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o_O The "extra fifty pounds" the dog was carrying? Try extra 80! Holy crap.

My favorite collar store: http://aroundthehounds.com/aroundthehounds/catalog/ My dogs shred the silk ones like crazy, though. Delicate and elegant, my beasts are not.

Well, that was the thing. Looking at their yard, it was just flagged all over the place, and they were standing around, watching the dogs go, "Ooh! A flag! There's poop over there!" and then trot over to eat it. In the meantime, couldn't they have been, uh, picking up the poo? I know it's not...

Did anyone else think that episode was kind of weird? Wouldn't it have been easier to let the dogs out to poop one at a time, clean up the poop immediately, and only let them all out together after they've finished pooping? The whole flag system was kind of crazy and complicated; it seemed...

Oh my god, these pictures are hilarious! :rofl1:

For one thing, I wouldn't have had 15-30 dogs (or however many) running around freely when the owners came back to see their dog! An ounce of prevention blah blah blah. I really think this is the number one issue. TOO MANY DOGS. I don't care whose pack it is; you have less influence over the...

Let me point out, also, that many of the positive-only trainers are working with extremely high drive, high energy breeds -- border collies, Aussies, flyball-playing terrier mixes. These are all breeds and types which are known to be high energy dogs who spend a great deal of their time in...

Is this something which you have observed in the positive reinforcement only training classes which you have attended, or are you speaking in the purely hypothetical? Anecdotally speaking, I know plenty of loud, reactive people with quiet, calm dogs. I know plenty of quiet, calm people with...

I have three dogs; I am obviously not a dog-hater. However, most of my neighbors let their dogs pee on my lawn, and it drives me insane. For one thing, when one dog starts peeing on your lawn, every dog in the neighborhood comes along and starts marking over it. There was a month or so when...

You seem to be insinuating that positive reinforcement training causes reactivity, or that positive reinforcement trainers make excuses for or fail to address behavioral issues in their dogs. Have you considered the alternative possibility that many people who have loud, reactive dogs are...

Who out there is breeding Danes with such an amazing lifespan? Whoa. I am no stranger to high vet bills (the dog in my sig is most likely going to need a total hip replacement in a few years), but everyone that I know with Danes takes it to another level entirely -- and that's not even...

I always wanted a Great Dane or an English Mastiff. I still want a Dane (a lot! my dream dog!), but one, my oldest dog is scared of huge dogs and would HATE it, and two I'm intimidated by the short lifespan and high vet bills. As for the mastiffs or other guardians, I don't think I'm outgoing...

My favorite request for breeding was for my shep/boxer/whatever mix, who was six months old at the time. I worked at a kennel and another one of the employees had a neighbor whose male dog apparently looked just like her. The neighbor, who never met my nervy, dysplastic, spayed puppy, told the...

Judging from the pictures, he's a very nice weight, and really doesn't need to gain anything.

The dead dogs are Spanish Galgos, not ex-racing hounds. Spanish galgos, along with many other hunting dogs in Spain, are abandoned, hanged, shot, or dumped into wells by their owners at the end of the hunting season. You can learn more about the Galgo Espanol here...

She looks beautiful and fit to me! Many labs you see are, as everyone has said, overweight or obese. She looks lovely, though! I don't think you have anything at all to be concerned about.

Is my sig picture too big? What's a good size, in pixels, for a sig pic? I can make it smaller if it's oversized.

She is incredibly cute! My first instinct was GSD/terrier, maybe a JRT or some other medium sized smooth coated terrier breed.

They could be mixes of any dog which can have prick or bat ears. GSDs, pit bulls, bostons, various terriers, whatever. I can't actually find a list online of all the types of ears in all the breeds, and I am too lazy to go through my breed books and list them all, but Pharoah hounds are not the...

That's not a Pharoah or Ibizan mix. I don't know what it IS, but I can tell you that it's not a pharoah mix. A lot of dogs on Petfinder are labeled Pharoah hound solely because they have erect ears. Pharoahs and Ibizans are extremely rare in this country (the AKC registered 109 Pharoahs in...