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Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Sat May 4, '13 2:10pm PST  I've never had any issues taking Sarge with me to Walmart and we have been into many different ones in KS, WA, MO, and so on. Hoping that doesn't change because I shop there all the time. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Thu Apr 18, '13 8:15pm PST  I've never had any issues with restaurants or stores around where I live but I'm always nervous going to new places. Next week we are going to Lego land and an aquarium for our kids birthday's and I was having a panic attack buying the tickets online. I'm also moving to WA state this summer and it scares me that I may face some of the issues other people have faced. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Service & Therapy Dogs > Questions about your service dog

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Thu Apr 18, '13 8:15pm PST  I've never had any issues with restaurants or stores around where I live but I'm always nervous going to new places. Next week we are going to Lego land and an aquarium for our kids birthday's and I was having a panic attack buying the tickets online. I'm also moving to WA state this summer and it scares me that I may face some of the issues other people have faced. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Laws & Legislation > Innocent Chained Pit Bull shot & killed in own yard by the police

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Thu Mar 28, '13 3:28pm PST  Sorry, but I don't see that the police did anything wrong. Yes, I feel bad for the owner. It's horrible their family member was killed in their own yard but I wouldn't want a police officer to not continue a chase to stop a suspect that possibly assaulted someone. It is true that the police will let the dog off lead to chase down a suspect or if they are leashed then you can bet they aren't going to be right by the police officers side in a heel position. Those dogs have high drive and are amped up for the chase. They are up ahead pulling and they may not have been able to react in time to avoid the other dog in a chase situation. If the other dog had a hold of the police dog then they needed to remove the threat just as if that dog had latched on to a human police officer. Working dogs are worth thousands of dollars and I don't mean $5-6 thousand but I've seen them up to $16,000.00 or more and there are a lot of departments that can only afford 1 k9 which are usually multipurpose dogs like drugs and patrol dog. That dog gets injured or killed then your basically losing a patrol officer/ drug enforcement officer or both. They reacted in a way to protect their fellow officer. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Grooming > How Much to Tip a Groomer?

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Wed Mar 6, '13 7:33am PST  When I worked in a groom shop as a brusher bather I didn't care how much someone tipped me. I was just grateful they appreciated my work. Same went for the groomers in the shop. I don't believe there should be a set limit. If you really appreciated and liked how the dog turned out and give me a tip then great. If not then don't. I've had favorites that came in that never tipped and ones that did. Didn't matter to me. I've only had one person groom Sarge once and that was just recently. She's bathed him before a couple times so I decided to go ahead and try to let her groom him. I normally don't trust anyone to groom him the way I want so I prefer to do it myself. When she did him I gave her a $10 tip because I know it takes forever to dry him and the way his fur is you have to fluff him back out a few times to make sure you groom him evenly. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Tue Mar 5, '13 10:52am PST  Trigger on one of your posts you put that a vet wouldn't give out the owner's number or address isn't always true. I've gotten it before when I've called vets stating I found a dog that had the vets phone number on their rabies tag and they looked it up for me and gave me the names and numbers to contact the owners. I've done it numerous times with different vets. I've had the same happen to me. I rehomed a dog and later I had messages from a vet and and the person that found him running loose called me and left me a voice message because the person that I rehomed him to never switched over the information. I understand how there are a lot of people who don't update the information for the microchip but doesn't sound like the case here because that's how the vet contacted the original owners. What I don't get is why people are rehoming or keeping dogs that they found. They should be notifying the pound and local vets of the dog they found so if someone is looking for their dog whether it was stolen or lost, they can find them. I see it on craigslist all the time. " I found this dog running loose today and I can't keep it so needs a new home or if you own it call blah blah blah." If you find it, take it to the pound and if no one claims them within the certain amount of days then you could adopt them legally. Plus why wouldn't they leave a message after they scanned the chip? That just doesn't sound right to me. I wouldn't pay if I felt they hadn't done the right thing to begin with. If they had tried calling a few times and left messages or notified the pound and put up flyers or an ad in the paper and such when they found the dog and nothing came of it after a few weeks then I would say they had a right to be recompensated or the dog returned to them but if not then it's on them if they paid any medical bills or anything on the dog. Not to mention it is actually very common for people to steal dogs. Once I had two Rottie puppies I had them disappear out of my back yard while i was at work. My parents were home and I got a call fro my parents asking if I had taken them to work with me. They found the gate pushed in and our dogs were gone. I came home and started looking everywhere. My mom was even stopping cars driving by. I created hundreds of signs with pics and went door to door leaving every house around us a flyer and every telephone/electrical pole had one posted on it. I had a neighbor come over and said he saw a guy with two rottie puppies walking on a leash close by my house that same day. I had people call and told me they would send their kids out looking for the pups as well. The next day a bunch of kids came over with one of them and then brought me to a house that had my other one. I was lucky. Dogs where I lived where stolen a lot to be used for fighting or bait. A few months later a guy came to Banfield to let them know his dog was missing and the vet there said not to give up home because one of the people that worked at Petsmart(me) had gotten hers stolen and ended up getting hers back. He asked her if they were rotties and she said yes. He stated they weren't stolen that HE had found them on MY front lawn. Well if he had why didn't he knock on the door to check if they were ours? Why didn't he look on their tags that even showed our address? My parents were home the whole time. Not to mention why was our gate to the back yard pushed in and not out? Just very fishy to me. He probably figured there was no way to keep the pups after I left notices everywhere even their house with my pups pictures. I even had a friends dog stolen after the person broke into the house. I've even heard how people will purposely walk a female dog in heat around someones house to get someones dog to escape so they can steal it. They even say not to tattoo the ear or a leg because the thieves have been known to amputate it. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Toy suggestions for dog that eats everything

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Sat Mar 2, '13 6:08pm PST  If he's a big chewer only give him a kong if your there to watch. One of the dog handlers my husband works with had to take his dog in for surgery because she chewed up one of those Kong extremes and ate it. They are not chew proof. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Service & Therapy Dogs > New vest!

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Sat Mar 2, '13 5:58pm PST  I love the Patch you have For No Touch No Talk No eye contact! It's nice and big and very visible. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Laws & Legislation > Really Angry!!

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Wed Feb 27, '13 3:36pm PST  Thanks everyone! I hope no one else ever has the same issue. Might want to keep your eyes open though because they copied the pics from the ones I had added on dogster so they have probably done this before with others. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Sarge Teddybear     Barked: Wed Feb 27, '13 9:04am PST  It's coming up now as site doesn't exist. I had a couple other people check for me just in case and they are saying the same thing so hopefully it's taken care of now. Crossing my fingers. Thank you Sanka for doing that. I know some people on the Saint Berdoodle facebook community page I'm on also did this for me. I really appreciate it. I don't want my pictures to be used by people to scam other people out of money. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

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