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I am in the process of rehabilitating a dog-aggressive staffy. So far we have made enormous strides to the point where she can meet nearly all dogs onlead with beautiful manners and has several firm friends. We are also practicing offlead with a variety of dogs and when I took her out with my friends...
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Our dog Sookie is completely scared of men. Not my son, or my husband, but all other men. Friends that come to the house or strangers we pass on our walk, it's all the same to Sookie. We have done the no, touch, talk eye contact for 6 months, with little progress. We take her to public places for...
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We have two rescue dogs...a 4 year old male Malamute and a 3 year old female Siberian Husky. We adopted our malamute first, and a year later adopted our husky. Our malamute was living with a foster family when we adopted him and is very mellow. Our female was pulled from a shelter and because there wasn't...
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I used to be a professional musician (classical), but have stopped practicing many years while I did engineering school. Now that I have a job, I decided to start practicing again. I have 3 dogs, one of which is almost fully deaf (so he doesn't care) but the other two seem fearful of my instrument...
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We have been taking Buster for his bath at Petco since they offer the self bathing (costs less and no appointment necessary). When it was warmer we had no problems. Now that its cooler outside we've had to start using the drier on him. Now Buster has been to a groomer before had the full treatment...
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Hi Everyone, I really need your help. We have adopted a new dog, Linden, a 6m/o female who is afraid to come in to the house. A little background: She was fostered out by a local Humane Society to a family who probably only fed her and not worked with her in any way except house break (which is nice...
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It's been a couple of months since I last posted about our dog Ty. The american bulldog puppy with fear issues. The last time I posted he was acting up towards me. Which has completely disappeared and the reason for it was not dominance it was fear. He did not trust me and now he does. He is still...
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Hello, all -- I'm a newbie to the site, so please bear with any and all ignorance I'm likely to display, here. I've been looking for volunteer opps with border collie rescue organizations, and had my first meet & greet with one on Saturday. One of the dogs in particular has some real...
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My doxie is a licker. I'm working with her to get her to stop. So far, so good - but it's a process. My cocker was the product of a puppy mill. I through I was "rescuing" her from a pet store. She was almost five months old and cooped up in an aquarium-sized compartment. She flipped...
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Hi , we have got a 1 year old male Giant Schnauzer who has recently developed an aggression or nervousness around people whilst we are on our walks. When he was younger, he was always very good on walks and was always under control. However recently, he is listening less to commands on walks and now...