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Who all would be interested in doing a Christmas card exchange this year? :) (And Eddie, are you cool if I handle sending out the address to everyone?) Just let me know if there is any interest!

I know I'm going to be taking a ton of photos of these guys, so I figured I'd make a thread for their progression from hamsters to actual puppies! These guys were part of a litter of nine found in a ditch, three merle, the rest black and tan. Their chosen foster never came to pick them up...

Looking towards the future when these little hamsters are walking pooping machines....what is going to be the best setup to keep them in?! My current plan is to set up a crate attached to an X-pen in the garage on top of a tarp. Then throw wood chips onto the tarp covering the X-pen, leaving...

Say hello to my three new fosters! These girls were part of a litter of nine puppies found "abandoned in a ditch". They're believed to be Catahoula pups and less than a week old. The litter was split up into to groups of three and went to different foster homes. These girls were due to have...

I don't think I ever shared this video here (although I think the vast majority of you saw it on Facebook)! Michael arrived home almost three weeks ago from a 7.5 month long deployment. I filmed the reunion of him and Abrams! It was getting dark outside by the time we made it back to the...

I took some very informal stacked photos of Abrams today - the first I've ever been able to do, because normally he's flailing around like an idiot and won't hold a stand and/or he turns his head to look at me when I move to the side. We've been working heavily on stays with distractions, so I...

I've been giving a lot of thought to future things recently and one of those things is what breed I want next (of course). Our living arrangement will be changing, with any luck we'll be adding a human addition, our job situations will be changing...and what I want out of a dog is also going to...

I have been....very lax and bad about training Abrams. Like, bad. Ever since we moved down here (so for the past year), I've just been very...meh. We do some things, we work on some general principles during day to day activities (impulse control is a way of life), but I never actively DO...

As my other thread may have hinted at...hahaha...I'm *really* starting to like the idea of potentially adding a retired racing Grey to the family in the next few years. As life continues to move forward, the "type" of dog I want is gradually shifting from the more entergetic, "harder" dogs to...

....that is also off leash friendly? Just curious. By "like a Greyhound", I mean: - medium to large in stature, but light boned - low maintenance coat - athletic and capable of athletic feats, but very happy to just curl up and sleep all day on the softest/warmest place available -...

My fosters are getting SO BIG now. Their individual personalities are blossoming and I have a pretty cool group of babies, if I do say so myself! The young ones are around the 4 week old mark right now, the orange boys are going on 6 weeks. And although I'm going to be sad to see them leave, I'm...

I have *never* been able to do this. The only way I ever got my Labrador to hold a stand was by telling him to stay the moment he was in the position I wanted him to be in. And God knows I've never been able to properly stack a dog before. I'd like to teach Abrams to hold a stand for exam...

I posted this on facebook, too, but wanted to post here, too. I am fostering a litter of kittens for the humane society. A momma, River, and her three now week old babies. Another foster mom with two orphaned 2.5 week old babies needed help, so as no one else was willing to bottle feed, I...

I went and picked these guys up from the shelter today. :) Momma and her three wee ones. The poor shelter is full to bursting and these guys needed OUT. So they're with me for the next two months until they're ready to be adopted! Momma was a stray, so there is no history on her. She doesn't...

When Abrams was boarding while my family was visiting, it really made me realize how much I depend on his watch dog abilities. I already didn't like the fact that he wasn't around (no big doof to make life interesting), but on top of that it made me realize how secure he makes me feel when I'm...

I've been working on impulse control with Abrams for what feels like forever and we have our good days and our bad days. He's normally pretty good about it, but some times his brain just goes haywire and I have to remind him every step of the way to stay calm and wait. Yesterday (and today!)...

Let the dogs out into the yard to do their business this morning while I finished getting ready for work. About 15 minutes go by and I walk out into the livingroom to put on my shoes. I walk over to the door to let the dogs in. Abrams barrels inside for his breakfast. Cynder....Cynder? I call...

So....tell me about them! :D What is their basic temperament like? How does their temperament compare to the various spaniel breeds (Springer, field bred Cocker, Field)? Any weird quirks that the breed tends to have? Things to be wary of in certain lines? Obviously they're an active...

Abrams will be 2 years old in April, and I'm highly considering getting him neutered shortly thereafter (if not sooner). Obviously, neutering is very...irreversible and I want to make sure I'm making the most informed decision possible. I've read most of the literature available and even...

These are so random and unrelated, but I have a few specific behaviors of his that I would like to change, and I was just curious if someone with more training experience than I had any words of wisdom to impart on how to go about fixing the behaviors. 1.) Barking while in a parked car. He...