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DCM . correlation

  Within this thread, I posted full citation to one published peer reviewed article discrediting the methodology and conclusions of a paper that identified a mere correlation between DCM and grain-free diets (that is a gross over simplification of how they approached the matter – they actually looked at a variety of chemical compounds found […]

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How do you handle when the dog barks?

My puppy is a great boy. Almost totally housebroken, sleeps all night in his crate quietly, will even be in his crate quietly while I am home…. But when I’m gone he apparently cries and cries. He stays in his crate and his crate does not seem to make him anxious. My neighbors are complaining […]

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Love to smell the dog’s scent

I know the title sounds a bit unhinged but I love sticking my nose into the back of my dogs ears or his neck and taking a deep breath (granted he’s stayed away from dirt piles that day). I’m not sure if each dog has a unique smell and honestly I can’t even describe my […]

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Animal abuse

Today I got to thinking about the way my ex treated my disabled dog. I have a shelter chihuahua who has a bunch of congenital issues (one of my vets thinks it’s something to do with her coat type). She’s always been deaf and has trouble seeing unless something is directly in front of her […]

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My dog is killing me

For the past 6 months, my pup, Ox, has been struggling with hypoglycemia. They believed he had an insulinoma (a tumor on the pancreas that releases insulin and makes blood glucose low). We’ve been treating it medically with prednisone, but the vet and the internal medicine specialist strongly encouraged us to have the tumor surgically […]

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Apps like Wag or Rover

When I started there was a scam going around where scammers would sign-up as customers and get your information, call as if they were wag support staff, and act like they were helping getting payments processed because Wag! was routinely fucking up getting people paid. So basically, security flaws in their system led many of […]

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I definitely have to keep the dog

I don’t feel like I have anywhere to turn to, but anyways. My wife after a bit more than a year of marriage has decided that our life with a house in the countryside (20 minutes from two cities) with a dog and two cars is not for her. So now she’s looking for a […]

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My dog hates collars

Our dog has a neck condition that flares up from time to time, and our vet has instructed us not to use anything that will put strain on her neck when we walk her. This includes any kind of collar or head collar. She has never been very tolerant of anything around her chest— any […]

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She is a guard dog

Let me tell you firsthand this dog is a SWEETHEART. she spends a lot of her time barking at anything that comes near her yard/fence, but i could tell from the beginning it was fear based. since i had to walk all the way along her fence to get to my front door, she would […]

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My dog was released and it bit someone

I am very scared right now for my dog. I live in New Orleans and I’m not sure what the regulations are here. But my landlord has a cleaning crew come through for my yard occasionally and they have never entered my yard without notifying me first. It is a very tall fenced yard with […]