Kaybee asked:


My boyfriends ex wife wants to take their daughters puppy for obedience training.
The daughter doesn’t live with us but the puppy does. The X refuses to have the dog at her house so the daughter sees the pup when she visits my boyfriends house.
If the daughter doesn’t live with the dog how can she reinforce what’s been learned at obedience school?
If my boyfriend and I reinforce the training then it really won’t be the daughter’s dog …will it?
Why would the X want to pay for obedience training for the puppy that she won’t allow to live with her daughter?
It doesn’t make sense to me.
My boyfriend and I have two very well behaved dogs that we’ve worked with ourselves – so what’s the big deal with the training?
neither me or my boyfriend will be able to go to the training with the daughter – only the X is taking her and the dog – and then bringing just the dog back to our house.

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lucco8844 asked:


I have a small 4 year old dog. She is fully house trained. But today she starts pooping on the floor of my house i have never had that problem with her. So anyboby have any ideas why she does this.

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this.place asked:


A male, 1.5-2 years old.

I never even considered adopting a pit or staff but there is one at the local shelter that I am considering.He’s a friendly, loving type of dog. Apparently, he’s good with both people and pets.

As you may guess, the family is fairly against bringing a pit-bull looking dog into the house simply because of its rep.

My question is if there is a greater risk attatched of bringing the Staff than there would be of any other kind of dog. But at least with other dogs, you would have a greater chance keeping it under control or protecting yourself if the dog were to get aggressive.

Thoughts/opinions?

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Dreamer asked:


I want a dog that can watch the house and bark if strangers approach or try to invade. Will a labrador do the job as a family pet and watch dog?
I heard some dogs will lick every strangers, even intruders and burglars…
Yes, I want a dog that barks to alarm me, but not bite! No biting, I don’t want any crazy liablities!

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ushyschick asked:


I own a humongo dog and she has had like only one or two fleas/ticks… but now she has an extensive amount of fleas/ticks how many fleas/ticks are too many or unhealthy…
okay so wat do u suggest for this problem and um also i’d like to add dat i have alot of dogs and none of them have this problem…. wood it have to do anything wit the food… and also the HUGE grassy are where the dog’s house is put… wat oos i use to rid of the ticks/fleas in da grass?

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Mysterious asked:


I will be able to get a dog, if it lives primarily outside. I just need a way of keeping him in the yard. I don’t think I will be able to get a fence. I would rather not get an electric dog fence. If that is my only choice I would consider it, but I don’t like it at all.

Tying the dog with a rope. I would worry that he would get caught up in it and hurt himself. I really don’t know how much awarness they have of them. But, this would probably be the one I go for if we can’t get a fence.

Would there be a way to train the dog to stay in the yard?
Do you have any ideas to share on what I could do?

If you are worried that the dog will be bored, I have a LOT of time to spend. I am very much a dog person. If I could I would let the dog in the house in no time.

Thanks!
I forgot to mention that the dog will be sleeping in the house at night. The dog will also be able to come inside on bad weather days to play inside and to eat. I am outside a lot be with the dog so he won’t be bored or isolated.

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Mary asked:


Ever since having my daughter (she’s 6 months old) my dog has been jealous for obvious reasons. Who can blame her? My husband and I do our best to spend time with her and take her out to play but with the baby and working, it’s hard to get “real outside playtime” in. Even though we walk her she still saves up and pees in the house! We’ve laid down wee-wee pads and she’ll go on them for the most part but usually only makes it half-way on the actual pad. She knows better and I know part of this is her showing us she’s upset with us but I’m tired of having to clean up after her in the house almost every day! I can’t afford to take her to training again or to have someone come by and take her out for fun. Unfortunately there are no doggy daycares in my area or I’d leave her there once or twice a week to see if it’d help. Are there any other techniques we can try to help her stop going in the house? Our yard isn’t fenced in, otherwise we’d leave her out there while we’re out!
We trained her as a puppy on the pads so she knows what they’re for but we recently moved from a home with a fenced yard to a home without one (over the summer). So she’s had time to adjust and has adjusted to this kind of change in the past without problems like this. She’s 100lbs so I really don’t have room for a crate that size in my house.

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Gary K asked:


I’m planning to move to a colder climate where it can get as low or lower then 15 degrees at night. I dont want my dog to freeze or get sick, but where im going i’m not allowed to have the dog inside. I’m trying to find out what dog house to get that is not to much and what i can put in the dog house to keep my dog warm.