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Molly will be Katherine's bridesmaid at the end of the year when she gets married- that's how much Molly and Katherine get on :) I credit Molly with being very forgiving and absorbent in getting Katherine through the most stressful bits of her course :) I'm on the lookout for a really tiny...

There is lots of evidence that dogs remember their littermates for at least the first 18 months after they are separated. Pups meeting each other at shows are well known for seeking out family members even if they have never seen those littermates since being separated from their mum. Dogs...

Hi Trudie and welcome to DogForum :) At 11 weeks old I think it's quite possible that Bernard's got the wrong end of the stick as to where he's meant to be going. He's still very much a baby and if he doesn't yet have the understanding about where you WANT him to wee then he may think that...

What a beautiful puppy! What's her name? Welcome to DogForum Kathy :) I too have depression and I know where you're coming from when you worry that you may not be doing the best for your little one, but you do need to know that this is your depression talking, not you. Yes, they would try...

It sounds like he's doing wonderfully for such a young puppy, to be honest. At 14 weeks they would still have 24/7 attention from mum if they weren't with us in a human world so mummy would be there any time he happened to wake up, to tell him that everything is OK. It's quite possible that...

I'm so sorry to hear that Oscar is so ill :( There are tumours that can be seen very categorically by looking in the eyes, like neuroblastomas (these are the ones that can be diagnosed just by looking at a photograph of a child, for instance) but I would expect a vet to be able to explain that...

I think that many people use them as crossing colloquial terms too, so please don't expect anybody using the terms to be meaning them in any strict definition. To many non-sighthound people, running dog= long dog= any long and leggy slim dog. I know one very interesting dog that is officially...

Hi Harrison I've just looked up the approved doses for dogs on metronidazole and going on your dog's weight this is the approved maximum for the dog (it actually comes to 1598mg) so I think that it's likely that doggy metabolism deals with metronidazole in a different way to humans, as it does...

Hi Tom I'm not really springer experienced, but Molly is a very clever girl and the biggest issue we had with training when Molly was young was that she could predict pretty much everything I was going to do and consequently she found that boring. Lots of dog training is about routines and how...

Wow, that sounds like such a terrifying thing to face by yourself! I can well understand your wish to take whatever potential damage yourself rather than let your dog get hurt, but by lowering the vital bits of you enough that a dog could get hold of them that puts you very much at risk of...

Wow, it must be such an important week in your household :) Jamie looks so happy there (and who wouldn't be, getting to be up close to such lovely animals?) and I hope that the rest of your weekend plans are going well too :)

I would go with a head collar rather than a harness too, for controllability if nothing else. Our head collar of choice is a k9bridle, which looks deceptively simple but I know people who walk mastiffs on them, so they can clearly take the weight of a big dog that's learning. Molly has a...

Awwwww- tiny!! I'd be so terrified to have a puppy that small around my great clod hopping Molly. That said, she's raised over 50 kittens without harming any of them, but when she thunders around she's not exactly light on her feet. I hope that Millie isn't camouflaged against your sofa or...

As long as you are going to replace the oils somehow- DE is such a good desiccant that your scalp and dreads would be way too dry and crinkly if you didn't. I've never managed to pick up fleas off my beasties, but I did get a lovely case of ringworm from an outbreak at our local cat shelter...

Barking is a conditioned response, but it's also a Shepherd response. Most of the shepherd breeds have been bred to be hypervigilant and bark at the slightest sounds or movement to let you know that there's something moving out there. People visiting my house don't even get as far as my door...

Whilst it is important to get exercise and move around a lot, it's also important for dogs to be able to read the peemails that other dogs leave, so how about teaching your little one a 'leave' or 'heel' command for some parts of the walk when getting up to speed and actually getting some...

It doesn't always work out more expensive to feed raw. Molly's food is half chicken bought from the human food stream at £4 for a little over a month's worth of breakfasts, and half Durham Animal Foods raw mince, which comes in at 60p a day, which together adds up to about 75p daily feed cost...

Bear in mind that most of the decent quality companies will deliver from their website to your home for the same price for which you could pick their products up in a shop, so please remember to check out the feed makers' websites and the whole selection of animal care websites too :)

Sorry, but I had a good laugh at your post too :> More from sympathy at what I could pick up from the animals than laughing at your situation though. I personally would see if there's a way to work some diatomaceous earth into your dreads. It wouldn't take much for whatever fleas may be in...

I actually know a calm springer. I was so gobsmacked when I met her- she's almost as slow as the rest of the dog world! Generally speaking though, I think that springer owners are a very special kind of mad. Dog owners in general are a kind of mad- we accept the expense of feeding, providing...