Rehabbing an Aggressive Australian Shepherd
Back to Basics
Finally, Chris was able to get her first lesson with my trainer on Saturday. Much needed for all, my trainer was feeling better and needed to work her young dog as well as get a feel for Christian.I, forever in a rush, had missed some foundation work with her. So now I need to go back and do some more fence work with her, to get her to be able to 'feel' her sheep much better than she does now.We worked her in a very large round pen, back and forth, not letting her under flank on one side and o
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Sep 25th 2019
Kate at the Vets
We went to the vets today to get Kate's foxtail out of her nose. We saw our usual doctor and discussed Kate's symptoms. The main symptom was not her sneezing, as she would do with a sticker in her nose, but what the doctor called "reverse sneezing". This is a new term for me, as I had never heard it. She is more like snorting or trying to clear the back of her throat or sinus's. Almost immediately upon our discussing the symptoms, the veterinarian did not think she had a sticker. Inste
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Sep 25th 2019
Foxtails
Kate had been making strange noises with her throat or sinuses. I had no idea what was wrong. I kept thinking that something must be caught in her throat. I fed her a couple of medium size cookies in the hope that they would wash it down, that didn't help. I fed her a good dinner, and that didn't help either.When my husband came home I mentioned it to him. He said that maybe she has a foxtail in her nasal cavity. Bingo! Of course, why didn't I link her symptoms with a foxtail diagnos
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Sep 25th 2019
Product Testing-Wholesome Hide Retriever Rolls
We got some Wholesome Hide retriever rolls in for stock, and my husband had picked up some other rawhide rolls for the girls from Walmart. The Wholesome Hide ones were just sitting on a table waiting for me to take them to the basement. I decided to give the girls some rawhide in the morning to chew on.I handed each of them a roll from the Walmart pack. Then I handed Chris one of the Wholesome Hide ones also. I wanted to see if indeed my dogs really like the Wholesome Hide retriever rolls be
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Sep 25th 2019
YIKES! Rattlesnakes!
YIKES! Rattlesnakes!At the end of the day, today, about 7:30pm, I received a call from my neighbor down the street. "Hi, I am out front of your next door neighbor's house walking the dogs...There is a baby rattler in the road. I don't have anything to kill it with, could you help?"Boy, I jumped up, told her that I would be right there. My dogs were outside, and surely didn't want them to run across the snake. I grabbed the shovel that rests during snake season, right beside the garage door,
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Sep 25th 2019