Dog Owner Chat! (for-fun poll added) (new chat)

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

OMG fuzzy!
Wolf is so gorgeous and fluffy!!!!
I just wanna snuggle him an bury my face in his neck lol!

Thank you! I do that to him all the time lol xD


EDIT: Wolfgang has made me beyond furious today. So, yesterday he took Misty's collar off multiple times. I tried to scare him with the collar, so hopefully he wouldn't take it off again. But, that didn't work at allandi found the collar on the ground again with the snap chewed off. He had also peed on the floor in the same place he keeps peeing. I also find that Marty ha gotten into the garbage. Apparently to my dad, it was my fault because "I should have heard them playing and checked on her collar". I was in my room, sick -.-
So, I let the dogs outside before I went to bed ealy at like 12:45 am. This is close to the time I usually let them out for the last time. I have been letting Wolfgang sleep on the bathroom since when I shut him in my room at night now since I got the big rabbit pen, there isn't enough space for him, so he just paces and cries. I leave my door open though, incase he wants to come in. I came back down at 4 am when I woke up and found he had chewed up a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom that he had taken out of the bag, chewed up a decoration that was on the gate into the laundry room, chewed up a Betta cup that we use when cleaning tanks and I have no idea how he got it because they were all up on the counters, chewed up a piece of garbage that I have no idea where he got it, and he KNEW he had done something wrong because he put his head down and hid when I came downstairs.
He got into huge trouble and is went back upstairs. I came back down at 6:15 and let the dogs outside for like 15 minutes. When I let them in Kiba stayed downstairs. She came up at like 8 and had dog poop on her paw. I figured she had stepped in it outside, so I went back downstairs to clean it off. Wolfgang sees me come down and hides. I find he s now chewed up 3 more toilet paper rolls, the bag the toilet paper rolls were in, more random garbage that I once again have no idea where he got it, and peed on the floor in the same place. Plus, Kiba pooped on the floor into places. Are you freaking kidding me, they were just outside an hour and a half ago until they were crying at the door to come in! And Wolfgang just got into trouble for what he had done and decides to do it again? And they decide to do all of this while I'm sick?
I was going to take them to my grandfather's property to play in the snow today. I'm highly doubting I will take them after they did this. Wolfgang is now in his crate since apparently I can't trust him for an hourwhile I'm trying to lay down from being sick -.- I'm also sure that my dad will tell me this was my fault. Apparently I should just sleep in the bathroom with Wolfgang tied to my body all night to keep him from doing these things.
It's not like he would have even had to go to the bathroom again, Kiba either. They didn't eat anything after coming inside. It's not like they aren't house trained. It's not like Wolfgang doesn't know he can't chew these things, plus they literally have so many toys it's ridiculous so there's no excuse for him to chew other things.
Now I am going to have to go buy Misty another collar. I'm going to have to coat this one in one of those bad tasting sprays so Wolfgang won't try to take it off of her -.-
EDITAGAIN: I just went down to find that now Marty has pooped on the floor. I feel like my dogs are waiting to see when I will snap and murder them. I'm getting extremely close. They never act like this. Misty is the only one being good.

[Saracirce]

The world is harder for dogs with aggression. That's just the way it is. End of story.

And, yeah, it is fair for us to say that Piper MAY develop behavioral issues. You don't know the father either. You never met him. The mother was just a farm dog. Piper's not being socialized or exercised enough and your mother won't let you train her. You really think you're going to get a perfect, well-behaved dog? And wouldn't matter if you had gotten Piper the way you did or if you'd found her in a shelter as a puppy. We would've said the SAME. EXACT. THING.

And wow, yeah, I'm so mean and such a bully. How in the world do I even have friends? How does my family put up with me? Like, wow.

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

The world is harder for dogs with aggression. That's just the way it is. End of story.

And, yeah, it is fair for us to say that Piper MAY develop behavioral issues. You don't know the father either. You never met him. The mother was just a farm dog. Piper's not being socialized or exercised enough and your mother won't let you train her. You really think you're going to get a perfect, well-behaved dog? And wouldn't matter if you had gotten Piper the way you did or if you'd found her in a shelter as a puppy. We would've said the SAME. EXACT. THING.

And wow, yeah, I'm so mean and such a bully. How in the world do I even have friends? How does my family put up with me? Like, wow.

That's really not true. The world isn't always harder for dogs with aggression. Jilli has fear aggression because she was attacked by a Lab and then kept isolated from dogs for a year. At first afterwards she was ok, then she just couldn't do it. She is fine with Kiba, but is afraid of Misty so she attacks her if they're in the house together. I'm working on her with Wolfgang so she hopefully will be ok with him. Yeah, Jilli can't go places with us anymore like she used to, but it's not like her life is horrible. She still plays with Kiba and I content with that. She loves when I take her places with Kiba and Wolfgang. I'm sure my best friend feels bad that Jilli can't come to my house anymore or go camping with us, but she doesn't act like the world is a horrible place for her dog. We just keep continuing to help Jilli and hope that things will get better and that eventually she will get over her fear. Until then, we let her play with Kiba and be happy the way she wants. She can't go to dog parks and stuff either, but I doubt my best friend's mom would have let her anyway. And it's not Jilli's fault, it's my best friend's parents fault for keeping her isolated until she became fear aggressive. Misty used to be her best friend, but instead of feeling sad about it, I will just hope that when it warms up we can reacustom them to each other. Sure, it's a shame and it is sad that such a great dog was ruined, but I'm not gonna give up on her or feel sorry for her. Even though she can't do too much now with my dogs, she isn't depressed and having a horrible life. My friend feels bad for her (but is more angry at her mom than anything) but doesn't complain and just works with me on getting her able to do things like go to PetSmart alot and the park more often. Even if Jilli wasn't aggressive, her mom would still probably be trying to isolate her. Either way, she still gets to go tons of fun places with me and even has sleep overs with Kiba. How many dogs get to have sleep overs at their own house with their best friend? My dogs, Addie, and Jilli are the only ones I know who do.
Does this look like a dog with a hard life? These were taken before and during the time her aggression was starting to come out, these were during the time we were getting her out her "isolation"

[swiftie 13]

I've just been through all my photos, and I've found some pics of my dogs. Sorry some of them are big.

