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Dogs are freaking AWESOME. (1 Viewer)

I need FBG guidance.....especially from those with kids.

So, my new dog is great, but has separation anxiety.  It has gotten better, but he still is barky and quite a bit nervous when we leave him for periods, especially in the evening.  This has made going out for a bite to eat every so often difficult.  We don't do it a lot, but we don't want him to be stressed for 3 hours.  We have talked about finding a local kid, maybe around    11-14 and asking them if they want to doggysit for him for extra cash.  Just sit with him, play a bit, nothing crazy..........keep him company if need be.  Problem is, we don't know many people in our neighborhood since we have no kids of our own. 

Yesterday at the neighborhood pool/park area we were taking a potty walk and some kids came over to pet him.  I thought this might be a good time to ask; however, they were young girls and I was hesitant to ask if they wanted to make some extra cash one evening by coming over to play with my little buddy.

Any suggestions on how to bring this up?  No, I won't go to a website......

TIA

 
What's wrong with just asking?  A worn out dog is much happier and much easier to deal.  Does your neighborhood have a Facebook page?

 
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Chemical X said:
I need FBG guidance.....especially from those with kids.

So, my new dog is great, but has separation anxiety.  It has gotten better, but he still is barky and quite a bit nervous when we leave him for periods, especially in the evening.  This has made going out for a bite to eat every so often difficult.  We don't do it a lot, but we don't want him to be stressed for 3 hours.  We have talked about finding a local kid, maybe around    11-14 and asking them if they want to doggysit for him for extra cash.  Just sit with him, play a bit, nothing crazy..........keep him company if need be.  Problem is, we don't know many people in our neighborhood since we have no kids of our own. 

Yesterday at the neighborhood pool/park area we were taking a potty walk and some kids came over to pet him.  I thought this might be a good time to ask; however, they were young girls and I was hesitant to ask if they wanted to make some extra cash one evening by coming over to play with my little buddy.

Any suggestions on how to bring this up?  No, I won't go to a website......

TIA
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How young?  Depending on age, I'd ask them if they are there with the parents and talk to the parents about it.  That way a) you get to talk to the parents.  If the parents are decent people, the kids probably will be too (and vice versa), and b) you won't freak anyone out by offering some stranger kids money.

 
Speaking of neighborhood dog stuff - the guy a couple of doors up was walking his dogs yesterday morning and saw a bear by the pool / playground area. I take my boy on that path every day, so I'm going to have to rearrange the walking path for a bit. We heard of a sighting a month or two ago, but thought they were long gone. No attacks for anything, but rather not press my luck. 

 
bigmarc27 said:
Speaking of neighborhood dog stuff - the guy a couple of doors up was walking his dogs yesterday morning and saw a bear by the pool / playground area. I take my boy on that path every day, so I'm going to have to rearrange the walking path for a bit. We heard of a sighting a month or two ago, but thought they were long gone. No attacks for anything, but rather not press my luck. 
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First it's a Bear Tax, then it's Proposition 24.

 
Chemical X said:
I need FBG guidance.....especially from those with kids.

So, my new dog is great, but has separation anxiety.  It has gotten better, but he still is barky and quite a bit nervous when we leave him for periods, especially in the evening.  This has made going out for a bite to eat every so often difficult.  We don't do it a lot, but we don't want him to be stressed for 3 hours.  We have talked about finding a local kid, maybe around    11-14 and asking them if they want to doggysit for him for extra cash.  Just sit with him, play a bit, nothing crazy..........keep him company if need be.  Problem is, we don't know many people in our neighborhood since we have no kids of our own. 

Yesterday at the neighborhood pool/park area we were taking a potty walk and some kids came over to pet him.  I thought this might be a good time to ask; however, they were young girls and I was hesitant to ask if they wanted to make some extra cash one evening by coming over to play with my little buddy.

Any suggestions on how to bring this up?  No, I won't go to a website......

