Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / June 2005

Thanks for the suggestion.  I forgot about those. Broccoli is now the snack
on the walk.  She thinks it's grass.

HOWEDY steph,

Dogs eat poop on accHOWENT of they've been mishandled.

Could be your dog got a OCD called PICA.

Yeah. That could cause Pica.

You mean, she's used to FORCED RESTRAINT.

THAT'S HOWE COME SHE TRIES TO EAT WHAT YOU DON'T WANT HER TO.

BWEEEEEEEEEEEAAAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!

Basically you mean AVOID the PROBLEM on accHOWENT
of you DON'T KNOW HOWE to TRAIN the dog NOT to eat
what you don't WANT him to...

Yeah. THAT'S HOWE COME dogs COMPULSIVELY TRY to do
EXXXACTLY OPPOSITE of what you try to FORCE BRIBE
and INTIMIDATE them NOT TO DO.

Yeah. On accHOWENT of the opposition reflex, steph.

LeeCharlesKelley and Canis55 aka DEAMONCHILD 666
had been tellin us HOWE social gratification and
acceptance of PRAISE CURED their dogs of tryin to
eat pizza crusts off the grHOWEND and raiding garbage
cans in New York City in just a couple of repetitions.

You might wanna try the same same. But it AIN'T
gonna WORK for you if you're pullin on the dog
on accHOWENT of THAT'S HOWE COME they TRY to do
EXXXACTLY OPPOSITE of EVERY THING YOU WANT.

Yeah. THAT'S HOWE COME your dogs TRY to be FASTER.

That's SHEER IDIOCY, steph.

The dog EATS sh.t on accHOWENT of dogs who've been
PUNISHED for HOWEsbreakin "accidents" EAT sh.t so
THEY DON'T GET PUNISHED someMOORE.

Yeah. Broccoli don't hardly compete with sh.t.

PERHAPS you should oughtta QUIT givin "advice"
to "clients" on accHOWENT of YOUR OWN POSTED
CASE HISTORY reflects DISMAL FAILURE:

From: "Steph" <stephhigg...@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:20:44 GMT
Subject: Crate Training

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on crate training?
I have an eight week old black lab and she hates her crate.

We're trying to put her in after a long play time when she's
tired for short periods of time but it's hard because you want
to ignore her, but you don't want to keep her in there forever,
you don't want to let her out while she's screaming, but you
have to respect the neighbours as well!

She's not big on toys either.

We have a Kong, she's not interested in it.

We put some peanut butter in it, and she licked it
for about two seconds.  She has a squeaky that she
plays with sometimes and we just bought her a chew
that we though she'd love but she hasn't tried it
at all.

We tried putting a few treats in there but she'll
eat them quickly (yes she's a lab) and then start
screaming.

If anyone has any other suggestions that would help
her turn her crate into her home, I'd gladly appreciate
it!!

We got three hours of sleep last night so we're
taking turns napping today!  It's a good thing
she's adorable!! ;o)

From: "Steph" <stephhigg...@rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:57:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Aggressive Rabbit - Out of Control

My bunny does something like that also.  He's eight
months old, "imitation" dwarf (he was sold to us as
a dwarf but now weights 8lbs).

He was very skittish when we got him so we socialized
him a lot and now he's the best bunny.  When we let him
run around the house he gets all excited, doing sideway
jumps and everything.

But when my husband goes to put him back, he
lunges grunt and bites at him.  He's usually
fine when I go to put him back. My husband I
snow afraid of him.

Gimli (my bunny) even grunts/lunges at him
when he goes just to feed him in his kennel.

There's nothing medically wrong with him he's
just got attitude and doesn't want to go back
into his home.

I don't know why he does it and why he only
does it to my husband.

From: "Steph" <stephhigg...@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:19:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Clomicalm for fighting cats??

I have my four year old cat on Clomicalm.  He has
severe seperation anxiety for my husband.  He would
just sit and cry at the door whenever he left and
would beat the snot out of our other six year old cat.

He also has anxiety when we go to bed.

He runs around like a mad man, paws at closet doors,
jumps on us, anything he can do to get us awake.  It
worked wonders on him.

He had really calmed down and became a very relaxed
mellow cat now.  He's like a 11lb cat (very long and
leggy, not fat) and he gets 1.25mg just before we go
to bed.

Its the lowest effective dose for him.  It can be a
scary drug as to side effects affecting the heart
especially.

But as long as the cat has recently been examined
by a vet and deemed to have normal heart, than there
really isn't a lot of concern using it.

I have tried the feliway diffuser for my cat that
lives with my mother because it'll just spontaneously
attack my mother.

It didn't do anything.  We've tried it in our clinic
for "attack cats" and I haven't seen it really work though.

 One of my vets swears by it but I personally haven't
seen it work to be a believer in it.