Cala

I have a beautiful smart and really cuddly puppy. He is a Maremma. We have had him for two days and he already knows his name, sit, roll over, back, and stay. He is really soft too. I have a two year old and when he wants pats, he runs up and lays down in front of my son. He is also fully house trained.

The one thing i am having lots of trouble with is that he doesn't want to go on walks. I will walk over to him and put on his lead and he will roll over with his legs waving in the air. If i grab him and put him back on his feet, he starts crying. What do i do?

You have to be patient, some breeds take to the collar and lead more easily than others, I would try putting his collar and lead on..... then pick him up and carry him down the road a little not far from your house, place him down and see if he will walk back home with you, sometimes that is all that is needed to get the stubborn ones started. Don't drag, try and encourage along with food or a toy.

I have a beautiful smart and really cuddly puppy. He is a Maremma. We have had him for two days and he already knows his name, sit, roll over, back, and stay. He is really soft too. I have a two year old and when he wants pats, he runs up and lays down in front of my son. He is also fully house trained.

The one thing i am having lots of trouble with is that he doesn't want to go on walks. I will walk over to him and put on his lead and he will roll over with his legs waving in the air. If i grab him and put him back on his feet, he starts crying. What do i do?

Bum nuggets No never had that problem! :rolleyes:

Yes it's just plaque......... have seen it on dogs numerous times......

Also seen the same thing on a girl of about 20...... she had really bad hygiene issues..... so much for boarding school!!!!!

A great way to teach the recall is with a small stool/chair and a long line...... put the dog a distance away from you on a sit stay, sit on stool with knees apart and call dog into you, if it's a puppy the size of you is reduced and it's not such a daunting exercise. Don't forget to give a nice happy encouraging 'come' when you call the dog and when it comes in praise and give plenty of reward.

I had my border collie on Proban for 13 years and he never had any side effects from it. As stated it's far better than paying $500+ at the vets!!!!!!!!

You still haven't stated what issues you have with it.... apart from the cost....I was going through two bottles a month at one stage.

Is this product still available?

If so whereabouts could I purchase it from.

Thanks in advance

Cheese,

Liver.

Cat biscuits,

Raw carrot...... not my dogs but I have seen other peoples dogs go nuts over the stuff!

Sausage,

Chicken.

Cabanossi

All work well........

I have read the first T-Touch book Linda put out and found it really interesting. I think that there's a lot of use for it. I've tried it a little on my two dogs and learnt that if you do it wrong it's kinda jarring and for my arthritic dog can be painful, but if you do it right it's pretty amazing and the dog just sinks into your hands. Kivi turns to putty if I find the right pressure and the right spots. We have had great success using it to help him with car sickness. I tried it on a couple of anxious dogs I met on holidays and they pretty much surrendered.

The books are good for telling you how to do it and when to use what kinds of touches, but in my experience so far there's a lot more to it. You really have to sync yourself with the animal to get the best results, and that's something that's hard to achieve consciously, I think. My mother is better at it than me and has been taming her new pet budgie with T-Touch and last I heard it was working very well.

It does come off pretty airy fairy a lot of the time, which makes it difficult to take it seriously. I suggest you just think of it as massage. If you've had a good massage you'll know that it's very difficult to resist relaxing. If you've had a bad massage you would know that it can be uncomfortable or even painful. When you are concentrating on giving your animal a good massage you often suddenly discover you are matching your breathing rate with the animal and your fingers are moving to the same rhythm and everything seems to work.

I always use it when teaching stand for examination - guaranteed that the dog will stay put!

Don't know any dogs that have it, but I do know of a person with it!

Im wondering if the dog is actually tuging the toy (being in prey drive) or tugging the food (being in food drive)

I would be worried about tugging of food, IMHO it could create possessiveness behaviors over food.

I dont really understand the purpose of this toy, dogs tug in prey drive so if they are being rewarded with food this isnt developing their prey drive only food drive

And if you are to reward with food because the dog loves food why not just do that direactly rather than via a sophisticated toy??

