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Tavarish - his story is so long. He was only with us to give his foster mom a break for a week or so. HA. We see how that worked out. He was the broken dog nobody, anywhere, wanted. EPI that needed the expensive enzymes and VWD. Yeah, so his VDW never ended up being an issue during his life - I mean that dog had plenty of chances to bleed to death while with us! Yet the vet there told us he could die just from cutting his nails too short and therefore we won't neuter him. Glad I went around them and had everything donated for his neuter. Again "he could die on the table" but yet he didn't drip a drop of blood. Once he was ours, we swapped enzymes. Yep, didn't need as much and was so much cheaper. So he wasn't really the spendy broken dog he was made out to be. I guess that worked in our favor since nobody wanted him. They all missed out on an awesome dog. Like Jet and Ryan before him, he was not short on adventures and travels. I will always giggle when I look back at the pic of him peeing on the welcome to Alaska sign as we were leaving Alaska. I guess even he grew tired of it. He always just jumped into things without any thought to the outcome - cliff, no problem, we'll just jump it and see what happens. Tree branch in the way - no problem, let's just jump it, who knew it dropped off on the other side. I'm glad he was old and past all that when we stopped at the Grand Canyon or he'd be testing barriers or jumping cliffs there too! The boy was fearless. Almost. His favorite toy floated away at the beach one day because he wasn't going into those huge (itty bitty little) scary waves to get it. So he stood there on the beach and watched his favorite toy float away. He'd run the beach for ever if you'd let him. Jet would just run along with him, tease him and then blow past him, then look back and laugh. He loved running on the beach with Jet. Once we added Abby to the family, he had a rough and tumble playmate. Jet wasn't a fan of his play style, she'd run circles around him, but none of that loud mouthy jump all over you kind of play. She was happy to let Abby fill that roll. He'd go out and explore the back yard every morning. He had trails through the brush. The squirrels were always on alert. He was slow, so they would get a head start, but I'm still pretty sure he got one once... or at least its tail. Lizards - we have plenty of tailless ones still running around. Tree frogs always fascinated him. Took him a while to realize maybe he shouldn't keep trying to eat or lick the frogs. The snake bite - well, that was a rough 4 hours. When the vet says she can do nothing and we'll know in 4 hours if it was a rattle snake or something a little less of an issue - he'll either die or not, but you'll know within 4 hours. Umm... yeah, thanks. So very rough 4 hours, but he was fine other than the leg the size of an elephant. When we decided to get another doberman, we wanted T to help us train the new puppy. He'd been slowing down a lot so we decided it was time to add Kiska. He taught him all his moves to take Abby down. They still don't work, Abby will always kick both their butts! And when he slowed down even more, the play was just on the floor/ground instead of up and running around. They got grumpy with each other in the last few months, but T rubbed off on Kiska - include the fear of waves. The vet asked us a few times if he really was 14. He'd done so well for how old he was and she hardly saw any live past 12 - whatever we'd done, we'd done well. But his body was failing him, so it was time. He was falling into things, falling over, just having a hard time. Last week he no longer met us at the door to go out after we came back from a walk with Kiska and Abby to play in the front yard. When he'd go out to potty he would go out, pee and then head right back inside. He didn't want to go down the stairs anymore, didn't roll in the grass while I let the birds out and then didn't come out with me to let them out or lock them up at night. He said no to kibble unless you had something really awesome to go with it and even then, he didn't want the kibble. And when he fell while he was peeing and just looked at me with those eyes while he sat there peeing on his legs, I knew it really was time. His body didn't have much more to give him. I can say that with three dogs in three different circumstances, all decisions suck! Ryan was sick and it was clear when it was time, but it took a long time to get there. Jet jumped off the couch and broke her leg at 14 and the osteo was in her lungs, there was no option there. Tavarish was old. Age is probably the most agonizing decision so far. But it is true, they do let you know, you just have to be willing to listen. Tavarish - may you run on the beach with Jetty bug to your heart's content. I will miss you my old man. You join the ranks of Best Dog Ever.

9 years. really does seem like forever ago now Miss you baby boy

The project I'm doing is bringing us to dinner on Thursday - otherwise that was my plan was to go out Thursday night.

If anybody is gathering for dinner early in the week, I may try to join. I'm in Syracuse for work until next Friday am. But am wrapping up much of my stuff this week so I'm just here for final bits next week and not working 13 hours a day and can go be social

I'd be willing to call her a dane Greyhound mix

About 8 million times easier when the decision is made for you or maybe 3713 times easier when there is an underlying medical condition. Just failing mind and body - so much harder.

We had a sliding door, not collar activated, but w the highest rise, they fit out just fine.

If you are transporting dogs to a rescue group/shelter/etc out of state, yes, each dog needs an interstate health certs to travel. I'll skip the load of crap those certs can be, but yes, they are required. I've had a vet do a quick exam on each dog and then I've had a vet that never even put hands on the dog or looked at it - cert was ready when I walked in with the dog... The person that replaced me at the shelter recently forgot to get health certs for some dogs traveling to MA. The rescue in MA had to quarantine dogs for 2 weeks because they didn't have that piece of paper. Why the transporter accepted them without the cert is beyond me, but either way, the receiving end had to deal with the issues as a result of no certs.

