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  1. give all vets a photograph of the dog and all rescue centres with your details written on. post posters through doors and stick them up where possible e.g. shop windows if they'll let you. put it in the local newspaper. Inform the council and their pounds. Keep ringing round all local shelters to make sure they haven't forgotten. Give your postal workers photos so if they see a similar dog in a garden they deliver to they can call you. cover facebook in photos - make a group and invite people to it and tell them to invite their friends, make a youtube video with photos (and videos if you have them) and share it with anyone and everyone. . . go on petforums.co.uk (there are people from sheffield on there) and get them to keep an eye out for the poor little thing. is the dog chipped/tagged/tattooed? good luck!
  2. If you have any poultry owners nearby I'm sure they wouldn't be happy because of that!!! hahaha
  3. i totally agree it's not the dogs fault if it lashes out after being annoyed to the end of it's tether if it doesn't want to be played with the only way it can show it is by showing a little aggression. . . I think it's our fault if our children aren't taught how to act around animals in a respectful way and the children should be taught to be aware of the body language that tells them to back off. It's also our fault if we allow our children to be with the dog unsupervised and they get hurt . . it's an animal you can't expect it to act how you want it to It's really a case of training the animal and training the child too. . . it also helps when the child comes into contact with another animal that isn't under your control e.g. in a park, if the child plays with a dog you don't know the child needs to know they can't pull on their ears and tail or squeeze them because they don't like it!
  4. such a beautiful little girl, so sorry for your loss
  5. i agree with this, muzzle and maybe socialise the dog with the child whilst muzzled. . . to be fair you could even put socks on its feet so it can't scratch (it would find it difficult to pull them off with a muzzle on) when I say socialise though I do not mean allow the child to go near the dog, just in the same room. maybe the child sitting on the floor and the dog sitting a little bit away with you holding the collar for a few evenings or something but never allowing the dog near the child. . . . allow the child to play and make noises that a child would make so the dog gets used to this. . . even when the dog seems okay with the child I would still never leave them alone together, if I had a baby I wouldn't even leave my little tiny yorkie with it and she's as soft as a brush.
  6. pedigree used to do a food that was so highly concentrated that the dogs literally only pood a small amount of fibre out and it was so well digested that they didn't eat it but I don't think you can buy stuff like that any more because i can't imagine it's good for their digestive system to barely have bowel movements :/
  7. aww I'm sorry to hear this. I agree someone may have taken her in thinking she needed treatment! Or it sounds awful but have you checked any near by bushes or any places she could have crawled into to die? I hope you find her either way preferably alive though x x x
  8. hi is there anything that is stressing her out? Because my dog is about 13 and when my other dog died she has completely reverted back to being a puppy. . .she weed on the bathroom mat even if you were standing there! only about a teaspoon full as well so it was as if she did it just for the sake of doing it. . .and she ate her poo as well despite having plenty of food available. . . are you giving them regular treats? because some treats actually don't digest properly and can make their poo have a lot of the undigested treats in it and then they eat it because they think it's treats. . . This is particularly evident if you feed them something like a blue coloured treat :/ bleurgh (she doesn't have treats with artificial colours and things in anymore it was just a one off. . .that ended quite disgustingly hahaha) is there a pattern to where she wees? like does she do it in certain places or on certain things? because sometimes once they have weed no matter how much you wash what it is they've weed on they can still smell it faintly and they will do it over and over again on that spot. . . try putting puppy pads down where she has weed and see if she will wee on them, then move them about a foot a day towards the door, then outside even if she's only doing it every so often it's worth a try with the puppy pads. if there's someone there during the day try and let her outside every couple of hours, clean up any poo in the garden as often as possible and watch her when she's outside if she wees reward her with a treat and make a fuss over her. at night time let her out just before you go to sleep (it's a lot of work but it'll be worth it in the end) go down and let her out about half way through the night then gradually increase the length of time she is left by an hour until she can wait the whole night i agree with a lot of the things people have said on this thread but I just want to point out that by ignoring her, not giving her any attention and separating her from the other dog may actually make the problem worse because she may be doing it because she's anxious, some dogs are just very anxious little things and they do these things because they feel uncomfortable. . i agree with separating them at night and making sure she doesn't have enough room to wee and not lay in it herself but make sure they're near each other so being alone doesn't make her more anxious (I'm not having a dig at the person that posted about treating them aloof or anything because they may have experience with your breed of dog and may know exactly what they're talking about I'm just suggesting it may be anxiety). It may not seem that way they may seem like they're doing it to annoy you or they may look guilty when they've done it but it has been proven that we see what we want to see in our dogs, studies have shown that when you come home and there's a big puddle of wee or something has been chewed you will see guilt in your dog's face or even feel that they look proud of themselves for annoying you but they don't actually, we just expect that from them so therefore that's what we see and also they can sense when you're angry and being angry will make them more nervous and do it even more . . . as for the chewing, give her her own toys and only her own toys, if she picks up one of the children's' toys take it from her and say NO very firmly and maybe even move her to a corner and keep telling her to stay. . .never hit her or punish her physically in any way because they do not forget and this will make her anxious and therefore make the problems you're having much worse. you need to get her used to the word NO because she is just like a child she doesn't know she's doing wrong by digging up the plants she just thinks she's having fun so if you see her doing it you need to march straight out and shout NO BAD GIRL or something to that effect and make her come inside. have you tried her with chews that are hard to eat and will therefore keep her occupied? like marrow bones? the chewing motion actually releases hormones that make the dog feel calmer and more comfortable. you could also try joining a site such as http://www.petforums.co.uk/ they have a dog section and the people on the there are extremely helpful and most are very experienced pet owners good luck with your little one. .she'll eventually get it and do everything right she just doesn't understand what is right and wrong yet
  9. her mum sounds like my mum, she was always like that when I was a child, I would say I was going and she would shout at me saying that was it and if I left I would never be allowed back in the house blah blah blah but she never actually meant it she would just over-react in the heat of the moment I think you did the right thing offering for her to stay with you as you know she would have been safe with you rather than wandering the streets. . .if she's having that much of a problem with her mum that her mum has mentioned calling social services then maybe she could work something out with her granddad that she stays there for a week or something, then goes back home for a few weeks and then goes back to stay with him again for a week etc etc just to sort of stop them from getting to this point in an argument again, if they spend a little bit of time apart they may resolve their problems and if they're not constantly on top of each other they might not argue so much as for the social services and calling the police or any homeless organisations I really wouldn't do any of that unless it really seemed necessary like if the girl was actually at risk of harm because once you get social services or any other services like that involved it is their duty to step in and do something, which may mean they would end up having weekly visits from a social worker or something. . .this may actually be in the best interest of the young girl but it also might not be so i hope her mum doesn't ring the police or anything in the heat of the moment
  10. I live next to fields and I every so often I see the odd rat and it's mainly when the chickens have been messy and spilled their food in the garden then I put pebbles down their rat hole in the side of the garden so they can't come back that way, then I fill it in and make sure there is no chicken food left lying around in the garden. . .then I don't see them again for a long time plus the chickens are actually pretty go0d at getting rid of them! One of the chickens attacked one and chased it off once. . .they're not going to share their food!!!!
  11. so there's not actually a way to kill them without them suffering then? no one likes wild rats but I'd feel so guilty knowing they'd suffered
  12. because I have a wonderful boyfriend, so many beautiful pets, my health and a loving family
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