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Have you tried Toys'R'Us??? or maybe a swimming supply store??? Hmmm that's all I can think of right now...

:o :x :evil: ...Some people!!! Grrr! What kind of sick "entertainment" is that?! I hope his "tail" gets cut off! :evil:

Aww that's Great that Rowie dosn't have any more ticks! I'm so happy for you and her!!!!! :P :D I know she probabaly looks funny but I bet you she feels much much much better with all thoes nasty ticks off her. Oh and the scabs and stuff that are on her now...Zebra had thoes too..and that was just from ONE tick...I can't imagine how poor rowie looks. Well give her a kiss from me and Zebra. Please can we see some naked pics of her???? Please??? :wink: :question1:

Zebra thanks you all for wishing him a happy birthday. He had a good birthday, he got a new tennis ball and a little birthday cake. Exept we gave him his birthday cake and walked away..and when we came back it was gone so we thought that he had ate it. But then about 10 mins later I went down the two little stares that lead to my room and at the bottom of the strairs there was the cake...I stepped in it :o . Ech! Sooo gross....frosting in between my toes.... :oops: Then Zebra desides he wants to eat it.... :roll: Figures..what a dog.

Hehehehe... :lol: . That is a great pic!! :D How in the world did you get that pic of her??? everytime I take a pic of my dog he stops doing whatever funny thing he was doing. :roll:

June 1 is Zebra's Unoffical Birthday!!!! :BIG: yeah! Since we don't know when he was born exactly the Humane society said it was probabaly around June 1. So we are celibrating!! We got him a little puppy cake from Three Dog Bakery, and I got him some new toys. :P :roll: He's soo happy! We spoil that dog soo much, but he's not complaining. :wink: So now he will be 1 year old...*sniff* they grow up so fast! :-?

Zebra is somewhat clicker trained. :lol: I was going to write a long post about clicker training but Nancy B (good post by the way) wrote almost the exact same thing that I was going to write . The only thing I ever had trouble with was holding the clicker, the treats and the dog leash at the same time...I'm not a very good multi-tasker :oops: :)

R.I.P. Mr. Hedgie- He was a good soul. :lol: :P

Uh!! Soo mad! Went out with my friend today. Well we decided to go to the mall because she had to pay some bills. Anyways we passed by this pet store where they sold puppies!!!! :evil: It was a big store and in the front they kept these poor little dogs in glass "prisons". I didn't go in but I looked at them from the window out of curiousity. They were selling PURE BREED....Ok get this...Labradoodles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AGGH! :evil: :drinking: Un-be-leve-able! And since they were pure breeds they cost 400+ dollars. Uh..so desgusting. By this time I'm nearly yelling that there is no such thing and my freind goes "so what's the big deal?". Errr! I had to try soo hard not to yell at my freind when she asked. So as calmly as i could I told here that there was no such thing as a pure breed "labradoodle" and that it was actually a Mixed breed. And then i told her where these puppies most likly came from, a puppymill. And I told her about the horrid things that happens at a puppymill and all my freind can say is "oh"...oh?? that's it? oh? Figures that she would say "oh" considering her family dosn't think it's a "Priority" to get there pup spayed or trained but they think that shopping at Nemiun Marcus(sp?) is a top priority. Gah! Sometimes I wonder what is the point of trying to educate people when they don't want to learn. And as for the pet store...there were so many people in there with there kids.....and none of these kids or the parents would even guess what these pups have been through. Ok sorry about the ranting and raving :oops: I just needed to vent some.

