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I was going to leave this as a comment to my blog but I wanted more people to see it and also i thought it got to long to be a comment. Ok, thank you all. i told him everything. i think what it is honestly is that Riley think he is protecting me or something along those lines. My BF is not as assertive with him as I am when it comes to correcting him and I told him he needs to be. Because dogs don't really understand our English language, they go more by the tone of your voice. So I am going to… Continue

ok, so i have a problem. Riley is now 7months old. And for some reason i cannot seem to figure out he has this problem with my live-in boyfriend. When it is he and I at home he is calm and a wonderful dog. But then my boyfriend gets home and he cannot do a thing without Riley barking incessantly at him. We have tried ignoring the behavior, we have tried telling him no, those don't work, ignoring works a little but not for long. We have also tried dog trainer recommended tricks such as spraying h… Continue

So since the upset stomach incident and Riley got to eat just canned food (prescription for diarrhea) he has more or less decided he doesn't like either dry kibble straight, or his food all together. we have experienced multiple times when Riley either doesn't eat all of his meal, or barely touches it. Once or twice my boyfriend forgot to throw it away and I would come home from work and it'd be gone, or almost gone. So what do you guys think. Do you think I should change the type of kibble he g… Continue

As of Tuesday night (8/12) Riley was still having stomach upset, so I asked my vet when I should start to worry about it and bring him in, she suggested I give him Chicken and Rice for dinner and if he is still not back to normal to go ahead and bring him in to check for dehydration. I gave him his special dinner and he still wasn't doing well, so Wednesday morning I took him to the vet and they gave him something to help his stomach and did a ghardia (sp?) test to check for a parasite he could… Continue

okay, so this past Wednesday, we got Riley some new chews. These were made of Pork Skin instead of rawhide and the next morning he had extremely loose stool. The very next afternoon he had loose stool again. And during this time he has also been acting disinterested in his food. Which consists of Blue Buffalo Chicken and Brown Rice Puppy dry food with water since he will not eat it dry. And with his dinner he gets Salmon Oil because he has dry skin issues. Sometimes I give him some Purina canned… Continue