Or why not just tug with a chicken wing?

Because I would like some fingers left!

We had a Australian Cattle Dog this happened to, it had rained heavily for days on end and her pads had become quite soft, like when you stay in the bath too long! Took her for a walk along the road and after a few minutes she was limping all of the skin on her pads had lifted off. Only ever happened the once.

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After a groomer. Would prefer one in Nambour or Maroochydore. Also will do the hinterland.

A mobile one is even better. I need one who will happily groom a sibe and get all loose coat out - I rang one and they basically told me to f#$% off when I mentioned the breed and that she is dropping.

Thanks in advanced.

I could do the job, but probably too far away for you I am out towards Bribie Island.

If it starts to bleed again, and ears usually do after a couple of shakes, bandage ear firmly in place by wrapping bandage around head and under chin, wrap around a few times and make sure it is firm but not tight.

She has CCD. CD and has just given me a complete minute, no food used.

Gateacre

Kirbyholme

Kelindaholm

Keishaquin

Thank you all for your kind thoughts, at the moment I feel like I have been ripped in two.

I have so many wonderful memories of him, he was a beautiful man and a perfect gentleman when it came to the girls.

Rest in peace my beautiful man, 26. 08. 94 - 09. 09. 08 run free and be happy once again

We will miss you always. for the good times.

My male is barking hard for the female at the moment - but the simple explanation is that she's in season and he wants his way with her!

Hi everyone,

I am trying to get the email address of Karen McCluskey, she has border collies....used to own Flynn and do agility with him. Now sadly he is no longer with us.

I have lost all my email addresses........ If anyone can help please PM me.

Thanks in advance,

Sue

Nice lady and easy to get along with.

My 8 month old English Staffy was neutered 3 weeks ago. He had undescended testes so we paid extra to have them removed as the surgery was a little more invasive than a normal castration.

Something very strange just happened this afternoon though. He walked by me humping the air (something he has never done before but I understand that neutered dogs can still want to hump things), but when I looked down there, I noticed that not only was he ...ahem...very swollen in his privates....it looked like he still has his balls! It looked exactly like how they did before he got neutered....see since they were undescended we would normally not see them, but sometimes they would 'appear' just below his shaft, often when he woke up from a nap. Then they would disappear again, so he has never had a scrotum. So there they were again....two of them, both about the size of a small walnut sitting at exactly the same location as they appeared before he got neutered! ;)

Could it be possible that the vet did not remove them correctly? Or could it be swelling from the operation? I really have to reiterate that the two lumps look exactly like how his balls did before his operation and...yes I copped a feel and they felt exactly the same too :rolleyes:

Has anyone experienced this before?? Help!!!

Don't worry all is as it should be, what you are seeing is the shaft of the penis the 'walnuts' are at the base of the shaft and are related only to the blood pumping action of the penis. (that's the easiest way to explain it, sorry if anyone is offended!)

Sorry for the double post, I don't know how that happened.

My 8 month old English Staffy was neutered 3 weeks ago. He had undescended testes so we paid extra to have them removed as the surgery was a little more invasive than a normal castration.

Something very strange just happened this afternoon though. He walked by me humping the air (something he has never done before but I understand that neutered dogs can still want to hump things), but when I looked down there, I noticed that not only was he ...ahem...very swollen in his privates....it looked like he still has his balls! It looked exactly like how they did before he got neutered....see since they were undescended we would normally not see them, but sometimes they would 'appear' just below his shaft, often when he woke up from a nap. Then they would disappear again, so he has never had a scrotum. So there they were again....two of them, both about the size of a small walnut sitting at exactly the same location as they appeared before he got neutered! ;)

Could it be possible that the vet did not remove them correctly? Or could it be swelling from the operation? I really have to reiterate that the two lumps look exactly like how his balls did before his operation and...yes I copped a feel and they felt exactly the same too :rolleyes:

Has anyone experienced this before?? Help!!!