Crate training. One of my dogs was crated for ~1.5 years, now he's free to chill wherever he pleases. The newer one is now in the crate until I can trust her to be free all day. If don't get a puppy, you should be fine keeping a dog inside for 8 hours without any accidents.
Had her for 3 months, and she just now is getting applications for adoption. If she'd have had interest a month or two ago, I'd have given her up. At this point she and my dog are best friends, and she's insanely attached to me. My parents came to visit the other weekend. My mom hasn't had a dog since hers died a couple years ago, and the lab I have now would have been perfect. When they were here, the pup ignored everyone and just paid attention to me. We rode out to some property I tend to and the trip home the pup was in the trunk of the SUV whining because she was too far away from me. She climbed over the seats to put her head on my shoulder. She beat me, I told everyone that I wasn't going to keep her.
Yeah, I fostered one that was going through heartworm treatment and had to have him for six months before we could list him, but by then, I was doomed. I've fostered seventeen dogs and he's my first failure.
I was planning on getting another dog eventually, and wanted a black lab. Fostered her because our shelter here in town is just a city shelter so it sucks ass, and my dog needed a friend to keep him company while I was writing my thesis. It worked out for me because she's an absolutely amazing dog.
Adopt an adult dog who's proven to not be destructive or crate train until you trust the dog, isolate it in an area if need be, come home during your lunch break and let it out, enroll in doggy daycare a couple days a week, hire a dog walker, etc ... They sleep most the day anyway, as said above it's better than them being at the pound or worse.
Fucker expressed his glands in my car. Made it 3 1/2 years without it happening and it had to be in my car.
My sis and bro in law's dog. He wasn't properly socialized when he was a pup, so when I first met him 6 months ago he was super skittish. When he came over for me to babysit today, first thing he did was demand tummy rubs.
If anybody wants to help out a really cool rescue, here you go: https://www.gogophotocontest.com/twobytworescue/entries/44760
Oops. Try now. That was @ my friend's house, so maybe you have the same couch.. It's a big ass mircrofiber sectional.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to get my bulldog to stop licking the carpet like a damn nympho lesbian. It is non-stop and is no longer a novelty.
in my experience bulldogs HATE bitter apple spray http://smile.amazon.com/Grannicks-B...0&sr=8-1&keywords=bitter+apple+spray+for+dogs
My dog found a dead 1/2 eaten bunny in the yard, she picked it up and was carrying it around all proud
Anyone have any tips on introducing a new dog to our current one? I've read not to do that in the house. Maybe have them cross paths on a walk outside?
Connor stepped on the edge of some metal landscape edging and sliced his paw open pretty bad. Blood was flowing pretty bad out of him. Wrapped a towel around it and rushed him to the vet. By the time we got there, blood had soaked through the towel. $300 and 6 stitches later, he has a pretty nice limp and is destined to the cone of shame for two weeks.