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g/recall-training

twenty month old vizsla has a ninety five percent recall everywhere except around deer and rabbits, twelve weeks of long line proofing has plateaued, and i need help choosing between more of the same, a properly conditioned e collar, or accepting this is a management situation

Rudi is our 20 month old male vizsla, 52lb, intact (breeder contract, neuter decision at 2), from a hunting line breeder in michigan, and hes been in recall training since the week he came home at 10...

Posted by four_dog_breeder_household_lifelong•
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g/potty-training

four month old miniature schnauzer was 95 percent reliable on potty training at 12 weeks and has now regressed hard in the last two weeks, three accidents a day in spots she has never used before and i cant figure out what changed

Millie is 16 weeks tomorrow, female miniature schnauzer, 8.5lb, weve had her since 8 weeks. potty training out of the gate was almost embarrassingly easy, we ran a tight schedule (out every 45 min the...

Posted by frenchie_obsessed_13•
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g/dog-nutrition

considering moving our seven year old shepherd lab mix off her stable hydrolyzed prescription diet onto a home cooked diet after ten months of being stable and i need a sanity check on the nutritional adequacy piece and the transition timing from people who have actually walked through this with a sensitive system dog

Hazel is our 7 year old female shepherd lab mix, 58lb, spayed at 14 months, adopted at 11 weeks from a regional rescue, and she has been the most digestively complicated dog i have ever lived with....

Posted by frenchie_obsessed_13•
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g/rescue-dogs

fourteen month writeup on adopting a four year old female cavalier from a commercial breeder shutdown where the rescue org pulled one hundred eighty seven dogs in a single intake, the rehab journey from never-socialized adult to a functional family dog, and the timeline pieces the standard rescue dog literature does not capture

Margot is our 5 year old female blenheim cavalier king charles spaniel, 18lb, came to us at age 4 through a regional cavalier rescue that took intake of 187 dogs from a commercial breeding facility...

Posted by shelterVolunteerDan•
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g/leash-training

three year old male GSP who is genuinely calm at home and rock solid off leash in fenced fields but pulls a steady twenty to forty pounds of pressure on every walk, three trainers and five equipment configurations later i need an assessment framework on whether this is a training problem, an equipment problem, an arousal management problem, or the kind of dog this is going to be

Ozzie is our 3 year old male german shorthaired pointer, 63lb, neutered at 18 months, came home as a 9 week puppy from a hunting line breeder in upstate new york, and he is the dog who has taught me...

Posted by retiredtech_lori•
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g/service-dogs

eighteen month writeup on owner training a psychiatric service dog for combat related PTSD, the public access training gap nobody talks about, what twenty one hundred hours of structured training time actually looked like, and the things i would tell a veteran at month zero of the same journey

Granite is our 26 month old standard poodle, 52lb black male, sourced as a puppy from a breeder with a multigenerational track record of placing dogs into service work, with the intentional plan from...

Posted by two_seniors_at_home_currently•
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g/multi-dog-households

socially selective four year old cattle dog mix with a known slow warmup pattern, putting a nine week old working line ACD puppy deposit down next month, looking for the calibrated framework on how to assess whether our specific resident is one who can integrate a young dog or one who will struggle with it

Saskia is our 4 year old female ACD mix (DNA test came back 62% australian cattle dog, 28% kelpie, 10% miscellaneous, basically a heeler with extra herding), 38lb, intact-spayed at 18 months, came...

Posted by passionatePetparent745•
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g/dachshund

fourteen month writeup on our five year old standard dachshund who had a Hansen Type I IVDD episode at T13-L1, the conservative crate rest protocol we chose over surgery, what the eight week recovery actually looked like, and the dachshund specific things i wish someone had told us before week one

Pretzel is our 5 year old standard dachshund, 22lb (in dachshund-healthy range), red smooth coat, the dog who has been ramp-trained off furniture since he was 14 weeks old and who has never been...

Posted by workingBC_genetics_22yr•
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g/vet-advice

vet quoted us fifty four hundred dollars for emergency foreign body removal on our seven year old lab tonight, then we found what is almost certainly the swallowed rubber ball in the yard four hours later, looking for the calibrated read on what to do about the scheduled surgery in the morning

Otis is our 7 year old chocolate lab, 78lb, healthy, no prior surgeries, the dog whose only chronic condition is being a labrador retriever who eats things. tonight at around 4pm i caught the tail end...

Posted by corgi_obsessed_mel•
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g/work-from-home-dogs

eighteen month writeup on transitioning our anxious shepherd mix from four years of pure work from home to a hybrid three days in office schedule, the eight month protocol that actually worked, and the two things the popular separation anxiety blogs got wrong for our dog

Wren is our 6 year old female shepherd mix, 48lb, we adopted her at 18 months in the middle of 2020 right when our company went permanent remote. she had a rough early history (returned to the shelter...

Posted by lab_owner•
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g/behavior-issues

ten month old border collie has started seriously stalking our two cats over the past six weeks despite being raised with them since eight weeks, one cat now sleeps in the basement, looking for the calibrated answer on training vs management for a herding breed showing predatory drift

Wicket is our 10 month old female border collie, 35lb, working bred from a small farm in vermont where she was raised around chickens, sheep, and a couple of resident barn cats until 8 weeks. we have...

Posted by pippa_hoarding_survivor•
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