Hi John, I have friends who are at their wits end with their 2 adult boxers, Alice and Ralph who can’t seem to live in the same house. For no apparent reason, they get into ferocious, vicious fights, where blood is drawn and people sustain injury trying to pry them apart. They’ve had a “dog […]
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Hi John, I hope you can help me. When my 18 mth old Labrador Retriever X sees another dog while we are walking, she bristles, barks and lunges at the other dog. I’m the only one she does this with, we had her evaluated at a reputable training facility and she was perfectly fine on
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Hi John, I recently adopted an abandoned dog from a shelter in Mississauga after losing Max my best friend of 14 years. My adopted dog is a Shih Tzu cross and apparently somewhere between 4 and 7 months old. He was found in country woods, nearly starved and in very bad condition. Although he seems to
Dear John, Our daughter and her partner are expecting their first child soon. They are the proud and loving owners of a rather large dog, over 5 years old and probably a mix breed, that has at least one incident of biting another dog recently. Are we being overly concerned prospective grandparents when we worry
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Hi John, I have a 3 year old Sheltie. She is very gentle and easy going with people of all ages but she does not like other dogs in her space! If they come within sniffing range she stiffens up and when they get too close to her (esp. backside) she growls and snaps at
Hi John, We own a now five year Labrador Retriever-Pit Bull X named Sly for which we have had a few incidents. The first incident we had was in July 2006 when an off-leash husky cross, bounded up to our other dog, Finnegan, who was quite submissive, and Sly (our lab pit bull cross) took
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