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we are looking for a new puppy, but would love an easy crate trainwe are looking for a small, lap dog that is very loveable and enjoys being mostly inside

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Between physical corrections and physical abuse? For those who use, or have used, methods of physical discipline when training your dogs, do you believe it has caused any adverse behavioral problems? Is it truly unacceptable to use physical corrections when training your dogs?Thoughts? Opinions? Arguements?Poodle, that’s no good. The crate should never be used as punishment.Poodle, that’s no good. The crate should never be used as punishment.

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i would like to know the easiest dog breed to crate train…please help

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We have a beautiful 4-year old black and white cocker spaniel. The kids LOVE her and I must say I’ve grown attached to her as well. My husband, on the other hand, can’t stand her. His problem is that when we got her from her owner a year ago she was supposedly “potty trained”. I’ve been working with her all year and she finally only messes in the house maybe once a week. The problem is that ever since we got her I noticed that her stool is always liquid. A few months ago I took her to the vet because there was a small trace of blood in her stool and she looked visibly sick (shaking, red eyes, throwing up). They ran $400 worth of tests and found nothing. They put her on steroids, and we’re still on them. She was doing better at first, but for the last week she has begun having bloody stool. I’m not talking traces of blood, but clots and sometimes with no stool present. It will just come out of her without her knowing. To appease my husband I’ve been keeping her mostly outside. However, this morning I let her in to go to the front door to walk the kids to school and it just poured out of her. This has been going on for a week. The vet has already told us she can do nothing without taking a gut biopsy, and we can’t afford that. I’ve called the previous owner and her parents, but they won’t take her back. I’ve listed her on Craig’s List, called the local shelters and tried to contact the Cocker rescue, but they’ve closed. I don’t see an option other than to have her put down as surely she must be suffering losing all of the blood. I guess I don’t know what to do (we were assured she was a healthy dog when we took her), we don’t have the money to fix her, and if I do take her in to be put down how do I tell my kids?????

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A good friend of mine has three cats, and she is going to get a German Shepherd puppy. I’m not trying to be mean but I think she might spoil the dog! Her three cats are spoiled and overweight. She lets the cats eat as much as they want, and what they’re eating isn’t even healthy. I’m not sure what pet food brand she feeds them but I think it’s a BJ’s brand, cause that’s where they do all their shopping. And I can tell the food isn’t good for the cats. Like I said, they are all overweight, and they constantly throw up. I’m worried that once she gets the puppy she’ll feed it low-quality pet food. I”m been doing alot of research on the breed (German Shepherd) and they are prone to bloat, which may be caused by dry foods that contain fat as the first 4 ingredients, and I love my friend, I really do but honestly.. she isn’t very smart. She even said that if the dog nips one of their cats, she’s going to put it to sleep! She’s kind of impatient, and I’m worried she’ll give up on the dog trying to train it, and just get rid of it.I don’t know why, but this really bothers me. And it’s not even my dog.Wow, I wasn’t expecting all these nice answers. Thanks guys.

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I have a 3 1/2 month old female Bullmastiff, very smart and very stubborn. She was the alfa dog in her litter. When I place her on the leash, she lags behind and puts her nose to the ground. I have tried both the 10ft (to keep her at my side) and retractable leash (to allow her to lag a bit behind and sniff). However I don’t know what to do. I also have her brother and he was quick to train to walk at our side. I would like to be able to take both dogs out for a walk in the morning and evening without having to take 2 walks (one for each dog). I have started to give her extra time in taking her out by herself in front of our house on the street and work on getting her to come and praising her profusely when she does, but I’m wondering how long this alfa sniffing the ground female butt to the ground thing is going to last. My hubby is thinking about a choke collar (which I am against). I just want a pleasant experience when walking. Any guidance would be grateful!She is on a harness leash.

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We recently adopted a 9 week old puppy and she has not had an accident in the house in the 2 weeks we’ve had her, my other dog was very hard to potty train, but this one is so good it’s scary. So do you think this is possible? This is Bella. http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo77/tracyzaske/DSCN8946.jpgMy other dog is a 12 year old Pom.My other dog is a 12 year old Pom.

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I have been thinking about this constantly, about a month now. I hate my job, which is early in the morning and I train jiu-jitsu late at night, so I can never sleep, plus my coworkers are old and mean, and it only pays minimum wage. It gives me just enough to stay there and not leave, by draining my energy and giving me just enough money to live like a dog. I hate it!Anyway I am a recent college grad, what do you think about this: I want to start a private music studio in my apartment. If I put in my two weeks notice, I have three weeks pay to get it all set up before I am out of work. Do you think that is enough time to establish enough students? Any marketing strategies? I want to advertise online as well but I don’t know how.

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How many find it effective to use a small radio or tv for some backround noise while crate training your new puppy? I’ve crate trained before, and have been at the stage were the puppy must be ignored while yelling, and yes they eventually stop. However, I was wondering if maybe some backround noise would make it even easyier and quicker for the puppy to become comfortable and not carry on while in the crate. Anyone try this? I’m curiouse to know what your results were. P.S I know about the whole little blanket from home, toys, all that jazz, I’ve trained many dogs, this is just something I’m thinking about trying on my new puppy to make crate training that much easier and more effective, so all I want to hear about is if this helped you out a little bit or not. Thanks guys and girls!

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I have posted this question yesterday but didn’t get much feedback so posted it again.I want to start rescuing Siberian Huskies (And other sled dogs) but I want to look into it a bit more first and was wondering if anyone could help me out by recommending places I can go or books I can get or websites about it (UK)?I have 3 Siberian Huskies now and I have completely fallen in love with the breed and I now that there are alot of people who take on a Husky without realizing how demanding and dominant they can be (and powerful) and then they will just abandon them or abuse them!For this reason I want to help out rescue centres by offering them a helping hand. For example, if they have an abused Husky who is nervous/aggressive towards people/dogs, I will offer to take the dog on and work with him/her to help them gain their courage in people/dogs again and train them and keep then up to date with any medical treatment (flea, worming, other medications), and obviously give them all the general care they require (grooming, feeding, walks) as well so they will be more appealing to potential owners. I think that makes sense.I am going to enroll myself into a dog training course and have already done 3 years at college studying Animal Management and Care and I am also going to get a job at pet superstore and volunteer at a dog rescue shelter and kennels before I did start to rescue huskies first. Am I going in the right direction to do this?Thanks

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Ok so my Chihuahua is 1 years old and he pees on everything including my couch and its hard to get that smell out. i have tried yelling at him and locking him up but he goes right back to doing it. Please help i don’t know what to do anymore.

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My dog barks too much. She just started this last month. She’s an 8month old Pomeranian. Since she was little, she always look out from our screen door. She used to just look outside, now, she barks at every single thing. Like, when someone passes by, or when she sees our neighbor’s dogs, she also barks when she hears another dog barking, when a paper or trash flies by near our door. My kid neighbors visits my dog everyday, looking at her from outside the door. My dog used to like this, now, she even barks at them. Sometimes, I don’t even know what she’s barking at! This is driving us crazy! What I do is, to stop her barking, I’d carry her somewhere around the house, but, as soon as I let her go, she’d go back the door, and often, continue her barking. I just want to know other tips to train her not to bark at the simplest things. Anti-barking collars aren’t my option.

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