I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

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Ours called ,Ludwig‘, posted here a while ago, always outside, as today when cleaning the cargo bike, always following and almost never napping, an active dog

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As mentioned that does look a bit like the rat poison "pasta" type stuff - although the stuff I have used was pink.
It also contains an emetic to cause vomiting (which has not effect on rats)
I would suggest you get it tested asap, although hopefully the fact that they were sick may have prevented too much from entering their system

Rat poison was my first thought but there’s none here. It’s got a very very subtle soapy detergent smell do it. But you have to get really close to smell it.

He’s been to the vets, they’ve given him a good going over.

I hate to even say this but I cannot afford a repeat of the last vets bill of well over a grand. So he’s got tablets, had an injection for the nausea and activated charcoal. The rest is up to him. Just try to keep him relaxed and warm.

He vomited quite a lot up so fingers crossed.

I just wish he’d learn, but he’s a dog.

I'm dogsitting right now and feel really bad cos he got attacked by another dog when I was taking him for a walk around the backstreets to stretch his legs yesterday evening. He wasn't hurt but I could tell he got very shaken up. Didn't really see it coming because I was walking past a gate and this bichon frise type thing launched herself on him in a surprise attack, then got her lead wrapped around his collar and was stuck there snarling and snapping at his throat. The owner was like 'sorry, she just got scared because she got tangled up', but she only got tangled up because she made the bonehead move of jumping on a skinny wriggly lurcher.

Crikey. You never think of that type of dog as aggressive. But it could be any dog at any time.

Some of them seem to have instant beef with each other

I think afterwards he was really on edge because he got totally freaked out by this graffiti and tried to cross the road away from it, until I went to show him it wasn't a real dog. Then he took a piss on it just to show it who was boss.

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Bit like our guy and snowmen.

Wondered why our lad was in the huge laurel we have at the back of the garden barking incessantly at something. Usually if he's barking it's at the dog next door. Popped my head in the laurel and he's stood barking at a dead baby fox. So now I'll have to get rid it but not straight away as my daughter won't forgive me if I don't let her see the corpse first...

Does anyone have any advice on Poop-eating. I love Dora, and she is truly fantastic, obedient and calm, but she keeps eating shit on the walks, and its both disgusting (because she's a lab and she loves to lick), and frankly concerning- namely she's going to pick something up.
I'm hoping its a puppy thing, and she will come away from it, but only after having a labrador sized snack of shite.

My two labs (8 and 4) will eat dog food only if there isn't a nice turd available. My older spaniel (9) will eat one as it emerges from a lab.

In short, good luck!

If you find out, let me know. Otto is a shit eater. He loves it. He's a connoisseur. Some turds don't get a second sniff. Some get gobbled like a toddler figuring out how to open a mars bar.

If it helps, our vet told us to stop worrying about it from a health pov. His opinion was that a regularly dewormed healthy dog had very little chance of picking anything serious up. Sure, it's best if your dog doesn't do it but what can you do?

Dog shit breath is however completely intolerable.

Sally won't eat a dog turd. but will demolish a human one in seconds. There are no public toilets in our park/woods, so on hot summer days some dirty fuckers will go into the trees and shite. We know where to avoid when walking on those days.

Yeah Odie loves eating shit too. These days he's not too fussed about other dog's shit, but he's always been pretty into his own, even now at 2yrs old.

@nobrows as Stonehenge says, from a health point of view, it's actually natural behaviour and it's not going to do them much harm if they're otherwise healthy. It's just properly rank!

The only strategy is to just avoid situations where Dora has the change to gobble any shit up. Which is hard as people love not picking up their Dog's shit. When Odie shits in the garden, wee call him in as soon as he's done, reward him for not eating it and then I go and clear it up.

We're lucky - Comet only ate his own poo once and shows no interest in anything except horse shit which he would scarf down given half a chance. Luckily there is a general lack of horses in Beckenham so it isn't a problem.

Benny just likes rolling in it. other than dog poo licks to the face i think it ending up on the outside is somehow worse.

Nothing prepares you for the smell of cat shit on your dog's breath.

Our lab loves eating shit, and is not fussy at all. The only time we have to walk him on the lead is when we have just muck spread the fields, its like an all you can eat buffet to him, and he will literally eat till he pukes (which of course he will then eat).

We caught him chasing the muck spreader down the road once, eating bits as they dropped off. Thank god we spotted him, else brother would have started spreading, and he would have been coated top to tail.

Our dog will chow down on horse shit until we drag him away.

The dog walker we frequently meet at the park has a doodle that will find, and roll in, fox shit with military precision.
Always the wettest, smelliest turds. No idea how he finds them so rapidly.

The only solution to stopping them if they are turd eaters is a muzzle.
Ours don't like dog shut but are very fond of horse truffles, along with sheep nuggets and rabbit raisins.

our greyhound wouldn't even step in a puddle, such a prima-donna was she... nevermind eating a jobby

Our dogs eat quite a lot of green tripe which I think satisfies their desire for eating shit - because it smells like shit.

I had a rant at a lady yesterday which I sort of regret but oy, what a vapid lunatic. She was blithely wandering along, chatting on her phone, while her dog was straining on the lead, snarling and snapping at my 4yo next to it on his bike. I got in between and politely suggested she get it under control, to which she told me, 'oh, he's friendly, he's growling at the bicycle' and then started to tell whoever she was speaking to, that she couldn't believe someone was angry with her 'puppy.' Still polite but somewhat taken aback, we carried on up the pavement.

To my complete amazement, she followed us, with the dog still straining (this time in front of her) and snarling at my kid by which time he was pretty upset. At this point I said more firmly, stop following us and get your dog under control, it can't growl at children. She went of on a rant about how she lived in the neighborhood and was walking home and did we live in the neighborhood and how dare I tell her off about her dog! To which I called her a nut and said if it got any closer, I'd drop kick it into Sunset Blvd. By this point, we could turn off, so did.

Some people really don't deserve dogs.

Many more dogs don't deserve their owners.

With apologies for letting off steam here, I had an annoying dog owner incident today.

Otto barks at other dogs on lead and we're trying really hard to train him out of it. This means that when another dog approaches we ask him to sit, move our legs to partially obscure the oncoming dog and get his attention with a high value treat.

Anyway today, a dog was coming towards us so I got him to do the usual drill and the fucking owner pressed the button on their extendible lead and allowed their dog to come inbweteen me and Otto and try to take the treat!

Otto went absolutely fucking bonkers as the other dog and the other owner told me to get my dog under control!