Dog Owner Chat V. 5

[.Middy.]

My friend took my new favorite picture of Kes and I the other day! I absolutely adore how focused she was on me, and the fact I was holding a ridiculous reward in my hand 😂 not many dogs highest reward is a cup of water, but since we only had one shot to get the photo I had to bring out the big guns! I’ll share the actual photo we were going for later on, but for now this one of me setting her is great imo.

[eleutheromania]

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My friend took my new favorite picture of Kes and I the other day! I absolutely adore how focused she was on me, and the fact I was holding a ridiculous reward in my hand 😂 not many dogs highest reward is a cup of water, but since we only had one shot to get the photo I had to bring out the big guns! I’ll share the actual photo we were going for later on, but for now this one of me setting her is great imo.

can't wait to see the shot you were going for. xD

[Julia]

Do you have a CS dog that looks like your dog? 8D





I am sooo happy with the August doggies <3

[Velveteen Hound.]

Do you have a CS dog that looks like your dog? 8D





I am sooo happy with the August doggies <3

These dogs could be a couple of different breeds, (I think that was the intention)
They look quite a bit like my dog too (other than the full white chest) (kelpie x/) ... -I will be hoarding them as a result-

[angel23456]

My Wendy lookalike is pretty close.
(Sorry for the large image if you're not using a phone)


Pet's name: Wendy
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[Velveteen Hound.]

My dad handed my little brother the leash to his huge 120lb mastiff for just a minute at the park and she ended up violently ripping it out of his hands, going after a little Boston terrier that was barking at her. There’s nothing more frustrating than knowing these kinds of things are going to keep happening if my dad doesn’t socialize and take care of HIS dogs... I wish he wouldn’t have gotten a second mastiff puppy. (Don’t worry, both of the dogs ended up fine, but it was a scary situation)

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I am glad both dogs ended up ok. Mastiff are amazing dogs, but a large responsibility.

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I have a similar/different issue at our part lately. We have a very nice park, that is split in two sections a large dog, and a small dog section. There have always been the random rebels that brins a small dog into the large dog section, regardless of the warning posted in big red block letters stating that small dogs should not be in the large dog park, that owners enter at their own risk, small dogs have been injured in the large dog park. It seems like over the past two weeks we have had a mass influx of small dogs entering the park, and things are starting to get a bit dicey. We had a squirrel run though the park the other day, and the dogs were already in array, and then a lady with two Italian greyhounds came in the big dog park, and of course they were treated like prey. Every one ended up fine, but it very easily could not have. I love the park, I feel like it is a good outlet for Gizmo on days when I am just not up for running and playing early in the morning (After a long night of work) for Gizmo -I do always walk him in the evenings/afternoons- . However, I can not have him in a risky situation, and when people don't follow the rules, it puts all dogs at a high risk .

[.Middy.]

Our big shot! We had a lot of fun with this shoot, and I absolutely love how the pictures turned out! Can’t wait to do O’s powder shoot in a few months!

[Boneabii]

Our dog is confusing. He loves small dogs, and wants to spend every minute of his life with them, and he despises dogs bigger than him. (But that's not the confusing part. This is.) So, a little while, my mom found a dog training place. She contacted them, describing Pepper's problems. I read it too. Her description matched Pepper's behavior. The said, "Oh we could fix him in five sessions. In all those five sessions, the crabby woman basically said, "Never have him even see other dogs." The only thing she did with Pepper was feed him when he snarled at dogs. She said it was positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is when you praise the dog when they actually do something you like, e.g. ignoring the dog, lady. So that was all she did in five sessions. Tell us to never have Pepper interact with a dog and feed him when he did something bad. I know that there's also where you have something good happen to your dog when something they don't like happens, but she should have learned from her mistakes. You've been doing this for about two hours now. It's not working, not even a tiny bit. He is still lunging and snarling. This is not working So he hasn't seen a dog besides his girlfriend chiuhahua. (Don't worry, they're fixed.) But one day my aunt asked me if I wanted to go to the dog walk with her dogs and Pepper. I said "Okay, but I'll have to focus on Pepper. So we went. We got to this area where there were only small terriers. My aunt's dogs are border collies. I let Pepper off leash. It was the happiest I had ever seen Pep. So then, after about 15-20 minutes, this huge dog comes running. I get scared, because Pepper's off leash and really far away. The big dog comes running over to Pepper and the terriers and my aunt's collies. The collies growl and snap, but Pepper doesn't. He comes running to me and whimperwhines like, "I was good! Where's my prize?!" I gave him some cheese. But then we came to another big dog. I was confident that he wouldn't be bad. The collies, this time, were obidient. Pepper was not. This kept happening. So I'm confused. Is he gloating? Do dogs gloat, though?

[Imzadi83]

Do you have a CS dog that looks like your dog? 8D



I am sooo happy with the August doggies <3

Pet's name: Keeyna
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Pet's name: Regian
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Yes, these are the two hairless Chinese Cresteds in CS. I keep a hoard of both in honor of my Chloe.

[Keen]

Are there any Papillon CS pets? I don't remember seeing any.