Comments on: How Much Attention do Dogs Need? http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-much-attention-do-dogs-need/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:25:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sophie Bean http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-much-attention-do-dogs-need/comment-page-1/#comment-5258 Sophie Bean Tue, 12 May 2009 12:39:46 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/?p=1056#comment-5258 First, Thank you for using the picture of me with my kong on the dogster newsletter, what an honor and what a perfect subject for me. I am a huge attention pig. I demand attention all day! Mommy walks me, takes me to the dog park, plays laser chase with me, Daddy chases me till he is ready to pass out, but I still have energy left! That is when the kong comes in, stuffed with wonderful treats, frozen peanut butter or canned food, I am doggie heaven! Mommy used to just throw the ball and I would fetch it...so on and so on,,,but know fetch is a training time, do a trick...Mommy throws the ball, much funnier. I learned to speak, stay down and wave this wave. Mommy has also started the ignore me trick. I don't like it at all, but I guess even though I am very loved, Mommy needs time to herself. Doesn't mean I stop trying, I use the toy in the mouth, ears back and big eye look. BOL! First, Thank you for using the picture of me with my kong on the dogster newsletter, what an honor and what a perfect subject for me. I am a huge attention pig. I demand attention all day! Mommy walks me, takes me to the dog park, plays laser chase with me, Daddy chases me till he is ready to pass out, but I still have energy left! That is when the kong comes in, stuffed with wonderful treats, frozen peanut butter or canned food, I am doggie heaven!
Mommy used to just throw the ball and I would fetch it…so on and so on,,,but know fetch is a training time, do a trick…Mommy throws the ball, much funnier. I learned to speak, stay down and wave this wave.
Mommy has also started the ignore me trick. I don’t like it at all, but I guess even though I am very loved, Mommy needs time to herself. Doesn’t mean I stop trying, I use the toy in the mouth, ears back and big eye look. BOL!

]]> By: Nancy http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-much-attention-do-dogs-need/comment-page-1/#comment-5232 Nancy Mon, 11 May 2009 20:12:42 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/?p=1056#comment-5232 I have a 8 year old Doxie female. She has always been a natural born mommy. She has taken on other female puppies even when she had her own to tend to. She had to have all the pups. We had a litter in Jan and I decided to keep one of the long hair females. Now my Scooter snaps at her, bites her and keeps her and the other pups from the food and water dish. Her personality has totally changed. I lost her Bio grandma a year ago to Congestive heart failure, cushings, her liver shut down, she had cancer and at the end she was full blown Diabetic. She had developed a caugh and now my Scooter has developed the same caugh. She looks sad all the time now. She is totally not the same little girl and she is getting worse. Could this be a sign that she may be ill with something? Or just age and how do I control her out bursts. There will be times she cleans them and lets them lay with her. They all stay close to her. Even the older pups. She is really mean to the babies. Scooter's mommy Nancy I have a 8 year old Doxie female. She has always been a natural born mommy. She has taken on other female puppies even when she had her own to tend to. She had to have all the pups. We had a litter in Jan and I decided to keep one of the long hair females. Now my Scooter snaps at her, bites her and keeps her and the other pups from the food and water dish. Her personality has totally changed. I lost her Bio grandma a year ago to Congestive heart failure, cushings, her liver shut down, she had cancer and at the end she was full blown Diabetic. She had developed a caugh and now my Scooter has developed the same caugh. She looks sad all the time now. She is totally not the same little girl and she is getting worse. Could this be a sign that she may be ill with something? Or just age and how do I control her out bursts. There will be times she cleans them and lets them lay with her. They all stay close to her. Even the older pups. She is really mean to the babies.
Scooter’s mommy Nancy

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