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Airplane from NM to WY – - – 2 pet rabbits as carry-on? How do I get myself and my babies?

SAFELY to WY ? Is it safer to just drive? Air pressure hurt my poopy loops ? Do not want to put them in special pet loading area . . .worry about safety and them being put near a dog crate . . .they would be scared sh*tless. Don’t want them sitting on a HOT runway WAITING for a transfer either. Have to get them a physical too? How much cost?

Airplane from NM to WY – - – 2 pet rabbits as carry-on? How do I get myself and my babies?

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any ideas on how to build a dog kennel out of wooden pallets?

i have three 4′x6′ pallets and i need a dog kennel for my dogs. any ideas how i can use the pallet wood to make a house for my babies? any useful answers would be very much appreciated! thank you.x

any ideas on how to build a dog kennel out of wooden pallets?

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More House Training Tips for Your Manor Lake Australian …

Another great resource for helpful puppy/dog information is The Humane Society of The United States’ website. They have a lot of great articles that are related to health, training, and other great pet advice. We were going over their website and read through this article, thought we would share it with our Manor Lake Australian Labradoodle puppy/dog families.

House training Tips

Housetraining your puppy requires far more than a few stacks of old newspapers—it calls for vigilance, patience, plenty of commitment and above all, consistency.

The more consistent you are in following the basic housetraining procedures, the faster your puppy will learn acceptable behavior. It may take several weeks to housetrain your puppy, and with some of the smaller breeds, it might take longer.

Establish a routine

Like babies, puppies do best on a regular schedule. The schedule teaches him that there are times to eat, times to play, and times to potty.

Generally speaking, a puppy can control his bladder one hour for every month of age. So if you’re puppy is two months old, he can hold it for about two hours. Don’t go longer than this between bathroom breaks or he’s guaranteed to have an accident. If you work outside the home, this means you’ll have to hire a dog walker to give your puppy his breaks.

Take your puppy outside frequently—at least every two hours—and immediately after he wakes up, during and after playing, and after eating or drinking.

Pick a bathroom spot outside, and always take your puppy to that spot using a leash. While your puppy is eliminating, use a word or phrase, like “go potty,” that you can eventually use before he eliminates to remind him what to do. Take him out for a longer walk or some playtime only after he has eliminated.

Reward your puppy every time he eliminates outdoors. Praise him or give him a treat—but remember to do so immediately after he’s finished eliminating, not after he comes back inside the house. This step is vital, because rewarding your dog for eliminating outdoors is the only way he’ll know what’s expected of him. Before rewarding him, be sure he’s finished eliminating. Puppies are easily distracted. If you praise him too soon, he may forget to finish until he’s back in the house.

Put your puppy on a regular feeding schedule. Do What goes into a puppy on a schedule comes out of a puppy on a schedule. Depending on their age, puppies usually need to be fed three or four times a day. Feeding your puppy at the same times each day will make it more likely that he’ll eliminate at consistent times as well, and that makes housetraining easier for both of you.

Pick up your puppy’s water dish about two and a half hours before bedtime to reduce the likelihood that he’ll need to potty during the night. Most puppies can sleep for approximately seven hours without having to eliminate.
If your puppy does wake you up in the night, don’t make a big deal of it; otherwise, he will think it is time to play and won’t want to go back to sleep. Turn on as few lights as possible, don’t talk to or play with your puppy, take him out to do his business, and return him to his bed.

Supervise

Don’t give your puppy an opportunity to soil in the house; keep an eye on him whenever he’s indoors.

Tether your puppy to you or a nearby piece of furniture with a six-foot leash if you are not actively training or playing with him. Watch for signs your puppy needs to eliminate. Some signs are obvious, such as barking or scratching at the door, squatting, restlessness, sniffing around, or circling. When you see these signs, immediately grab the leash and take him outside to his bathroom spot. If he eliminates, praise him lavishly and reward him with a treat.

Keep your puppy on leash in the yard. During the housetraining process, your yard should be treated like any other room in your house. Give your puppy some freedom in the house and yard only after he is reliably housetrained.

Confinement

When you’re unable to watch your puppy at all times, he should be confined to an area small enough that he won’t want to eliminate there. The space should be just big enough for him to comfortably stand, lie down, and turn around in. You can use a portion of a bathroom or laundry room blocked off with baby gates.

Or you may want to crate train your puppy and use the crate to confine him. (Be sure to learn how to use a crate humanely as a method of confinement.) If your puppy has spent several hours in confinement, you’ll need to take him directly to his bathroom spot as soon as you let him out, and praise him when he eliminates.

