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    Cgc At 15 Months

    in Introductions & Biography

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    I have been doing therapy dog work with my greys for about 16 years. We have visited a hospital, any number of long-term care facilities, a locked psychiatric unit, a library reading program and the Family Assistance Centers at Liberty State Park and Pier 94 after 9/11. I am currently visiting a veterans' home and a facility that has an alzheimers unit and an assisted living wing. Some facilities I visited weekly, some monthly. My dogs have been certified by TDI,International, in NJ, and TDI,Inc here in Delaware.

    Dogs Behind Privacy Fence

    in Training and Behavior discussion

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    I had a similar problem, only my 3 would race frantically up and down my fence, barking hysterically, while the 2 in one back yard, and 3 in the other backyard would do the same on their side of the fence. Of course, I'm out with my dogs, and the neighbors just open the door and let dogs out, and at some point later---sometimes 3-4 hours later--open the door to let their dogs back in. My dogs were jumping on and over each other, and crashing into the bushes I planted to discourage this behavior. Bushes didn't work---they just served to poke and scrape my dogs as the dogs plowed through and around them. So, I had my handyman put 4' slats of wood right over the existing fence. He bought 12' boards, cut them into 4' lengths, and nailed them to the existing wooden fence. Do I care that my neighbors see 2 layers of fencing? Nope. Now, if they hear any dogs in the yards, mine will sometimes jump up onto the fence to peer over, and sometimes bark a couple of times, but it only lasts a minute or two, and they go back to sniffing for bunnies in my yard. Money well spent. As I was typing this, I recalled one morning that really sealed the deal. My dogs got up a little after 6, and I went to let them out. Of course, one set of dogs was out already, so my dogs and I just waited on my porch for them to go in, since I didn't want the noise to bother anyone when the barking started up. As we waited, the other set of dogs came out. I ended up waiting until almost 7 before I could let mine out (I had decided that I would get dressed and leash walk them if they couldn't go out by 7). Anyway, the new fence was done that Saturday.

    New 4Health Grain Free Formulas

    in Food and dietary discussion

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    Sasha has been on Grizzly salmon oil for almost a year, at about 1/2 the dosage they recommend. I find that if i give her too much, poops get very squishy. Her skin has improved, but she still has dandruff. She had a skin infection about 2 months ago, which i caught very early on, so it cleared up very nicely with meds. I don't want that to happen again, so I thought moving to grain free, at a price I can afford, would help.

    Sentinel/heartgard

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    I just switched to Sentinel last month. I believe it was Hubcitypam who said she had been using it for years, and she also used Frontline with it, with no ill effects. In my area of the country Frontline has been failing. It hasn't happened to me yet, so I figure the extra flea protection will be a good thing.

    Corneal Tear?

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    Many moons ago, my toddler daughter poked me in the eye with a hairbrush and tore off 1/3 of my cornea. Hideously painful, but the ophthalmologist just gave me several meds to put into the eye, and I wore a patch for about a week. Surgery wasn't even mentioned, and my eye healed fine. If I was in your shoes, I would go the non-surgical route.

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