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Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Thu Mar 21, '13 7:30am PST  Now and then. I really, really try not to as my dog is extraordinarily sensitive. For example, when I came home yesterday, she'd had an odd out accident. All I said was 'what did you do' and she has been cowering around me every time she sees me now. She acts like she's been beaten her whole life when the worst she's had is her collar grabbed when she's not listening and trying to put herself in a dangerous situation (normally directly involving other dogs), then she'll hit the ground. I feel awful and look even worse, so I try to be very very careful not to put pressure on her paper thin confidence. Now, my cats I could yell at all day and they wouldn't even give me a second look. Sometimes I snap at my really obnoxious cat because he will constantly scream at me all day and sometimes I just can't handle it anymore. Of course, then Kimi still cowers around like I'm a monster. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Mon Mar 11, '13 6:01am PST  I've had people tell me she looks like every variety of wild animal that even resembles a dog. Coyote and fox are the most popular, though some have gone for wolf for some reason. I've been asked point blank if she was part fox. My own mother said she was only going to be the size of a sheltie as a puppy. Once she outgrew that estimate, she now thinks she's going to be 70lb. (She's 35 at 13 months) She 'smiles' when she's excited, so she's been called mean quite a few times. The best one was a friend of a friend who saw me working on her stay and told me I could leave her in a stay outside a store and go shopping. They were very excited about this possibility. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Broken Bones Barely Healed?

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Wed Feb 6, '13 7:12pm PST  My pup broke the longest bone in one of her toes on Dec 1st. She'd been running completely normally and hadn't been showing any signs of discomfort recently, so I finally had started bringing fetch back into her boring life in small, low impact doses. A few days ago I really let her run herself out and she started limping again. She hadn't jumped or done anything abnormal. She just started limping again. An x-ray later, and the vet thinks it never healed. She'd had a cast on before, put on by the other vet in the office, but my regular vet isn't a fan, so she isn't going to put one on her again. She gave me some pain meds on an as needed basis and we're keeping her limited in activity. Or as limited as you can keep a year old pup. She doesn't seem to care that it's broken at all, and if I hadn't seen the x-ray, I wouldn't think it was damaged at all. Is there anything I can give her or add to her feeding to help boost her natural healing process? My mom went on and on about gelatin and chicken stock, but she already gets trachea for a little glucosamine boost. But I want to help her heal up well before she writes bad poetry about how boring a parent I am since she doesn't get to go running like she wants. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Giardia ?

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Wed Feb 6, '13 7:05pm PST  When I got Kimi at about 16 weeks, she also had a bad case from the shelter. It was a bit of a pain to get rid of as those cysts can be long lasting and reinfection is pretty common. I lucked out and didn't go disinfectant crazy and still managed to get rid of it, but it took several rounds of meds to finally get her over it. I didn't notice any long lasting effects, though I do wonder sometimes. The biggest immediate effect was her going from a calm, snuggly puppy straight into an energetic terror as soon as she was finally rid of it for good! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > wetting the bed?

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Wed Feb 6, '13 7:03pm PST  My pup is also spay incontinent and has been since she was spayed. Only in her sleep, though I read that some can get it so bad they dribble while they're awake and age often makes it more likely to occur. But if it's just started, of course the best thing to do is rule out more serious causes. My girl takes a half a pill of D.E.S. every week for her incontinence and it keeps her nice and dry unless I let her gulp down a bunch of water late at night. That said, I pretty much have to take her water up a few hours before bed to be sure. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Fri Dec 14, '12 5:51am PST  Man, that's nuts. I've had friends who are 'good in a lot of ways', but the problem is that they were totally toxic in others. It sounds like she's trying to plug the holes in her life with cute pets she think will make her happy and then completely loses interest when the novelty wears of. Totally irresponsible and it certainly sounds like she doesn't even care and justifies what she does to herself. You're really not going to be able to change that, either. That's for sure, considering everything was about how bad she thinks YOUR dog is when you tried to talk to her. Outrageous. And would her mother even take care of the puppy? Puppies are a major, major headache, especially if it wasn't your decision. Definitely nothing good for the pup, which she'll probably also just leave with her mother indefinitely considering she thinks her other cats are YOUR cats and insists on that delusion. I hope you can find the rescue who gave her that pup. But just a thought. Is it possible that she picked the pup up somewhere else? Maybe even bought it from someone selling or pawning off puppies in the parking lot at that Petco and she either believed them lying about being a shelter or bought it and is lying about it coming from a shelter in order to look like she's doing the puppy a service by taking it in? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Rescue, Adoption & Happy Endings > Why Do "Adoptable Dog" Dogster Pages Not Show Up in The Adoption Search Function?

