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Hello Everyone,

I am like the topic says in desperate need of advice. We purchessed our Dane Kimball from what looked to be like a good breeder. She had done all the health checks, had a solid contract, ect .. on the surface everything you would look for in a breeder.
Today in one of the dane e-mail groups i met the woman who bred the Mother of our dane. Everything is not cool! the woman we got Kimball from only co-owned his mother, did not have permission to breed him and forged Z's signature on the AKC paperwork.
She also Forged the health checks and lied about a lot more things (the mother only has 2 akc pts not 9 and the father has some temperament issues.)
Anywho come monday Z is calling the AKC and turning her in for fraud and the whole thing is going to get very ugly.
My problem is we paid a reasonable amount of money for a dane we thought was coming from very solid lines ect and he's not.

What would you do?

He's a puppy so he's lovable but we really haven't bonded all that tightly. I'd really like to return him to the breeder for a refund and use that money towards a dog from a breeder that isn't going to lie to me.

How would one go about making her do the refund tho? i sent her an e-mail tonight asking her to get back to me by monday.. If she doesn't is there anything we can do?

 ~Beth

i would love love love to give him a home. However i doubt they ship their dogs and we live in arizona. I hope someone adopts him soon tho!

~Beth

Hello Everyone,

i need help with a barking problem. Kimball has  turned out to be a barker and we need some advice on how to break him off it.

he barks inside and outside usually trying to get one of the other dogs to play but he also barks if they have a treat or a toy he wants.

Inside it's annoying, outside it's a problem. We have an evil neighbor and if she hears our dog/s barking more than once she calls animal control or the humane society on us trying to turn us in for animal abuse.

i'm not even kidding i am on a first name basis with both the humane society and the animal control group they are here so often.

Anyway advice on how to get him to be quieter would be very helpful!

He also has more energy than any other giant breed puppy that i've ever met. Nobody can keep up with him.. he wears out Serenity and Trip and still wants more.

Because of his energy level we are going to do agility work with him as he gets older to give him an outlet for all that energy

He's also much more of an alpha personality than any of the other dogs so we are already working on the NILIF method of training with him.

~Beth

I feel like kind of a geek. I took this quiz three times and got a 5 out of 5 all three times. Useless pet trivia occasionally comes in handy

 ~Beth

Hiya everyone,

wanted to share some Pup pictures everyone is doing awesome. Trip Underfoot had his 4th puppy training class today and he did awesome! he is already doing a 2 minute down/stay while a couple of people walk in circles around him ... that's my pup! we will be moving into the advanced obedience class after this one.

Our dane is settling in well, we have had a name change tho! at first we were calling him Sir Robin because everything made him bravely run away away.. (brave..brave sir robin!) but he's  come out of his shell and turned into a proper little monster. He is convinced he is the king of the world and we are going to have to keep a firm grip on him with the whole alpha position ..so his new name is Kimball which seems to fit him perfectly.

Has anyone else attempted to raise two pups at once? how did you keep from going insane at the time?

~Beth

Thanks for the welcome everyone! Yes Trip is growing in huge leaps and bounds we weighed him last thursday and he was up to
53lbs already!

Unfortunately he is growing to fast tho, even tho he is on a low protein adult dog food. He is having "Growing pains" in his back leg on and off and has to be on pain meds for them. The vet did a bunch of X-rays to make sure his joints were fine and they came back with good results. Her diagnosis is that he is suffering muscle cramps and spasms. Poor pup.. he is in the middle of a growth spurt tho and i swear you can see him getting taller over night.

Sir Robin is hillarious to me since he is roughly the same size Trip was when we got him home.. and i look at him and know that in a few months he will have gone from being able to walk under our mastiff to being almost as tall as she is..gaaaadzook s

Cindy, Robin came from a breeder here in phoenix. We were looking at her puppies for about a week before even thinking we needed a dane. Then we went to the dog park to hang out with the phoenix giant dog play group and after playing with danes for a few hours my hubby wanted to get one of our own.

So i did some research asked about the breeders rep ect. We knew we wanted either a brindle or a fawn and the breeder we got Rob from had both. We went and visited the puppies then went home to think about it. The next afternoon we went back over and played with them some more and then brought Rob home.

I honestly was not sure if it was going to work out so we have the option of bringing him back within the next few days.. tho i think it'll work out fine. Rob was very shy when we picked him up but once we got him home that changed completely.

I think i am a little insane for dealing with two pups at the same time especially in the middle of parrot breeding season but having a sense of humor helps me from getting overwhelmed.