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Anal Glands. Do be aware that it's possible for them to become infected and require removal.
I mean, go ahead and do what you have to do but be careful regarding the contents and how that can contain anti biotic resistant infectious stuff.
We had a vet treating our dog regularly. They discovered that he had a very serious infection developed in his anal glands that could kill him. He had an operation which successfully removed them.
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My wife said getting a long hair dog was a mad idea, I said nah it will be great. Fuck me, a double coat dog that loves water an dirt if a fucking nightmare of work!
Anyway, he was away for a few weeks and has got a bit matted. I am thinking I might take him to a groomer to sort him out.
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Raw food diet really helps with anal gland problems....nice firm dumps.
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For some reason we've got him a cushion of himself, he seems to like it whatever.
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there's a woman that frequents our local park with a full grown lab that has a habit of launching itself at randos at a full gallop. it did it to me a week or so ago and flattened me the fuck out. i had stern words with the owner. apparently this is far from the first time this has happened and this morning, it cannonballed into a woman who suffered some pretty nasty bruising and a hopefully not too serious knee injury as a result. the owner's response was a sheepish "sorry about that" before eventually getting her dog on a leash and hot footing it out of the park.
Poor dog clearly hasn't been trained properly and is clearly too big (it's gotta be at least 40kgs) for the owner who i suspect finds it easier to let him off the leash rather than do the opposite.
something needs to be done but no one wants any harm to come to the dog.
how tho?
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Don’t let it off the lead.
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Don’t let it off the lead.
owners who seem to believe it's some inalienable right to let their dogs roam free and do whatever the fuck they want regardless of who is around are always the worst offenders for their dogs wrecking the shit out of all the other park users.
if it's tiny little seamus who is about the size of a half loaf of bread who likes to police the users of the park with his tiny non-threatening squeaks, it's funnier than it is frustrating. when it's an aggressive dog that "doesn't like other dogs very much" maybe don't just toss it into the middle of a giant group of other dogs already off their leads who are very much in the middle of one big play session and pull the fake shocked face when it snaps at one of them for trying to sniff its arse.
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Very much this.
Getting gruffly told to keep my (enthusiastic but very well socialised) dog away from another dog who is also off the lead, despite apparently having social issues ticks me right off. Especially as Odie seems to even recognise that dogs on the lead are no-go and won’t immediately go and say hi like he does with off-lead dogs.
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I'm not going to fully defend the owner, because dog behaviour starts at home, but chances are this dog has grown up in that park, with people at the puppy stage re-enforcing that a little jump up to say hello was fine. Because who says no to a puppy? Certainly I found this with Calvin, and was repeatedly frustrated when people praised him for doing it when he was 4 months/5 months. I know I'm not saying anything new- labs are energetic, big, people focused dogs- who thrive off attention. The conditioning has happened for this dog, and for Calvin and I it has been a constant challenge to re-condition him to not do this.
It meant back to the lead, and following the distraction at meeting steps, and training at home with the same rules. (treat to the floor, toy thrown opposite direction, etc(cf McCann Dogs).IMO the issue is the misconstrued fantasy of a Lab as the 'perfect' dog. They need a job and strict rules, and people don't do the former and are unwilling to enforce the latter, and as a result I suspect are some of the worst offenders for 'bad' dogs
In terms of helping the owner- if the dog comes to you- be ready, be low down and praise it when its "four on the floor".
The owner needs to start training it at home, because this behaviour is already heavily conditioned, and gives the poor dog the excitement that it is probably lacking elsewhere.
(to my part above, some idiot recently interrupted an impulse control training session of ours, and got Calvin all excited and jumping up at them. Then turned to me and said "must happen all the time". It doesn't and I was both angry with them, and embarrassed. I told them precisely what I thought.)
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The kids have named her Luna - she's a staffy cross. A guy has a bitch that had an unexpected litter of 14 and he's struggling to find homes for them. Not being a tri-colour/merle/exotic cross-breed with a cute name doesn't help...
Anyway, she's a new friend for Reggie and at least I'll be permanently at home for the next few weeks to settle her in.
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I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?
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i was afraid you'd say that.
time to glove up.