Archerlove

Sounds like Perry and Friskie - Perry owns the garden and toys and Friskie just wants to snuggle and hides when Perry glares at her.

Apart from a few snarls from the CS they have been ok together which is a very good start.I noticed them sleeping side by side in sun yesterday afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!

HaHaHa.Could have guessed we`d come home with her!!!!!!!!! We spent the morning with her talking to the Guide Dog people and letting her run with our CS.All good so far.We have spent afternoon with them at home and have cleared next few days to spend time settling them.The CS is possessive of the garden and toys while the Lab is not too intersted in toys.She cowers when CS barks at her. She was turned in by Guide Dogs as being too frightened of loud noises. She is v. snuggly and loving with us.She has obviously ad a lot of love.

Thanks Dogmad for swift reply. We wanted a female as I didnot want our dear little CS to be humped for rest of her life! LOL

We have had Labs for years and are well aware of their hair situation and other more preferable traits!! After last beautiful girl died 20 months ago wedecided to have a CS as a change but always had view of adding a rescue Lab when we felt the time was right. Our CS is a bit pampered but regularly meets other dogs and visists off leash parks regularly.

I like idea of not making a fuss of Lab for first days and am discussing other points with family. Am off to read this thread again.........................thank you again.

Perry has never seen the point of going for a walk just to walk. Walking to the local cafe for icecream she thinks is a sensible thing to do. Chasing balls or working sheep - definitely fun, just walking for the sake of it she cannot see the point. She is broken in more than one way - she does not particularly like cuddles either. She puts up with them when I put her in the car and she is belted in and cannot get away but she would never initiate one with me, only with other people. Despite this we have a very strong bond and totally love each other.

I`m interested to read through this thread.I hopped on to DOL to ask a similar question.We have a 16 month old Cocker Spaniel female whom we have had since picking her up from breeder at 8 weeks. Today , after a long wait we are going to see a ex Guide Dog Labrador with a view to bringing her home to join our family. We have been on list for a long time and offered a few dogs but the time has never been right-until now. We are taking whole family(3 teens) and the CS to meet her before decisions are made. I am primarily concernd that the dogs get on but also that the CS is accepting of the new dog. Any ideas.?

There seems to be a lot of media interest in Pet Shops v Breeders in news at the moment. I am interested to know if registered breeders sell ther puppies to pet shops at all.

Can you point to some articles? I've not seen any, unless you mean pet shops vs puppyfarms?

Yes ,what I meant was there is a lot in media, esp Facebook atm about puppies from petshops encouraging and supporting a system which maynot be in best interests of the dogs involved etc. Most people will only buy dogs from breeder or from the pounds but stil I find people who buy from petshops despite suggestions they donot.I have been upset recently to find a dear friend,highly intelligent who actually bought a second petshop pup just because she could not wait on the breeders waiting list.She insists it was from a proper breeder who sold to petshop.She may well be correct but I was under impression registerd breeders didnot sell to petshops.

There seems to be a lot of media interest in Pet Shops v Breeders in news at the moment. I am interested to know if registered breeders sell ther puppies to pet shops at all.

You would expect that anyone undertaking breeding of any animal would be better informed instead of taking a stab in the dark. As everyone has said, 6 weeks is ridiculously young to sell a pup and speaks volumes of the breeder, just my honest opinion. Good luck and I hope all works out great for you. Looking forwards to seeing photos in the near future.

Please leave this pup with its mother and litter for another two weeks.Ditto all above.

Hello

I`m new to the Cocker Spaniel thread and am first time owner to a 12 week female English Cocker.All is going well but I would be interested to hear roughly how much I should be feeding her.I am using Ekanuba and following suggested quantities but she seems always hungry.She still has 3 meals a day but we`ll stop soon.What weight will she be as an adult?( she will not be breeding as she is a family pet) and what should she weigh now at 12 weeks? Many thanks .

PS We are off to vet for 2nd needle today so of course I can also ask there.

Thanks for all that.I have a lamb shank in fridge and just wanted to check that it would be ok for her.She is such a little scrap and previously we have had lovely large Labs so she seems particularly small .

