My mother-in-law's young rottie X boy has them too. He's not much more than a year old now, and won't be neutered for at least another half year. I want her to get the rear dews removed when he's under GA for that, but her vet (who is German, as she is herself), feels they should never be...
I'm also a newly-signed member, and wish to reluctantly drag this conversation back to the topic of carbohydrate digestion in the modern Canis Lupus Familiaris.
As CaveCanem and FinnishLapphund have pointed out, however many claims of wolf ancestry are made for certain breeds, all the modern...
On the whole garlic thing, yes it is safe in small doses, but I have it on good authority (from a very, very experienced and sensible sighthound-rescue lady over here in Ireland), that to be effective as a flea repellant, it would have to be administered in very much larger doses than that. So I...