Recent content by roisindubh

I feel obliged to hop onto my soapbox for a minute. Don't get me wrong, I'm an animal lover, as we all are here, but I'm not a radical animal rights person, although I agree with many of their views. I've never flung blood or liberated lab monkeys. I eat meat and I wear leather, so the PETA...

Never thought of that.... It makes sense that mushing dogs like Melanie's would take to a harness, then, since you do want them to pull. But what about the so-called anti-pull harnesses? Do they work? And if they do, are they more of a quick-fix than a real answer to the problem? I realize...

Cool... I didn't know this forum was hiding on the board! Add me to the list of folks who live with a dog but are partial to cats. Our Mickey is the first dog either of us has had in years. My family had a poodle when I was a kid, and I had an Irish setter back in the Seventies. I've had room...

We had a wee setback last night, but I think it was our fault. Okay, the husband's! LOL We picked up a web harness for the Mick yesterday, figuring she might not pull so hard with it as with a collar. She and Jamus took their evening walk/roll with it, but I didn't realize he left it on her when...

Just an update to let ya'll know how it's going.... The advice in this thread (plus some gathered elsewhere on the board) has probably literally been a lifesaver! Actually, it probably saved more than one: Mickey's and my husband's. The pup's still with us, and it looks as if she will be for a...

A fellow Zonie! Globe is an old mining town up in the mountains; we're about 80 miles from PHX and 100 from Tucson. You hit 60, pass Apache Junction, and keep climbing! I've never lived in a town this small before (about 7500 folks,) and I keep marvelling that we have 1 vet, 1 groomer...

RedyreRottweilers, thank you so much for the advice about NILIF! I had just posted about how bewildered & frustrated we've been over our pup's behavior, when I happened upon this thread. I'd never heard of NILIF, but I just tracked down some sites, and it sounds like what we've been looking for...

Dang! Another long post, but we need help! We need recommendations for good training sites, books, videos... anything! We started out well, we thought, with Mickey, but, unless there's a trainer or class nearby that we haven't discovered yet, the nearest obedience class is in Phoenix, over an...

"i feel your pain." :) We're still having the same problems with our Mickey (lab) and Minnie (cat.) The pup started out by just wanting to get a good sniff; I'm not sure she even knew what a cat was: "Oh! A funny-looking Dog! Must play with it!" But the cat lashed out at her and nailed her a...

Hi! Sorry this is sort of long, but, as I tell folks, I'm afraid that "'succinct' is not in my vocabulary." :rolleyes: My husband and I are fairly new transplants to the high desert of Arizona from rainy western Washington. We're both disabled, so we're pretty much homebodies. (Our idea of "big"...

Wow! I know this is a bit older thread, but I just joined the board, which I found while looking for info on just this subject. I found several articles by Dr. Dunbar, and they're great. We got a yellow lab pup from the local pound last week. As usual with a pound puppy, we don't know anything...