on this subject! To be honest it bothers me once in a while to hear the timid comment, but it's more because the person says it in such a way that makes it sound like I'm failing at properly taking care of him. Other than that, I'm very happy with my...