Rehabbing an Aggressive Australian Shepherd
Crate Rest
This pup of mine has been limping on her right front off and on now for three or four weeks. One day the three girls were playing and it was a hot day. I sent them to run for the dog pool in order to cool-off. They usually race for it, to try to be the first one in. This time, Chris came back limping on her right front foot.I looked it over, and could not find anything wrong. She kept limping for a good part of the day, and after several days, the limp seemed to disappear. Then several day
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Sep 25th 2019
Correction
Chris has received corrections since she has come to live with us, therefore she is not real sensitive to receiving them. When she was a young puppy, her mother gave her caresses with her tongue and corrections with her teeth or other body language, and at times growls. And since after leaving her dam, she continued to be directed by corrections and praises or rewards. By her not being overly sensitive to them, she accepts them, and then moves on.Some dogs who do not get corrections, internal
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Sep 25th 2019
Still Chewing
Christian now has all of her adult teeth in. For a while, she had double upper canines, but like Tam, the baby canines finally came out. But even though she is done teething, I caught her chewing on something that she was not allowed to chew on. We were in the pick up together, and I keep a water hole dog bowl in the truck. The water in the bowl was gone, and as Chris was jumping from the front seat to the back, she would overturn the bowl. While I was in the store, she was in the back seat
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Sep 25th 2019
Teenager
Christian is starting to look like a teenager. Her legs are long and leggy, while her body is still on the smaller side. Her head is still somewhat larger for her current body size, so I think she will grow more. I mentioned her head size to my husband, and he just said that it is larger because it is packed with brains. I say its packed with a skull full of mush. Mush that needs to be developed into a free thinking brain.A teenager on the outside, might mean that she is a teenager on the i
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Sep 25th 2019
Gumby
New teeth are coming in right and left. During one week, Christian lost both of her lower canines and she looked quite funny. We started calling her Gumby for a nick-name. She also has a new lower permanent lower molar. This new molar should let her cut the Wholesome Hide dog chews that I give her. Before, with her baby teeth, she couldn't "cut" pieces of the rawhide off, rather she would chew and chew the Wholesome Hide until is was really soft and then she would shake it. But the shaking
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Sep 25th 2019