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Oh that's interesting, it's exactly the same material pattern as the Kmart beds we have

No clue what that stands for?? Pet Products On The Web

I hope it's not luxating patellas, because Hugo sits like a puppy too!! I always thought it was because his legs are really short..

Maybe try asking your breeder for referrals. I believe my breeder was offered a special "breeder's" price with JetPets. It ended up about $100 for 3 kilos, I thiiink?

Delivery is same no matter as all books sent fom Uk warehouse, prices seem to be nearly the same as well And another thumbs down here for fishpond,awful delivery time and had to keep following up Does the UK site charge in pounds or USD? i'm curious to know if having the AUD so high against the Greenback works in my favour by using the US site. If you go to booko.com.au and search for the title of your book, it will convert the currency for you and you will be able to see which one ends up cheaper. I find sometimes the US one cheaper and sometimes the UK one cheaper, so this is why there's a search engine available to compare all the options available.

Or they could go to Booko.com.au, which lists every place you can buy the book, ranging from the cheapest to the most expensive in price Jus' sayin'.

But they do a 125% price guarantee, which means they will match the price of the competitor product and take off another 25% edit: Anyways, you're paying much more at Vetnpet than I pay at PPOTW ;) ( http://www.petproductsontheweb.com.au/advocate_000.htm ) I don't buy mine from vetnpet anyway :p I get mine for $85 (with free shipping) for a six pack. Edit.. so yeah.. same price as you pay. It's a Friday so I'm allowed to be slow :p Ooh, who's your supplier? I need names! (Always on the hunt for a bargain)

But they do a 125% price guarantee, which means they will match the price of the competitor product and take off another 25% edit: Anyways, you're paying much more at Vetnpet than I pay at PPOTW ;) ( http://www.petproductsontheweb.com.au/advocate_000.htm )

Pricing is okay but sometimes the shipping costs aren't worth it, even when they use the 125% price guarantee Amazingly enough, the first I'd heard of them was about a month or so ago when I recieved a coupon booklet in my mail and their ad was splashed on the back, lol!

Wait, Zeus is a girl?? You named her after a king of the gods?

It sounds funny but I actually never thought about that. This is something I've always wondered though, with no-bark collars, would the lesson only be applied and only work when the dog is wearing the collar? Or is it something that they learn and you can take the collar off after a week or so and the lesson will stick?

Swedish Vallhunds are frequently referred to as "Valls"

I'd really like to have a red/brown Swedish Vallhund one day. I think they look very cool. But that being said, yellow/grey is also an okay color for me. I don't really have much of a fondness for plain grey Valls, as I don't like monochrome dogs I like a splash of color here and there. I also don't like Valls with dark masks but these aren't very common, so I don't worry about it.

Ah yeah, I remember getting the recommendation from Corvus about that book now It must be fantastic, I'll have to check it out! Corvus, the thing you're doing with Erik sounds a bit complicated.. Especially since I can't be in the yard with Hugo or he'll be focused on me and not the stimulus on the other side of the fence. So I'd call that through the window and go to the door to give him his treat or something? Wait, won't it encourage him to bark if he knows he'll get a treat when he stops barking? If that makes sense?

Are those books? I've been trying clicker training during his walks for when he sees exciting stimulus but it doesn't seem to be working to divert his attention. You could be holding a fried chicken on a stick out for him and he'll still find other dogs waaaaay more interesting and pull to get to them. I don't know how it would help when he wouldn't be barking when I'm outside with him. LAT comes from the book Control Unleashed but this website sums it up http://clickerleash.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/look-at-that-a-counterintuitive-approach-to-dealing-with-reactive-dogs/ I've even been using LAT at obedience training when other dogs start barking - even if not at Ziva, it's like she wants to put in her 2 cents! Click To Calm is a book by Karen Pryor I think I tried recalling Ziva - she would come, get the treat and then run off again - even if she saw I had more treats! So has it been helping you a lot?

Are those books? I've been trying clicker training during his walks for when he sees exciting stimulus but it doesn't seem to be working to divert his attention. You could be holding a fried chicken on a stick out for him and he'll still find other dogs waaaaay more interesting and pull to get to them. I don't know how it would help when he wouldn't be barking when I'm outside with him.

