What advice do you have to help with dog anxiety due to thunder & fireworks? Sam is a 5-year-old Labrador Retriever/Rottweiler X female. If she hears these sounds in the house she immediately hides in the basement. If she hears it while we are already walking outside she wants to run home. She has even […]
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Hi John We have a five-month-old yellow Labrador Retriever, four-year-old beagle, and two cats. The question is regarding the Labrador Retriever when we go out and leave them brood home. He thinks it is party time and gets into anything and everything. We will give him a rawhide before we go even. He ate the
Hi John, I have read your Sun Media column for awhile now. I have a 2 1/2 year old black Labrador Retriever who is neutered. About 6 months ago he started having problems of holding his bladder when he was excited. I have tried limiting his water and taking him outside to pee before expected
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Hi there, I have a 1.5-year-old Golden Retriever/Rottweiler cross, and he is generally very good but he does have a problem which I don’t seem to be able to fix. While outside he doesn’t always come when called. He knows his name! but he just tunes me out whenever he feels like it. I’ve tried
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Dear John: We have a Shetland Sheepdog (Sheltie). He is about three years old now. When we went to the breeder to get a puppy, we found him – an older dog. We felt sorry for him, and took him home. The breeder had cut his vocal cords so he would not make much noise.
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Dear John, My husband and I have a 2 1/2-year-old Rottweiler, female. She is an amazing dog. We have two serious issues food aggression and she is too rough with babies. We used to go to training when she was 3 months old. She completed the training and went on to do apparatus training. However
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