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Last one I promise guys sorry for spamming but I'm after advice
Bex and others it's going great too great I'm now worried she's doing too much. They have been like this all day still doing it now. 15-20 minute sessions.
Too much for the pup? Is this normal to be so fearless, she absolutely will not let go.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdbC_Qjo1s8&feat...
Bex and others it's going great too great I'm now worried she's doing too much. They have been like this all day still doing it now. 15-20 minute sessions.
Too much for the pup? Is this normal to be so fearless, she absolutely will not let go.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdbC_Qjo1s8&feat...
Pesty, I think they are both having a ball. Wait till she gets to similar weight and it will sound like all hell has broken loose, trust me.
As long as tails are up and its all play Id not worry.
I know you are concernied about over exercising her, but think how the pack would interact naturally. Its not like you are walking them up hill and down dale all day every day. If shes tired, then Im sure, she will just sleep. In my expereience, pups have fast recharge times tho...
As long as tails are up and its all play Id not worry.
I know you are concernied about over exercising her, but think how the pack would interact naturally. Its not like you are walking them up hill and down dale all day every day. If shes tired, then Im sure, she will just sleep. In my expereience, pups have fast recharge times tho...
In other news....
Whilst doing some housekeeping on the PC,I came across a rare bit of video footage of Milo that Id forgotten all about.
50/50 happy/sad to watch for us, but heres the old boy at 12, when he was still the dog we knew and loved, before old age got to him.
https://vimeo.com/184051147
Whilst doing some housekeeping on the PC,I came across a rare bit of video footage of Milo that Id forgotten all about.
50/50 happy/sad to watch for us, but heres the old boy at 12, when he was still the dog we knew and loved, before old age got to him.
https://vimeo.com/184051147
chrisga said:
We have to be careful. The two springers don't get to be in the same room as each other, and we effectively have an airlock between two stair gates so can and do move them around the house, often. Luckily both springers are happy to be with either or both boys so they all sort of still interact with each other and never get bored. One of the springers also happens to love sleeping so she goes upstairs and keeps herself to herself. When they do interact positively through stair gates, or on walks they get heavily rewarded, and if there is any snarking/posturing we ignore it and ask one of them to come rather than shouting at them which escalates things quickly rather than stopping it.
If we go out on walks we put the main instigator in a muzzle. When they are out they are usually "spanielling" with more important stuff to worry about than each other so we don't tend to get problems. We are also lucky in that we have a "dog van" with four individual crates so they all get their own space when travelling.
We have had our first springer from a puppy and the second is a rescue. In hindsight, having two b
hes about the same size and age probably wasn't the cleverest thing we have ever done but we took them on so have learned ways to cope and wouldn't give either up. When we took on the rescue they were fine together (hence partly why we agreed to keep her) but the afternoon after they had both had a lepto 4 jab, despite having lived together for 2 years at this point, was the first time they fought properly. It may be coincidence but they had never had any "proper" fights before. After that (prob 3 years ago) we would get the first springer getting agitated over guarding stuff but nothing ever really came to blows. Fights then became sporadic, perhaps once a quarter or even further apart but we could always see what triggered them so tried to reduce those factors as much as possible and everything was manageable.
We then got the cocker pup and about 8-10 months ago (when he was 2 and a bit) he started to seem anxious when we were in different parts of the house (as we had just moved and he was getting used to new surroundings) so thinking we would help to calm any anxiety we bought a branded pheromone diffuser. Wow. We definitely didn't do the right thing (including reading the small print!)... Turns out the pheromone diffusers should never be used when a dog has shown any signs of aggression. Within 24hrs all hell had broken loose and we had had about 3 full on fights. After 3 days we had had 10 fights. We couldn't figure out what was causing it and the diffuser didn't even register with us as we understood it to be calming. After a bit of research we found other examples of it acting as a dis-inhibitor (if that's a word) so the two girls were basically like drunks brawling, they didn't care what happened. Unfortunately we didn't cotton on quick enough and in those three days we think they re-programmed themselves to understand fighting is fine and it became self rewarding. We have since tried to gradually re-introduce them but with little success though they haven't fought for months now.
