Hello everyone, I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas (and/or Holiday season)!!!  

I was thinking a short Christmas 2009 survey might be fun - where pictures of the holiday festivities could be also enjoyed!

1) Name
2) Dog(s) Name(s)
3) Age(s) and Breed(s)
4) Location
5) Favorite present dog(s) received
6) Favorite present you received
7) Most touching, special, adorable moment (s) (furry or not) of this Christmas/Holiday Season.
8) Fav tradition (or anything else to add?)
9) POST pictures of all your fun!

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 I'm watching Daniel Radcliffe's screen test on Disc 4 of the CoS set, and the sound goes in and out...is that happening on anyone else's DVD, or do I have a defective set?

Hello, dog lovers! I come with a Christmas surprise. His name is Cornelius.

Cornelius was found yesterday evening, Christmas Eve, in fact. He was loose in the middle of a busy road and covered in gasoline and demodex mange. Naturally, we pulled over and picked him up. He is now clean and comfortable in my utility room.

Unfortunately for Cornelius, we are renters and our landlord does not allow pit bulls. This pretty much means that if we do not find a rescue for him to go to before our landlord finds out, we will be forced to take him to animal control. We don't really want to do this. Can you help? Do you know of anyone who can?

Cornelius is located in Orlando, Florida, but we are willing to travel pretty far to make sure he's safe, even set up an out of state transport. He's a very friendly, enthusiastic boy. He doesn't appear to be terribly reactive towards dogs and cats, but he has only seen them while out on walks. All he wants to do is snuggle and play with squeaky toys. He looks to be about 8 months old and is unaltered.

Here are some pictures. Be warned, the demodex covers his entire body. He seems in good spirits in spite of how itchy and uncomfortable he is!( look under here for an itchy dog )

this will be cross posted, so sorry if you see it more than once. Feel free to post his story wherever you please

Merry Christmas from Charlie and his Santa hat. :)

So ive only posted here once, and you may not remember me and my toy poodle Mim... but ill post anyway!

Mim's had a double whammy this week, it was her 1st birthday on Monday, and then her first Christmas!

Here are some pictures of her first Christmas! I am just so glad to have her, she is seriously the best thing that has happened to me :) Although in some of the pictures she looks a bit poopy because this morning, she ran out the front door and nearly got ran over :/ and I got scared, and growled at her.
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And also, new friends are always welcome!

This is what happens when I let the boyfriend and dogs in the kitchen while baking. Poor dogs...haha.


Pudges


Dakota

My Question: I just recently started giving 4 of my dogs fish oil capsules due to dry skin. They have some nasty, frequent gas now. Is this normal?

Hey!

I just adopted my first dog a month ago. I had some money saved, and one of the advantages of being out of work is you have a lot of time to train a new beagle. He's a rescue dog, about two years old. He was picked up as a stray and he knew no obedience commands when I took him home, but he has a lovely temperament aside from some minor mouthing and housebreaking issues, which I have every confidence of working through.

However, I think I know why he was picked up as a stray -- he's a determined escape artist who will chew through any leash or collar you put on him. Since I brought him home a month ago, he's destroyed four leashes and a chest harness (about 100 dollars worth of equipment), jumped a five foot fence in my dog-owning Aunt's back yard, and bitten his way out of the longline we're using while we train him on the electric fence. Today, the first day I've let him off leash in our yard - and yes, I was with him - he charged through the Invisible Fence we've got installed (the expensive one with the guys who come do the training, not a Petco version), with electric collar on, right into the main road, a busy four-lane highway right next to our house. I nearly died of panic, it was just fucking awful, but thank goodness he didn't get hurt.

Any tips for working with an escape artist dog? He's on a chain leash now that he can't bite through and a martingale collar; he chokes and wheezes in it, so I wanted to get him a harness - but he had his on for about an hour before it was in shreds. I'm not sure if I'll ever trust him in an electric fence now, but a real fence just isn't an option due to price. He's an active little guy, and he gets at least an hour of exercise a day on leash, more when the sidewalks aren't covered in snow, but he'd be a lot happier with a yard to run in. There are no dog parks within an hour's drive, and I want to give him some freedom - but how?

