Not yet. She put an ad up on craigslist. Hope she finds something. Alaska could be really sweet and funny, and she’s beautiful, but when she snaps she’s dangerous.
This pup is so attached to me after a year of being home; she’ll be devastated when I go back to work. Think I either have to start a home business or enroll her in therapy.
AKC says like 70-80 pounds for a Lab but there’s no way that’s happening. He honestly looks fine how he is now but I’m shooting for the 85-90 pound range. I saw a pic of a seemingly morbidly obese lab that supposedly weighed 90 pounds and it looked wayyyyyy fatter than mine. I think mine may be a little taller or something because he carries it pretty well. Spoiler
Groot got some hives so I started to worry. Took him in and luckily it was nothing to worry about. Hot a clean bill of health. He is up to 75 pounds. Dr said he looked fine and didn’t need to lose any weight.
not sure why I never posted in here, I thought I did awhile ago but I guess not our big dog, cash, was blind in his left eye for a little over a year and our original vet said we didn't have to get it removed but after some pressure tests it was 5x normal levels so now they said we should get it removed and now he's about 6 weeks post surgery and pre-surgery
I posted a while ago that I was scared to lose my dog, appreciated all the support especially from Daniel Ocean He is still rocking on. 15 years old, he likes to sleep a little more now
Update on Alaska: My friend made the difficult decision to put her down. She called and made an appointment for 1500 today. The vet called her just before and told her Alaska had to be quarantined for 10 days, otherwise they'd have to cut her head off and send it to be checked for rabies? Obviously she chose against the later, but the problem now is Alaska can't board at that vet because she had an incident a year or so ago. I'm guessing my friend will now need to find a new vet. I was talking to another friend about the situation, and she advised checking into doggo Prozac. I told that to Alaska's owner, but I'm guessing that's a conversation that needs to happen with the vet, not the front desk lady. Here she is today.
Ok, her description was really wrong. Either way, she could have gotten Alaska euthanized, but if she wanted her remains back she’d have to wait 10 days in quarantine. Hoping she can get her on Fluoxetine and give it a shot.
How do you feed him? Labs will eat everything you put in front of em I've known lots of people who make the mistake of thinking the dog is still hungry and putting out a huge bowl or big auto feeder thing and they end up with an overweight dog My 15 .month old lab gets 3 cups of food first thing in the morning and that's it Put the bowl down, and in 15 minutes i pick it up, whether she is finished or not (She always is)
they also have more water in their system than normal dogs so that also causes them to be prone for obesity
Both my labs had to go on diets this summer. Down 8 lbs each. One from 96-88 and one from 89-81. Supposed to lose ~10 each. Cut their food back and we walk a ton. Seemed to do the trick
Dogs are so great, just genuine kindness . Just posted about my boy, he really is my parents dog but I take him in fairly often when they go outside the country. My sister had a baby girl exactly one year ago and he could not have been a better dog around her. She loves him and he is so careful around her, making sure to not hurt the baby. He acts completely differently with me, if he wants a hug he is making sure I know and he knows he can rough it up with me a little but not with the baby. I love dogs
Pretty obvious, the older one who is laying down and feeling bad because he knows he did something wrong is on the left in the pic. The younger one is just happy to see AIP and doesn’t really care about the rules(do not go on the couch) just a naive young pup but she looks like a good girl But come on AIP , let them lay on the couch
and they are not doing this because it feels so good for them to be on a couch, they go there because they can smell their best human friend, makes them feel more secure. Just looking at this picture and I know exactly where AIP sits on this couch, doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes but it’s obvious that exactly where the old dog’s nose is is where AIP sits
I let him do everything he wants, and like I said I am not the real owner but It is so easy to see what people do when you are taking care of their dog. The dog is a reflection of whatever they do, you know when they get up, when they go to sleep when they go out for a walk.
6 months later and this little punk has grown to 77 lbs and now has a 52 lbs brother, Pimento, who we picked up from the shelter. Going from zero dogs to two 50+ pounders within 6 months has been a bit of an adjustment but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Johnny Utah you first wasn’t from a shelter right? And would you say the older one helped the younger one adapt to your environment ?
I got ours to loose 12 lbs just by walking more and longer and stopped giving her peanut butter toast and pizza crust (human food)
Correct, Duke is a lab that I got from an AKC breeder. Pimento was actually pretty easy when it came to getting situated in his new environment. One of the trainers at my girlfriends gym found him in a pretty populated area of town and he wasn’t malnourished so we suspect that he had a home prior to us. The trainer kept him for a few days while they looked for the owner then she had a friend foster him for a few days but ultimately she had to bring him to the shelter. Overall he only spent about 5 days at the shelter before we brought him home. Once he was home he only had one accident the very first day but that’s it. Luckily I work from home and the gf is in between jobs so someone was always home with him while he was adjusting.