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Danie11e

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  1. We can walk around town and the estate with no issues as long as there are no dogs. Then when she's off leash dogs are fine and people become the issue. Thinking about it now I don't think she reacts anywhere near as much when I'm out with mum and her dog, so I assume walking more often with them could help get her into the habit of not reacting?
  2. I don't think it's frustration at not being able to go say hi as she's not actually bothered about reaching them, she just makes noise, doesn't really lunge. I shall certainly give the LAT game a go, though I need people she doesn't recognize. Might just have to set up a camp chair at the end of the driveway and wait for people to approach! :laugh: *edited to add* Amax-1: As I mentioned she doesn't look aggressive in her stance, so probably I am wrong in thinking it's not frustration at not being able to say hi straight away and has just learned pulling does no good. We've never been worried about aggression from her, so if anything she's probably picked up amusement at her barking rather than fear from us.
  3. Our 4 month old Belgian Shepherd gets so excited when we're out and about that at times she just can't stop barking. I think she's trying to be protective of us as she does the same thing at home when people come to the door. She'll bark until she realizes she knows them or we answer it. We don't have an issue with that, but we do want to put a stop to it while we're out and about. We can be walking down the street and if she sees another dog she'll start it then and won't stop until she's either nose-nose with the other one or it's far enough away for her liking. Once they're close she generally doesn't even care about them then. If I have the good treats (roast chicken) I can distract her, but otherwise I have to pick her up briefly to break her focus on the other dog. If I see the dog first I can make her sit and give me her paw and then it's all good, but we've done that enough times that I really feel like she should have learned by now because she's been so fast learning everything else! She's the same with barking at people (not dogs) on the off-leash beach. If anyone gets too near to us (about 5m or so) she starts barking until we talk to them or they move away. She'll come to us instantly when called and will stop barking, but will keep on watching. Her tail is constantly wagging and she doesn't look aggressive in her posture, she actually looks like she's enjoying herself and other people find it funny/cute, but she won't always be a fuzzy puppy! Is it likely to be her being protective and if so what can we do to stop her being so vocal about it? Thanks!
  4. Yeah, it's not actually a chew toy as such, but as the OP said soft toys were popular but didn't last long it seemed to fit the bill! :) But with that being said Willow will sit and nibble the ears or chomp on the arm/leg for ages without getting bored. She enjoys chewing knots more than anything else though.
  5. The Kong Wild Knot Bear is lasting us well with our Belgian Shepherd puppy. The parent's greyhound is usually pretty good at destroying soft toys but his is still going strong too after months of playing.
  6. I'm not sure we could fit in too many more play sessions really. She currently gets tired before I do and takes herself off to her crate :laugh: But I'm certainly happy to give tablets a go. It can't be any worse than with Bandit, it takes both my partner and myself and at least one of us ends up bleeding with him. He's a great cat really though!
  7. Thanks for the links! We're heading out round to the parents' for dinner tonight and leaving in a few minutes so I don't have time to read all now, but I shall make a start when we get back (I have already read through the link you posted luvsdogs, that's where I got a lot of the information I was using on amounts to feed)! I have just a few questions to keep me going for her dinner tonight. Also, I just meant the injection =) I don't think I want the hassle of tablets while she's being such a fussy eater! Since not all of the weight in the chicken necks is bone I have been giving her 2 chicken necks with each meal (so 6 per day). I didn't want to give her too many as I read that could cause constipation. How many would you suggest? Liver was making up 5% of what I was giving her, as I'd read that heart could be offal or muscle meat I was using that for the other 5%. Should I change heart for kidney/something else? Lastly, should I be using her current weight or her expected adult weight to decide how much food to give her? 10% of her current weight would be 640g per day while 2% of her expected adult weight would be around 500g. These numbers seem really quite high compared to the 1.5 patties the BARF box says I should feed her (around 340g). Should I just use the pre-prepared BARF food and guidelines while I get my head around all this?
  8. We have had our first puppy, a Belgian Tervuren, for a little under 3 weeks now. She came with some Royal Canin food from the breeder and we already had the chicken necks she'd been having and we kept her on the same diet for a couple of days while she got adjusted to her new home. She wasn't particularly bothered about eating the biscuits but clearly loved the chicken necks, she did eat it all though. We intended to switch her to BlackHawk and so opened a sample pack to check she liked it and she loved it enough that we went out and bought another bag of RC so we could use the BH as training treats as no other treats were of interest to her. With "sit", "down" and "paw" mastered and "stay" and coming to a whistle mostly consistent we decided to start the switch from RC to BH for meals. Problem was all she did was filter out the BH and left the RC... We picked her bowl up after 20 minutes, thinking she'd eat more in her next meal but no, BH got eaten then the rest left again. As she didn't seem to be getting an upset stomach we then just gave her the full amount of BH and it all seemed good. But then a week later (2 meals after opening the 20kg bag, obviously) she started turning her nose up at BH too =( After eating a total of 12g over 3 meals on Wednesday last week I decided to try her on a raw diet, as I had been reading quite a lot of information on them and was considering it as a possibility anyway, this just helped me decide sooner. So off to the butchers I went and came home armed with human grade beef mince, liver and chicken hearts (I already had mass chicken necks!). The most common information I had read was 80% of the total food was to be muscle meat, with 10% bone and 10% offal, and to feed approximately 2% of her expected adult weight. I went with 25kg as an adult weight as a starting point and split this across her 3 meals as I wanted her eating again. Success! She was even growling at the cat when he tried to steal it! Then today I went off shopping with my mum and we predictably ended up in Pet Barn. I noticed the pre-packaged BARF food in the freezer and out of interest started to read the packaging. This then got me panicking as the total recommended amount of that is far less in weight than I have been giving her and has different amounts suggested for different weights, whereas 2% of her expected adult weight is consistent. I ended up buying a box thinking that I could follow that for the duration of the box and give myself time to research further as I do want to prepare her food myself eventually. I had intended to speak to a particular vet when we went for our vaccination on Friday last week, but we saw a different one as I hadn't thought to ask for her. I didn't speak to him about it as English isn't his first language and we don't understand each other as well as we could, but I did book in specifically with the other vet for the heartworm session on the 19th. I was happy to just monitor the situation until then as our puppy seems to be perfectly happy, full of energy and toileting normally but now I am just feeling overwhelmed with information and lacking in confidence to make a decision and stick with it. Any reassurance or pointers towards good information resources would be greatly appreciated, or better yet tell me "do x and y for now then reassess the situation in z weeks"! Thanks!
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