Recently, I watched a video by Pia Sylvani, who is the head of the behavior department at St. Hubert's in NJ. They offer private consultations on aggressive dogs and had kept statistics on them from 1999-2007. The one thing I found striking was that there were about as many male as female dogs that...

[quote user="mudpuppy"] [quote] She will do it sometimes if I just pick her up, or when I wipe the sleepies out of her eyes.[/quote] she's probably scared and is trying to defend herself from this giant who is grabbing her or doing weird things to her head. All of her "parentage"...

I adopted my lab in March 2007. He's been excellent with my parents dog (cocker spaniel), and other dogs that are around his size, like other Labs, Goldens, etc. He's never gotten into a dog fight, and has never been bitten, and has never bit. We've noticed though that when there's a...

B'asia came to me when she was nearly 5 months old and she hadn't been socialized at all. I started taking her out at that time, but she was so vocal and vicious- looking that nobody wanted to let her be around their dogs. And I don't blame them. She's fine on the street and with people...

Hi. I just got my dog Mini Monday evening. In the two days I've had her I have not been able to get her to potty at all. I know that dogs do go through a mourning period and she has had it rough already. Her first owners beat her so she is very timid, but super sweet when she gets to know you and...

i'm new here, so bear with me as i talk my way through this! i've had ollie for years. we got him when he was about a year and a half old, more or less - a mutt of unknown origin that came in as a rescue with a ton of other dogs. we lived in nyc, and i slowly got him used to the sights and sounds...