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Bella's 8 months old - we've had her since August, with us she has been house-broken, though we have accidents, and she's learned bite-inhibition. However, we're having a problem with her biting. She understands what is too hard or not too hard but she gets excited (like if we let her run around as ...

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Hello again! I've been quietly browsing the forums here for a few months. My boyfriend and I adopted Bella (at the time a 12 week old Hound rescue mix) in August. We hadn't really concerned ourselves with her living situation before we adopted her but it hadn't really been an issue we thought would ...

We feed her Blue Buffalo kibble twice a day -- 7 AM and 7 PM we do training for about 15 minutes in the morning before breakfast and a bit in the evening before dinner. She's 14 weeks old and we've had her about a month. Basic commands are coming along, such as come/sit/lay and sometimes Off when sh...

Bella's got this terrible need to chew paper. I'm being SUPER careful but she's jsut chewed a book that I paid almost $75 dollars for that i needed for school..so what can I do to STOP this need for paper?

3 weeks into her crate and Bella has learned to accept it more than before. However it isn't a place she openly goes to, she's put in her craft for bed at night and as a time out when she's too excited for a few minutes to cool off -- but she hasn't really come to accept her crate quite the way I've...

So, I've posted a few times about my puppy Bella -- and I had mentioned how the two of us are rather inexperienced puppy people. She's 14 weeks old now (approx.) and she's still teething, and not vaccinated. Poor pup has localed demodex on her face/muzzle so the Vet has held off on giving her vaccin...

Bella's 13 weeks - she's a hound-mix - and she's teething like most puppies do. We've pretty much got her covered on the Kongs/Rope-like toys/things that squeek but when she gets excited she tends to get mouth with us, and thinks its all part of a game. There's a distinct difference between mouthing...

hehe if only! Bella is still being housebroken and we have her caged at night. She gets her last sip of water at 7:30ish and is usually asleep by midnight maybe a bit later depending (but not a whole lot of difference). She's awake by 5AM every morning, we can usually take her out, let her do busine...

I came home tonight and she was very sweet with the mouthing, it didn't hurt at all. We also invested in a clicker for training purposes. We used Victoria's method for keeping her calm and at bay when there is food around. My boyfriend stands in her way so that she cannot come to the food and jump u...

So, I had posted about the crate training earlier -- and that seems to be going well enough this morning didn't seem too bad. My mom seems to really love the puppy, she's a bit uneasy with her still so we're working with her to ensure she can handle her properly. Our only concern at this point, is t...

Good News! I spoke with my mother who lives across the street, and she said she could come by and spend some time with Bella in the mornings while we are in class. I'm able to swing home in the afternoons (right about now) and spend loads of time with her until my boyfriend comes home and he can spe...

My boyfriend of seven years and I just adopted a puppy from a local no-kill shelter, her name is Bella and she's about 12-13 weeks old. She's a hound-mix but they weren't sure what she was mixed with because she was a rescue, this also means we had little idea what to expect in regards to her social...