Oops!

Expect your puppy to have a few accidents in the house—it’s a normal part of housetraining. Here’s what to do when that happens:

Interrupt your puppy when you catch him in the act of eliminating in the house.
Make a startling noise (be careful not to scare him) or say “OUTSIDE!” Immediately take him to his bathroom spot, praise him, and give him a treat if he finishes eliminating there.
Don’t punish your puppy for eliminating in the house. If you find a soiled area, it’s too late to administer a correction. Just clean it up. Rubbing your puppy’s nose in it, taking him to the spot and scolding him, or any other punishment will only make him afraid of you or afraid to eliminate in your presence. In fact, punishment will often do more harm than good.
Clean the soiled area thoroughly. Puppies are highly motivated to continue soiling in areas that smell like urine or feces. Check with your veterinarian or pet store for products designed specifically to clean areas soiled by pets.

It’s extremely important that you use the supervision and confinement procedures outlined above to minimize the number of accidents. If you allow your puppy to eliminate frequently in the house, he’ll get confused about where he’s supposed to eliminate, which will prolong the housetraining process.

When you’re away

A puppy under six months of age cannot be expected to control his bladder for more than a few hours at a time (approximately one hour for each month of age). If you have to be away from home more than four or five hours a day, this may not be the best time for you to get a puppy; instead, you may want to consider an older dog, who can wait for your return.

If you already have a puppy and must be away for long periods of time, you’ll need to:

Arrange for someone, such as a responsible neighbor or a professional pet sitter, to take him outside to eliminate.
Train him to eliminate in a specific place indoors. Be aware, however, that doing so can prolong the process of housetraining. Teaching your puppy to eliminate on newspaper may create a life-long surface preference, meaning that even as an adult he may eliminate on any newspaper lying around the living room.

Paper training

When your puppy must be left alone for long periods of time, confine him to an area with enough room for a sleeping space, a playing space, and a separate place to eliminate.

In the designated elimination area, use either newspapers (cover the area with several layers of newspaper) or a sod box. To make a sod box, place sod in a container such as a child’s small, plastic swimming pool. You can also find dog litter products at a pet supply store.
If you clean up an accident in the house, put the soiled rags or paper towels in the designated elimination area. The smell will help your puppy recognize the area as the place where he is supposed to eliminate.

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The last great wall of adulthood: Do we or don't we become parents — of a dog?

I had been minding my own business, always a sure sign of trouble, when a life-altering decision came into view and stood in the middle of the highway of my life. My wife called me just after she had learned of it, and she wanted to know what we should do.

We have technically been adults for more than 10 years now, during which time we’ve made decisions big (getting married, moving, purchasing vehicles) and small (scrambled eggs or omelets on Sunday mornings) and have made a mostly comfortable life for ourselves in the sleepy metropolis that is Tampa. Her question, however, now threatens all of this with its sheer magnitude of life-changing possibilities.

“I don’t know,” I say. “I suppose we could.”

“We always wanted one,” she tells me over the phone. “I just wanted to wait until we moved into a bigger place.”

It’s the question that gets batted around a great deal with married couples, as it represents the big, life-altering decision. We have been asked about it at parties, outings and visits, and we always say we will when we are ready. But are we emotionally ready to deal with this? Are we ready for this kind of adult responsibility?

I hesitate. “So, if we did this…”

“…then we would be…”

“That’s right,” she says, a hint of maternal pride in her voice. “We’d be dog owners.”

After having been with each other for a time, couples sometimes begin to feel the urge to love something more than themselves, to care for someone else and to raise them in a better world. These people, author Dave Barry once wrote, promptly go out and buy Labrador retrievers, and that seems to solve the problem. Other people decide to have babies instead, which is also acceptable.

For childless adults, dogs seem to be the closest they can get to having someone in their lives that requires care and attention without requiring them to also change diapers or spy on Facebook accounts. Cats, gerbils, ferrets and numerous reptiles do fine by themselves as long as they get food, water and someplace to use as a bathroom. Dogs, on the other hand, require registration, affection, exercise, training and things to chase with wild abandon, like rubber balls and squirrels. And they need all this on a regular and constant basis lest they do something like get into the cupboard and eat a box of Bisquick.

Apparently, my wife’s co-worker had approached her during a break and offered her a free 4-month-old English pointer puppy. The co-worker could not afford the dog any longer and didn’t want to surrender it to the Humane Society out of fear the dog would be euthanized before it could find a good home.

“What do you want to do?”

She wants the dog. “I don’t know,” she says, “but free dogs don’t get offered to you every day.”

