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Really ? please explain Thought the dog was a male, but I assume bitches lose drive when desexed as well. Tis' the reason working dogs are entire, after all. Not entirely sure how I explain it. Remove the dogs balls or girly bits and the dogs drive drops. Do you need a diagram? Rubbish, never dropped my working GSD bred girl's drive at all.

I fasted a 6 week old kitten once for 24 hours, under vet advice. Kitten survived, so did I. You could certainly fast a pup for 12 or 24 hours, but only withold food, still leave the water down.

I have to say I can't fault K9+Katz Kitchen. I ordered the Artemis food yesterday and it arrived today Now lets hope it agrees with the dog

I've just ordered a bag of the Artemis grain free food from Melbourne and postage was only $7 extra to Wangaratta so I am impressed with that bit. Hope the food is as good as the price :rolleyes:

This has gone great guns, wonderful job everyone

Please don't withold water from a pup overnight. It wouldn't take long on our hot Aussie nights for a pup to get dehydrated. If spilling of water is a concern you can give ice for a pup to lick, or drink as it thaws out. Make sure you don't spend all your time with your pup, as hard as that will be. Those first two weeks will have taught the pup alone time is not so bad, don't undo all the good work by always being together for the next 6 weeks. Pups need to learn to be alone too. Sort out where the pup will be staying once you are back at work and right from the time pup arrives home have that spot as the pups spot. Keeping in mind that as the puppy grows you might need a bigger area. I don't see anything wrong with a bathroom or laundry for a summer pup. Don't start habits for a pup that you will not want to continue when he is full grown. I certainly wouldn't be sitting in the back seat of the car with him because one day there will be no one available to sit with him, then what? When he does something cute and funny but a little bit naughty, ask yourself if it will still be funny when the pup is full grown, if not then you need to deal with it now, i.e biting bare toes Love him and have fun with him but remember pups very quickly become dogs.

I have never had a dog suffer from this but everything I have read says let them have a season 1st. Do a google search and go from there.

Hills, please no Fern and I managed a couple of right turns today and we went 3.5 kilometres with barely a puff between us. Not bad for a greyhound and a more mature, very unfit person. In fact Fern is racing around with a squeaky toy ET here we come, it will be my 3rd.

well I would say the companies claim is correct. Haven't done any right turns yet but I can assure you that Fern, who does not have a lot of loose leash walking by my side experience , was gaiting very well besides me on the bike with the lead from the walkydog loose most of the time.

I wondered if it was because she's so long that the back tire might have brushed her as we turned even though I tried to make it a very wide turn. Oh well I have a nice little starters route that I can do that only has left turns. Don't want to put her off too much or she won't go!

I got my walky dog today and gave it a try with my greyhound Fern, on a harness. We did very well in a straight line, but need a bit more practise on the cornering, she was alright turning to the left but jacked up each time we turned to the right. Will have to keep a close eye on her "armpits" until she is a bit more okay with it all. I also had a collar and lead on her. I felt so much safer and more in control than just using a collar and lead.

You both put up a good fight but it was not to be RIP Angus Take care of yourself Danois, you did what was best for Angs

I suggested he put her in her crate cause I knew she was looking for trouble. IMO she didn't need to go to the toilet, she was just being a brat cause she didn't get her way. I do give her lots of praise when she pees outside. This has been going on for over 2 years now. Clearly we're doing something wrong, but hopefully some consistency with NILIF will help matters. why is it impossible for her to have been wanting the toilet in this instance?

my thought too, sore higher up the leg, maybe the shoulder.

very good. I am finally starting to dabble in layers.

Congratulations!

I used on a very timid and skittish dog just to help her cope with living in a home. I think it made a small difference. There was no way this dog could have gone to obedience or anything out of the home, she couldn't cope at all, so it may help your dog.

don't stop at populated places, middle of nowhere, like TangerineDream says, is best

Hi Charlie's Mum, no, the dogs won't know each other. I would have them sleep seperate. It is good for dogs to learn to be on there own. Plus, if they decide to start playing in the middle of the night, it might be quite nosiy! They can always sleep together later on. All my dogs are capable of being on their own. I think it is good for them.

I usually set the alarm so I get up before the pup. I set it twice for the first few nights, then cut it back to the middle of the night only and stop totally by end of the second week. Last toilet trip around 10, then again at 6.30. Plus pups sleep in the crate in my bedroom and if they need to go out you can hear them. I rarely crated them during the day, just watched them like a hawk, didn't get a lot done but it's only house work

I put coats on the greyhounds but never put a coat on the GSD's.

I too second the gold beads. I had my GSD done many years ago when it was brand new in Aus. It worked brilliantly.

So are you are registered breeder and does your girl have main registration papers? Is she a good specimen of the breed? What does her breeder have to say, do they think your bitch is breeding material?

Congratulations. It's exciting isn't it? You need to read up on variable reinforcement, plenty of stuff on the net and I'm sure you get lots of links from people here.

I'd never give something that treats everything. I prefer to use a monthly heartworm that does just heartworm, worm them 3 or 4 times a year. Haven't treated a dog for fleas for several years now so why give them chemicals they don't need?