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

[Joe Kerr]

Did I ever tell you my brother
was scammed by a BYB?
He payed $800 for a MINI AUSSIE
who, at 11 weeks, is 20 lbs.
Serves him right for getting
a pup from a BYB, after I told
him not to go to that breeder,
that I'd direct him to a good
breeder that runs health tests
before they breed. Now, Bruno
the pup is the most aggressive
little puppy. He'll hump my dog,
he snarls at anyone who comes
near him when he has a toy,
he chewed completely through
a Boxer dog's cheek, and bit
my dog because she reprimanded
him for snarling at her. Now, they
moved away, and I can't work with
Bruno's issues anymore. I'm honestly
scared for Bruno, because;

A: He's unaltered
B: The place where they are living now
has an unaltered female GSD, and an
altered male GSD. A Very bonded pair,
and Red, the male, gets very possessive
over the female. Bruno can't control himself
around a female in heat {Which the female is
going into heat soon}
C: They have a human baby and they did not
introduce Bruno correctly to him, and now
whenever Bruno goes near the baby, he
gets kenneled.

They got Bruno, because all the animal shelters
near us wouldn't adopt out a dog to them because
they brought their baby along. To a stinky, germ riddled
dog shelter.

[Saracirce]

I have to point out that sometimes the reason something gets 'dropped' only to be picked back up later is because a lot of us have different schedules. I mean, I was just babysitting a two year old for the last 7 hours and he demands all of my attention when he's awake. (Literally, he demands I play with him if I turn my attention to something else for even a nanosecond.) Last night, I had to go to sleep right after responding so I could be well-rested for today. I'll be going to sleep even earlier tonight. Plus, I just plain don't like typing when I'm on my tablet so I might only say part of what I want to say and save the rest for later. If I respond at all.

Speaking of gorgeous dogs with some bad confirmation:


Clemmy is a gorgeous dog. But she's not a gorgeous Boxer. She has confimational faults out of the wazoo. Even right down to her itty bitty misaligned front bottom teeth. Doesn't mean I don't think she's beautiful and wonderful (which I think would be pretty obvious since she's my favorite subject)

I'm honestly not going to bother looking further back on the thread because I'm deadbeat tired.

[~BlueDuskk~]

i got a dog i love her

[Ѧʋƨιc]

I told my friend that two yellow Labradors could make a black lab and she didn't believe me hahaha
And then I threw my hands up in the air and said "genetics!"
(I showed her that picture of the dog)

That is funny!

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Just going to say it. Apollo does not live up to his breed standards XD. I also have been following these argues and all I can quote is

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

[Ethulai]

If Wolfgang's breeder's dogs were "horrible looking" then how could they be champion dogs? Optimus is only just over 1 year and already champion titled. He has only even been in the show ring a hand full of times, not even close to as many times as other dgs have to be in the to get titled. Or, are the judges just wrong and don't know what Akitas are supposed to look like? A dog who doesn't look how it should will not win anything in the show ring. It's as simple as that. Why in the world would they be titled champions if they had horrible conformation? By the people you have been defending who are "experts" and "know what they're talking about"?

I actually tried showing my youngest dog, before I discovered how corrupt the whole thing was and just getting exasperated with it.

Here in Australia you can be a judge and still show dogs. Well, guess whose dogs always won at shows? That's right.

You know what, many 'judges' aren't experts on a variety of breeds either. The amount of times I've seen judges go and read the breed standard because they just-don't-know-it. So you can't use the argument that they are champions, because usually they are champions at all dog breed shows and not at a specific breed dog show where they would surely get called out for their faults.

Not to mention the other things that can go wrong for you at a show, as a quick example, my entire male is NOT going to walk around nicely showing his 'hackney gait' where there are females in heat -.-

I also don't agree with the dogs that don't win because they have desired breed traits that go against the general wishes of show-goers; 'all dogs should let me touch them even though they've never met me before' pfftt...yeah right.

[.Middy.]

Collars will now be a outside only thing for our dogs. Poor Gracie got her dew claw stuck in her collar. (Well state tag but still)

The poor dog was whining in what could only be pain, with her paw stuck up near her neck. Luckily I noticed that her whining wasn't her normal 'Im bored' whining and actual pain whining. No more collars for her or either of the two little ones.

[xuee]

so since it was snowing outside, i took my pup out to the field behind our house and he had a nice run in the snow, but when we came back, i realized that he had a bubble or blister like thing under his paw... has anyone had experience with that; should i just leave it alone or try to clean it up?

[Saracirce]

Possibly it's a burn from road salt. I can't personally advise what to do, however, as the only experience I have with that is with it completely drying out my cat's paw pads. I've never dealt with a blister.

[Keletheryl]

so since it was snowing outside, i took my pup out to the field behind our house and he had a nice run in the snow, but when we came back, i realized that he had a bubble or blister like thing under his paw... has anyone had experience with that; should i just leave it alone or try to clean it up?

I heard sticking their paws in warm (not hot, warm) water are going outside in the snow is a good thing to do. It washes away any of the road salt or anything else the dog could have gotten stuck in its paws.

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

If Wolfgang's breeder's dogs were "horrible looking" then how could they be champion dogs? Optimus is only just over 1 year and already champion titled. He has only even been in the show ring a hand full of times, not even close to as many times as other dgs have to be in the to get titled. Or, are the judges just wrong and don't know what Akitas are supposed to look like? A dog who doesn't look how it should will not win anything in the show ring. It's as simple as that. Why in the world would they be titled champions if they had horrible conformation? By the people you have been defending who are "experts" and "know what they're talking about"?

I actually tried showing my youngest dog, before I discovered how corrupt the whole thing was and just getting exasperated with it.

Here in Australia you can be a judge and still show dogs. Well, guess whose dogs always won at shows? That's right.

You know what, many 'judges' aren't experts on a variety of breeds either. The amount of times I've seen judges go and read the breed standard because they just-don't-know-it. So you can't use the argument that they are champions, because usually they are champions at all dog breed shows and not at a specific breed dog show where they would surely get called out for their faults.

Not to mention the other things that can go wrong for you at a show, as a quick example, my entire male is NOT going to walk around nicely showing his 'hackney gait' where there are females in heat -.-

I also don't agree with the dogs that don't win because they have desired breed traits that go against the general wishes of show-goers; 'all dogs should let me touch them even though they've never met me before' pfftt...yeah right.

They've been shown in specific breed shows too. I don't know the details, but I do know they have.

Collars will now be a outside only thing for our dogs. Poor Gracie got her dew claw stuck in her collar. (Well state tag but still)

The poor dog was whining in what could only be pain, with her paw stuck up near her neck. Luckily I noticed that her whining wasn't her normal 'Im bored' whining and actual pain whining. No more collars for her or either of the two little ones.

Kiba has a weird dew claw on only one of her hind legs that has a long quick so it can't be cut really short. She has gotten it stuck in the loops for her tags serval times when scratching and then starts crying and confuses me because usually I have no idea what's wrong x.x