Dog Lovers
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eclecticsynergy
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rolandson
Dr. Stratster
I adopted a neighbor's golden in the 70's (said neighbor having no budiness having a dog. His name was Barley.
He did the same thing. Three balls. Giving him a fourth was always hilarious because he would never give up.
That is the face of absolute contentment.
A happy dog.
Would like to think @ChatNoir would be seeing this...
rolandson
Dr. Stratster
A 12 lb Blue Belt...!
LOL! It’s a body suit that is pulled up so he could do his business. He had to wear it for a week to keep him from messing with his incision after getting neutered.
Is the body suite Sonic blue or Daphne blue
NobodyReally
Senior Stratmaster
Long range sensor array online..scanning...scanning...no danger detected. But I smell crunchies....
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Oldboy
Senior Stratmaster
BUSTED!!
eclecticsynergy
Most Honored Senior Member
Brody and his buddy at the pet resort today...they have such personality in their eyes, lol
I just love his big mouth... wonder how many toys he can fit in there... LOL
Also top left, looks like a Silver Lab... !!!
We had a bit of hard time lately with my youngest one (Sky)...
To make a long story short, she came to me on a Saturday morning after her meal with severe anxiety. She truly was unmanageable (consolable)... Come to Monday, it wasn't improving so we feared internal pain of some sort and paid a visit to our vet.
She checked out OK, but severe anxiety was the diagnostic and our Vet gave us a regiment of pills to bring her back to a manageable level. So we followed instructions, and started re-enforcing good behavior (relax mode)..
We went through the bottle of pills but 2 (About 2 weeks), they are not addictive so we could just stop. Since, she's been OK, we still work on separation anxiety (My wife and I work from home)... but she's still young (turned 1 yo last mid-may)...
In 2 weeks, we'll get her sterilize, which from experience, always calm them down a bit more...
Hopefully that does the trick. My wife and I both WFH and our boy is totally used to that so when we would leave him alone for more than a few hours he would get very destructive. Thankfully that has subsided a bit as he gets a bit older but ya, having a pet that has anxiety is no fun.
We love Brody pics!
And Sky pics too!
Working dogs can get destructive if they get bored. Keep them occupied with a task or four.
We just felt hopeless.... I could go out and play with her for an hour and she'd be fine, but as soon as we would go back in, the crying would start. I worked the full Monday with her head on my laps.
Now the story is a bit longer, so if you allow me, I can elaborate a bit. She demonstrated behavior that perfectly match similar behavior of my wife's colleague's dog. This included:
- Timing: It started about 4 to 6 weeks after her first heat.
- Constant whining
- Always want to be on us
- Would not let my other dog get any toys, she would hoard them to her be and lay on them.
- She got really upset with one of her toys and would not leave the room without it (We ended hiding it from her, but she adopted another one).
- She kept licking her ****
- When we went to the Vet, leaving the house was like strangling her. She was barking in distress, it was horrible. The whole ride to the Vet was a nightmare.
My wife's colleague's Vet diagnose their dog with a ghost pregnancy... Which perfectly explain most of the symptoms. Hoarding toys as puppies, crying cuz they are inanimate, refusing to leave the house leaving her pups behind, licking her **** to prepare them for milk, etc...
Time was a factor for their dog, after a while the body realize it's not pregnant and hormones dissipated, behavior got back to normal.
There was a time with our Sky that we thought she had the hiccups to realize after a few minutes that the jerking movement were from her belly down to her legs and not belly to her mouth (hiccups). We associated that with contraction as ghost pregnancy can actually bring a dog to have false contractions....
Oldiemurphy
Senior Stratmaster
"Go for a ride in the car?"
That reminds me... I need to go reserve my spot on the bed.
