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Medical Conditions & Diseases / Sensitive stomach??? UGH, I need some sleep!

« on: September 19, 2007, 04:30:31 am »

OK, I'll try to make this short. We have a year old neutered dane and he seems to have an on again off again BM problem. He's been getting me up to let him out of his crate about every two hours a night and honestly, it's driving me crazy

. I've taken him to the vet and they did a fecal exam, and it was negative and the vet seems to think that he may have gotten an intolerance to his food (AND it doesn't help that the dog likes to eat wild turkey poop!!) ANYWHO, does anyone have any suggestions to a better diet for him to be on if he does have a sensitive digestive tract??

Assume you can't afford Innova or the like. I had him on rice and pumpkin and yogurt for a bit after the last bout and slowly started his kibble back (still including the rice and pumpkin and yogurt. Any help would be greatly, and I do mean greatly appreciated! $:-\$

Great Dane Discussions / Does anyone's Dane like to swim??

« on: May 31, 2007, 02:04:25 pm »

I have no clue about such things. I'm not sure if our pup is just a big chicken (he is about most things!) or if he's just trying to warm up to the whole pool thing. The farthest he'll go is the top step, which has no water on it and then he hides behind me like I'm going to protect him. I keep thinking he's just getting ready to push me in

Should I even want him to go in?

Great Dane Discussions / stinky mistake...need help!!

« on: April 26, 2007, 08:22:10 am »

OK, so we paper trained the pup in the garage since it was so yucky outside when we got him. He did a great job learning. UNFORTUNATELY, he's now huge (7 month old great dane!) and he WON'T go P**P outside!! I think it's because I have him on a leash or a lead when I try to get him to "go" outside and he doesn't like the constriction.. ..?? Our property isn't fenced (YET) and we can't just leave him out there by himself because he's just too curious and wants to wander. What to do NOW??? Any suggestions?? I want my garage back to normal!! By the way...invisibl e fences do not work with him...we tried it and at first, it worked (two training sessions) THEN he just stood there twitching and trying to scratch himself. One sick puppy, huh??

Great Dane Discussions / My dog is TOO SPASTIC!!

« on: April 12, 2007, 02:48:43 pm »

Okay, so Cooper is 6 months old, but he is really driving me nuts. He's a great dane, and from what I understood BEFORE we got him was that danes were mellow, relaxed dogs. HUH!! He is constantly trying to run off with the kids' things, the laundry (socks especially), and today it was the library books!!! He has plenty of toys, a Kong included...whi ch he won't play with. Today, we were trying out a new furniture arrangement and he decided to launch himself over the back of the couch.

Does anyone else have stories to share about how their dog USED to be spastic and now is a perfect relaxed angel???I really need some sort of light at the end of the tunnel thing

or is it

Great Dane Discussions / It's the craziest thing...

« on: April 09, 2007, 06:11:06 am »

We have no idea what our pup Cooper did to himself to cause this limping he has this morning!! He's completely favoring his front left leg. It seems to be at the joint right above his foot, but I'm not real sure. Has anyone had experience with their dog limping for some unknown reason? He hasn't been out romping around at all to cause a strained ligament or anything...he's been in the house and in the garage. Any ideas? Is there a certain amount of time I should give it to see if it gets better?

Great Dane Discussions / Too skinny?

« on: March 29, 2007, 06:11:22 pm »

Hi all,
We're new here, but love the site! Today, when we picked up our 6 month old great dane from a different vet than we normally use, they said that he was TOO SKINNY. I've never owned one before and I just thought that he was going through a teenager-lanky period. He's 75 lbs now and eats about 4-8 cups of large breed dog food. The vet said that he probably needs to be dewormed, but I said that I wanted to get a fecal exam first. Our pup was dewormed about 3 times so far, the last time being about 2 months ago. I'll attach a pic...do you think he looks too thin??
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