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I don't know if this is a serious concern or warning sign or not - again my experience with dogs is limited to our older dog. My 10 month old pup seems to be REALLY attached to me. Not saying it's a bad thing, my hopes had been that she'd turn into my dog unlike with our older dog where we...

My 9 month old dog has bi-lateral hip dysplasia so she's very limited in the work she can do. No intense things like agility, flyball or running hard. Her walks are limited to about 10-15 minutes and are not too strenuous. She's an aussie cross and is a very energetic dog. She's been great...

Alright, thanks for the input guys, it's put my fears to rest :) Just this afternoon she had a nice play session with the neighbour's BT for a while before lying in the shade for a snooze. I'm glad the behaviour is entirely normal, my other dog flees at the slightest thing so it's a bit of a...

We found out she has bi-lateral hip dysplasia so her dog park days are long behind her now. She plays with my neighbour's Boston Terrier, my friend's Whippet creature and our other dog (white shepherd x retriever). She used to play with another neighbour's chocolate lab but he kept trying to...

For those who have issues with the higher price for good quality, have a peek at the new re-done Authority brand (black and green with a picture of a dog on the left side). I read the ingredients and there was lots of meats and no corn at all. And it was basically the same price as the purina...

* not sure if this is a training issue Maddie's behaviour sometimes concerns me. Tonight a neighbour's dog (in the backyard that Maddie couldn't reach/see) went wild with barking at her and stuff, and her fur went straight up. She then ran to the fence barking and jumping up, being...

I never asked how many was performed, there's 2 vets that perform surgery at the vet hospital (and 3 others that work at 2 different clinics) but the vet we just used works part-time at this hospital and part-time at another hospital 2 cities away doing surgeries the majority of the time so I...

Even through all this, I don't ever regret getting her out of that situation. Not one teensy, tiny bit. She's happy, alert and almost doesn't even seem aware of the problem I'll slowly be facing with her. As long as she's like that, she'll be able to have a good life with some supplements. I'm...

Yes, I also heard that there's still complications with FHO and that even after surgery, in big dogs, the dog can still end up being in pain and susceptible to tearing the muscles/ligaments in the legs. I'm weighing on my options, and one of them is just to let her go, keep her supplemented...

Unfortunately she wasn't a nice purebred dog or anything. She was from a farm that didn't spay their dogs, dog got bred and had 12 pups. They put all 12 pups in a 10x10 horse stall and most of the puppies were sick. I happened across them randomly when I rode at that farm. She was the healthiest...

We did the Metacam previously and it didn't seem to have any affect at all on her, so we'll have to look at something else for that.

I posted a while ago about my 8 month old puppy's mysterious lameness/injury where her leg would be hiked up and such. Numerous vet visits came back inconclusive. Palpating, x-rays and ultrasounds and nothing seemed off. However, the x-ray of her hips was sloppy (hard to explain) and the one...

Update: The vet visit was inconclusive :confused: She got multiple x-rays and was palpated, checked over and he even had me jog her up and down a section of the hallway to see if it spurred anything. The x-rays were fine, she does have some scar tissue built up but he doesn't think it's...

My first thought was a muscle cramp simply because she scoots like someone bit her in the butt, and with some gentle massaging she's fine again. She's not sensitive to any area of her leg getting massaged and often will come hopping over to me to get it massaged and then scurries off again. I...

I apologize as I'm really coming off as a newbie here with these questions, but all past animals have *never* had health issues (except occasionally 'hot spots') so I'm at a loss with how many bad things keep happening. My puppy broke her leg back in November (4 months old) when the tibia...

Alright, thanks guys! :)

I have always been under the assumption to never shave a long-haired dog in the summer because it insulates them from the heat. How true is this? When I first got my pup, she would nearly die from the heat and seek refuge in the shade (and this was in September/October - and with a short...

Alright, thanks guys! I'll be on high alert from now on when we go for walks. We have a pitter up the street that routinely gets loose and is nasty, nasty, NASTY to other dogs. Now, I love pitbulls (Maddie made friends with a gorgeous, lovable pitter last week) but they are POWERFUL dogs and...

I had figured it was a defensive reaction to atleast fight back, but when I had mentioned what happened, to a friend of mine, she was shocked and said she was super aggressive now. Which is why I was a bit concerned. I didn't have enough reaction time for the big Akita dog as I lurched...

Sorry this might be long! Last week I took my 6 month puppy (and other dog) to the dog park to play and socialize a bit. I really did pick the wrong day as most of the dogs were very rambunctious. However there was a nasty dog there, looked to be some sort of akita cross (looked like an Akita...