This is Blade on my bed sheets.


Blade is the brown one of the left, Spirit is the grey one on the right (closer to the camera).


Spirit sometimes sleeps on my bed, so I decided to mess around with effects on my new phone.


Elsa is our guard dog. She currently lives with my dad to protect his property, this is when we first got her (not intending for her to be a guard dog) and we were trying to get her used to family life. A few month after we got her, my dad's house was robbed and hundreds of pounds worth of jewelry, an Xbox and a PS3 was stolen, so she moved in with my dad because she was still very keen and a little aggressive to other dogs, and she would bite a person if they came in to the house, and she didn't know their smell.


This is a few days after we got Elsa. They were only in the cage because we had people over, and didn't want Elsa to bite them, she stayed in the cage and in the kitchen, but was whining because Spirit was able to roam. Spirit had been brought up in a cage before we got her, so she happily stayed in there with Elsa. We took this photo because we were quite surprised they both settled, Elsa wasn't used to being in there and she usually fought with Spirit because she didn't like other dogs.


We just got this adorable beauty <3 She's a Labrador pup, and we'v called her Rosie.


I absolutely love this picture of Spirit.

[rainiepainie ;;]

@BK ♥ CC: Beautiful dogs. c:

So.. it seems I cannot play with Indy without getting scratched by her long claws or get 'accidentally' bitten. The bite isn't bad enough to tear skin, but it hurts pretty badly. I don't think she is doing it on purpose. I don't think she even realizes she is hurting somebody.
Ugh. I really don't like playing with her now because of this.
Any way to get her to stop this?

[the bad wolf]

Thought I'd give an update on Lilly.^^

She's taking to freetraining quickly and I'll move up to clicker training once she gets used to the sound of it. I've started teaching jump and spin, and she's already got the trick down in a matter of days. I'm now trying to teach her signs for them, but she's having trouble with the spin symbol and registers it as sit. That or she's going immediately into 'trick rest', as I've always taught her to sit after a trick.

[urie]

@BK ♥ CC: Beautiful dogs. c:

So.. it seems I cannot play with Indy without getting scratched by her long claws or get 'accidentally' bitten. The bite isn't bad enough to tear skin, but it hurts pretty badly. I don't think she is doing it on purpose. I don't think she even realizes she is hurting somebody.
Ugh. I really don't like playing with her now because of this.
Any way to get her to stop this?

How old is Indy? c:

[Dappled Sapphire]

@BK ♥ CC: Beautiful dogs. c:

So.. it seems I cannot play with Indy without getting scratched by her long claws or get 'accidentally' bitten. The bite isn't bad enough to tear skin, but it hurts pretty badly. I don't think she is doing it on purpose. I don't think she even realizes she is hurting somebody.
Ugh. I really don't like playing with her now because of this.
Any way to get her to stop this?

If she's still young, yelp stand up and walk away when she hurts you
That's what puppys do when they are playing, if one gets hurt the fun stops
I'm not sure how well it works with older dogs? Maybe it would if it sort of startled them too
But it shouldn't take her too long to learn that once she starts getting rough it's game over

[Country.]

@BK ♥ CC: Beautiful dogs. c:

So.. it seems I cannot play with Indy without getting scratched by her long claws or get 'accidentally' bitten. The bite isn't bad enough to tear skin, but it hurts pretty badly. I don't think she is doing it on purpose. I don't think she even realizes she is hurting somebody.
Ugh. I really don't like playing with her now because of this.
Any way to get her to stop this?

If she's still young, yelp stand up and walk away when she hurts you
That's what puppys do when they are playing, if one gets hurt the fun stops
I'm not sure how well it works with older dogs? Maybe it would if it sort of startled them too
But it shouldn't take her too long to learn that once she starts getting rough it's game over

Yes, this is what I was going to say. Walk away and ignore her after she bites you. Soon she'll get the message that you don't like what she's doing. This has worked with my dog pretty well. Puppies and dogs play with their mouths, they bite eachother, but usually soft enough so they aren't hurting eachother, your dog just doesn't know how to play with you well yet. c:

[Joe Kerr]

All my dogs, except Scherbatsky,
can be found in my signature <3
The St. Bernard, Greyhound mix and Pitty
are my parent's dogs, but I love them!

My dogs, the jumping one, the Golden,
and Scherbatsky are all rescues.

Lola was rescued off Death Row as a puppy.
She's my first dog <3 She's a year and a half
now!

Goldy was going to be dumped in a shelter
by her irresponsible breeder because she
has an underbite and deformed front legs.
I saved her just in time <3

Scherbatsky wouldn't stand still for a video,
but here's a picture. He was dumped at a shelter by what I can
only guess as a dog fighter. Batsky has a heart
condition, and he faints every time he gets overly
excited or scared.

I love my puppies!