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RE: Which Sr. Dog Food would you recommend for Harlee
I'm not reading it.... just the name makes my teeth hurt!
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05/23/12 10:22pm |
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RE: Proposed USDA rule change internet puppy sales
There's also the alternative... if you're looking for one... of having the new owner fly in, meet you near the airport to take possession of the pup and do the paperwork, and then fly back with the pup. That's often as cheap and sometimes cheaper than sending an animal alone, anyway, and if you would take the pup to the airport to ship, it should be no more trouble for you.
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05/22/12 11:53am |
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RE: Proposed USDA rule change internet puppy sales
Oh, I guess I didn't figure that you'd only give them a single day when they could pick up the pup. That does make a difference!
Usually when I do something like that, I look at my schedule and work it in where I have a couple of days free. Which should happen within a given week period or maybe two weeks. In the past, the people here who have gone to pick up dogs have worked with the breeder to find a mutually agreeable pick-up date, so I sort of figured that was the norm.
Not that I wouldn't consider any of mine worth 5K.
If someone doesn't have two days off in a two week period, then I personally would wonder if their life is in a place where they're ready for raising a brand new puppy.
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05/22/12 11:49am |
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RE: Which Sr. Dog Food would you recommend for Harlee
Have you done an xray?
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05/21/12 11:32pm |
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RE: Proposed USDA rule change internet puppy sales
Interesting, but I have to say.... and maybe I'm crazy, I did drive to Alabama to adopt Hal, but seriously.....
People are going to expend the time and effort to find you, go through a screening process, get on a waiting list, and finally the puppy is available that they're planning to have as part of their family for the next dozen years or so......... and................... a five hundred mile drive is too much?????????????????????????????????????????????
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05/21/12 10:43pm |
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RE: Which Sr. Dog Food would you recommend for Harlee
Often what dogs do when they're being fed too much is they don't want to eat. They get picky. And they may experience digestive upsets, simply from overeating. Harlee is looking pretty round and that's not a number she probably needs to be at, and it might be that she's just getting more food than she needs.
I had a friend whose overweight dogs were refusing meals on a daily basis. They'd normally eat breakfast but often refuse dinner. At both meals if they ate, they'd dawdle around and wait for the other to eat and so on. She cut their food in half at each meal. Suddenly they were hungry at their mealtimes, ate without drama and rarely do they refuse a meal any more.
What's more, they both dropped a lot of really unhealthy weight. They feel better, are more active. Old joints do not like lard!
I realize this seems harsh, but here's the deal. You can search high and low for the perfect food for an older dog with a history of pancreatitis, but if she's eating too much of it, it will be a problem no matter what she eats. I'd really consider cutting back on quantities, starting at least with a twenty-five percent cut in food intake.
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05/21/12 09:00pm |
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RE: Which Sr. Dog Food would you recommend for Harlee
How is Harlee's weight?
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05/21/12 12:22pm |
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RE: Which Sr. Dog Food would you recommend for Harlee
There is a food called "Gentle Giants" that is produced under the direction of a CA dog rescue by that name. The rescue focuses on giant breeds and is run by Robin from the Batman series.
Here's a link:
http://www.gentlegiantsrescue.com/care-and-feeding.htm
It's lower fat than many, so it shouldn't cause pancreas issues. I think some Walmarts carry it, though not mine. I know all Staters are carrying it. If it's not available where you are, they do online ordering. Anyway, it's something to consider.
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05/20/12 01:19pm |
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RE: Just for fun... jump rope dogs
Very cute! I really have to find out how one trains a dog to jump rope sometime.
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05/19/12 09:06pm |
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RE: help with fleas please
Sounds good and if they get built up again I guess you can wash them again... or maybe do it when you capstar mama. It's hard when you've got tiny babies that still need mama and she's not tame. The fleas can really deplete them if they're badly infested, not to mention the tapes that they'll inevitably have. Still, with some help they should do okay until they're old enough to treat and clean up and hopefully find them a home.
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05/19/12 07:24pm |
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RE: Easy-to-digest calories??
Awesome!
