I feel like it's inevitable, sadly. A flaw of the breeding. After 6 is honestly when you need to really watch for it, too.He's almost 6. I give him joint supplements and try to keep him from making big leaps. Not much more I can do there.
Woah that's apex as fuck. Hardcore.Our two labs killed a young deer last year. Turns out deer death screams are very disturbing.
second time this month someone here said something like this about my objectively hilarious jokes
I think it's more about the shits
manna from heavenWhen I was a kid, a squirrel miscalculated a branch-to-branch jump, and fell 15' right into my dog's open mouth.
Yeeeeap. Good luck tho, depending on his age.Train him to drop stuff and you can avoid some things like this.
Aww I have a miniature doxie and yeah he's stubborn and independent, but he's immeasurably sweet and clownish more than not. Also, mine is perfectly house trained, seldom an accident (only when he had diarrhea one night)LOL no need to sugarcoat it, dude, dachshunds are all shitheads. I grew up with them and many people close to me have or have had one and they're all big pieces of shit. They're also almost impossible to house train from what i can tell.
Some breeds are just assholes.
How old is your dachshund? Slipped a disk in its spine yet?
If not, that's gonna be something fun to look forward to.
certain breeds just cant handle it. ive only ever had terriers, and its a great excuse to not have cats in the house. my dogs the sweetest thing, but if anything small crosses her nothing will stop that instinct.I wonder if dogs that are exposed to smaller animals from a young age are less likely to have impulses like that or whether the bond is just to the specific animal they're pals with.
We seriously fucked up when we bred dachshunds. They have the stubbornness of a rock, super confident and the body of a wet biscuit.
I've met about five in my life and almost all of them fucked themselves up because of their personalities.
Dachshunds are fucking crazy. I have two of them. I love them so much. Amazing dogs. But they're are batshit insane, and they will eat ANYTHING if given the means and opportunity.
WTF I didn't know birds eat other birds
I don't know, my parents have a 16-year-old and he's been a sweetheart his whole life. Never killed anything; hell, he fucking loved the baby kittens that feral cats were always leaving around our old house. He'd even bring the sick/abandoned ones to my parents like he wanted them to help or something. He just didn't have a prey drive at all.
Yea and the digging is for hunting too I think. Aren't they bred for ratting
My dog killed an ate an entire bunny at the dog park, and again in our backyard. To the victor goes the spoils. It happens.
She's my goodest girl too
Yeah, he's especially bad about this sort of thing. It's why I can't let him have things like rawhide or tough chews. Once it gets small enough to be dangerous for him it's a fucking fight to get him to give it up. He'd rather try and swallow it and choke to death than let it go.
The thing is dogs know how to push you as far as they can, they're very good at this, regardless of breed. One thing among all the dogs I've owned/seen at friends' etc. are like this, but you can't let them win. If they're adamantly refusing to give you the affecting object (rawhide that's too small, toy they've broken into and are eating the stuffing/fabric of, whatever.) they know they aren't going to get it back so they'll fight to keep it instead of letting you take it. Usually have to end up giving them something else in exchange depending on how well they're trained to drop stuff. Animals are harder to get them to drop as they're in killer mode at that point. If you just don't want your dog to catch any animals in your backyard anymore, you'll have to go outside prior to letting them out and chase away any animals that are hanging out on the ground, likely your dog ended up catching a bird just hanging on the ground. Just because they can fly doesn't mean they can get away fast enough, dogs are fast when they want to be. I've had to do this when letting my big dog out at night since we'll get raccoons passing through our yard at night occasionally and she's killed one before.Yeah, he's especially bad about this sort of thing. It's why I can't let him have things like rawhide or tough chews. Once it gets small enough to be dangerous for him it's a fucking fight to get him to give it up. He'd rather try and swallow it and choke to death than let it go.
Isn't that slavery.i had two generations of dachshunds
they are kinda assholes but they're so cute
they are also overconfident and can easily fuck up their backs
someones gotta keep um in line
I guess i was a shitty owner. My labradors were all great, current lab is the best :)Aww I have a miniature doxie and yeah he's stubborn and independent, but he's immeasurably sweet and clownish more than not. Also, mine is perfectly house trained, seldom an accident (only when he had diarrhea one night)
Also, while yes care needs to be taken of their spines, doxies that succumb to IVDD are genetically predisposed to it, maybe around 1 in 4. And most likely is accelerated by human negligence (holding them like dolls, letting them jump off furniture and run up and down stairs).
A lot of what you say just sound like shitty owners tbh.
You are locking up your dog as punishment for being a dog?so for now he's crated until I can be reasonably sure he won't barf it back up.
You are locking up your dog as punishment for being a dog?
And this, dear Era, is why "crating" is total bullshit. It tempts people to use it as educational shortcut.
Hint: it does not work. The punishment and the action are not connected to one another any longer. A dog cant display "feeling sorry" because this emotion does not exist for them.
Maybe your dog would be better off rehomed. Not "locked up randomly" and with an owner who does not humanizes their dog.
Weiner dogs can't be controlled. They're more weiner than dog.
You are locking up your dog as punishment for being a dog?
And this, dear Era, is why "crating" is total bullshit. It tempts people to use it as educational shortcut.
Hint: it does not work. The punishment and the action are not connected to one another any longer. A dog cant display "feeling sorry" because this emotion does not exist for them.
Maybe your dog would be better off rehomed. Not "locked up randomly" and with an owner who does not humanizes their dog.