Dog thread!🐾

[StinkyAcres]

Anyone on here deal with a reactive dog?
any tips for training them to be neutral again?
Maybe that the being neutral stays.
Months and months of hard work just seemed to be washed away.

I have a dog who is reactive to dogs and masculine people. We have not been able to stop it. Have you tried parallel walking? That's what I want to do with Luna but we can't find another dog owner who is willing to do that with us. And the trainer we contacted didn't show up after she said she would...

 

[StinkyAcres]

If its 1,200 mg a cup she should be getting plenty.

Hopefully others have some experience

I don't think it's that much. She gets a cup and 1/3 a day. So more like 180mg a day...if my math is correct..

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Anybody successfully treated their dog's patellar luxation without surgery?

I am quite sure Dorie has a luxating patella. She recently injured her back leg when she ran after a squeaky toy and she continues to injure herself when walking down the stairs and running (I'm trying to keep her from doing that). She yelps and refuses to put weight on that leg until I massage it and then it's almost like it never happened. The last few times I've massaged her leg I felt the muscle pop back into place.

I've read that exercising with sit-to-stands and walking uphill to strengthen the muscles in the back legs can help. Her food already has glucosamine in it. Anything else I can do?

I had a rat terrier who's knees always went in and out. It never bothered her. One of my Boston bulldog was injured while playing and it knocked her knee out. We tried resting, but she doesn't handle pain well, so we just had it surgically fixed. She's doing great now. She was favoring it a few weeks ago, but that ended up being lymes yet again, and she's now doing better back on antibiotics.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

I have a dog who is reactive to dogs and masculine people. We have not been able to stop it. Have you tried parallel walking? That's what I want to do with Luna but we can't find another dog owner who is willing to do that with us. And the trainer we contacted didn't show up after she said she would...

Tucker is reactice towards dogs and certain people.
Ill look into parallel walking. I havent tried it.

We had a trainer who helped us after the first dog came at him. That sucks the trainer didnt show up

 thanks

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

I don't think it's that much. She gets a cup and 1/3 a day. So more like 180mg a day...if my math is correct..

Does she weigh over 25lbs?

If so i think adding some more should help because a dog over 25lbs should get around 225- 250mg a day

 

[StinkyAcres]

Does she weigh over 25lbs?

If so i think adding some more should help because a dog over 25lbs should get around 225- 250mg a day

No, she is 19 pounds.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

No, she is 19 pounds.

So she should be getting a good amount then.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Parallel walking could be good, but it would be really hard to find a dog to do it with.

 

[StinkyAcres]

So she should be getting a good amount then.

Great, thanks!

Parallel walking could be good, but it would be really hard to find a dog to do it with.

Yeah, that has been the biggest challenge for us.

 

[SpotTheCat]

Anybody successfully treated their dog's patellar luxation without surgery?

I am quite sure Dorie has a luxating patella. She recently injured her back leg when she ran after a squeaky toy and she continues to injure herself when walking down the stairs and running (I'm trying to keep her from doing that). She yelps and refuses to put weight on that leg until I massage it and then it's almost like it never happened. The last few times I've massaged her leg I felt the muscle pop back into place.

Our Pom had it, we also had to massage her leg and then she was fine. She lived to 18 about! it never seemed to bother her

I've read that exercising with sit-to-stands and walking uphill to strengthen the muscles in the back legs can help. Her food already has glucosamine in it. Anything else I can do?

I would be worried about sit-stand being too much. There are exercises where you have a pole or something similar just high enough so they pick up their feet. Or you can do like for the horses, poles on the ground, it might be less stress on the joints then bending the knees all the way, definitely less painful/stressful on mine

Swimming would be great, if it is possible

Anyone on here deal with a reactive dog?

Pepsi is reactive and making progress slowly
Twiggy is too but I haven't really worked on it for a long time now
Fanta needed a lot of neutral training, she still struggles with other dogs
Pikelet is Pikelet........

any tips for training them to be neutral again?
Maybe that the being neutral stays.
Months and months of hard work just seemed to be washed away.

Reactivity is very complicated, as much detail as you can give me the better! Neutral walks are good! make sure you are at just the right distance

It is early in the morning right now so I might think of more things later!