Since we started living together, my wife and I have been content with housecats and the occasional visit from the unwashed horde of nieces, nephews, godchildren and assorted other moppets that have peripherally come into our lives in the last five years. I say peripherally because, unless you’re looking right at them, the smaller children tend to disappear from view long enough for you to trip over them.

Parenthood has been the last great wall of adulthood that, while so many of our friends began scaling it years ago, we have willfully ignored in favor of metaphorically camping at the base of said parenting wall, drinking beer and occasionally pouring lighter fluid on a camp fire. We are not by any means anti-child, but both of us work with children in varying capacities during the week and we generally prefer to sleep in on Sunday mornings. The question of when we plan to start a family has been raised many times by our friends, typically in conversational or teasing terms. My friend, who has three children, likes to say he is up 3-0 against me; I like to point out that I don’t have to send them to college, a counter argument that sometimes makes his eye twitch.

Before we get to the kids, we had planned to get a dog, mostly because we wanted to have one before the children start arriving. We do not view the raising of a dog to be the equivalent or even an acceptable test run to raising a child. Comparing raising a dog to raising a child, in addition to being unfair and inaccurate, undercuts the sheer difficulty of parenthood. In addition to the multitude of questions about raising the child, all of which can be subject to change on an annual, if not daily, basis (diet, values, education, culture, television programming, acceptable activities on prom night), parents have to constantly assess their own methods and responsibilities in dealing with these changes. Dog owners, by comparison, have the relatively simple task of making sure their pets don’t destroy the house, stay away from moving vehicles and don’t consume anything bad for them (like mailmen).

And the rules for the raising of one set do not apply to the other. One cannot, for example, catch a child stealing a cookie and punish them by locking them in a crate or squirting them with a spray bottle. Conversely, dog owners cannot sit the dog down when it turns 21 (only 3 in human years) and tell them the time has come for them to move out of the house and get a job.

Ultimately, the only thing that matters is the decision to accept the responsibilities that come with parenting while still dealing with the other, relatively easier decisions lobbed at us every day: chicken or beef, cable or satellite, Stewart or Colbert, Democrat or Republican (not so much a choice as it is the Great American Catch-22, but what can you do?)

Pets come and go, but parenthood is fo-evah. Once you start scaling that wall, you don’t get to jump off.

“There is the problem of space in the apartment,” my wife concedes. “We could just wait.”

“Maybe,” I agree. “But it would be cool to have one, wouldn’t it?”

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Puppy Potty Training Made Easy

For many families, even if they do not train anything else with their puppy, they will take the time to conduct puppy potty training. After all, who wants to go around cleaning up puppy “messes” from the carpet every day? Puppy potty training can be frustrating for all involved. Remember, though, that puppies are just babies and they do not know what you want until you let them know. There are several strategies to try when you are conducting puppy potty training.

Use A Crate: Using a crate will make puppy potty training that much easier. If you are unable to watch your puppy, put it in the crate. A crate is like a den, and dogs do not like to soil where they sleep. Use the same command when sending puppy into the crate, and always offer a reward while doing puppy potty training. Puppies may cry in the crate at first, but remember, giving them free reign will allow them to potty anywhere in your house. Do not leave puppy in the crate for long periods of time – allow puppy frequent trips outside for puppy potty training.

Designate A Potty Place: It will make puppy potty training easier if you take puppy out to the same place each time. While doing puppy potty training, the yard is only for going potty – take puppy to the same area each time. Only stay out about 10 minutes at a time before going back in. Playtime should only be allowed after the puppy has gone potty.

Reward Success: Remember, puppy potty training is about getting a desired behavior. When puppy receives a reward of praise or a small treat, they start associating puppy potty training as being a good thing. Happy puppies learn faster.

Use A Leash: An essential part of puppy potty training is being able to keep an eye on your puppy during the process. This can be difficult to do when you are trying to get other things done around the house. Using a leash tied to your waist can allow you to keep puppy near so he or she cannot sneak off to use the bathroom.

Practice: Like anything else, puppy potty training takes lots of practice. Take puppy outside for puppy potty training every time he or she eats or drinks, comes out of the crate, or wakes up from a nap. Take puppy out for puppy potty training as often as possible, and keep an eye out for the times that your puppy needs to potty on a regular basis.

Avoid Paper: While some puppy owners swear by using paper for puppy potty training, ultimately they are only teaching puppy to potty in the house. Instead, work on teaching puppy that outdoors is the only acceptable place to potty.

