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Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Sun May 5, '13 11:24am PST  We have one and love it. Mya will respect the boundaries with or without a collar and we have never had the issue of her going over the edge and not making it back. However, she does lean to the more sensitive side - we've never had our collar turned up past the lowest setting. And I do know of a husky (not sure what training they did for boundaries though) who will run through the boundaries (it's not a buried wire kind of fence though and they leave him outside all day - whether they are home or not). We spent at least a month training the beep alone if not more. And we had flags around our yard for several months. We didn't move on to the shock until she would readily turn around and run back to the middle of the yard when she heard the beep, and would do so with distractions. We also proofed every kind of distraction we could imagine on leash with the shock just in case, so she couldn't develop bad habits of crossing. It is a *lot* of work to train an invisible fence well. But once they are trained it has proved to be an amazing tool for us. We could never fence our yard - the layout and size just doesn't provide for that. Otherwise Mya would never be off leash and would drive us crazy my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Tue Mar 5, '13 8:22pm PST  Not sure if this link will work for many people, but this is a photo showing correct fitting of a martingale as I understand it: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151440531408903&set=a.4451 08658902.215891.46433543902&type=1&theater (remove any spaces) my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > AKC Obedience Trials

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Sun Mar 3, '13 9:35pm PST  Hey Faith - Mya and I are in the same place as you. We're also MN 4-H and have competed up to Novice in 4-H. I still entered Mya in Beginner Novice since I figured it'd be best to start out with something I know she can do well! And you're right in that the rules are pretty much the exact same from MN 4-H to Novice AKC. Different states have different rules, and I think Toto has judged in a different state. You would enter A in AKC because you and your dog are new to competing in AKC. If you had already been showing another dog you would need to look at B. But you can just stick with A for now! Good luck if you enter! Hopefully see you around at some AKC or 4-H this year my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Sports & Agility > Showing too early in agility

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Sun Feb 10, '13 7:58pm PST  This was such an awesome article! After competing in our first AKC agility show last fall... I was honestly SHOCKED at the level of training these dogs had. Mya could've run the highest level course there, and there was honestly no competition in Novice - she easily took 1st in all 4 entries that weekend. I spent almost 5 full years of training and 4-H before entering AKC, and I'm glad I did - it's made for such a better start than we would've had otherwise! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Sports & Agility > Hanging ribbons

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Tue Jan 29, '13 7:51am PST  I hang up all the ribbons I earn with Mya! I also am in 4-H outside of the dog project, so I have quite a few ribbons by now (hundreds actually!) to hang up. What I do and what has worked well is to take a couple large hooks that screw into the wall and put them along a short wall in my room (only a couple feet, so I only used one on each end, but if you did longer you'd probably want more hooks in between for support). Then I took a dowel rod and put it on the hooks. All I have to do now to add ribbons is to lift the dowel rod up and slide more on! If that's confusing I can take a picture - not sure exactly how to explain it! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Tue Dec 4, '12 1:59pm PST  I have some amazing news! The lab couldn't confirm the malignancy for sure, because it was a needle aspiration and not a biopsy. The only way to do a biopsy would be to remove the entire toe, and we would rather not do that surgery if possible. Our vet would also rather not remove her toe if it isn't necessary. So right now she's on a couple different medications, and we are going to see if it continues to look better like is has. It could still be a malignancy, it could be some weird thing. But we're taking pictures and monitoring it and hopefully this works out! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Mya has a malignant tumor :(

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Fri Nov 30, '12 7:54pm PST  Thanks again for all the potp everyone! The staining is taking longer than originally thought. We won't hear until Monday or Tuesday now. As long as cancer has not spread, we will be removing either a toe or a leg. If we hear Monday and it hasn't spread, surgery will be Tuesday. Thanks again, and I'll continue to update this thread. It really means a lot to have so many people pulling for her! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Mya has a malignant tumor :(

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Wed Nov 28, '12 10:29am PST  Thanks for all the support guys. It's been a long few days...waiting for test results sucks. I'll post back as soon as I hear - hopefully tomorrow or Friday. Thanks again everyone my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Mya has a malignant tumor :(

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Tue Nov 27, '12 9:16am PST  So, Mya went to the vet's this morning. Has a malignant tumor on the bottom of her pad. We are waiting for test results on how aggressive we should be treating this, but she's going to be needing surgery. Either part of her pad, or her entire toe, or other parts of her foot, are going to need to be removed. I'm just crushed right now. :'( I'm hoping so much that surgery will cure it and that it hasn't spread. Today's been an awful day. She lives for agility, too. She's a 4 time state champion in 4-H. I would hate it if she couldn't do agility anymore because the surgery was too extensive. I would hate it even more to lose my puppy dog, though. So right now I'm hoping she turns out OK. I know we're not super active on Dogster anymore, but I just wanted to share. Need to share with dog people. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Mya CGC TDI I'm your new- best friend! Pet- me!     Barked: Mon Nov 26, '12 11:14am PST  Hi Guys - So, Mya has a lump on her foot pad. She's headed to the vet tomorrow morning, but I am just looking for some ideas of what it might be. It's on her front right foot, on the side/bottom of one of her toe pads. It's probably about 1-2cm across, and is a pink (unlike her dark pad). It's partially on the bottom, partially on the side, but it's round and on the pad part of the toe. It appears to be pretty hard (but then again, it's on the pad and her pads are really rough). I noticed it a week or so ago, but didn't think anything of it because it didn't seem to be bothering her and she's had ripped up pads and cuts and such before, and they've always healed themselves with rest and such. However, it now appears to almost be "breaking through" the pad - the edges around it are all cracked and pushing away - and it is a little bigger. She pulls away when I poke at it, but she doesn't really like her feet poked at and will usually pull them back a little, so I can't really tell if it's actually sore or not. I haven't noticed any limp or licking or her paying attention to it really. I do agility with her, and we live in the country and she's always outside playing, but for the past few weeks I've been swamped with school and her outdoor exercise/agility has fallen aside. She still plays a lot outside, but nothing extreme, and we haven't done agility for a couple weeks (it's getting coooooold here in MN!). So I don't think it's an injury from that - it doesn't look like a ripped/cut pad at all to me. Any ideas what this might be? I'm hoping it's nothing too serious...she would be a sad puppy dog without agility! Thanks for any ideas...I might be able to get a picture tonight when I am home from school. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

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