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NorCalVirgo asked:


My husband and I have a boxer/lab mix that we got from a shelter. He is approximately a year and a half. He has been through training already and does ok with standard commands, when he’s calm. He’s just very stubborn at times.

Anyway, here’s the deal. There are times when I am home alone with our dog and even if he’s calm and being lazy, if I turn my back to go to the restroom, go to another bedroom, do the dishes, etc. he will usually get something off of the dining room table or somewhere else, go under our coffee table and proceed to chew and swallow whatever he has gotten into. We have rawhides, kong balls, ham bones, etc. for him to chew & play with. We crate him when we go to bed at night and when we are out of the house. We walk him about every 4 hrs or so to go to the bathroom because we do not have a fenced in yard. We take him for long walks, short walks, play with him, etc. Nothing we do seems to change anything. Do we have to crate him everytime we go to the bathroom?????

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Tiffany asked:


I have a 10 week old Cockapoo puppy. She won’t stop biting. She has tons of toys…even the ones you put in the freezer for teething. We tried the bitter spray, but for some reason she likes it and licks your fingers when you spray it. She growls and bites your nose and ears and everything else. We tell her “no!” and pull ourselves away - we never let her bite or put our fingers in her mouth. We put toys in her mouth, but she doesn’t want those. We tried to yelp, but that makes her bite more. We tried coins in a can to make a loud noise, but she doesn’t care about that.

She cries all of the time when we are not playing with her, and when we ignore her the neighbors complain. She has a crate and has the dining room gated off as her play area. I don’t want her to be an aggressive dog. We’ve been spending most of our day working with her on these things, but nothing sticks. She won’t even look at you when you call her or yell. What’s the best way to deal with this?

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vail2073 asked:


I know what they discovered 3-4 years ago. At that time, the person running the research department had personal problems going on and his work and criteria reflected it. Since then, he has been fired and a new director of research has taken over. IAMS is a good brand for dog food and cat food. Their formula is proven to work and deliver everythign it promises and says on the bag. I own 4 dogs and feed them IAMS kibble along with some canned alpo from time to time. My coats are beautiful, teeth pearly white with NO decay or cavitites and their energy level is still as high as ever. So, why, 4 years later, after the “bad guy” was fired and removed are people still making a big deal. IAMS is proven to be better than 85-90% of the brand out there.

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crackers asked:


My dog is a 5-year-old beagle/lab mix and he exhibits food aggression and also territorial aggression (if he’s sleeping in a spot and you go near him). He will growl as a warning and snap and sometimes, even bite. I’m just looking for anyone in a similar situation and anything that has helped.

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Morgan asked:


I have a Great Pyrenees nearing five years old, and he’s had problems with food since he was a puppy. These problems were revolved around his “obsession” with food. Because of his size, he can eat nearly anything in no time at all, and he will do such things as jumping on our grill when we’re cooking to steal food off of it. These behaviors are ones we have learned to deal with, but our town has had problems with dog aggression. We overlooked the development of food aggression with him as a puppy and never worked against it, and now he can’t let anyone near his food. He growls and sometimes snaps at people who go near him when he is eating, and he refuses to eat anywhere where he is not alone at the fear of someone taking his food away. I am scared that this could lead to him doing something worse sometime. What can I do now to help him?

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