So anyone thinking a pheromone plugin diffuser might reduce tension between dogs be careful!
Here is Jess in her modified greyhound muzzle which lets her open her mouth as wide as she needs to pant heavily, and she can still take treats and drink while wearing it. It's so light she doesn't seem bothered wearing it:
IMG_4674 by Chrisga, on Flickr
Excellent post, thanks for taking the time to type it up. Very interesting stuff, ours have had a few squabbles and we have followed your same thought process by reducing stress factors. Luckily they don't seem to have any issues when we aren't there.If we go out on walks we put the main instigator in a muzzle. When they are out they are usually "spanielling" with more important stuff to worry about than each other so we don't tend to get problems. We are also lucky in that we have a "dog van" with four individual crates so they all get their own space when travelling.
We have had our first springer from a puppy and the second is a rescue. In hindsight, having two b
hes about the same size and age probably wasn't the cleverest thing we have ever done but we took them on so have learned ways to cope and wouldn't give either up. When we took on the rescue they were fine together (hence partly why we agreed to keep her) but the afternoon after they had both had a lepto 4 jab, despite having lived together for 2 years at this point, was the first time they fought properly. It may be coincidence but they had never had any "proper" fights before. After that (prob 3 years ago) we would get the first springer getting agitated over guarding stuff but nothing ever really came to blows. Fights then became sporadic, perhaps once a quarter or even further apart but we could always see what triggered them so tried to reduce those factors as much as possible and everything was manageable.We then got the cocker pup and about 8-10 months ago (when he was 2 and a bit) he started to seem anxious when we were in different parts of the house (as we had just moved and he was getting used to new surroundings) so thinking we would help to calm any anxiety we bought a branded pheromone diffuser. Wow. We definitely didn't do the right thing (including reading the small print!)... Turns out the pheromone diffusers should never be used when a dog has shown any signs of aggression. Within 24hrs all hell had broken loose and we had had about 3 full on fights. After 3 days we had had 10 fights. We couldn't figure out what was causing it and the diffuser didn't even register with us as we understood it to be calming. After a bit of research we found other examples of it acting as a dis-inhibitor (if that's a word) so the two girls were basically like drunks brawling, they didn't care what happened. Unfortunately we didn't cotton on quick enough and in those three days we think they re-programmed themselves to understand fighting is fine and it became self rewarding. We have since tried to gradually re-introduce them but with little success though they haven't fought for months now.
So anyone thinking a pheromone plugin diffuser might reduce tension between dogs be careful!
Here is Jess in her modified greyhound muzzle which lets her open her mouth as wide as she needs to pant heavily, and she can still take treats and drink while wearing it. It's so light she doesn't seem bothered wearing it:
IMG_4674 by Chrisga, on FlickrEdited by chrisga on Tuesday 20th September 10:23
Turn7 said:
In other news....
Whilst doing some housekeeping on the PC,I came across a rare bit of video footage of Milo that Id forgotten all about.
50/50 happy/sad to watch for us, but heres the old boy at 12, when he was still the dog we knew and loved, before old age got to him.
https://vimeo.com/184051147
Not much better than a dog enjoying themselvesWhilst doing some housekeeping on the PC,I came across a rare bit of video footage of Milo that Id forgotten all about.
50/50 happy/sad to watch for us, but heres the old boy at 12, when he was still the dog we knew and loved, before old age got to him.
https://vimeo.com/184051147
DMN said:
Jemina went to be spayed yesterday, she didn't move from this spot for three hours. The poor thing felt very sorry for herself yesterday evening:
She's been brighter this morning, but still not 100%.
I think I posted this before, but we had this for about 3 days when Misty was done.She's been brighter this morning, but still not 100%.
Quite different to my other dog. She came home and started charging around the house and popped all her stiches inside of an hour.
This photo was taken by a photography company who had a stand at our local village fete. They were next to the dog show and offering amazing prices (£3/print/keyring/fridge magnet.)
Have to say I love this pic (on my keyring so not so clear in the pic) I didn't think we would even get them to stay still enough, let alone this pose
Have to say I love this pic (on my keyring so not so clear in the pic) I didn't think we would even get them to stay still enough, let alone this pose
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