We could so use some spares, but we don't live by a PB outlet. Last ones were picked up when I has moving back down from NY.

You can try fostering a greyhound or even work with a local all breed rescue and foster something through them. It may help. It may not

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I adopted Jet when she was 2. I had a postage stamp sized yard. We'd walk about an hour in the morning and then a quick trip around our block which was just under a half mile before I'd go to work. Then we'd walk an hour when I got home and another trip around the block before bed. Weekends we did some longer walks around town. Girl loved her walks.

Alabama finally adopted the 3 year rabies. We do that every three years and then DHLPP for the first round, then another a year later then 3 years and then I have no desire to have it done again. Bordatella - never given it to my dogs and I've seen plenty get it and still get kennel cough. As far as rabies - follow the state law. You don't want to be caught in situation where your dog isn't current and has bit somebody or another dog.

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I totally put this in the wrong thread on Friday evening Not a good day for pics, unless you wanted to capture the storm.... But Friday was the next to last day of live racing at Mobile. Jeff and I went out in the afternoon and watched a few races so I could take some pics. This is one of Nancy's Cracker's offspring Here's JA's Rain Drop - she won the race... by a bit of a fluke, one of the dogs caught the lure/bag and while Rain Drop checked it out, she decided to take advantage of the excitement to her left.

Not a good day for pics, unless you wanted to capture the storm.... But today was the next to last day of live racing at Mobile. Jeff and I went out this afternoon and watched a few races so I could take some pics. We know this girl's dad... Here's JA's Rain Drop - she won the race... by a bit of a fluke, one of the dogs caught the lure/bag and while Rain Drop checked it out, she decided to take advantage of the excitement to her left.

When we brought Kiska home, if he was awake, one of us was with him playing with him. Once he'd been playing a while, we'd carry him outside to potty. Then back inside and he would play a bit more until he crashed mid whatever he was doing. When he would wake up, back out he'd go. He was never left to his own devices until he understood outside to potty. And when we were with him, he had our full attention. If you are sewing or watching TV, she will not have your full attention. Work on crate training during the day as well. Kiska slept in his crate no problem. During the day, he HATED IT. So make sure you are using some of your day time awake hours to train her to be ok in the kennel as well.

You've also only had him a few days, so he's likely still adjusting from what he was being fed at the adoption kennel to moving to a new home and other new stuff. Keep the meals simple until he's adjusted to his new home a bit and then start adding other things into his meals.

As you look around the board a bit more, I'm sure you'll see that some members have strong opinions and openly share them. I'm going to move this post to the training/behavior forum and you will likely get many more suggestions on what others have experienced. As with all forums, you might have to filter though things.

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I don't think that's a common thing

We have a 6 month old doberman puppy monster land shark. He came home at just over 8 weeks. Potty trained by 3 month. We have a dog door. He loves water and uses that door a lot to go out and pee. He can hold it for 5 hours in his kennel, but it takes time to get up to that long. If you need the new dog to be in a kennel while you are not home, start kennel training from the very start and I'd do the potty training that uses the kennel. Kiska HATES his kennel. HATES IT. He happily goes in for his pb/kibble filled bone when we leave, but once that's gone, he just barks and cries. We didn't potty train using the kennel. If he was awake, he was out and about with one of us in the house. If he was asleep, we tried to move him to the kennel, but 94% of the time, he'd wake up in the process and then climb into your lap and go back to sleep. He's slept through the night since early on. Every now and again, he'd cry when he woke up to go outside to potty in the middle of the night. He slept in his kennel at night (and had no issues with his kennel at night) until he was potty trained and a bit after that so we were confident he wouldn't bother the other dogs at night. As mentioned above, puppies, any breed, will go full on crazy for a while and then just pass out, snooze for a bit and then right back up where they left off going insane until they crash out again. Kiska did this until around 4 months and then the crash out times got longer. Now he goes insane after dinner until he crashes out for bed. With periods of insanity throughout the day. If you wake him up from a nap, if he looks like he's going to fall over, he'll go right back to sleep. If these eyes are bright and clear and wide open, watch out! Puppies have lots of sharp teeth. Then they all fall out of their head and bigger, slightly less sharp teeth show up. Those teeth mean they chew on everything, so if you don't keep an eye on them, they will chew on things you don't want them to. Kiska has tried to chew a few things he shouldn't, but mostly sticks to his toys and sticks/pine cones/branches/roots/etc. I guess he's a nature boy! He brought a pine branch into the house one day and had a field day before Jeff saw him! He has destroyed every toy in the house. Seriously, EVERY toy! Tavarish is not thrilled about that. Fire hose toys - dead in less than 5 mins. Indestructible toys - dead in less than 5 mins. He now has nylabones and things like that which he loves and hold up to his chewing. Abby and Tavarish have been a big help with the puppy. I could not imagine the energy of a puppy without another dog to help tire him out. So while Kiska is a doberman puppy and not a borzoi puppy, a puppy is pretty much a puppy, they are all insane!