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Hi everyone,

Brandy has just been diagnosed with pannus. He is on steroids for a month then eye drops forever. He is only 5 and has relatively good vision at the moment.

Just wondering if anyone here has experience with pannus and any advice?

Thanks,

Jasmine

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6 hours ago, EllenEveBaz said:

One common method of introducing dogs that you hope will be together on a regular basis is to have them meet on neutral ground where neither feels protective or defensive.  Neutral ground can be somewhere like on the street near the.  Maybe it would help to have Brandy be the one approaching the spaniel?

And just brainstorming -- if you could easily get a rag or something with the spaniel's scent on it ahead of time, so that Brandy might recognize it when they actually meet.  Or even exchange items with scents.  

They're good ideas thank you! We're going to take it slow and hopefully they just aren't that bothered by each other but we're going to closely supervise them and watch the body language

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12 hours ago, HeyRunDog said:

PS. Forgot to add that once he's met another dog three or four times and realises that it's not a threat he will then greet it with a wagging tail or ignore it so there's hope for Brandy meeting your parent's spaniel.

Fingers crossed! We're going to take them on a walk together first on neutral ground and she's quiet a submissive girl so I think they could get on

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My boy used to whine in the night to go out and we just ignored him. Our routine is:

8am walk & wee /poo (breakfast aftee)

1pm 10 min walk for wees (but often doesn't go toilet)

6pm walk usually wee and poo (dinner after)

10.30pm 10 min walk for wee 

 

Since the first few we eks we've had no mess in the house and he only whines now if he really has to go. I would ignore the nighttime calls if I were you. I also wouldn't worry about him not being in your bedroom. I think that's a super American thing because everyone here I know in Ireland has their dog sleep in the kitchen or living room. How anyone who let's their dog sleep in the bedroom gets romantic I will never know!!!

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Hi everyone, wanted to update on Brandy. We are now 6months in. We got a dog trainer to assess him, he believed we needed to be firmer with him on walks. Now if he freezes we pull up on the lead and 99% of the time he moves on. We've also gotten better at advocating for him. I have found a stern 'get' and a stamp in their direction gets most dogs to back off. Brandy has been going to monthly greyhound walks and is gaining confidence with each one. He is very friendly with other sighthounds and we've had a couple of polite interactions with other breeds but I avoid at all costs. We've trained 'touch' with him, which is proving a good distraction if we can ask him to do it before he really locks into a stare. He will only lunge at a dog now if it's running (doesn't have to be running towards him, it could be totally ignoring him). It's the same lunge he does towards cats and squirrels so I don't think he wants to play. I think he wants to hunt the fast thing. I don't think I will ever be able to trust him around other dogs. He will have to meet my parents spaniel next week (hopefully they get along and he can stay in the house, if they don't he will be kennelled). I am going to keep him muzzled and I have to say I'm very nervous about it. But we will wait and see. We've made huge progress since we first got him so fingers crossed we will get to a stage where I'm not afraid he'll murder a labrador!!!

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Brilliant, it's very reassuring to hear I'm doing the right thing. We will keep at it!

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Thanks everyone. We always walk him with a muzzle, I was told its the law in our area (ireland) to walk a greyhound with a muzzle. It's the same one that they used at his racing kennel, so he's well used to it. We're going to get the jacket and hopefully that helps. A French bulldog got into our garden yesterday and our grey was fine with it (unmuzzled and off lead) although we removed him from the situation very quickly.

 

We've been crossing roads and avoiding off lead dogs as much as possible and we don't walk him in parks because there's always off lead dogs (even though the by-laws state they should be on the lead) and you're correct that the off-lead dogs don't respond to their owners at all.

 

We've also been bringing treats on our walks and they've proved a good distraction. We've also starting training him 'look at me' and creating eye contact with us has been helpful on walks when he gets distracted.

 

I don't want to punish him for the behaviour because I think it will make it worse. He's only defending himself and I don't think it's his fault. 

Do you think I should get a dog behaviourist involved? Or try and socialise him more? I don't want to overwhelm him

 

Thanks

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Hi everyone,

 

I have a retired coursing dog for the last 2 months. He is generally brilliant with no behavioural issues. However something has come up that has caused concern for us and we want to help him.

We always walk him on lead with a muzzle. He generally is happy enough to walk past other dogs that are also on lead and 90% of the time ignores them.

Problems come when off-lead dogs approach him. About 5 times now off-lead dogs (always small) have approached him and we can't get them away. We ask the owners to remove them but it's not always successful! He generally freezes and won't move. Sometimes he will circle with the dog (we try not to tense the lead and create stress for him) but his tail is down and he's clearly not enjoying it. If the other dog isn't removed then after about 45sec he will muzzle punch it on its back. Usually this makes the other dogs owner panic and finally listen to me and take their dog away.

Is this problematic behaviour? He's clearly uncomfortable and I wonder if he's just warning the other dog to back off. Should it be something I work on with him? And if so, how?

 

Please help!

Thanks!