We have a male, fixed Doberman Pinscher that will soon be three. When someone is lying on the couch, he will come up and lie down beside them, now if someone presses their foot against his leg, or makes contact with his back, then the dog growls menacingly. We have met with some success by […]
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I have a 11 month old Great Pyrenees mix. Generally an all around great dog. She has had 2 sessions of training. She listens to my husband but with me, only when she feels like it. When she steals a sock she ignores me or she runs for it or “dead drops”. She is almost
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The following has been requested as a result of a column I wrote: https://www.askthedogguy.com/english-bulldog-breeding-animal-cruelty-abuse PLOS |Genetics – Bulldogs’ Screw Tails Linked To Human Genetic Disease Mansour, Tamer A., Katherine Lucot, Sara E. Konopelski, Peter J. Dickinson, Beverly K. Sturges, Karen L. Vernau, Shannon Choi, et al. “Whole Genome Variant Association across 100 Dogs Identifies a Frame
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Excerpt from ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2012) — “Hip dysplasia (HD) in dogs is affected to a larger degree than previously believed by the environment in which puppies grow up. It is particularly during the period from birth to three months that various environmental factors appear to influence the development of this disease. During the puppy stage,
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There is something odd about this article (which is appearing in a ton of news media). The story has either some critical details wrong, left them out or someone is being highly mislead. I don’t question that a dog can be trained to do this but I have never (nor have any professional service dog
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We are the owners of a 4-year old Golden Doodle. She is an incredibly smart dog and we are very ‘tolerant’ owners. She has the ability to be very well behaved but we have not displayed the commitment to training her in a consistent manner. Many of her foibles seem minor but her reaction to
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