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Bwee posted:Hi all, Your situation now sounds fine but do you know what you're going to be doing and where you'll be when you're done with school? If you and your gf get jobs in different cities, can one of you handle the dog alone?
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also RE sleeping through the night-- some dogs will just eliminate inside the crate with no warning, in which case you'll want to set an alarm and make sure to bring the dog outside to preempt that behavior. When we had our puppy, he'd wake us up by whining in the middle of the night and we'd take him outside immediately and put him back in his crate, so we never had to set an alarm. He never had an accident in his crate, and only peed indoors maybe 5 times total within the first month or two, and never after that. He was always good at letting us know he had to go, and we watched him like a hawk for signals (sniffing, circling, etc) so it was a surprisingly easy process for us.
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Sep 6, 2012 14:58
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What time are you putting her to bed? Are you exercising her right before bed? Our corgi used to BARK early in the morning- like 5/6am, when wakeup time was 7am. He loved going in his crate, he just wanted to wake up earlier than us. We tried a bunch of stuff, including trying to keep him from snoozing in the evening, making his crate more comfy, pushing his bedtime back to 1am, covering the crate, etc. Eventually he grew out of it and now he just very quietly whines for 20 minutes or so before we usually get up, but that is easily ignorable. We had to ignore his early morning barking for almost a year though before it got better.
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Dec 19, 2012 16:57
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Orbit's favorite tug toy is a big red kong with blue fabric through it and a handle on one side and dangly strips on the other- like a wubba but with a fabric handle. He can grab hold of the plastic kong to tug and I can grab the fabric part, and it throws really well for fetch/tug which is his favorite game. edit: here ya go. Kong Tails http://www.amazon.com/Kong-KT1-Tails-Large-Dog/dp/B005F5D2AA/ref=sr_1_1?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1356981427&sr=1-1&keywords=kong+tails Plus_Infinity fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Dec 31, 2012 15:05
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Niwrad posted:Thanks. I do think he would have bitten if he could have though. He got the shirt she was wearing. But maybe that was his intention. Just a little note about the sleeve thing-- I have a herding dog and he will jump up and nip at sleeves specifically if he gets upset/ nervous/ feels like he has to try and 'control' the situation. In my case, he's done it twice to men he doesn't recognize when they got too close to him (he barked a ton first to show he wasn't happy) and a couple times to my boyfriend's kids if they were trying to leave the room and he wanted all his people together in the same place. I am 100% sure he wasn't trying to BITE DOWN in these cases, but to herd- it's his instinct to nip when he wants to control (he's a corgi, so he was bred to herd by nipping instead of by giving the eye), and although it is TOTALLY inappropriate and I'm sooo embarrassed that he's done it, it's also understandable that a herding dog would want to herd when he gets upset. I've had my dog since he was a puppy and I know what he gets upset about and what he doesn't, so it's a little less scary than your situation where you're not really sure what the stressor is. But anyway, nipping at the sleeve could be the same kind of issue.
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My 2 year old dog never lifts his leg to pee normally, but always lifts his leg when he's marking other dog's pee spots on walks. He is a corgi and has short legs and who knows what goes through his little brain. I've never worried about it.
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