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my mom just recently (about 2 weeks ago) adopted a dog (believed to be miniature pincher) who developed kennel cough. She was really thin to begin with since she's a rescue but she is still so bony. Her cough is better, she only just scratches at her nose and sneezes a bit. She is on antibiotics...

hmm perhaps I'll give that a try, thanks! Well she won't eat when I put the food down and I know she's hungry. For some reason she'll just wait until she can't stand being so hungry and then she goes chow the whole bowl down. With the new Evo brand, she'll eat it as soon as I put it down...

yes, we did buy a rubber brush because I thought that would be the only one that would work, and it does seem to pull some hairs off, but even after I groom her she still makes little piles of hair. Although the brush doesn't seem to be effective, it's pretty big and has big knobby "bristles"...

My little Dachshund/Rat Terrier mix, Lowla, is a really awful shedder! I have no idea how she sheds so much hair, but her coat is just not very thick or soft at all. On her chest and belly it seems to be kinda patchy, but not really, only if you look closely. She did have problems with Demodex...

lol, she drags it all over the living room floor. I don't really care if she does it, I just didn't know if it was like unhealthy for her to do so. Doesn't sound like it is so I guess I'll just let her do it. I only intervene when she stats running into things while doing it or making company...

yeah it was definately tapeworms, I went to the vet to get it fixed. He told me about ingesting the fleas said that was the only way they can get them. It's odd though because I rarely see any fleas on her and the yard is pretty well treated. I guess it was a fluke, she might have picked it up...

So lowla (Dachshund/Rat Terrier Mix) has this stuffed tiger that's a bit larger than her that she likes to bite on the face and hump vigerously. She's been spayed since she was 10 weeks, she's now a little over 6 months. At first I tried to stop her from humping it and then I got so tired of...

two questions: 1. when my dog gets tape worms do I have to go to the vet every time or is there an Over The Counter treatment I can keep on hand? 2. Will it hurt my dog to bathe her every 2-3 weeks? I like her clean and smelling nice. she rolls around in stuff a lot, will it damage her...

Lowla was done at 10 weeks, the shelter wouldn't let me take her home until she had been done by one of their vets. I think her recovery time was longer than usual, but she's bounced back and is quite healthy and happy. I would have preferred to wait longer, but the shelter wasn't taking any...

I'm kinda upset now. I went back to get the tooth yesterday (I had placed it on the TV stand, I thought it was out of reach) and it's gone. I think she found it and somehow got it and ate it. Why are dogs so obsessed with anything that comes out or off of their bodies? lol. Oh well, she still...

yesterday little Lowla (6 months) was chewing on something, well I didn't think much of it because she's always finding something somewhere to eat, it sounded hard though so I was concerned so I opened her mouth to check and lo and behold one of her baby teeth fell onto the floor. She tried to...

Reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons where Bart runs into the orginal creator of Itchy and Scratchy and he's a homeless person because the guy that's running Itchy and Scratchy now his dad stole the homeless guy's ideas and put him out of business. Then later the homeless guy sues Itchy...

Thanks for the suggestions this is quite helpful. I don't care if she rings the bell just to go out and play. I just want her to know if she rings the bell we'll come and the door opens. That way if she wants to go out to play or go out to potty, she has to ring the bell to go out. The bell...

She doesn't know "touch," it would probably be way easier if she did! hmm, I'll have to try treats then. Do you think if I balance it on the button she'll figure it out when she licks it off and it rings the bell? I'm just afraid she'll snatch it out of my hand before it even gets to the bell...

So Lowla is good about going outside to do her business but now that we're in a house and we spend the majority of our time upstairs we can't see her go sit by the back door so we went out and bought a call bell as per someone's suggestion here that I thought was brilliant instead of hanging...

my mom owns an Italian Whippet (Italian Greyhound/Whippet mix) and I lived with him for 4 years, does that count? The problem with sight hound dogs is you can't ever let them roam around off leash because the moment they see something dart, that's it, they're gone after it. Tippy is so street...

Are there any reccomended vitamin supplements? I did a forum search but didn't come up with much. My vet reccomended I put Lowla on some vitamins to help her immune system catch up and rid her of her mange. I have since switched her to Canidae so she's eating good and I got what I guess was the...

Lowla did the same thing, she had one small accident and then it was like she forgot outside was where to go and she had a few more back to back. But after some reinforcement about where to go, she "remembered" and it's all good again. It's possible that while you were away he might have gone to...

Tim! or Timmy as in Tiny Tim!

I only used a crate for maybe a week, I just watched her like crazy otherwise and at night she slept in the bed with us and wouldn't go in the bed and was scared to jump down from it. By relax I mean I don't have to follow her all around and constantly be checking where she is and what she's...