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05/18/12 10:40am |
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RE: Traveling w/ a pet, check this out
The news story helps to flesh things out. What a horrible thing for them to see and it infuriates me on a number of levels. It does illustrate one thing that is an issue with the term "pit bull," which is identification. "Pit bull" is a term that refers to staffordshire terriers, and dogs used for fighting. A ninety pound dog has nothing to do with either of those groups. A ninety pound dog is a mastiff mix, in all likelihood. It may or may not have pit bull relatives somewhere in the mix, but it isn't all or mostly pit or it wouldn't be ninety pounds. Fighting dogs such as the ones taken from Vick's place, are mostly in the 35-45 pound range. Staffs may be bred bigger over time, but when you're looking at a dog that big, you're not looking at a pit unless it's just super obese, in which case it isn't going to flying out of trucks to attack anything.
And the problem with that is that it happens, "pit bulls" get blamed, "pit bulls" get banned, and a person with a mastiff that weighs as much as they do can walk into a place with that dog, poorly socialized or vicious, while my actual pit bull.... who spends part of each day lying on the ground so the chihuahua can maul her more conveniently, and who will top out at probably 45 pounds... is not allowed. Dogo Argentino (that's the breed of the dog that bit the reporter in the face)? Well, that's a mastiff with papers that say it isn't a "pit bull, although most people can't tell the two apart. Ditto American Bulldog, often confused with a pit bull. Most people don't even know those breeds exist, so when they see those dogs, they think "pit bull."
I've seen shepherd mixes that bit people on television, being called "pit bulls," so it isn't even limited to dogs that bear a resemblance. Animal control officers are often guilty of this, but some also complain about the problem with people in the field. It's a lot like the story about "Hey Sarge, how do we tell if the person killed was Viet Cong?" Answer.... "If we killed them, they were VC." If a dog bites someone (and the study Mark posted notes this) it is automatically a "pit bull" in many people's minds. So any time anything that looks remotely like a pit bull does something awful, real pits with responsible owners are made to suffer for it. Idiots who want an aggressive breed will simply switch to another breed that isn't banned.
Which is why breed bans don't work. Miami-Dade has a breed ban, their bite statistics are worse than neighboring Broward County, which uses laws that target specific behaviors related to proper care and control of dogs and dealing with dogs that exhibit aggressive behavior.
The issue of population is also part of the problem, where the dog is actually a pit or pit mix. I don't know who came up with the idea that pit bulls and mixes are "five percent" of the dog population in this country. Out of four buildings in Lancaster shelter, they occupy two. They are ALWAYS unaltered. My local shelter is also over-run with pits and pit mixes. Identification can also be a problem there (we've seen pointer mixes id'd as pits..., and a number of other breeds and mixes) but there are plenty of the real thing and the irresponsible owners whose dogs end up in that shelter are not the sort who fix them.
The reason there are so many is that they are all left unaltered, of course. Okay, not all, just the ones who belong to idiots. And that goes along with the statistics in the report Mark posted. 95 percent of serious and fatal bites involve an unaltered dog. It's a HUGE risk factor. So with so many people who refuse to fix them, they will A)be more likely to attack as individuals and family groups (pack attacks) B) be more numerous, C) be more likely to be out of their yards and running loose to attack people.
But all of that applies not just to actual "pit bulls" but to the other breeds that people get in place of pit bulls. The dogos and the ABDs in the shelters aren't fixed, either.
If you want to attack the problem, getting dogs spayed and neutered is the one place where you can be sbsolutely sure you will have an impact. San Francisco has mandatory spay/neuter for pits, and they've seen a drop in incidents as well as a drop in the numbers of them in the shelters. This is a good thing, but again it leaves other breeds to take their place on the most overbred list. I'm in favor of mandatory spay/neuter laws for all dogs, absent a breeder's license or a permit for show dogs, and that should require education and a facilities check for appropriate housing and containment of unaltered dogs.
Requiring a muzzle on "vicious" dogs is only effective after the dog has attacked and injured someone, and laws and rulings like that already exist. They don't do any good because they allow all of the behaviors associated with irresponsible owners and at-risk dogs to continue until the damage is already done.
But there is another place that can have REAL impact (vs. just trying to "make it go away" as breed bans falsely promise to do) is with is by having laws like they have in places like Florida, Louisville and other areas. These laws allow animal control to intervene when problems are reported with a dog that hasn't attacked yet but is not being properly contained, shows aggression, and so on. Those laws are associated with lower bite rates, where breed bans are not.