I bought this headband to wear myself. Turns out it looks equally good on the dogs.

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It's Christmas Day in Australia so from my dogs to you and yours, have a merry and safe Christmas filled with much food, love, laughter and belly rubs! :-)



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We're visiting my aunt and paternal grandma today. My aunt has three dogs: Nissa (a mutt who looks like an ewok), Rosie (tiny tiny EVIL chihuahua) and Blacky (vicious mutt). Nissa and Rosie are females and Blacky is male. Blacky is always kept in away from visitors because he's so unfriendly. Nissa is very sweet but a bit snippy if you touch her arthritic rear end and is the alpha dog of the back. Rosie is a tiny, tiny chihuahua who growls at everyone but mostly because she's terrified.

Because Jingles is in heat would Nissa and Rosie be on the offensive since she's a new dog to "their" home and she's in heat? All of my aunt's dog's are fixed so Blacky couldn't even get her pregnant if he tried but would he really?

I hope someone has some experience with this because I'd like to prevent an all out pack attack on my dog.

 I decided to do something new fngor christmas and make my own gift tags, thought you all might enjoy seeing them too!

  

Any ideas about what breed mix my dog Honey is? She is about eight months old and weighs about 28 lbs. She stopped growing when she was about five months old. The shelter we got her from told us she was a boxer/lab mix (she had floppy ears when we got her at about 12 weeks old), but I'm pretty sure they guessed wrong. She looks a little like a basenji and other people have told me so too, but she definitely barks. Maybe she's mixed with lab too? Who knows!



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Does anyone know where I can order the HP snuggie?

Did anyone see this. A mutt rescued in South Africa who's owners took him on a round the world trip to raise awareness for rescue dogs. I would love to do something like this with my dog but I can't even imagine the amount of paperwork required for it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237315/A-hound-world-80-days-Meet-Oscar-canine-globe-trotting-sensation.html

Jingles is not happy.

Do dogs get "emotional" in heat? She just wants to sleep by the fire place or be held.
I've never had a dog in heat before so what should I expect for the next 2 - 3 weeks?

I've just finished making dog cake and dog biscuits for my pack's christmas presents. However I'm a bit lost on what to do about icing etc? I figured I would use yoghurt somehow but don't really know how. All the recipes I'm finding online include icing sugar which I would prefer to stay away from/think I should stay away from. Does anyone know anyway I could decorate/frost the cake with yoghurt, or know any good dog frosting recipes?
Thanks!

My sister's roommate said that our dog was in heat because she was swollen.
Today, we picked her up from her grooming appointment at Petsmart and the groomer told us that she was definitely in heat because she was bleeding while she was at the store. I wanted to spay her before her first heat cycle but now I'll have to wait until January. My previous dog, Osita was spayed at 9 months and we're pretty sure she never went into heat because we would take her to the dog park frequently and no male dogs ever gave her special attention.

So, I bought the dog diapers from Petsmart which cost $12.53 for only 12. I find that too expensive. Does anyone know where I can find them for less?

I really do NOT want her to get pregnant. I love puppies and they're great but I can't justify letting her have puppies when I see so many stray dogs and dogs that have to be put down because no one will adopt them. My older sister wants her to have puppies but I said NO WAY. She works, goes to school full-time, and doesn't live at home. I go to school full-time and live an hour away during the semester. My mom goes to college, has to take care of the house, my little sister and all her other responsibilities. I got Osita (previous dog) fixed at the Golden State Humane Society in Garden Grove for only $50 so I'll be calling them tomorrow to set up an appointment for mid-January. They are usually very busy so I need to make sure there is some availability.

I'll have to make sure I walk her in a remote area and not leave her in the yard unattended. Thankfully I don't have to go back to school until January 25th!