Oh my! that sounds so horrible :-? ...but I'm sorry I can't stop laughing. :lol: :P yea dogs will do stuff like that to you...*sigh* :roll:

Congrats! that's great! Bubblezzz-Oh zebra does it right on the edge of the paper too...*Sigh* oh well. :roll:

Does your dog bark at other things? Like cats, other dogs? My dog Zebra dosn't bark when someone is at the back door either...he just gives a very low very scary growel...but if he sees a cat...forget it...he is sooo loud and noisy! :roll:

I think Zebra was a........zebra...hehehe. Have you ever seen a zebra run at top speed on tv? Like when it runs away from a lion?? that's how Zebra runs! :lol: Or he was a vulture....he eats EVERYTHING!!! and if we drop food on the floor...forget it...it's gone before we even look down. he is such the scavenger. :lol:

"The Bulldog has in its opinion markedly folded skin, too short a skull and abnormally positioned teeth. The heads should be completely redesigned or the breed banned. The Cocker Spaniel is considered by the Convention to have ears which are too long. They should be bred for shorter ears or banned. The Basset Hound it alleges has legs which are abnormally positioned. They should be repositioned Euro-style and be made longer or the breed banned. Docking and removal of dew claws from gundogs, terriers and other working breeds and show dogs would also be outlawed by this Convention" :crazyeyes: :o :x

hahahaha :lol: --just to let ya know K, I'm the "hypocritical bad mom" aka-The red queen. :D

Yup..this site is the best. :P I hope you can join us angelboddy! I'm sure you'll like it here very much... As for petfinder....well....lets just say that a few people there don't like me very much. heheh oh well. :evilbat:

Hehehe...Zebra chases "the dot". It's a lazer pointer that he will chase and chase and chase it till the battery's run out. He runs into walls, into bushes and into me trying to get the thing.... :roll: Crazy dogs.

I think it might just be a clumsy puppy thing...He makes very tight turns so I think he just looses his footing..but it looks horrible when he does it. But he dosn't seem to mind.. :roll:

I have to agree with Courtnek...I think dogs do have a "pack mantality". I have seen groups of dogs before and the way they interact with one another. And I do belive that dogs do carry many traits from wolves especially the pact mantality. But I also know that doing the 'alpha roll" is very dangerous. My trainer told me that a woman did this to her very large german sheapherd and it bit her in the face very badly, so badly that she had to get plastic surgery to make her look "normal" again. But this was a time when i HAD to do that to Zebra. If I didn't he would have become alpha in our "pact". And No this just did not happen suddenly..he had snapped and growled at us before..ESPECIALLY AT ME! Usually when he does this I clip on his leash and pull him away from whatever he has. But this time my mom decided to get him out. Even though I kept telling her to leave him alone she would not (sometimes I think my parents need more training then Zebra :roll:). Alos in this incident my dad had yelled at him and yes he got defensive and scared. So i belive that this incident he was acting in fear and wanted to be alpha..err if that makes any sense. Rosebud--Your almost right..Actually I am Alpha--My mom and dad are about equal and are Beta and my brother is next then there is Zebra. I know males are usually the Alpha but in this case I am. I train Zebra and spend most of my time with him. Like I said in my first post that Zebra was not himself. It is like some switch is turned on when he takes something he knows he is not suppose to have. Almost like he is reliving something from when he was a pup. Now in response to Johnny--Why would I not want to keep him? He is NOT an unstable dog...not in the least...what he has is behavior problems. And Yes i do have a very good idea what causes this behavior. Do I ever want this situation to happen again? No way! Never. And there is no way I would ever ever ever EVER give him a "dirt nap". That is just a copout for people who are not willing to give it there all(Sahra you don't apply to that statment...I know how much you loved hazel and I know that you didn't have any more options. The statment applies to people who don't try to help there dog and take the easy way out.). I have not even begun to run out of options with Zebra. In fact I have many options. And I also relize that it's not only Zebra's fault but Mine too. I need to do allot more training with him. But I have faith that Zebra and I can change. And that's all that matters. I'll keep you all updated on Zebra's progress. Thank you all so much..I duno what I would do without you all. :P

