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Is it not possible to board your dogs at a kennel ($25-$50 per dog per day)? Drop them off for daycare ($10-$20 per dog per 8-10 hours)? Or maybe take them for a well timed walk and crate them when your guest arrives? I really wouldn't recommend drugging your dog, I'm not really a fan of it...

That was a possibility, but thus far things are returning to normal. The defensive dog is attempting to repair the relationship by offering more submissive behavior, as well as play behavior and they are now sleeping side by side as well as spending more time hunting for whatever small animals...

It sounds like she has a high prey drive and isn't being allowed to burn enough energy off lead, as well as having a lot of negative interaction with Niji and small animals (I'm including kittens in the small animal category). The addition of more small animals that reduce her territory is...

If you change tactics and go with forced socialization (hold them and rub them till they quit struggling) don't forget to wear a good pair of earplugs.

I purchased extra caps to use with my toys in order to make the toy more challenging once my dogs became more familiar with it. The caps are interchangeable, so instead of using two caps with holes in them you can exchange one of them for the solid cap to make the dog work harder. The dog...

Hopefully my instructions and pictures are clear enough. Link: diy-pvc-pipe-toys-t25941.html

The first toy is is a 12" long 2" diameter pvc pipe with a solid cap and two drilled caps, one with a 1 1/2" hole and one with a 1" hole. The second is a much shorter, but wider toy: A 6" long 3" diameter pvc pipe, again with three caps, one solid cap and two drilled (though I reduced the size...

If you aren't opposed, I've found a bit of hot wire to work wonders when I began to find my dogs perching on the top and center rungs of my six foot wooden fence and I couldn't keep them from putting their paws on the top of my four foot chainlink. They only touched it, maybe, twice each and now...

Aren't those meant to be used under supervision only, so as to prevent such damage from occurring? I don't think I could trust any of my dogs with an object that is sure to smell strongly of food, they'd probably do just as much damage as your boxer or more. Once the food stops coming some dogs...

Do you have a blender? You can blend wet food with formula and add as much water/formula as needed to get it thin enough to run through the nipple. It is a pain to play with the proportions to get the consistency right, but may help her to accept it.

This is why the majority of my pack is made up of Pyrenees crosses and only a single ACD cross, the latter of which is anxious to please. My pyr girls are stubborn, a bit aloof, and highly intelligent. They are a challenge to train and will often ignore any newcomers who'd like to cue them to...

If you get bored go to gizoogle.net and type in any url you want, preferably one with lots of text. It will turn all the text into a big pile of slang and general silliness. This is not appropriate for children as there is frequent use of curse words, otherwise pretty amusing. I typed in...

No more so than flaky zinc from galvanized wire or plastic coating and it tends to be more durable than both. "While powder coated steel is the safest type of painted cage, some manufacturers sell powder coated galvanized wire cages as an inexpensive alternative. These cages pose an increased...

If you want the floor wire to last longer you can cut the roll into sheets and have them powder coated. I'm pretty sure that bunnies can't chew off powder coating and it'll help prevent rust from forming.

She is just precious, if you want to keep fattening her with formula you can make a bit in the blender and add dog food until it turns into a slurry. I've thus far weaned three plump pups on such a diet. Because she has had contact with a puppy that has been travelling be aware that she may have...