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05/17/12 06:24pm |
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RE: Eye infection Won't Go away
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..... I assume the vet has looked at the eye closely for any injury?
With a cat, you'd probably be talking herpes and I've used colloidal silver, and another time a probiotic solution (one that's safe for eyes), to help clear the eyes up on the cats, along with L-lysine.
On my lab/deerhound mix, I did have a problem called German Shepherd Pannus that involved eye irritation possibly caused or aggravated by allergies. She now gets 3 caps of quercetin/bromelain every day plus two fish oil caps and that plus a few weeks of the steroid drops in the eyes (can I just say UGH?) cleared her up permanently, although the condition is often chronic.
I've heard things about a liquid called Vetrycin, which is advertised as good for eye issues.
Other than that, maybe a specialist or a holistic vet could be of assistance.
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05/16/12 09:10pm |
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RE: help with fleas please
So you wouldn't capstar the mom, either?
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05/16/12 09:02pm |
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RE: help with fleas please
Yeah, that's a quandary. We need Doug!
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05/16/12 07:27pm |
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RE: help with fleas please
What I do is a twenty minute soak in soapy water. Mild shampoo, no toxins. You should have a flea comb on hand and tweezers to remove any that head for the face. You MUST control body temp and keep the little beasts warm. I've put the back end in a ziplock bag to hold in the water.... they don't have to be swimming in it, but they do have to be sudsy and wet to the skin.
After twenty minutes the fleas will have drowned. The wetting effect of the shampoo keeps them from just staying in a bubble for that long.
The problem is that unless you do something about Mama, they'll be covered again in a couple of days. She needs to be capstarred (if that's safe) or something. Unless you take the kittens away from her.
Hmmmmmmmmm....Doug?
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05/16/12 06:31pm |
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RE: Traveling w/ a pet, check this out
?? "Check this out."
Are you selling something? I'm a little confused about the agenda here. You don't post here, you just showed up to link something controversial/upsetting, that contains NO useful information, on another board.
And you used wording that is let's just say, not consistent with someone who is upset, but sounds more like you're talking about a funny video.
Who are you advertising for?
Get it now and save yourself thousands in Vet and Dr. bills, new Aggressive Dog Repellent, operators are standing by.
Wouldn't that be nice, could save lots of money and pain.
Again, I find the tenor of your remarks quite puzzling, and it makes me think we aren't hearing the whole story here, or that there is another agenda. If this was, as alleged, a dog that belongs to friends, then you should have known this dog. Further, that you would take the time to post this on not one, but on (at least) two forums, would create an expectation that this is something you are upset about.
And yet, while you're clearly trying to start controversy, you are quite flippant about it and nothing in anything you've said is consistent with learning that a dog you were fond of has been brutally killed. Beginning with your post here, your other posts on the other board, and your reply to me.
I'm sorry that someone lost their dog, if that's what happened. I'm not so sorry for you, because you don't seem to be particularly in pain about it.
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05/16/12 06:24pm |
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RE: A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
You need to see a doctor. NOW.
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05/16/12 10:15am |
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RE: Traveling w/ a pet, check this out
?? "Check this out."
Are you selling something? I'm a little confused about the agenda here. You don't post here, you just showed up to link something controversial/upsetting, that contains NO useful information, on another board.
And you used wording that is let's just say, not consistent with someone who is upset, but sounds more like you're talking about a funny video.
Who are you advertising for?
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05/16/12 10:12am |
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RE: Proposed USDA rule change internet puppy sales
I'd like to point out that the "Federal Gov't" is the Very Same Government that runs our highly regarded Military...
Not everything the Feds do in our names, at our direction, and with our consent is wrong.
I totally agree with this statement in that we have the best military on the planet and I am proud of what they do. We also have the most expensive military on the planet. I would remind you that this is the same govt that is supposed to secure our borders and stop the flow of illegal drugs in our society. Do we want them in the pet business too?
Regardless of what we "want," the federal government is already in the pet business, because they license the breeders, aka puppy mills. And short of states creating major hassles for pet owners wanting to bring their own dogs into the state, the the federal government is really the only entity that can regulate interstate sales effectively.
How effective it will be remains to be seen. A lot of times stuff like this is not enforced, rather when an issue comes to the attention of the authorities, it provides another way to go after the offender.
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05/14/12 03:49pm |
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