Thank you all soo much for you help. I appreciate it more than you will ever know. Courtnek-The vet gave him Amoxicillin to prevent infection. Zebra had got bitten buy a tick and was scratching so badly at it that he was breaking the skin and making scabs. So I'm assuming that's why the vet gave him the meds. He also got a shot of something...I can't remember what it was. :oops: Hazel-We have just sarted him on a differnt diet. And when I mean just started i mean today.. :) Right now he is getting a mix of Dry Solid Gold adult formula and wet Natures Variety in beef. Before he was getting Eaukanuba Dry food for puppies- :flop: . I think this change in diet will help him because he is actually eating the new food and not just letting it sit there like he did with the Eaukanuba. But today Zebra has been good and he has ONLY eaten his food after we all had our food. When I took him outside I made him wait till I was out before he could go...(even thought it took me 10 mins :roll: ). BUt on Tuesday I'm going to call our trainer (she is realy good and has worked with Wolves, bears and other wild animals.) and I'm going to see what she says and when we can scedual an appointment together. :P Today Zebra has been realy good and I even stood behind him in the 'alpha" position and he couldn't have cared less. He was just like "eh". *sigh* I swear sometimes he is an angel :angel: and some times he is the devil :diablotin:

This morning I had a talk with my parents and we decided that the best thing to do was to vigorously(sp?) train him and have one on one sessions with our trainer at our house. I think this would be best for all of us. Zebra has always been alpha dog, in our training class he would try and mount the English mastiff and the great dane :roll: (not with much sucess though). Zebra had previously growled and snapped at us before and we always had "punished" him by putting him alone in the back while we eat, giving him his food last. And I trained him to go down stairs after me. All was going very well for about two months then this happend. I can't figure out why he would turn on us like that. Nothing out of the ordinary happend and he was himself all day. Now some of you asked if he was on any medications and yes he is...He is on 400Mg of Amoxixillin twice a day for allergies...and had had a shot about a week ago for allergies too. But I'm not sure if allergie medication would cause him to do that. Ok now here is were I;m a little confused..he dons't sleep on my bed but he use to sleep next to my bed on a pillow. Then all of a sudden he wouldn't sleep in my room and would only sleep under the table which i think he considers his "den" (I was thinking about taking his "den" away some how, so he dosn't have a place to hide). The problem is that I know he shouldn't sleep higher than me but my room is "downstairs". See my room is an add on and it is only 2 steps down, not that big of a deal but latly he won't sleep 'downstairs" in my room. And he only sleeps under the table or in the laundry room next to my room. Arr..so what am i suppose to do about that?? Does 2 little stairs realy matter?? Do i make him come downstairs with me?? :-? Oh he is fixed and there is no female in heat anywhere. But I have noticed that he has gotten allot more agressive when he sees cats. before he use to ignore them now it;s non stop barking, lunging and his hair on his back is raised. The thing is he isn't agressive with his food, I can pat him on his head....so why only on certain occasions does he try to be Alpha. I think that he might be trying to test me because I am the only one that spends allot of time with him and trains him...I am also Alpha to him. So maybe he was testing me. I'm just glad my dad said he wanted to keep him because I thought he would want to get rid of him. My dad had NO tolerance for animals in general. especially for dogs...althought I can't blaim him because he got bit by a dog as a child and never grew up with a dog. He has the mantality of "if a dog is bad, hit it" :x . But I think he is learning that that is unexceptable. One last thing that I thought was odd about last night...Right before I had to do "alpha" on him I told him to sit and he did...without a problem. So why would he obay me one second then turn on me the next???? Arrg! My dog must have multiple personalities or something. Thank you all for the advice..It realy helped allot. :P And you made me feel allot better. :D

