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    10 Puppies

    Back on again...the family with all the kids and the cocker pup are doing my head in! The pup/3 year old child combination is a recipe for disaster! The kid won't leave her alone despite what the parents say and she keeps battering the poor pup, dragging her around, climbing into her crate etc...
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    10 Puppies

    I loved Pedro! The woman with the GR drove me absolutely bananas though. Literally just shouting at the pup, dragging it around, etc. Sure it's their first dog but like would ya not read up on puppies and training etc. before getting one as a family pet?! And of course her tweens would "help"...
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    Fat or in foal

    I went through 55 pages and still no foal?!?! Also I may or may not have been looking at pictures of horse boobies when my officemate walked in! Doh!
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    Advice for a potential first time dog owner

    OP - there will probably be a lot of puppies handed in to rescues over the coming weeks if that's what you're looking for (though I'd be a bit wary as I imagine a lot of them came from back yard breeders if they were Christmas presents!). I would highly recommend a rescue dog. I'll admit that...
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    Puppy planning!

    I definitely wouldn't mess around with pee pads and paper. You're trying to teach the pup to toilet outside and by putting down pads/paper you're teaching them that it's okay to pee inside sometimes which is confusing for them. I would take them out last thing at night and then get up once/twice...
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    Update, pup and house training

    I do feel sorry for you OP. It's bad enough when a house-trained dog as an upset tummy, but with a pup it must be a nightmare. As said above, make sure you stay with her until she goes outside. As she starts to wee/poo, coo softly (so she knows she's right) and use the phrase "get busy" or "wee...
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    House Training - caught in the act

    I'm saying overnight the pup can't hold it and can't feel that it has to go so will just go regardless of whether or not it's in a crate. Which is why when you properly crate train a pup it goes in overnight and you take it out a few times to do its business. When it starts to get older and...
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    House Training - caught in the act

    Same with puppies. They can't control their bladders/bowels and can go from happily wandering about/playing/whatever to peeing/pooing because they're also learning the feeling of needing to go which is why you need to be vigilant about taking them out. When they start to learn the feelings of...
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    House Training - caught in the act

    Puppies are essentially like toddlers. If you had a 2 year old that you were potty training and they peed on the floor would you smack them and push their nose in it? Because that's essentially what you're doing to a puppy. People aren't saying that smacking them, yelling at them, and pushing...
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    Poorly Pup!

    His owner is home so we chatted for a little while and she was wondering whether or not to take him to the vet hospital this evening. I rang Aru and it looks like he just has a tummy bug and the heat is making him feel 10x worse. He'll head to the vet tomorrow for an antibiotic shot but...
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    Poorly Pup!

    So my housemate has a pup, just over a year old now named Buddy. We think he's a lab/collie/beagle cross and he's the sweetest guy! I came home this evening to find him very weak in his back legs. He's struggling to stand and obviously in a bit of pain and feeling very sorry for himself. It's...
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    whereabouts in Ireland?

    I'm Dublin as well, didn't realise there are actually a fair few from Ireland on here! Also, *waves* Hi Aru, how's the whesht treating you?? ;):D
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    OMG, horse prices in the USA!

    She doesn't walk at all in the first video...i think you're referring to the jog she did post lope. That's the way they want them to move in western pleasure classes, very flat at the knees. Though, I must say, at the end of the first video, that turn on the haunches was quite good. She didn't...
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    What do you eat and how healthy is it?

    Breakfast is generally 40g muesli with 100g yoghurt (8.30am) Lunch is a spinach/lettuce salad with cherry tomatoes and peppers with 2tbsp light honey mustard dressing and either 2 hardboiled eggs or a serving of tuna with an apple and a pear as well (12.30pm) Snack is generally a handfull of...
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    Rude riders

    No one is saying that they stop people to tell them that they need to work on their position. They stop people who are being dangerous (eg. wearing dark clothes on a dark horse at dusk with no Hi-viz) or inconsiderate (blocking the road when there's plenty of room to pull in or move single-file...
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