I have an 11 week old Cocker Spaniel. Just wondering at what age she will be able to cope with a bone.

Hope

The rice in the diet needs to be reviewed. The standard rule for an anti cancer diet is carbs feed cancer so you will want to remove as much as possible.it is also better if it has plenty of good fats.

The Internet has many anti cancer diets for dogs just google it. Although I found it overwhelming so contacted our holistic vet to help design a diet suitable for Ollie.

I am looking on net but out of interest what `fillers` did you use instad of carbs/rice?

Veges - lots of them.

Ollie's diet was mainly cooked free range meat (or at least human grade - no pet mince). Cooked due to chemo and we did not want him getting ill from raw meat products with a lowered immune system. Cooked and raw veg (carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin, zucchini, squash, broccoli, cauliflower, really whatever I shopped for). He had cottage cheese, yoghurt, eggs, flax oil or fish oil supplements, vitamin C (about 1000mg a day). He liked fruit as a treat or frozen chicken stock (homemade)...

There is a whole lot of diet info out there for anti cancer diets but your holistic vet can offer so much more as they will be treating the dog based on what type of cancer, treatment and other medications.

Ollie also took the following supplements:

Anti-Ox, Lymphodran, Five Mushroom drops, a few different chinese herbs (only while he was having chemo).

He had some arsenica drops and a few other different drops from time to time, depending on what was going on with him.

The type and duration of his chemo damaged his thyroid, so he ended up on Thyroxine after he finished chemo. But the chemo bought him a lot more time with us as well as quality time too.

There is good and bad in all of the treatments but I truely believe that he had such quality of life due to the holistic treatment and quantity due to the chemo...

It is never easy and in our case very expensive but we all do what we can for our dogs.

The rice in the diet needs to be reviewed. The standard rule for an anti cancer diet is carbs feed cancer so you will want to remove as much as possible.it is also better if it has plenty of good fats.

The Internet has many anti cancer diets for dogs just google it. Although I found it overwhelming so contacted our holistic vet to help design a diet suitable for Ollie.

I am looking on net but out of interest what `fillers` did you use instad of carbs/rice?

I second Jodies comments. My lucinda survived well past the prognosis of a few days to weeks to say goodbye. Lucinda was also holistically treated by the wonderful vets at All Natural Vet Care in Sydney.. also by Telephone email and discussion with Luindas primary vet

Good Luck and dont FORGET TO ENJOY EACH MOMENT OF EACH DAY JUST LIKE YOUR LAB IS DOING

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Thank you thank you thank you for replying.ATM we are awaiting appointment with an oncologist on Tuesday at SASH. We live in Sydney.

I`ve already been trawling internet( and resding Staffyluvs story) in a bid to help our beloved girl.I`ve switched diet from normal dry dog food to fresh meat, rice etc.Luckily she loves fruit too.She is currently perectly normal bar a hugely distended left eye. I cannot believ that a swift death is approaching. We willmdo eveything we can to help her.

Hello urgently seeking any advice which may help our 18 month old Labrador.She developed a swelling beneath her eye 10 days ago which has been diagnosed as an anaplastic sarcoma, a malignant aggressive cancer .Of course we are in shock and are exploring all avenues to help her.She is otherwise healthy and normal at the moment .

That was the first time I`ve uploaded a picture to DOL.Got so confused I did it twice!!!!!!!

This is my inner thigh(!) after an altercation with a little Staffie at an off the leash park.

We`re just dealing with the toilet training.Our 13 wk old Lab girls seems rto be going all night with no accidents.She sleeps in laundry and I put her out 10.30pm ish and then 6.15am ish.Hooray! Prior to that i put newspares down and she would merrily pee/poop on them at night.Now she sleeps in smaller area with no papers .Dogs will not soil their sleeping areas.

During day she is in and out of laundry/kitchen area as much as she wants and never does anything on kitchen floor. We are amazed at how easy its been so far.Good luck

We don't want to give him chicken bones - the idea is to give him a big bone that's going to keep him occupied but not having any choking hazard.

