hi. i live with my parents and have these miscreant animals. I am unemployed so it is the perfect time to be productive and try to do *something* about geriatric dog's antics
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I don't belive this dog dosen't 'need frequent brushing' when I can get that much fur off her in a week. when it is summer I can get a handfull off her neck alone.
You need to read what I wrote. I did not say she didn't need frequent brushing. I said that you are brushing too much at one sitting. She's not trained to sit there that long and you are scaring and hurting her. You cannot just do a full brushing job on her right now. She needs to be trained first. You start by brushing her for a very short time and stopping before she freaks out. You keeping going and going and going and she struggles and runs away. The way you are doing it you are training her to keep struggling since it works and she gets away from you. Brush her for 10 seconds, then stop. Then you can go back in an hour and do more. You can do this multiple times a day if she's not struggling. So you will get a lot of brushing in and will also be training her that it's not that bad of a thing.
Purina is crappy food. See if your parents will switch to something better.
If it's "an emotional thing" then you need to train her to be ok being left alone. Dogs are social animals and don't like being left alone unless you train them. She's attached to your parents and gets anxious when they leave.
You need to read what I wrote. I did not say she didn't need frequent brushing. I said that you are brushing too much at one sitting. She's not trained to sit there that long and you are scaring and hurting her. You cannot just do a full brushing job on her right now. She needs to be trained first. You start by brushing her for a very short time and stopping before she freaks out. You keeping going and going and going and she struggles and runs away. The way you are doing it you are training her to keep struggling since it works and she gets away from you. Brush her for 10 seconds, then stop. Then you can go back in an hour and do more. You can do this multiple times a day if she's not struggling. So you will get a lot of brushing in and will also be training her that it's not that bad of a thing.
Purina is crappy food. See if your parents will switch to something better.
If it's "an emotional thing" then you need to train her to be ok being left alone. Dogs are social animals and don't like being left alone unless you train them. She's attached to your parents and gets anxious when they leave.
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