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and then all of a sudden one day...POOF! I looked REALLY pregnant. I can't even remember what it was like to not be this big, it's crazy! I hope you're still doing well...
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Me too!
#268999 - 06/12/06 05:32 PM
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Kind of ok with the no sex thing...it has been pretty uncomfortable anyway, and the last thing I want to do is put my body in some uncomfortable position. I have a hard enough time finding a good way to sit down!
But now for you---how is your dog doing? We just got our Oscar a special collar for when we walk him so he doesn't pull, it's working fabulously. And we're working with him to get him to come when we say "Come!" and that's going well too. In all other respects, he's great and a very good companion. He weighs 30 lbs--he may gain a few lbs but probably not much.
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is doing good! Thanks for asking. I've been such a bad mommy! I need to take some pics! He's 5mths old now and at least 35lbs. I can hardly take him for walks. I could use whatever harness thing you are using. Where did you get it and what's it called? He pulls me so bad I really hate walking him. I did walk him tonight though and he seems a bit better. We are signed up for obedience classes June 27. It's an 8 week course and I know he'll do good. I trained my two other goldens with obedience classes. He sits, gives his paws and is now starting to drop things in his mouth when we say "drop it". He barked last night at the door to go out for the first time! Hasn't done it since but he's getting the concept. He's still getting up at 5:30 every morning. The little stinker will go out, do his business, eat, then come back up in our bed an fall back asleep until 6:40 when I get up. It's killing us. I'm hoping when daylight savings starts again, he'll sleep later!!!
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well, we use a prong collar. It's metal and has "prongs" that go in towards the neck. It's not a torture device like it sounds! We have these videos by Leerburg on training dogs---they have been great for us (www.leerburg.com I think). The guy trains dogs for a living and said most of the trouble is with owners--not dogs. He says choke collars are worse because they tighten at one point and can leave bruising on the neck. Prong collars give equal pressure all over and you give a few "pops" with the leash if you give the dog a command and they don't obey. We got it at Petsmart. Oscar doesn't mind the prong collar at all, we keep it on him often so he doesn't associate the collar + walks with behaving, and he even sleeps in it. And it WORKS. I had the same trouble---he pulled and pulled and pulled and it wasn't any fun, plus it hurt my arm and was just worthless. With the prong collar we say "Slow" and if he obeys, we praise him, if not, we pop the leash a bit and if he slows we praise him. It's really working, I'd look into if I were you. Now, if we could teach him to drop his toys when we fetches them that would be great! He'd rather tug with them and we don't do that--don't want to teach any aggression.
My these dogs are a lot of work but they sure are worth it! 
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I know a lot of people that say the prong collars work. I think I will check with the obedience trainer and see what he says when we go for our first class. I know the choke collar I'm using does litterally choke him when he pulls. He coughs and gags when I tug him to heel next to me.
I've heard they make the prong collars kinda rounded at the ends so it's not sharp when they go into their neck. I'll have to let you know what works. I'm sure that one will do the trick though.
Yes, they certainly are a lot of work. If we could just get him off the 5:30am waking to go out we'd be so much happier. It's killing us!!! I swear it's like we have an infant again. Our kids are 8 and 11 so we are SOOOOOOO past that stage.
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Ha ha!
#269248 - 06/13/06 07:05 PM
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Do I take it he doesn't sleep in a crate? One reason we still have Oscar sleep in his crate is we don't trust him to actually "sleep" all night long. Otherwise he stays out all day, even when we're gone (and is great). He goes in his crate on his own if he's tired, so he's fine with it, but maybe by the time he is a year we can just leave him out on his own bed. So now he just gets up whenever we do, which is around 6am during the week, and 8 on weekends. He doesn't whine or bark or anything so the schedule must work for him. But 5:30am on weekends would kill me too!
The prong collar we have for him isn't sharp. But they also sell these little rubber covers if you REALLY aren't sure. We ended up returning them because Oscar handled the prong collar so well. Tim took him for a walk again today and said he was great. I just wish we'd thought of it sooner! Our dog walker even noticed a difference.
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My sister uses one on her dog (a big, huge lab) and it works fabulously! She went to a really good trainer. The guy does police dogs, and he's the one who told her to get it. It doesn't hurt him at all, and it's the only thing that makes him manageable to walk!
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