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My husband is an Army reservist and has been on active duty for the last several months. Luckily, he has been stateside and can come home every few weeks for the weekend. Our dog, an almost three year old boxer male, defecates in his crate the morning after my husband leaves. It happens like clockwork. .. [
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Teaching your dog to heel can be a nightmare if you do not train him from the start or in the proper order. I tried for years to teach my first dog, a Whippet/Border Collie cross, to heel without first understanding the breed or understanding the motivation behind ‘heeling’ for the dog.
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I have a 1yr old Aussie who is generally very sweet and friendly. However, he’s aggressive around lawnmowers. I broke him of the habit around my lawnmower by distracting him with food. Now he’s fine around it even without food. I thought the problem was solved but recently he while we .. [
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My jack russell terrier just turned 6 yrs old, healthy, likes to play (alot), go for walks and drives in the car however she is still very afraid of running water(like at bath time or when I turn on the shower to bathe myself in the morning), loud noises and people with hats. Sometimes she .. [
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I have a 5 year old Blue Heeler who has recently displayed a reluctance to come out for a walk or a run which she used to LOVE! In fact she is so stubborn about it she refuses to leave the gate to get out into the park at home. For example today I had .. [
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Good leash manners are essential to raising a well-mannered dog – nothing is worse then a dog that jumps on people, bites on the leash, refuses to walk, pulls (although we cover ‘heeling’ next week in a separate session), or just generally acts like a goof! Walking is supposed to be relaxing and enjoyable, not .. [
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I recently rescued moose a 2-3 year old possibly Portuguese Sheepdog terrier mix. He is the sweetet, most wonderful, perfect dog. So why am I writing you right? Well he loves me so much and is so attached to me that if I leave him he tries to tear the doors and window apart to .. [
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Hello, I am writing with a concern i have about my dog…about 8 weeks ago we bought a boxer puppy, who was 10 weeks old when we purchased him, when we brought him home we kept him in the house for 8 weeks. We thought he was too small to be outside so we kept .. [
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Hello. My husband and I have just adopted a short legged Jack Russell Terrier from the pound here in town. They say he was for whatever brought in by his previous owners but that they left absolutely no information on him including his name. So we brought him home and he was such a sweet .. [
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My dog has an obsession with the ball. It started 2 days ago. She follows you around all the time with the ball in her mouth, and starts moaning and crying like a baby (she NEVER did that before). She is also scared of everything. when i invite her to my room, she wants to .. [
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