New Family member

[Blue_Runner]

Nice dog MJ. I'm sure we are going to be hearing alot more about your new buddy. I can see the reports coming in from this year's fluke season:

Got my new buddy last year and I love my pound dog. She is a great car rider and very very potty trained. One thing I learned is when you take them outside go to the same spot and they will get used to that being their bathroom.

I've been able to teach my pound dog:

sit
howdy
high-five
lay down
lay all the way down (head too LOL)
speak

My biggest complaint is she gets stupid hyper whenever she sees someone new. My daughter just got a new hamster and she the dog goes nuts over it. She'll sit and whine beside the cage just hoping it will come out of its house so she can see it. Here she is monitoring the hamster's activities:

[Stinky_Hooker]

Very cool! They are great little dogs. My grandmother as well as another friend of mine have daschunds. Good little pets!

Only thing is some of em piss on you when you pet em!

[willy]

MJ don't use rawhide, will literally kill your pup. If you have a dog that chews on them for weeks your OK, if your dog goes thru one in a day or close to that keep them away.
You can try NylaBone, see if they are being consumed as fast if so they won't work either and you will have to find a chew toy that she can chew but not consume, some of the hard rubber kinds will work as long as she is not chewing thru them too. If so get them away as they would be worse than the rawhide.

[THEFERMANATOR]

If it's a chewer, try a dentarope. There made of sturdy nylon ropw but treated to help clean there teeth and help there breath. As for the cat issue, I just had a run in just now. I live next to my grandparents to help take care of them and help out. Well, he has over a dozen cats. I have a rednose that HATES cats! He's behaved so long as I am around, but this morning I turned m y back for 5 seconds. And well you get the idea. He didn't kill it, but in the 10 seconds he had before I got to him he did some damage.

[macojoe]

Thanks all!! he is learning pretty fast and I am sure in a couple of more weeks he will be all set!!

The Raw Hide is in the trash!! I just knew it wasn't good to be eating all that!! He has a bone that you chew and nothing comes off, he plays with it if there is nothing else, so we see how that goes, I will also look into the Dentarope He did have a regular roger with knots but he tore that up also in 2 days!

CB got a look at mt attack dog today!! Barking like crazy at him. funny stuff!

[Pipe_Dream]

Congrats, MJ! As has been said already, no rawhides. Try nylabones. No rope toys. And whatever he is chewing, monitor him. No chew toy is good if it gets eaten.

[Blue_Runner]

Ok, I had this pic in the first post I made in this thread but it turned into the infamous red x. So, I just had to post again. Can't you see MJ on the OX with his little buddy this summer fluking?

[charlie_the_tuna]

hey maco he looks just like you.


that breed needs plenty of toys.
as mentioned earlier nylabones in several sizes and flavors.
kong balls are good and you can stuff some treats in there to keep him busy.
they also make a throwing toy made from a piece of firehose that is pretty tough.

[chumbucket]

Nice mutt buddy. I like him a lot. He'll settle down nicely once he adjusts to his new home.
I brought a guy to MJ's today to look at and buy my motor and he called Dale a live squeeze toy.