I got a Gentle Leader muzzle collar for Buck this past weekend and gave it a try on a walk with my girlfriend. He fought it and protested until we were going and he could settle down, and then pretty much stopped pulling on the leash. The real test was when she took him for awhile by herself, and she said it made a huge difference and made him perfectly manageable for her. I'd say it works really well, it might not look like that in the photo but he was excited because of me.
Same thing with Buddy. He hated that sensation on his nose and bucked his head a bit at first, but once he realized less movement meant less pressure, he cut the bullshit and behaved. Glad it worked out for Buck!
YAY! The Martha Stewart version is padded. I don't know if that means anything to y'all, but Duke minds it less than the other ones.
I'm going to take Buck for another walk with the Gentle Leader after work today, so we'll see if he relaxes more when it's just me walking him and in an area with less distractions (our normal walk route). I think he was more pissed off about some strange new thing on his muzzle rather than real discomfort, it actually fit loose enough for him to slip his muzzle out a few times.
It shouldn't irritate beyond being a new sensation, and annoyance that dammit he can't do what he wants.
More of the mutt and the baby. If our daughter wants to play with the mutt and she isn't near her, she will go crawl looking for her. And yes that is pig tails at 11months, 3 weeks or so until the 1 year and possibly will have a ponytail by then.
http://www.examiner.com/article/sen...-to-get-a-new-younger-dog?cid=taboola_inbound Someone turned in there dog because it was getting to old, and was getting new ones. He was just shaking in his kennel at the shelter, and passed away a few days later when he got put into foster home. This makes me angry, I could never do this to my dog, at least they weren't beating the dog right?
Few things actually get my attention on the internet, this is one. I have a really big soft spot for old dogs. For me, there is nothing better and more sincere than an old loyal dog. They don't as much, maybe just some food, water, and maybe a walk. In return they're the best, most patient, awesome things ever. I'd take a good, loyal dog over most all my friends.
Don't even bother clicking the links at the bottom of the page. Each story seems worse than the next. Evidently, people love giving up their old dogs, as if they don't obviously have feelings.
People give up dogs for all kinds of fucking selfish reasons, from having to move, to spitting out a kid. To me, no one is more wrong than the other because they all fucking suck. Unless you can commit to having the dog until the end, until the most important part where you do right by them in return for years of loyal love, no questions asked, you have no fucking business even entertaining the thought of getting a dog. And fuck you. A real sore spot for me obviously.
It enrages me that military families were the worst about this. They get moved all over the country, sometimes world, and just abandon their pets. Part of the feral cat problem in Hawaii is related to this. There were also several dogs just left at the dog park for someone else to deal with. The absolute worst was when a cashier at the PX who noticed I was purchasing some dog chews and other misc dog supplies. She told me how she wanted a dog so bad but her husband wouldn't let her. She told me that she responded, "It's no big deal, we can just keep it for a little while and then get rid of it when we move." I wanted to come across the register and smack that bitch.
Its one of the reasons animal fosters and shelters are so selective about who they adopt out to. They don't want that dog coming back to the shelter in a few years where no one will want it. It might be a ridiculous pain in the ass to get a dog from an animal foster or rescue, but those people truly care about all of their dogs. And like me, tend to prefer the company of my dog to most people.
Bewildered that would have been a perfectly appropriate occasion to choke a bitch... Yeah, at first I was annoyed by the process I had to take when adopting my dog but it's worth it in the end. Don't wanna put that dog back in the same situation. Sometimes I think about what my dogs life would have been like, had his original owners not put him up for adoption, and it breaks my heart. Locked up in a basement and paranoid that nobody loves him. Speaking of which here is Buck with his pals Ramsey and Nala last weekend at my buddy's place. He adopted Ramsey and is fostering Nala. They're like the Three Amigos with fur. Ramsey is a border collie mix and Nala is an older lab/Rottweiler mix, a very gentle girl.
I think the Oahu SPCA must be terribly hobo because it was ridiculously easy to adopt Buddy through them. We came in not even expecting to adopt, fell in love with Buddy, filled out some paperwork after calling our landlord to confirm that he was okay, and took him home. They let us take him under a temporary status without even paying the adoption fee. They have some sort of temporary program where you can test the dog out and bring him back if something doesn't work out. I am by nature an overly cautious person so we did that just in case something weird happened, but it didn't and we came back later to have him neutered and paid for. I sort of suspect that I could have never called them back and had a free dog, the whole place was sort of flying by the seat of its pants.
My sister went through an extensive process to get her dog. I'm kinda not kidding when I say it'd be easier to adopt a child. The entire process took over two months. People were interviewed, their house was examined, it was intense. She ended up with good dog, but frankly, it seemed like a bit much. Not a bad thing, because clearly the people here are the exception and there are plenty of careless and mindless dog owners out there, so they need to be careful.
Our last 2 dogs have both been rescues, the most recent one was set to be euthanized because he had got in a fight, had a minor infection and kennel cough but the border collie rescue went and got him with a day to spare got him neutered and healthy. The girls that run the rescue out their house have a lot of time, energy, assets and emotions into all the rescues , so when they asked me to fill out some forms about our lifestyle , write them a check for $250.00 and wanted to set an appointment for people to come inspect my house I get it and understand where they are coming from. It is probably less work to get them from a pound because when you get them from a rescue you are taking someone's child. Cats are a different, they could give a shit about rescues, they just know that they like to drink out of the faucet every morning at 7:30