TIA
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I know it sounds crazy, but get some kind of tight fighting shirt for the dog.  I had a similar issue with my last dog, and got one from the pet store after my vet recommended it, and it did wonders.  I tried everything before that.  I was living alone, just me and my dog, and she'd freak out when I'd go to work, the neighbors told me she cried constantly.  Apparently it makes them feel like they're being hugged? No clue, but it worked.  Just put the shirt on a few times at night while we were home, and played with her, so she become comfortable with it.  Then started putting it on ~30 minutes before I'd leave, and never had another issue from the neighbors. After a few weeks I stopped using it all together.

 
Spin said:
I know it sounds crazy, but get some kind of tight fighting shirt for the dog.  I had a similar issue with my last dog, and got one from the pet store after my vet recommended it, and it did wonders.  I tried everything before that.  I was living alone, just me and my dog, and she'd freak out when I'd go to work, the neighbors told me she cried constantly.  Apparently it makes them feel like they're being hugged? No clue, but it worked.  Just put the shirt on a few times at night while we were home, and played with her, so she become comfortable with it.  Then started putting it on ~30 minutes before I'd leave, and never had another issue from the neighbors. After a few weeks I stopped using it all together.
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thunder shirt, been there, done that...........

 
Spin said:
Todem said:
I already know in my heart we found our new member of the family. My son is going to be so happy. I am really looking forward to having a dog in the house again. It will complete us as a family. It's been missing for some time. If you are a long time dog owner....you know exactly what I mean.
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I know exactly what you mean.  We had a border collie when I was growing up, then when she passed, my parents got two labs that I had til college.  I then get my own dog, Lab/Rottie mix and had her until about two years ago.  She started having kidney problems, couldn't hold her urine and actually started having a lot of blood when peeing.  Vet recommended we put her down as you could tell she was getting miserable.  My oldest son was devastated.  We then had another kid, and wife opened an in-home day care so we decided it wasn't time for another dog quite yet.  She's decided she's done with that and we started looking at puppies.  Thinking of getting two labs, one for each of my boys, and am so excited about the thought of having a dog again.  Just feels so different not having one.
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Heh, been awhile since I've checked this thread.  But back in February I did just this.  Well, they're labradoodles. Went to a breeder that had two different litters, one of 1st generation, and one of 2nd.  We let each of the boys pick out their own puppy, and my oldest got a girl and named her "Lip", after Fillip Forsberg.  Yah, we have a girl dog named Lip now, guess that's expected when your 5 year old, who's obsessed with the Nashville Preds names his dog. My youngest picked out a boy, and named him Juuse, because who doesn't love the backup goalie.  The girl is a 1st generation labradoodle, and the boy is a 2nd (so labradoodle mixed with labradoodle). The boy was the runt of the litter, was tiny compared to the rest, so we actually got a discount when we bought him since no one wanted him.  But now he's huge, and refuses to ride in the back of the Jeep, his spot is in between the boys.  Vet assured us that runts don't stay runts for long, and he wasn't kidding.  The boy is around 55 lbs, and the female around 45 now.  Vet is guessing they'll get to 85ish for the boy and 60ish for the girl.

Here's them at ~10 weeks.

And here's them 2 days ago, getting massive.

It's been a little over 2 years since I had to put my last dog down, and I'd forgotten how much I missed having dogs.  They're such an integral part of the family now, and my boys absolutely love them.  Their temperament with the kids is great.  Highly recommend labradoodles to anyone with kids.

 
Chemical X said:
I need FBG guidance.....especially from those with kids.

So, my new dog is great, but has separation anxiety.  It has gotten better, but he still is barky and quite a bit nervous when we leave him for periods, especially in the evening.  This has made going out for a bite to eat every so often difficult.  We don't do it a lot, but we don't want him to be stressed for 3 hours.  We have talked about finding a local kid, maybe around    11-14 and asking them if they want to doggysit for him for extra cash.  Just sit with him, play a bit, nothing crazy..........keep him company if need be.  Problem is, we don't know many people in our neighborhood since we have no kids of our own. 

