Recent content by caseyd

It looks like Chicken soup is better than Nutro, at least the first 2 ingredients are whole meat and then the chicken and turkey meal, whereas the Nutro and Canindae both have chicken/turkey meal as the first ingredients, and then grains, no mention of whole meats until waaayy later on the list...

Well I've decided to make the change over to Eagle Brand, that seems to be the best one I can find here. I've started with adding some canned to his food this morning and he ate it as fast as he could! He's never had canned before. There was a new brand there, called Merricks (not sure of the...

She's 2. They get along fairly well, especially considering she came a long time after we got Casey. I don't think we could ever put him down, it's just been in the back of my head ever since our vet told me that that was what we should do. But I know there have to be an extremely extremely...

That sounds like a good idea for the digging! He does have his own space in the yard which is fenced off from the rest because we are trying to put down grass seed this year (again!), so he can dig to his hearts content in there. But once the grass comes up then we can have him in the yard...

I was on the natura pet website, and they do sell their products in Canada, but not in the city I live in (small town downfall I guess). So then I went to the pet store (Pet Valu) and they carry other brands of holistic natural foods, the one that I remember was Nutro, but I don't think that's...

Thanks, I wish I had known how bad Science diet was before. We've been feeding it to him for about 3 years now. I'm going to look around and see if I can find that Innova, after looking at the ingredients of a lot of different foods it certainly seems like the best! I hope I can, do you know...

I've noticed that Casey has not been very interested in his food lately, he'll wait until he's REALLY hungry at the end of the day to eat it, which isn't normal. So then I was reading some of the posts here and noticed that many of you don't think Science diet is a good brand anyway! I always...

Does anyone know how to do this? I have read somewhere that if you can teach them to "speak" then it is easier to teach them "no speak" or "no bark". I have tried saying speak and then barking myself but he just looks at me like I'm crazy and waits for me to stop. But he barks all the time...

Yeah, I was really angry and upset at what the vet said, I remember I cried the whole way home, and I was so worried that they were just going to determine for themselves what to do with him while they were neutering him. The only reason we haven't switched vets is because they know his history...

Thank you for your advice everyone, it's nice to know that other border collies are like him. We have taken him to 2 different trainers, who both said that they didn't think he would be able to like strangers again, and we have tried to socialize him despite that. But he is VERY aggressive...

Does anyone know anything about medication for his seizures? Is it possible that they will help prevent them and then we don't have to worry as much about him and my daughter being together? I don't really know what sort of side effects there are and whether it will be beneficial and worth it...

I am looking for any sort of advice I can get, good or bad. We have a 4 yr old border collie, who has always been a little on the mental side, meaning he doesn't like strangers (to the point of aggression and biting if ever given the opportuntity-he bit someone once about 3 years ago), he has...

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice. I have a border collie, who on his own likes to bark a lot, at birds, squirrels, etc. However, our neighbour has 2 dogs, who also like to bark A LOT. Like any good dog owner, when our dog barks we bring him inside. But these dogs bark all...