I was thinking about a sonic collar but apparently they have such a high return rate because they just don't work Same with citronella. And yeah, he doesn't like the cat, it's a nuisance. He's had dogs in the yard before and he's okay with them and plays fine, but just that damn cat, he can't seem to stand it. The breeder explained to me when he was young that Vallhunds are very talkative and that usually the barking is him wanting people to come over and play with him. In theory, that could be plausible, since when people stick their hands over the fence to pat him, he's fine with it, just when they're out of reach he goes nuts! I hope it gets better too, thanks

Uh - suggest you re-read that - what I actually said was that in 25 years time they would maybe be in a position to worry about the COLOUR OF THE DOG. And if you read the original post they have owned Staffords for 25 years which is the only reason I chucked that figure in - NEVER would actually be a better time to worry about the colour of the dog. No, I know what you said, it's just, that's sort of how it came across. Harshly. But as the OP said, he was worried about certain color to color breedings (idk, like how a person who owns a merle Aus Shepherd might ask what colors it is compatible with, just for future reference). I don'think he was asking that because he intended to rush off the next day and pick up a certain-colored Staffy from a BYB breeder or something. Again, just my opinion.

Sandra, from what I see as an objective outsider, it's really how the information was put across. In some of the replies, I couldn't see in any way which to read them other than in a scathing tone ("get yourself sorted and THENNN maybe in a quarter of a century you'll be ready to breed!" ). Just my opinion .

Apart from a few slight issues with his behavior while on walks, Hugo is a pretty well-adjusted dog. What we are having a problem with at the moment, which seems to have gotten progressively worse the longer we leave it, is his fenceline barking. Apart from calling out the window for him to stop or sit or do some trick (which he sometimes can't hear over his barking--or choses not to rather, because barking at the workers across the road or the cat that keeps bloody COMING INTO OUR YARD is sooo much more exciting than me), there's nothing I can really do to stop his barking. If I leave the house to be with him or to try and quickly punish him in the act, it stops immediately, so it's not like I can supervise him while I'm outside. I can't be outside with him all the time, he needs some independance. He doesn't bark all the time when he's outside. I'd classify it as maybe 5% of his time spent outside. The problem is that when the stimulus is there and it won't leave, he won't stop the barking until it does. Such as the cat. Oh he can stand in front of that beloved old cat and bark his happy little lungs out for as long as the cat doesn't move, which, considering her old age, is unlikely to happen any time soon (it's a wonder she can scale the bloody fence, the old thing is starting to smell mouldy and there can't be much structural integrity in her little body). But I'm tired of yelling out the window. On the chance he does hear me and I tell him sternly to cut it out and be a good boy, he'll stop, but less than a minute later, if the stimulus is still there, he'll go and bark at it again. For instance right now, he's silently sitting outside chewing his dinosaur bone. No stimulus, no reason to go batshit crazy. Is there anything I can do so as to not have to resort to an e-collar? I considered hiring a personal trainer, but then we come to the problem where he won't bark if there's someone outside with him, so I don't really see what they'll be able to do other than yelling through the window. I'm getting really frustrated here, don't know what to do to stop the random barking. Help!

Well I don't know, I've only ever done that when I had a UTI and it didn't stop until antibiotics. Also never had a dog before, didn't know they had "I need to pee several times during the night" phases. I'm glad it's settled, whatever it was, because I don't fancy the idea of a $100 vet bill just to tell me everything's okay! If it happens again, I think I might give cranberry tablets/juice a shot just in case..

There are several varieties of canine cough, there's no guarantee she caught the variety that she would have otherwise been protected against if she had the vaccine (if that makes sense).There are some research papers that suggest over-vaccination can lead to cancer. I find it interesting that most vaccinations in humans are supposed to protect them from that disease for the lifetime of the human being (80+ years) while we can't expect that vaccinations in dogs can last on a measly average of 10 years.

Hm, we waited it out a bit to see if he did it again and tonight, he slept the whole way through.. bizarre!

Hugo has been doing something very bothersome over the past couple of days. The day before yesterday, he woke me up at 3am to take him outside to toilet, and yesterday, he woke me up twice, once at 2am and another at 4am, again, to toilet. Could this be a UTI? He hasn't had any accidents in the house yet. And he's not a young puppy anymore so he should be able to last the night without toileting breaks all the time (and he has been lasting the whole night up until these last few days). Should this be cause for concern, should I take him to the vet?

They sit on my lap too But it was only a half-hour drive. 4 hours.. uhm... ask if you can borrow a friend's smaller crate? That's all the ideas I have.