Yesterday at the neighborhood pool/park area we were taking a potty walk and some kids came over to pet him.  I thought this might be a good time to ask; however, they were young girls and I was hesitant to ask if they wanted to make some extra cash one evening by coming over to play with my little buddy.

Any suggestions on how to bring this up?  No, I won't go to a website......

TIA
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If you change your mind about going to a website, here is good info about separation anxiety and ways to train your dog to fix the issue:  http://www.dogforums.com/dog-training-forum/60390-separation-anxiety-whats-whys.html

 
Chemical X said:
I need FBG guidance.....especially from those with kids.

So, my new dog is great, but has separation anxiety.  It has gotten better, but he still is barky and quite a bit nervous when we leave him for periods, especially in the evening.  This has made going out for a bite to eat every so often difficult.  We don't do it a lot, but we don't want him to be stressed for 3 hours.  We have talked about finding a local kid, maybe around    11-14 and asking them if they want to doggysit for him for extra cash.  Just sit with him, play a bit, nothing crazy..........keep him company if need be.  Problem is, we don't know many people in our neighborhood since we have no kids of our own. 

Yesterday at the neighborhood pool/park area we were taking a potty walk and some kids came over to pet him.  I thought this might be a good time to ask; however, they were young girls and I was hesitant to ask if they wanted to make some extra cash one evening by coming over to play with my little buddy.

Any suggestions on how to bring this up?  No, I won't go to a website......

TIA
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Why won't you go to a website?

 
Chemical X said:
exceedingly expensive and I really don't trust some random internet stranger coming to my house to watch my dog.

heck, I barely trusted TU when I picked him up from the train station in NY.  Thought for sure he was gonna kill me.
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:shrug:  I have had a good experience with Rover.com 

You can try and interview a few different people before so you'll feel comfortable. Most of them are just college-aged kids looking to make a few extra bucks. 

 
Franknbeans said:
cool gig
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There's two things about this that I especially love and that make my heart grow 3 sizes.

1. He's running so fast and doing his best that he can't just turn around and come back, he needs to make the huge arching circle around to contain his speed and excitement. 

2. When he nears the sideline and drops the kicking tee, he doesn't just pick it back up. No, he pounces on it with gusto. 

That is a man who loves his job. 

 
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Smiley the blind therapy dog is being put down tomorrow. Not sure if anyone else follows him on Facebook/Instagram (he has almost 200, 000 followers) or has seen the intermittent viral video posts of him. My wife and I volunteer with Golden Rescue here in Ontario and Smiley has been a mainstay at the annual picnics and fundraising events over the years. He really is a wonderful, beautiful, kind dog. 

He's been fighting cancer for a while... Smiley

 
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On a happier note, this year's picnic was featured on the CBC up here. My wife was the volunteer coordinator for the event. Here's the video of it. I'm unknowingly in the background in a lot of it (white baseball hat, black shirt with a Golden Retriever on it). The dog at 2:35 who is "too thin" is our Abbey and the dog licking the peanut butter off the woman at 6:11 is our Zeus - he was very good at it (my video).

 
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my beagle was playing in the yard and in the back discovered a mole path.  i walked around and saw the tunnels, but don't care since it's in my mulch.  he sniffs and does his beagle digging thing here and there as i laugh at him.  he never finds anything, all of a sudden he is neck deep in a tunnel and pops out with a mole in his mouth and shakes it to death!  i run over panicked he is gonna eat the thing.  he drops it and trots away.....thing had a fez on its head and everything!

 
I have always been a cat person. Have had 2 dogs my entire life. One was hit by a car when I was 2 and the other was a toy poodle my wife at the time wanted. I barely tolerated.

But when I hit rock bottom and I moved to where I am at, This dog was the house dog. Nobody was really taking care of her constantly so I started taking care of her. And she adopted me. Fought it for a long time, but now I do not know what I would do without her. I had no choice. She is a total dork, but I love her.