He chews on rawhide bones but only under our supervision - we would never leave him alone with one.

Pardon my ignorance.Do dried pigs ears pose same threat as rawhide bones?

I was thinking this same thing this week. As Sidsam has only just had his first round of vacc I am not sure if it is safe to take him out. There are a lot of big dogs in our area, and my little Staffy might feel quite intimidated by them as we walk past.

i would carry your puppy if you do take him out. Most puppies have NO immunity after the first vax only. Are you in a parvo area?

Wait until he has finished the course of vaccination

How do you know if you`re in a `Parvo Area`?

I`ve recently come to the conclusion that one way to make teens think about what hard work hiuman babies are is to get them involved in puppy care for a couple of wweeks.We had a Lab before our children were born and later got a recue Lab so they have never been involved inthe puppy stage. Until now.Lab Emma has arrived she is ultimately cute and we adore her BUT she is hard work. The children had to sleep with her first few nights as she cried. She requires 3 meals a day.At first we were softening her kibble.We cannot leave her alone unattended. Often our children(now 16,13,9) are on PC or busy and I remind them they have to watch Emma in the garden. The first few weeks I couldnot relax as she was so small and I had nightmares of her getting into(secured) pool or getting under fence or being pecked by the massive crow that sat on roof eyeing her all one afternoon.Tho they never complain when i ask them to watch her i can see them thinking `Hmmmm!Didn`t know shed be this much work!`One of us stays up late to put her out before bed.Then one of us comes down early to clear up the nights poo etc and give her breakfast and put her out. We cannot be out away from house for too long as she needs to go out and we donot want her left alone in house. She is not yet vaxxed so cannot come out anywhere exciting yet. Really she is a huge tie and a major commitment.Obviouslys he gets older she will be a little less work but for now she is and the children are suprised. I had wanted to choose a rescue but they insisted on a puppy. I`mdelighted with her, we all are as she is truly a little bundle of joy.She loves to picked up and cuddled lke a babay tho at the rate shes growing that wont be possible much longer! Ceratinly anyone thinking about the commitment of a baby would get a little idea from puppy care..

There is nothing quite like the beautiful face of a black labrador.

Fantastic photos.Esp the black on the red background.What alovely Lab.

I often think Labs look sad.We are on our third Lab ( in 15 yrs)and all have been the happiest, adored loving chaps but in photos they all look sad for some reason.

Labs will use a clam shell in any weather. Mine have one permanently set up and it gets used every day. they seem to run through it every time they go past it! (It is permanantly muddy too, within 1 min of cleaning they are all in there ruining my efforts )

Yes Lab puppies are hard work, but well worth the end result if you are willing to put in the hard yards to start with. I don't know if its because i have little kids, but I haven't found the puppy stage as terrible as some. At least they outgrow the "baby" stage in a year or 2!!! My toddler has me at my wits end, I'll take the labby puppies over her!

If you are too worried to leave him at home alone, maybe you could get a run or something to contain him while you are out. You will only end up resenting him if you can never take your eyes off him. A run may be better than something you build to divide the yard as it would probably be more heavy duty. We have been through different things like dog mesh etc, but they don't last long with the weight of a labrador on it. It will make him learn to occupy himself too.

Have you read the book "Marley and Me?" It is waaaay better than the movie. Lots more detail.

Having wept thro` the movie a couple of times my children and I are laughig ourway through this book. We are lucky enough to have recently got a beautiful yello Lab and we can see a few similarities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know of a 8 week old puppy who fell in a pool and died

i hate pools

+2

10 week old labrador puppy. Drowned in the pool.

Youngest child found it.

OH NO HOW DREADFULL. I`m so sorry.After a child it is the worst scenario I can think of.Hugs for you all.

I`m relieved that Emma is now too big to fit thro` the pool bars.Soon as the weather is warm we`ll make sure she can swim ( this is a Lab!!!!!!!!) and how to get out safely.I`m thankful ther are shallow steps to the pool allalong one side.