Oh what a horrible day!!! Zebra went insane today and tried to bite me! :cry: This is what happend: Zebra took a headband off my bed and ran under the table with it. Now usually when he takes stuff I just clip on his leash and take him outside but this time he groweld when i tried to put the leash on him. So I left him alone for a hour or so and i didn't try to get it away from him. My mom decided that she could get it and she did....well sorta. She threw a peice of cheese in the opposite direction of the head band and when Zebra went to go get the cheese she grabed the head band. Except Zebra sorta lunged at her (I dunno exactly what happend because I wan't in the room but this is what my mom and dad told me). So then he came out from under the table and his tail was wagging and he was ok..but then my dad put his hand down and scratched his head and he started to quiver his lips...ya know when they are angry how they wrinkle there nose. So my dad just walked away and went to the refrigerator except that zebra would get in his way and would growel and bite at his feet if he walked forward. Now this kinda made me mad and so I stood behind Zebra in the Alpha position and he freaked out!!!!! He started groweling realy badly so I wraped my arms around his chest (by this time he was sitting down w/ me standing behind him) . He was getting very mean and so I pushed him down onto the ground and held him down by holding on to his collar and kinda sitting on him..(we learned to do this in training class, I know it sounds kinda weird but it's hard to explain). Anways this is when things went from bad to worse. Then he bared his teeth to me and was growling so bad that is sounded like someone was choking him! His gums were blood red and he kept trying to jerk his head toward me so he could bite me. By this time my mom was like "what the Hell is going on?!" and my dad was in the same room and he asked me "are you scared?" and i said yes i was. Zebra was jerking about so badly that I almost lost grip on him...*god now i'm crying*. I knew I couldn't let go of him because I knew he would bite me. I mean he was literaly going pshyco. I have never seen him that bad before. So my dad got this broom stick that we have and hit the floor with it so it made a loud "boom" noise and Zebra instatly stoped growling. By this time I was crying so hard because I was scared and upset but mostly angry. Zebra started to growl again so my dad hit the floor with the broom stick with twice. This time Zebra stoped. So my dad is standing next to me and I can bearly see because i'm crying so hard and my dad was mad.....i mean very mad. I'm perty sure that he would have killed Zebra if he would have bitten me. Uh....so then I got up and pulled Zebra into the laundry room that is at the very back of the house next to my room and put him in there. He is still in there all alone away from the rest of us. God i'm soo upset. I have never seen Zebra that bad. I don't even know what dog that was that did that because it sure wasn't the same dog that licks me in the face everytime i come home. It wasn't even zebra...it didn't look like him..His eyes were glazed over like he was possesed. It wasn't even him. :cry: He is still not himself 3 hours after what happend. He is all nervous and scared. I don't even know what to do anymore. The thing is while i was holding him down i KNEW that if i let up a little he would have bitten me. I have no doubt in my mind about that. So what do I do now??? Go to training and hope that he won't do that again? Do I put him up for adoption and know that he might get PTS? Do I chance something like this again? I mean what if he does bite me or my brother or my mom or dad?? I know if Zebra were to bite anyone in my family my dad would kill him and yes I mean that in the very literal sense. Uh! I've never been so frusterated or confused before! I know that he must have been abused as a puppy but we got him at 2 and a half months and the humane society had him for 2 weeks. But how much could have happend in 2 months? I mean could something so horrible have happend to him in such a short time that it made this big of an impact on him? Or was it something I did or didn't do? But the thing is that Zebra has been so well behaved lately and all was going so well now this happens out of no where. It's like there are 2 dogs in one...like a jeckle(sp?) and hyde dog. Oh geese i'm sorry this is so long but I'm just realy confused. Sorry. :oops:

Oh that's soo good! Dosn't it feel sooo good when your furkids are good?! I hope you gave Hippo a treat for being so well behaved! :P :D

Awww! what a cute little guy/girl?? :oops: I have a rabbit and he flings his poo out of the cage too.. :roll:

[quote name='roo'] Although Miller will be under observation at all times, Roth said he cannot guarantee whether the convicted dog killer can be protected from other inmates in the medical unit. "The inmates get newspapers here," Roth said. "I think the whole jail knows about him." The warden said he is unsure how popular Miller will be after word gets around the institution that he kicked to death his guide dog. "Anything's possible at any time," Roth said. He said inmates could be angered by Miller's case in the same way they'd react to a man convicted of raping a child. "I can tell you that 99.9 percent of the population don't like those kinds of cases," Roth said. "So you have to protect the individual."[/quote] Good! I hope the inmates do....err....something realy bad to him! :evil: :x People like that don't deserve any more than the worst treatment.