She is also a fan of Archer

 
Spin said:
Heh, been awhile since I've checked this thread.  But back in February I did just this.  Well, they're labradoodles. Went to a breeder that had two different litters, one of 1st generation, and one of 2nd.  We let each of the boys pick out their own puppy, and my oldest got a girl and named her "Lip", after Fillip Forsberg.  Yah, we have a girl dog named Lip now, guess that's expected when your 5 year old, who's obsessed with the Nashville Preds names his dog. My youngest picked out a boy, and named him Juuse, because who doesn't love the backup goalie.  The girl is a 1st generation labradoodle, and the boy is a 2nd (so labradoodle mixed with labradoodle). The boy was the runt of the litter, was tiny compared to the rest, so we actually got a discount when we bought him since no one wanted him.  But now he's huge, and refuses to ride in the back of the Jeep, his spot is in between the boys.  Vet assured us that runts don't stay runts for long, and he wasn't kidding.  The boy is around 55 lbs, and the female around 45 now.  Vet is guessing they'll get to 85ish for the boy and 60ish for the girl.

Here's them at ~10 weeks.

And here's them 2 days ago, getting massive.

It's been a little over 2 years since I had to put my last dog down, and I'd forgotten how much I missed having dogs.  They're such an integral part of the family now, and my boys absolutely love them.  Their temperament with the kids is great.  Highly recommend labradoodles to anyone with kids.
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What did the 2 run you?

 
While we were traveling over the holiday, we stopped by a Starbucks for coffee. While at the drive thru, they saw our boy in the back and asked if he wanted a puppacino. I wasn’t aware this is a thing, but it’s just a cup of whipped cream.  Our dog devoured this treat.  I don’t think we’ll be giving him many of these in the future, no need for the sugar, but he was crazy excited to have this one. 

https://ibb.co/c3ti8R

 
New dog is eating the cat’s #### out of the litter box.  Please help.  TIA.

 
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badmojo1006 said:
Can you put the cat box up higher so the dog can't get to it?
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potentially, but it would take some work.  Might be able to gate the room off also.  Friend told me there was something you could put on the cat’s food that they don’t mind but makes their #### so the dog won’t eat it, but I haven’t found anything yet.

 
joffer said:
potentially, but it would take some work.  Might be able to gate the room off also.  Friend told me there was something you could put on the cat’s food that they don’t mind but makes their #### so the dog won’t eat it, but I haven’t found anything yet.
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I did a search, but haven't read the articles or watched the videos that came up.  It will hopefully be useful.  It's much better to train/use tools like a spray that would make it unpleasant (which helps train them not to eat things they shouldn't), than to move the litter box away.  https://www.dogstardaily.com/search/node/poop eating

https://www.dogstardaily.com/podcasts/iwoofs/510-my-dog-eats-poop

 
RC94 said:
I did a search, but haven't read the articles or watched the videos that came up.  It will hopefully be useful.  It's much better to train/use tools like a spray that would make it unpleasant (which helps train them not to eat things they shouldn't), than to move the litter box away.  https://www.dogstardaily.com/search/node/poop eating

https://www.dogstardaily.com/podcasts/iwoofs/510-my-dog-eats-poop
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thanks.  Most of the stuff out there seems to be about dog’s eating their own, which she doesn’t do.  Just making the litter box inaccessible might be the best option if there’s no magic powder that will do the trick.

 
joffer said:
thanks.  Most of the stuff out there seems to be about dog’s eating their own, which she doesn’t do.  Just making the litter box inaccessible might be the best option if there’s no magic powder that will do the trick.
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Yes she does.  

 
@joffer you could try a Littermaid - automated catbox that scoops the poop into a container so the dog can't get to it.  We had a cat poop eater (we called it almond roca) and this worked.

 
Tick said:
@joffer you could try a Littermaid - automated catbox that scoops the poop into a container so the dog can't get to it.  We had a cat poop eater (we called it almond roca) and this worked.
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yeah I had that for a while before the dog came along, but the cats didn’t like it.  May give it another try.

 
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