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

[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

[wolfgirl2011]

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?

When we let my dog out in the snow to play he usually comes back with bloody paws. What we do is we put pressure on the paw until it stops bleeding and then put it in warm (not hot) water to soften up the pads and area around the nail. We've also bought him boots for winter-which I highly recommend if your dog keeps getting these blisters.

[Keletheryl]

My Title Is Completely Sarcastic

Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll try to fix it.
Finally, I capture how my mom reacts to Piper barking at her.
So you can see how frustrated I get.

And then when my mom does get mad at her, Piper will go and try to climb on her lap and my mom calls it "sucking up" which it might be, but I wouldn't accept the suck up, because she did something I didn't approve of and i'm not going to show her its okay by accepting her pets.

[control freak.]

I'm just..mortified and thoroughly disgusted right now. Yesterday
was the 1 year anniversary mark of the death of my dog, Razor.
I was already feeling quite over sensitive because of this. Then
I get on facebook and the first thing I see is a video that
may have traumatized me for life...

I will not go into detail out of respect for people are extremely
sensitive when it comes to these things, but I will say that
it is a home video of someone being BEYOND abusive to
pups that look no more than 3 weeks old.

HOW can people do things like that and not be disgusted
with themselves? I just cannot understand...

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

I'm just..mortified and thoroughly disgusted right now. Yesterday
was the 1 year anniversary mark of the death of my dog, Razor.
I was already feeling quite over sensitive because of this. Then
I get on facebook and the first thing I see is a video that
may have traumatized me for life...

I will not go into detail out of respect for people are extremely
sensitive when it comes to these things, but I will say that
it is a home video of someone being BEYOND abusive to
pups that look no more than 3 weeks old.

HOW can people do things like that and not be disgusted
with themselves? I just cannot understand...

Ugh, I don't get how people can do those kinds of things x.x If you wouldn't hurt a baby, how can you hurt a defensless newborn puppy? It just makes me sick -.-
Once somebody shared a video one Facebook and it said the video was horrible and sad and I clicked on it and it was people skinning dogs alive x.x Like, ok that is extremely upsetting, but WHY would you share the video??? It was a video by PETA, of course. Well, at least it made sure people who watched it were not going to buy fur, ever....and probably were going to attack people they saw wearing fur...