Puppy Training Techniques

Another change in Rosebud, post-Wally. Wally was a “lap dog.” Whenever I sat, there he was, ready for a warm lap.

Rosebud, meanwhile, was always elsewhere. She never attempted to be in my lap.

For the first week or two after Wally died, her behavior didn’t change in that respect–on the sofa, she kept laying down some distance from me.

But, in the last week, she’s become a lap dog. If I sit on the sofa, she wants to sleep on my lap or curled up between my calves/ankles.

I guess she wasn’t a lap dog because the lap was taken! All in all, I find the “changes” in her personality quite striking. She is really a completely different dog (in a better way) as an “only child.”

We have a 2yr old female chicawaha mix and a terrier mix male 5yr old.
Our male has been fixed but our female has not. My question is she came in to heat about a month or so ago and i found her and my male stuck together. they are both house dogs and has never been around other dogs to mate with. I wanted to know if my male could still get my female pregnant even though he was fix when he was a year old. I had heard that they could still if he never been around another dog that was in heat. we have notice or female putting on weight and was just wondering. could someone please help with this question. We just want
to be prepared if she is. We were not looking for puppies that is why our male is fixed.

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Welcome to the list. Pardon my pickiness, but I think it is important to know how to spell the breed of dog you have Your Chihuahua is very unlikely to be pregnant. Assuming your male was properly neutered, testicles removed, he is unable to impregnate your female even if he succeeded in going through all the proper motions.

Also, the female heat cycle lasts about 3 weeks. They are generally most fertile during the middle week, but it pays to be cautious and keep her away from male dogs through the whole period.

It’s possible that your female is experiencing a false pregnancy. They go through all the same behaviors and may even gain weight and have swollen mammary glands. She may “nest” in blankets and adopt toys (or socks) as her “babies”. This is a hormone issue I would discuss with your vet. But I would also adjust her food to cut back her calories if she is gaining weight. A fat Chihuahua is not a good thing.

I notice while sniffing around, which I realize he needs to do that, my puppy is
eating “rabbit droppings” how bad is this for him?
I will of course try and stop him, but short of putting a muzzle on him that
could be difficult, any advice please?

I can always tell where the rabbits have been eating over night…that’s where my ‘kids’ are every morning scarfing up the rabbit cookies…..they love them and it has never hurt them…..I see them with their noses to the ground sniffing and then they stop and gobble the goodies and then off they go using their noses to find more…..

LOL, my guys do the same thing. They love going out in the evening to lay under the rabbit cage to snack and they seem to be enjoying themselves.

There is nothing wrong with him eating rabbit pellets and you’d be hard pressed to stop it. Extra fiber and nutritious

I got this post from one of my other blogs about puppy training techniques, I wanted to share it with everyone:

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Mary Lou, I love the
updates! But I always wonder about Maddie. Do her “parents” know she visits
you as often as she does? Does she visit other neighbors or is she one of
those dogs that “adopts” a family other than their own? Haha!

My neighbors are rather odd, they live in a travel trailer and barn, they
have a fluid number of dogs, some horses and a goat, little Mattie is the
only one who visits (the others are too big to get thru my fence), she only
visits us… when her family lets her out of the barn or trailer and when she is
‘free’ she comes over. They dont care what she does, they were ‘worried’ she
was ‘bothering’ us, I said no, its fine, my dogs like to play with her. I’ve
offered to ‘keep her’, they said no. But they did clip her nails, finally