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From what I understand about IBD in dogs, it, like human IBS, is a diagnosis of exclusion, that is to say that it's something happening in the bowel which doesn't show up on any of the tests and therefore isn't anything specific that the vet can put their finger on as a condition. As far as...

Yes, I'm with Sophie here- it's an age and dominance thing and this is the time when a really nice dog can suddenly become a bit of a dictator if you aren't careful, so it's time for a crash course in you being the boss and him toeing the line, with some really well enforced household rules that...

Does Lennon have some hard chew material to use to break his teeth in through his gums when they're hurting? Bushwack/paddywack (dried cartilage), deer antler, Nylabones or any of the other really hard chews that you can take off him, clean properly and give back should accelerate his teeth...

Yes, she's got a very good full shep look when she's being alert :) I love shep ears, and their beautiful eyelashes, and the crimped bits of fur behind their ears, and their eyebrows, and.... (for this read, I'm a sucker for a smiley face and some pointy ears!) Molly will be 9 in a few...

Beautiful ears there- almost as impressive as Molly's (she was starved as a puppy so she never grew the skull to mount her ears on and they have never looked in proportion). Please give them a skritch off me and Molly :) When I first got Molly she was 10 months old and was so thin she fitted...

Hi Rubysmum, and welcome to DogForum :) I'm not sure that Molly was ever that small! She's beautiful :) As far as food goes, I'm a believer in raw, which would start with raw mince for puppies, but I'm aware that a raw diet can take a lot more storage/freezer space and organisation than...

Sorry Raven oaktree, but your comments about Willow have given me a good laugh. Clever dogs are sometimes so very good at training you aren't they? My best input that I can offer here is, I think, that I'm not sure that you've got high enough value treats to outweigh the excitement of being...

Can I suggest that you look at potentially getting Scully a Chillow or a Canine Cooler bed or one of their more generic alternatives? My dog Molly has lots of very long fur and so overheats very easily in summer, but she has a big advantage over Scully in that she is a very strong swimmer and...

It's also worth bearing in mind that any weight loss in animals should be done very gradually, in order to avoid organ damage. A loss of 100g a month would be about right for a dog as small as yours elliewelly. A 5% reduction in food and a 5% increase in exercise, along with cutting out a lot...

Border terriers are such bright little buttons that they can learn an awful lot of things when they are still really quite small, so take advantage of how many things she can learn which will be life rules- it sounds like you've started off well :) Can I suggest that you decide now what your...

Do you have a local online forum? I also run a local forum and we have a pets group within the forum and although users aren't allowed to promote a business on the main forum, the rules are different in the pets group, where local pet owners may find the information about services useful. Lots...

Yep, this sounds very much like a last chance to play boundary testing phase. Molly used to do similar when she was younger and would do it at any time we paid her attention before doing what we asked her to do, complete with leaping about, play bowing like crazy, like she just had to get all...

It's quite possible that this is either a behavioural boundary testing phase caused by her growing up, or she's doing what all children and most dogs do (until they learn better) which is that when it gets light that means I should be woken up and so should everybody else! This will, of course...

Ey up :) Thank you for coming to share your basset brain :) I can predict what you can and can't train out of a shep, but my basset knowledge isn't enough to help someone else out.

How could a dog that's got a sense of smell hundreds of times more sensitive than ours, which is sensitive enough to sniff out the minuscule changes in a human body to predict an epileptic fit an hour before the person it's happening to knows about it NOT be able to tell when there's a woman...

What a beautiful young lad :) I hope he finds his forever home soon and gets some weight on those skinny ribs when he's happy and stable again :)

Molly is absolutely wonderful, and she's a total pain in the backside too on occasion (as I'm sure we all are sometimes!) but she has been my best buddy for 8 years now, and I love her to bits. She's got her own issues and challenges, but then so have I and so, too, do all dogs owned from a...

Sorry gypsysmum, but the concept of a shepherd that's too tired to bark is giving me a good smile here :) I've met other breeds that are tired and relaxed, but I've met shepherds that are close enough to death that they couldn't stand up, but they could still bark. I live in hope that one...

I don't know of any with corrective lenses either, and I'm not sure that it would be possible to get them to a proper prescription with full focus because so much of an eye test is subjective with working out which lens creates the best focus (and dogs aren't known for their ability to read eye...

Hi Elliem, and welcome to DogForum :) Unfortunately Belgian and German Shepherds are renowned for their dodgy stomachs, and if it isn't possible to have a properly balanced raw diet where you live then struggling to find anything which will suit your dog is the only way forwards. I know loads...