Dogs

Hey y'all. This is Louie and he's afraid to go through the doggy door. We've had the door in our home for ages and our other small dog uses it all the time. We adopted Louie a week or so ago and so far, he doesn't really get it.

If I put a treat inside there, he will grab it but only if I am holding the flaps up (like in this picture). As soon as the flaps come down, he acts like it's an impenetrable wall. He's seen his bro dog go through so many times but I guess it just hasn't clicked yet how he can push on the flaps to move them.

Looking for any tips and tricks you all might have used to get this process moving. This is Day 4 of him not learning. If the answer is just keep working with him, patiently, I'm good with that but hoping for other ideas if you have any. Cheers,

Ancestry.com Pet DNA test results day Ducky is:

• 53% Dalmatian
• 37% American Pit Bull
• 10% American Staffordshire Terrier

What do you think he is?

Here’s more info about him and some pictures! (For research… but also because he’s a cute boy!)

Always knew he was a Dalmatian Mix. I have a pure bred Dal too. I’m really surprised to see the other breeds, maybe to the point of skepticism. I don’t mind if he was a Pit or Staffy but I just don’t see it in him. Not in his looks or behavior.

He's a natural hunting dog. Stalks his prey and waits for my mark before jumping. I never taught him that.

He’s always spying on the neighbors.

He doesn’t mind letting strangers or kids pet him. And he loves to cuddle with my nephew.

Or sit on my mom. He thinks he is funny.

And he loves to have chats but barking doesn’t come through pictures so well.

He's 2.

I just had the most aweful experience with BluePearl and im wondering how common it is. They did ultrasound and determined she had pirometria and did an emergency spay which they said due to the urgency had to be a big cut job. Then they hung on to her for three days telling us each day they were concerned. My wife brought more of her hydrolyzed food the second day and said they kept her in a kennel and she smelt bad. We had to fight to get her discharged the next day and I was getting pretty upset about the whole thing. When we got her she had her own shit all over her and I could smell that her fur near her head was not smelly so im sure she must have had been lying in her own shit when my wife came by to see her but she did not realize it thinking the facility smelled. We also can identify at least three lies in what they told us so we are suspect of everything they have said and it feels like they just treat the emergencies like they are cash cows.

EDITED - UPDATE -I think we are up to six lies. I sorta forgot about some of the financials. So they told my wife what she paid would cover through tuesday but then when she was there said she owed more. She brought up what they said and they denied it. We are counting that as two lies. Then when she came in the day before she commented on how yucky the cone was and they told her she would have a new one when they gave her to us and it was the same very yucked up cone. We found feces on the cone when we washed it down at home. When they discharge we were told the follow up would be included in what we had already paid but my wife does not see it listed in the charges and given the other thing we encountered with payment we are assuming it was BS and we don't want to go back to them. We are working with our vet to do followup.

Devon is getting bigger, he is so long when he is fully stretched out!

The dangers of running full speed through the bush. Things that hang lower than your belly might get stabbed by a stick you try to jump over. Blood, swelling, antibiotics, anti inflammatory, numbing cream, and the cone of shame. Poor Felix.

Apparently though, his genitalia will recover and will be as good as new in about a week.

Looking majestic in the dead ass heat ☠️ watching me chainsaw and sweat my butt off. Too bad he chewed up his kiddie pool I got for him the other day.

Who knew a nearly 10 year old Galga could be so limber