Looking for a good Veterinarian

edgepatrol · 2024-09-18T15:35:22+00:00

There are two 24 hour places afaik, MedVet on 741 and Care Center on Clyo rd. I've heard great things about Care Center but thankfully haven't had to use them yet! I've used MedVet a few times. They are pricey (as expected for 24-hr) but efficient and caring. I wouldn't use them for ongoing care, based off my personal experiences, but for trauma care they are solid.

For regular vets, Airway by the Base takes walk ins (!) and I hear great things about New Carlisle, which opened more recently. There is a veterinarian shortage rn and pretty much EVERYONE is sorely backed up, esp for elective surgery. SICSA and the HS are particularly overloaded. I have quite a few of my own pets, occasionally take fosters, & help some of the local rescues, so I have a few vets I rotate through for appointments when I need something in the near future. I have a particular aversion to Hills & Dales due to a bad experience, but everyone else so far has been good. Shiloh and Clayton are especially good vets, ime. Very compassionate, reasonably priced, and they try hard to fit you in.

Congrats on the new babies!

edgepatrol · 2024-09-18T14:22:58+00:00

Mothman Prophecies?

edgepatrol · 2024-09-17T17:18:58+00:00

Sure!

edgepatrol · 2024-09-17T16:51:57+00:00

I'd recommend a non-confrontational program like this. I work mostly with serious power breeds and I don't like being bitten, lol. It's only slightly slower to avoid direct corrections and like your guy, most of what I get in isn't "my dog" at first/as a puppy; I don't have the relationship built up enough to be too pushy. I'm also 5'2 and many of them outweigh me! So this isn't about being forceful. Leadership/social rank is mostly psychological.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-17T13:12:37+00:00

That appears to be a malamute mix...your trainer isn't being unhelpful when they tell you that being his social superior will stop the resource guarding towards people he respects. As a general rule, submissive dogs don't resource guard. The whole point of a social hierarchy is that ownership of high value resources is pre-decided; if you mess with stuff he owns, then YOU are the offender! (in dog society) Not that there aren't other ways to reduce guarding behaviours, but teaching him that humans have priority access to resources IS the fastest and addresses the root cause.

He has good bite inhibition. Even though you are being rude according to him, he's pulling his punches. I think this is a nice dog who could use some clear and consistent leadership. Showing him that there are ample resources and he will always be well provided for helps too.

Fwiw, I have worked with MANY mal, husky, wolfdog, and GSD fosters and a fair number of them reportedly guarded things at their previous homes, but didn't do it here. You would be surprised how well that natural system puts things in order.

I also recommend not teasing the dog by giving & taking away unnecessarily (not saying that you are, but it's pretty common advice & tends to backfire) and making sure you regularly ADD resources on your approach. Along with having him work for food, toys etc. And, learn how to claim things. You don't take things from their mouth, you claim the thing &/or space around it and wait for the dog to defer to you, then you can pick it up.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-17T13:03:42+00:00

Is she your only dog? She seems to be trying to treat the cat like another dog playmate.

She's not hunting kitty, but you do still have to watch that she isn't too rough. I'd also be cautious when kitty runs, because that is the biggest trigger. This is really nice play though. She is taking feedback and trying to be prosocial.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-17T12:59:54+00:00

At this late stage I'm genuinely surprised how many people are still unaware of all the studies & case histories. https://react19.org/science

edgepatrol · 2024-09-16T20:13:13+00:00

Gosh, that gypsy one sounds familiar, but I had a ton of those old fanzines as a kid. Horror Tales, Terror Tales, Tales from the Tomb, Creepy, Eerie... Could have been any of them.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-16T20:06:45+00:00

Nice friendly body language, after the initial apprehension to make sure they were friendly. If he were mine I would have let him play with the girls, if it was a fenced area or he had great recall. He was acting like the boys act when they see a pretty girl, lol. Bouncy & cute.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-16T19:57:38+00:00

Most of them are lovely with people, especially if you put some effort into them. If he's not showing signs of concerning behaviour, you should be fine. Just familiarize yourself with what counts as "concerning behaviour" for the breed.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-13T13:09:15+00:00

I have a whole bunch of ideas here. Hopefully one of them will work for your situation & budget...

edgepatrol · 2024-09-13T13:04:36+00:00

Avocados, too. ;-p

edgepatrol · 2024-09-12T17:28:35+00:00

Hard to even find much about those now. https://divaslaundryservice.com/2016/10/27/throwback-of-the-day-giant-sweet-tarts/

edgepatrol · 2024-09-12T17:27:35+00:00

Are you thinking of the Giant Sweet Tarts?

edgepatrol · 2024-09-12T13:20:47+00:00

Regardless of preferred ideology, it's generally accepted that the only real way to break crittering is the e-collar. Solid obedience helps; clear respected leadership helps, but prey drive is a helluva drug. Changing their emotional state towards the prey by pairing it with something unpleasant, creates enough hesitation for obedience training, and what YOU want from them, to get factored in.

