Okay, so I really want to get a dog – but not ANYTIME soon. I’m talking maybe a year to a year and a half from now. I’m thinking I’d like a Pem. Welsh Corgi.(I’m open to suggestions of course) They’re cute and I (based on the research I’ve done so far) seem to like their temperament. I DO plan on actually interacting with one soon LOL. They’re not TOO big and they’re not too small. I am willing to spend the time needed to interact with it, train it, walk it, and love it (of course). However I don’t know squat about puppies and their care (I know more about cats and kittens). Can someone here point me in the right direction? Any ideas, like a website I could go to or something else more creative? There is so much information out there I feel overwhelmed.

Also, opinions on the breed would be appreciated.

I live in a large one bedroom apartment. There is ample green space in my complex to walk and play with my future dog, not to mention the dog parks nearby. I plan on putting the dog on an pet health insurance plan (like I have for my two cats) and I feed only the most high quality foods. I love animals and while I love cats the most, I feel like I’m missing out on the joy of owning a dog. I am, however, under no illusions; if I find a dog is not right for me during the course of my pre-dog ownership research, I will not get one.

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Well…i live in Los Angeles and my friend’s dog had puppies and she’s giving me one…
the thing is that i just found out that you need a license to own a dog.

So, how do you get (and where) a dog license in L.A and how much is it?
Thanks!

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My 7 puppies just had their first vaccinations at 8 weeks. A breeder bought the shots and squeezed their neck and injected the 8 in 1. No rabies shot yet. Why is there a lump on every dog? Is this painful to my puppies?

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I do some informal boarding in my home and, perhaps surprising, over the years have never had a person not pay or pick up their dog.

Well its happening now.

Here’s the situation — dog was dropped off for approximately three week duration. Since it was a new person, I required one week fee in advance. We filled out the contracts to agree to payment, waiver, and vet care release. All signed. Then the guy disappears. I send updates, but never hear from him. I call, never get a call back. Finally after 5 weeks I get him on the phone and he says he’ll stop by at a given time. No show, no call. This happens two more times.

Called the police, they say the dog is now my property (I asked specifically if there were any procedures to go through and they said no), to dispose of the dog, and take the matter of the fee owed to civil court.

To make matters more complex, unknown to me until a few days ago, it turns out he leased this dog for breeding (that does make him the legal owner for a period of time), lied to the person and said she didn’t have puppies (she did, he told me she did and it was obvious she had nursed a litter), and then dumped her with me. I will "dispose" of her by returning her to her rightful owner, but I’m still not getting paid what is owed to me in boarding. And I will testify that he stated she had puppies for that person’s lawsuit against him. So the dog is physically in no danger, but I am still out the fee.

Anyone have this experience? What did you do and how did you do it?

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I was told that I need a breeders license to breed my dogs and sell their puppies. They are Yorkshire Terriers so I was going to breed them once to see how it goes. Since they are small dogs I want it to go 100% perfect (yes I know that nothing is 100% perfect but you know what I mean) If not I wasn’t going to breed them again and get them fix. Do I still need the license to do this?
Also I was going to get a siberian husky, but the city only lets us to have ONLY 2 PETS AT A TIME, and my sister is living with me and her dog. (which is also a small dog and very old) So when I do get the husky that will make 4 dogs and my parents’ cat. (which is really really old, she is starting to lose her mind) Is there a license that I can get to keep all of them??? I really take good care of all of them, a lot of people say that they will never treat their dog like that, and they are really good trained. Always does what I tell them to.

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I put my 6 month old puppy in her crate while I am gone at work. She is only in her crate for about 4 hours at a time before someone else gets home to let her out. Her crate is only big enough for her to stand up and move around a little. Its the size the vet recommended so im sure its not too big. I have tried giving her treats in her crate and thats just not working. I let her out before and after I put her in the crate. I know its not her fault yet but I just dont want her to have to sit in her pee while I am gone. After she pees in her crate I clean it out really well. I know pet stores sell sprays to keep puppies from chewing on things but do they sell a spray to make puppies not want to pee in their crates? She does have a sheet in her crate I dont want to have to take it out but I think that may be part of the reason she is peeing in there.
She is a dachshund puppy. I have had her for a little over a month. She does not seem to have any other issues and has been to the vet at least 2 times since I have gotten her. I was told that 4 hours should not be too long for her to hold it. She does not have any water in her crate only a treat.

