Dog Owner Chat v2

[Skeleton-Clique]

Alright. Is this the place to ask what you guys think what mix my dog is? its not a challenge I was just wondering if you guys had any ideas.

[Cardinal]

Anyone know why my border collie doesn't like air blown on her/by her?
She is about a year and a half now. She will stick her head out the window all the time. If you have an air pum and are blowing something up, she will bark and try to bite it. If you blow on her, she will try to bite you. I was curious on why she doesn't like it when you blow something up? Anyone else have a similar situation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI13v9JgJu0 Do this.


@ Tardis: If you post photos down on the dogs level, standing, from the side and frontal face we can probably give you a good idea.

[Skeleton-Clique]

(okay, thanks Cardinal, I will in a min. Also I used to be lord melon )

[Skeleton-Clique]

Can you guys help me figure out what mix of dog Sara is? I know for sure she is a border collie mix of something

[HeartOfCoal]

Question: Teeth brushing or dental chew bones, which is better?

We took our Chi into the vet for her yearly check up and distemper/parvo shot. We had to start treating her teeth, because they're already causing some problems at only two. They gave us some vet quality dental sticks for her to have since we weren't sure how she would respond to teeth brushing. (We also got some free Milkbone Brushing Chews at Petsmart...)
I just tried brushing her teeth for the first time, and she responded really well! She hates when we try to look in her mouth, so aside from a bit of initial struggling just to get her still, she took to the toothbrush and toothpaste just fine.

However, is one better than the other? Or is it okay if we alternate both; brush, skip a day, bone, etc.??

I've never seen dental chew bones that actually work well. I'd either start brushing your dogs teeth, or give them raw meaty bones like beef knuckles. My dogs are on a totally raw diet, so I don't brush at all and their teeth have mininal-no tarter.

I've never understood dental chews either, because from my assumptioin, it mainly helps their back teeth, and we're having issues with her front teeth. They get raw bones usually twice a month, but that's just not doing it for the Chi.

We're going to just stick with the toothbrush I think, as she gets more accustomed to it. The bones are nice because they were free, but I don't think I'm willing to pay money for them...

[Keletheryl]

I'm at the dog park right now, and there's these people with a husky and thy aren't letting him drink any water, or play with any of the dogs. And when it tried to play he would grab his collar really roughly and the dog snapped at then, they shoved it on it's side, like how Cesar Milan does. I don't like seeing people who use cesars method

[Jazi]

I only paid about $6 for my knuckles and I got like 10 in a bag. They're not super expensive if you find the right dealer ^^;

[MacGyver]

Are Doberman with blue eyes a BYB thing?

[Jazi]

Are Doberman with blue eyes a BYB thing?

Hmm.

Those puppies look BYB to me >_>; The issue sort of is that almost no reputable breeders purposely produces a full litter of blues, and that's what that looks like. There's a couple other tells, but that combined with being off a CL ad tells me what I need to know.

That said, dilutes (and sometimes reds) frequently have lighter colored eyes than blacks. The proper doberman eye color is a nice warm shade of brown technically, but reds can have green or hazel eyes, and dilutes can have very light amber eyes, or green or hazel, which can look blue in certain lighting.

[Dakonic]

I'm curious how old they are, and if the colors might be saturated because they seem to have that tinge to them that puppies have. Puppies start out with blue/grey blue/green eyes that turn a different color later on.