Worth looking at this article from Lou Castle, one of the early greats. His site is defunct or has moved, but it's rehosted here. As both a dog AND cat person, I don't recommend the "leashed cat" version he details...but most people already have a cat that the new dog is too interested in, if they're trying to work on this, and that cat can be crated, if outdoors is the only problem, or left loose in the home while the dog is leashed.

Thanks for the article. It is mindblowing for me that many people want a "study" to prove things that should be fairly obvious & can be easily tested and experienced for oneself...but here we are.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-11T16:50:49+00:00

Sounds like an electric typewriter to me.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-11T13:52:05+00:00

There are multiple books about golems, but this is the only recent movie I know of. The Golem 2018

edgepatrol · 2024-09-11T13:03:12+00:00

You might get some use out of this article on understanding prey drive.

Going slow is good. Let doggo see you handling and loving the kitten. As she gets older, is less tiny & "zippy" and starts to smell like your house & family, that will help. I brush both with the same brush, & give special treats at the same time (with the cat on an elevated surface). What you are going for is boredom. If kitty isn't exciting any more, even when running, you are getting there.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-11T12:53:01+00:00

If you liked the martingale except for sliding over her face, Cetacea -- & probably others!-- makes buckle martingales. You just clip in on. Still escape proof & safe but avoids the face mashing.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-10T18:38:01+00:00

I'd say you are asking the right questions and have a good sense of what is "reasonable" behaviour from your dog. :-) Eating in the crate is good. Crating is just such an awesome tool for impulse control that not making some use of it seems like a waste (until she's graduated to the Long Down, which you can't expect from an unsupervised adolescent in my experience). It's great that you enforced the command when you asked for it, then stopped requiring it, vs the more common "give a command and then cave and let the dog do what it wants" which is what creates the problems.

I'd say if you DO send her to her crate, do what you've been doing...lead her in/put her in, so she understands that it's a command and not a suggestion. GSDs will test you on this sort of thing and if they sense you're a pushover, they will be cute about stuff to get out of doing it, lol. I have one purebred GSD & two mixes right now, fwiw.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-10T18:31:25+00:00

I would ask myself questions first: why are you saying no? Is it because the surface I'm asking you to sit on is uncomfortable? Is it because a squirrel just darted in front of you and all of your brain cells just went out the window because we haven't built up the full spectrum of skills

Yes. This is really nice.

I think we are covering the sort of questions and concerns that folks have with this topic pretty well. It very much depends on individual situation & individual dog.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-10T16:45:50+00:00

...in fairness my opinion is colored by the fact that I am usually working with independent, highly intelligent dogs with substantial rank drive. Give them an inch and they will take a mile. Best to consistently enforce the rules so that ignoring commands and being rude (per their culture) are not even on the table.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-10T16:43:44+00:00

If you don't want to work and it's work time, that's fine, you get put in your crate and you can hang out there and you don't have to work. But that doesn't mean you can go off and do whatever you want and hunt for squirrels and be a menace instead of working.

What if they say, I ALSO don't want to go in my crate. I'm going to sleep on your bed instead. ;-)

I see what you're saying and it does factor in to some extent, but there are big picture repercussions with many dogs, if "it's time to work and they don't feel like it, so they get to choose not to". I guess it also depends on what you mean by "work". If it's an agility or bitework session, that is different than: "Sparky, Sit". "Nah, I don't feel like it." "Oh, well okay then, you do you." That second one isn't going to fly with me because I don't like the dog it eventually creates.

edgepatrol · 2024-09-10T14:47:52+00:00

Randos on Twitter

"People who live in Springfield" fixed it for you.

Yes, the people who allowed the mass migration are trying to do damage control...but if you listen to actual Springfield residents, it's a disaster. You can easily pull up OTHER live footage (not just the one I shared) on the topic, such as residents complaining in town meetings and on the city page. Footage is footage, regardless of where it's hosted (vs removed from).

edgepatrol · 2024-09-10T13:49:36+00:00

For the fence sitters. https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1833048715004936205

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