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Mon Dec 10, '12 5:34pm PST  I didn't come to these sites for a while and noticed this when I came back. Good to know there was something behind it, and I completely agree. I rehomed a cat through catster a few years ago to a lovely woman who lived within two hours of me. I got to see their updates for a while as they're no longer very active on the site, but it was a great resource for an adult. Now, the only thing I can see that's available without having to pay for an ad is craiglist, where I don't reply to a lot of e-mails for being obvious scams or very suspicious responses. And right now I have a FIV+ mom who I took in and am willing to keep and find a home for but the type of person willing to take on a special needs animal likely isn't checking craigslist to find it. Petfinder has taken over pretty much every avenue and no longer allows people to post private ads on their own site, either. I understand the push to adopt from a shelter, but it's so difficult that it pushes even the people trying to very responsibly rehome a pet when they have to towards thinking about putting the pet in a shelter to find a better home. Except the rescues pretty much ONLY pull from the kill shelters, and most won't even respond to trying to get an animal listed with their group. I'm sure they feel (understandably) that it would take away spotlight from the animals that THEY'RE trying to help, but it's very frustrating when you're an individual trying to help that animal without dumping it into the overburdened shelter system and the main resources for advertisement being the scary sort. I sift through tons of very suspicious e-mails trying to find homes for these foundlings, and these scammers are starting to get a lot better at trying to sound very legitimate. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Lack of Confidence

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Tue Nov 20, '12 10:42am PST  She's right around 11 months. So it is possibly a fear period increasing the stress, but she's never been a very at ease pup. And my trainer didn't tell me to put her on a specific medicine, just told me to consider it with my vet. So in that, she did point me to my vet, though it seemed kind of odd to me to make that immediate jump. I had a cat on amitriptyline for a long while so I'm at least partially familiar with that route, but he was legit crazy. That might also be why I might be overreacting a bit on the prospect. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Lack of Confidence

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Tue Nov 20, '12 7:26am PST  I've had my puppy since she was about 12 weeks old and have been working on her ever since. She's just graduated from her second puppy class. My roommate walks her in the morning and I walk her and let her run and play fetch at night. In the house between doing things, I'll play tug with her or let her play some keep away or fetch in the kitchen. All her food she gets from puzzles and frozen kongs to keep her occupied. We take her with us to outdoor restaurants, to the farmers markets or just to Pet Smart to do training with. But I'm still seeing signs that she's starting to become more and more anxious. My class trainer actually mentioned looking into medications for her because of how easily aroused and anxious she is- especially with other dogs. And other dogs are her MAIN problem. The first dog she saw when I first got her at 12 weeks old didn't come within five feet of her and she started screaming. I've been doing look games and trying to follow other dogs at a distance in the neighborhood and everything, but my neighborhood is pretty empty most of the time so she barks a lot when she does see another dog there. She gets along great with my family's dogs, but they're all old and really don't want anything to do with her. Especially because she's an insistent, obnoxious player and tries to pester them into playing. She's played with some dogs her age/size that she got along with very well, but upon first meeting a new dog she'll bare her teeth, expecting the worse (I have to let HER come to THEM, not the other way). And while she hasn't bit anyone, just given some warning snaps to dogs that get too close to her on leash, it freaks other owners out enough that most don't really want to let her meet their dogs. She did that at the dog park, too, only was more likely to run, which made a few dogs fixate on her quite badly since she was an easy target so I quit taking her. She's get over in a few moments and get along great with the dogs she liked, but would act like that every time a new dog came in so I'd have to keep an eye out and move her to the small dog section whenever anyone showed up so she wouldn't have an overly friendly dog running up to her and giving her fits. But more than that, she used to be fine riding in the car, but is starting to seem restless and tight lipped when we go somewhere (which is 1-2 times a week with treats). I had the windows open in the house some last week and instead of being interested, she was pacing around anxiously and a little wound for days after. My backyard isn't fenced, so when she's outside she's always supervised, but still on high alert. I'd like to find ways to help build her up while she's still young since what I'm doing just seems to be keeping her at level more than helping her grow even more. I'd hate to let her turn into an overly anxious dog if I can help her more now than I already am. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Kimiko Barkster     Barked: Wed Nov 14, '12 8:50am PST  I'm definitely thinking about getting her looked at. It doesn't happen as frequently as I made it sound like now that I'm reading what I wrote, but she does tend to fumble on her turns. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

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