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Oh my gosh another backyard breeder, selling less than perfect puppies to undesirable people. Get a life and go to hell! You don’t know me so who gives you the right to judge me?

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What are the materials I need to stimulate my 2 day old puppy? We separated it from its mother because it’s her first time to have a puppy, and it seems like she has been playing with her puppies roughly. She even killed one, and ate the other one!Pls help me!

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Me and my mother were looking at different puppies just for fun and noticed that some breeders were charging extra for full registration papers. Would this not be illegal in AKC standards?

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My mom has 4 miniature pinscher who has recently had puppies. The parents are AKC registered by the owner before my mom but he past away and she doesn’t know where the papers are. He named them odd names and she can’t remember them so she renamed them all. So is there any way we can get papers on all the puppies?

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I know that between 8 – 14 weeks is the key window to socialize a puppy. But in this time, puppies haven’t had all their vaccinations yet! It’s important for puppies to meet lots of other dogs and people and go to new places, but how on earth are you supposed to do that without a dog getting some virus?

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I do not want puppies.Some say spaying before the 2nd heat will stunt the dogs growth. I have a multi-dog permet and to keep it, the town says 6mos ALL dogs must be spayed. Please Advise.

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Hello my name is Iris and a fellow dog lover. Especially for Siberian Huskies.
I was thinking and doing some research about starting my own bleeding business. I love dogs I love being around them I have plenty of time for them I do not work my husband makes a very good living so I was kind of hoping that someone can help me and doing some more research.
Hope that you can help me thank you very much for all your time you guys have a great good day. Bye

Questions
1) how would you go about getting a breeding license?
2) what is the difference between AKC and CKC?
3) what kind of setup will I have to do for the dogs in my home?
4) how many males and how many females do you recommend?
5) how early can I start breeding them?
6) how will I go about registering the puppies?
7) what do you recommend regarding neutering?
if I do have puppies what you recommend selling price would be?
9) how would I go about setting up my own website for the Siberian Husky breeding?
10) how will I go about advertising the puppies?
11) how early can I start advertising the puppies?, For example I’ve heard that some people advertise after they have been confirmed that the dog is pregnant.
12) I have carpet throughout my house do you recommend I remove it?
13) how would I go about training the dogs?, For example to sit to come to obeying to play to use the restroom outside.
14) what kind of treats and what kind of toys can use the training?
15) what kind of expenses and my looking at for example if I have two dogs how much do you think in six months that I was spent for them?
16) if there’s any question I did not ask her please let me know?

you can e-mail me at iriscld@yahoo.com

thank you!!!!!!