Prepare For Accidents: Puppy potty training is bound to have accidents, so instead of stressing out about them, prepare for them. Before puppy potty training begins, make sure that you have plenty of cleanup materials on hand, including paper towels or rags, odor neutralizers, and enzymatic cleaners. Keep these within easy reach for you, but out of reach for the puppy, to make puppy potty training accidents easy to clean up.

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Puppy Training: Raising Your Puppy The Right Way

Previously we all talked about what it takes to raise a puppy. This is probably the most difficult task at hand because there are a lot of new dog owners that have never raised a dog before and don’t know what it actually means to him. More specifically a lot of people get dogs not to raise them but to have something that’s cute around the house for their kids. They don’t think about the future after the dog isn’t cute and cuddly anymore. When the dog is young their minds are easily molded and the same can be said about babies. He is more easily persuaded to accept these rules as law and to know that there will be consequences when he breaks them. Inevitably there will be a time when it can’t be helped and he will break the rules. It isn’t a time to get angry or even go so far as to hit him but you need to take a firm voice and scold him about what he did. Growing up I’ve seen people actually take the dog’s nose and rub it into whatever mess he made. All that does is just scare him and mentally damage him. What a better approach would be is to take him near what he did and scold him about it. You don’t need to yell but the tone and sharpness of your voice will be enough to get the point across that he did something bad. With that in mind we want to prevent these mishaps from occurring and the best method that comes to mind is to take him for daily scheduled walks.

The walk is the most important aspect to a dog’s growth and learning as anything can be. It is a time when he develops social habits as well as personality. He is introduced to other dogs as well as other people which help his mind and body develop and grow. This is an aspect of his development that you can’t bypass and you shouldn’t ignore because if you were to ignore this, later on in his life it will come back to haunt you. What I mean by this is that the walk is a way to show and teach your puppy how to act and how you want him to act. It is a great way to develop roles for you and your puppy.

To go a little bit deeper into roles, what I mean by that word is simple. Your role with regard to this new puppy is to be his leader and mentor. You need to be his father or mother and you need to teach him about what’s right and what’s wrong the same way you would teach your children. His role with regards to you is to be your child and your follower. Whatever you say goes and his role is to know and learn that. For him it’s pretty simple but for you it definitely isn’t.
Next time we are going to take a walk.

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Ways To Crate Train Your New Pet

If you really want to have a puppy, but are afraid that you might not be able to raise and train the right then we can help you with that. We will provide the necessary schedule for all the activities that your puppy have to do in order for him to be a well adjusted dog.
Just like babies, your puppy also has to be potty trained. You should also be determined and dedicated enough to train you puppy with this. We will share with you some of the best methods that will help you to crate and potty train your puppy.
Training your puppy to crate is the most intense training that you will have to do for him, but once it is over, the result is very fulfilling for you and your dog. For the crate training, you have to choose crate that will be able to fit him even when he is full grown.
The way crate training works has to do with a dog’s aversion to sleeping in the same place that they soil. During the training you should not have big area where the puppy might be able to soil and sleep on different parts of the crate. By the time your puppy has a crate you should now make schedule and strictly follow it.
One very good example of crate training schedule is as example; waking-up your puppy, taking your puppy outside. Feed your puppy, play with him then take him back outside, then back on the crate for a nap. Do this and repeat the process throughout the day. You need to supervise your puppy with these activities every time because if he is not supervised then he will only the soiled the crate.
Training your puppy might be the hardest part of having him with you but it will surely worth the effort once you see the success that both of you achieved.

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STOP DOG WHINING!

You have just come home with your new puppy in your hand, he looks wonderful and everything that you wanted in a puppy. The first few hours the puppy gets used to its new surroundings; don’t forget this is exciting for him as well.

It is that time when it is time to go to bed, so you say your goodbyes to your puppy and go upstairs to bed. You get into bed close your eyes and before you know it you have gone into a deep sleep.

All of a sudden you are woken up by something that sounds like the “Hound of the Baskervilles”; you cannot believe that something so small can make so much noise. You just lay there for a bit thinking that any minute the puppy will go of to sleep. Well if you have ever had kids, specifically when they are babies and you know when a baby begins to cry it generates a sound that you cannot ignore no matter how you try to.

Well welcome to puppy world, because no matter how hard you try to ignore the puppies whining and howling you just cannot.

Your world has just been turned upside down by something that is so small and so innocent. Before you know it the sound of your puppy whining is starting to make you sweat, your blood pressure is beginning to rise, your heart is getting faster and you can feel yourself getting irritated by the second.

You ask yourself, “What can I do to stop this”? And this is just the 1^st night