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Are you sure the other dog was being aggressive, growling is not aggression it's a sign of the dog being uncomfortable & possibly fearful. If the dog was young, he could have been being a typical uncouth juvenile Labrador. Juvenile Labradors can be very "uncouth"& OTT with other dogs & people...

Complete dogs foods(even the "best"quality)contain ingredients that dogs do not naturally need. Dogs are NOT omnivores, they are facultative carnivores, the only research that indicates that dogs are now omnivores is all funded by the multinational complete dog food manufacturers. Dogs like cats...

3 days & you expect him to be ok being left totally alone ? He will not have"forgotten" his siblings & mother, just the opposite in fact. Have you ever had a puppy before ? I've fostered numerous puppies over the years as well as having my own puppies. I would never dream of leaving a very...

A responsible breeder breeder to improve their particular breed, not simply to produce pet puppies. They research their bitches pedigree, look at her strengths & weaknesses & look at studs that produce quality offspring that are an improvement on the parents. We had a stud dog typical of his...

It's not a recent"theory"it's a proven medical fact, the prepubescent neutering delays the timeous closure of the epiphyseal plates & leads to overgrowth & weakening of the bones because of the overgrowth. I gave never routinely castrated my dogs & my current dogs are only castrated because they...

Oh dear your vet has misinformed you, dogs over 10 weeks of age only need 1 vaccination not 2. You can check this information on the NOAH compendium site. So many vets fail to give their clients the information leaflets that the manufacturers supply with vaccines & other medications, which...

Whilst getting a JRT from a rescue is very laudable, it is highly unlikely you will find a purebred pedigree JRT in a rescue(unless it's a breed specific rescue) The JRT mostly seen in rescues are small cross bred terriers. The pedigree version is a fairly recently recognised breed in 2016 &...

You won't see the recalls as they are from the manufacturers to their direct customers. Most commercial processed dog/cat food contains ingredients that are simply fillers of no value to the animal, which usually results in lots of poop being produced. Dogs/cats don't need...

From the 1970s ?????? Look up "Origin of BSE", the same company owned a butchers that sold condemned chicken meat to the public & the company's boss was jailed for 7 years. My late father worked in the animal feed industry(even though we never fed any commercial food to our dogs)& the manufactor...

Interestingly there have been many more recalls for commercial processed dog foods for salmonella etc than for raw foods & of course in the UK all meat used in pet food is supposed to be of human quality & tested for salmonella etc regardless of if it's raw, dry or canned. It was a found that a...

I've only had dogs since the mid 1950s, since then my dogs have never been fed a commercial diet wet or dry. My dogs(& cats)have always been fed organic meat & eggs, wild caught fish & raw organic veggies & fruit. None of my pets have ever had digestive problems that lasted more than 24 hours...

There are a lot of so called"Balanced"trainers on the internet who disapprove of reward based training & use all-sorts of aversive methods & tools to"train"dogs. I've been a force free reward based trainer since the early 1960s, when I started training a dog that had been literally beaten into...

Not a fan of the new series, having met Alf Wight on several occasions, he was nothing like the character in the new version. Nowhere near as accurate to the books either.

Many years ago a lady was in just your position, she loved the GSDs we had(all 11 of them),but was frightened of other GSDs. I bred a litter & she visited them regularly & fell in love with one of the bitch puppies. She even attended our GSD training club & trained one of our dogs to gain...

Oh dear your dog needs brain training not masses of exercise in hot weather. Sounds to me if you haven't been doing enough training toilet outside & by yelling/screaming/saying ouch when you get nipped simply turns it into a rewarding game. If you take behaviour that an adult dog gives an OTT...

Not at the franchise nearest me, I checked you cannot buy a puppy from them under 10 weeks for males & 12 weeks for bitches, as they need to recover from being neutered & all puppies now cost £200+ regardless of whether they are mongrels or pedigree breeds. Strangely they don't neuter all the...

There are no such thing as an"Alpha"dog & domestic dogs aren't really true pack animals the same way wolves are, the Alpha & pack theories are based on very flawed studies of man made zoo wolf packs put together during the 1930s & 1940s from totally unrelated wolves kept in captivity...

Jandaz are well known puppy farmers & nearly always have puppies for sale. There is no such breed as Cockapoo, they are crossbreeds in the first generation & after that are basically mongrels. They aren't KC breed registerable, although they can be registered on the KC activities register. The...

Neutering isn't guaranteed to stop sexual behaviours, the only thing it 100%stops(eventually for males)is being able to procreate. Castration doesn't immediately make a male completely infertile nor does it stop males mating entire in season females.