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Are we s’posed to automatically know what standards are or why they’re important? If you agree that we’re not born with that knowledge, then when’s the right time to ask? Is it when you have the interest or when you’re capable of getting the things you’d need, like a car to get to shows, but no desire left to learn because every question you’ve asked on the subject has been somehow worded wrong?
Teenagers do things in a very bullheaded manor. I’m to the point where I know this, know it’s bad, but I still do things at a very fast pace when it comes to learning things of interest. If I want to be a breeder ten years from now, should I wait till then to ask questions or go ahead and learn what I can? I dun even know if I’ll go that far because I don’t beleive in objectifying a living thing the way many show dogs are, and where upholding the standard is important, being a champion isn’t in my eyes. If temperment is good and standards are at least met, why need to be BOB?
People say breeding for money is bad, and breeding simply to show your kids the miracle of birth is, though a nice thought, not a good idea.
But no ones said anything about how a puppy can light up the eyes of most people of any age and just being with that puppy makes a person happy, and then as the dog grows, assuming it’s been raised right, that puppy can become a companion more than a pet or dog you show for the glory of it.
I dunno how to put it and not sound like I’m for BYB, but I’m not and I want to make that very clear. But really, when I think happiness one of the top things on my mind is the thought of puppies in play and making some kid/teen/adult/senior happy.
Is bringing the joy of a puppy into the lives of people that may "need" it a bad reason to breed?
And yes, I know puppies become dogs, which need training that can be an awesome learning experience for, maybe, a soon to be single teenage mother?
Yeah… joining a club is not going to happen for the breed I’m interested in. At least not a local one. I’m in Florida. Lake Butler. The three major cities I think of is lake Butler *the old people’s city* Lake City *the city run by irrisponsible/poor adults it seems* and the Gainesville *a college town. need i say more?*
I don’t have a car, nor would I have permission to drive all that far even if I did. I haven’t heard of anything even bordering on being related to a dog show.
Before you say "Jacksonville’s not far off" consider that *I* cannot get a trip into town, a 30min round trip, letalone a 2+hour trip to Jacksonville. My 12 year old sister can, but that’s because she hasn’t become a screwup like me yet *in other words, she doesn’t have the probs with depression that I do*
This is not the place to learn EVERYTHING, I agree, but it’s easier to read a comment saying "You too young therefore you’re an idiot for even thinking you will ever be capible of this" than to hear it from a breeder over the phone or in person. I’m nearing 18, but when nervouse my voice can sound like a 12year old’s, and the younger you sound the less respect you will earn from a breeder, normally. I gather that from my experience in an attempt to get a puppy from a breeder as a companion that’d prolly get spayed once I grasp the concept of "heat". Just the way that I’ve been treated over the phone…. I don’t like it, and I feel that if I go into it better prepared with more knowledge to start with I’ll not only get the diserved respect, but I’ll prove to them that you don’t gotta be fifty to have an idea what you’re talking about.
Isn’t the best time to ask questions BEFORE you do it? I haven’t bred the mutt I wanted to because I’ve been told of it’s evils, not because I can’t find a female dog. That one would be easy, I just found out my friend has two oops litters a year *from four females, so it’s not one dog allways pregnant or nursing* because they can’t afford to fix their dogs. I don’t want to hear about how horrible that is, i want to prove a point that if asking a question means that you will never know the answer, then why do we ask if we don’t understand how you get the square root of whatever? Asking questions is a huge part of the learning process, even if all that you learn is that there’s a lock of humanity in the world.
I’M GUESSING NOT A DAMNED ONE OF YOU HAS A REASING LEVEL ABOVE THAT OF MY THREE YEAR OLD SISTER. YOU SEE THE WORDS, KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEM, YET HAVE NO EFFING IDEA WHAT THEY COULD POSSIBLY MEAN. IF YOU CAN’T ASK QUESTIONS IN THE ONLY PLACE OFFERED FOR THE SUBJECT, WHERE ARE YOU SPOSED TO ASK? HAVE YOU SEEN BREEDERS LISTED IN THE PHONE BOOK? I WAS ONCE UNNAWARE THAT YOU COULD FIND THEM THROUGH THE ACK. SINCE WHEN WAS ASKING IF BREEDERS WERE BORN WITH THEIR KNOWLEDGE THE SAME AS SAYING "I KNOW EVERYTHING ALREADY" WHEN I’M HERE ASKING QUESTIONS.
FORGET TELLING PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT OWN DOGS, YOU PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED THE RESPONSOBILITY OF TREATING A MOUSE IN A HUMANE WAY.
I NEVER SAID I KNEW IT ALL, QUITE THE CONTRARRY. I KNOW THAT I DON’T KNOW IF ALL DOGS ARE PREGERS FOR 9WKS ORIF IT VARIES BREED TO BREED.
TO THE ONE THAT SAID A CAR IS TRIVIAL. LET’S PUT YOU WHERE NOT EVEN YOUR NEIGHBOR IS IN WALKING DISTANCE AND SEE HOW TRIVIAL A CAR REALLY IS.

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i have a dog who had 3 puppies…their 8 months now and i was wondering if they needed dog license to go to the dog park? i live in southern california

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