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Wow, you have a monster Dobe! What a handsome guy! I have a petite Dobie - my Pippi is around 88 lbs and she seems petite to me except for when she hogs all of the queen sized bed! But she has had more than her fair share of health issues although not typical Dobe ones - mammary and other...

I hope that is the case Ingrid, and that the pup is ok and recovers from the abuse. To me it's like that public service campaign they did several years ago about child abuse - 'walk away and count to 10'. All of our furbabies have days when they act snotty as all getup - mine was a complete...

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The headline was bad enough: Dog-Kicking Video Puts Stamford CEO On Probation http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/hc-des-hague-stamford-ceo-centerplate-dog-abuse-20140829-story.html Turns out this is a one-year-old Doberman puppy who was kicked and yanked around in an elevator by...

If I were competing or breeding Dobermans I'd buy one from a reputable breeder, but as it is I just love them for their temperament and companionship so adoption worked for me and I'll do it again when Pippi and I are ready for another (Pippi's ready@ 4+ yrs old but we need to move to a house...

Thanks Jan! I'm just glad it wasn't cancer - I was really stressing about that but thank God it's ok. The day of her surgery her vet told me to do my best in trying to restrict her movement for the next two weeks - no running, no jumping - and as soon as he said that she jumped up and punched...

My Dobie Pippi doesn't sit on me at all although she will occasionally lay her head in my lap, but her BFF Pepper the Giant Schnauzer, who we have stay with us sometimes, is a complete lap hog, and if I let her in the bed she will try to lay on my head!!! I think it's a combination of Dominance...

My Pippi had surgery last Friday to remove a huge set of cysts on one of her mammaries closest to her hind leg. She had the mammary removed, the cysts which were huge, and surrounding lymph nodes and fat. Fortunately there's no cancer in any of the mass or tissue, I just got those results back...

My impression is that breed-specific rescues do just that - my Doberman was relocated from Kentucky to Illinois before I found her, and our Doberman rescue does a lot of transports either to Illinois, or through Illinois to other Doberman rescues if they are full and can't find a local foster...

I have one (Pippi) right now, but want another Dobie soon, and so does Pippi I think. We have her doggie BFF's come and stay with us when their owners go out of town - a Giant Schnauzer girl named Pepper, and an ornery Silkie girl named Buttercup, but I think Pippi needs a Dobie of her own :p...

Hi, I think there has to be some middle ground here, although it may not exist today. I'm not in favor of taking anyone's rights away to operate a safe breeder's operation where the animals are well taken care of. But there really should be better regulations in place to not only prevent...

Respectfully disagree on that one D4E. Just like we don't want the AR groups throwing everyone under the bus with some of their outrageous statements about breeders, meat eating, fur wearing and the like, I don't think we should do the same to them. Having worked with some of the local PETA...

So not to start a riot here, but this is while I am smack dab in the middle in my opinion on the AR groups like PETA. I've used PETA before in situations where the abuse was so dire, that any reasonable person would find any means necessary to get the animals out of the abusive/life-threatening...

I couldn't agree more D4E!

How did your friend come to get into breeding in the first place? It sounds like she's not taking care of the very basics of health for the mom and dad, and it all goes downhill from there if you don't take care of the parents - especially the mom. Is it that your friend is not knowledgeable...

I'll have to try to record it sometime but others describe Pippi's bark as earth-shattering, apocalyptic, terroristic, dead-raising, anihilistic, brain-shattering and terror-inducing. She is by far louder than any dog I have ever had or known and can project her bark in a way that can leave you...

On another note it's probably good that Angel didn't take to her mommas milk given the latest developments. I wonder if instinctually she knew that mom was a danger? I wouldn't let any of the pups nurse from mom and would immediately switch the survivors over to the milk that Angel is getting...

This is why I would never become a breeder unless I could devote 100% of my time to the parents and each and every litter with no distractions. I hate to say it but I'm thinking along the same lines as you d4e - this is sounding unfortunately like a byb horror story unfolding. Thank goodness...

Oh dear, that is dreadful! Has the mom been checked to make sure that she's okay and healthy and doesn't have issues of her own? I don't think I asked earlier either, but how many puppies total are in this litter? Maybe there are too much for the mom to handle and she's overwhelmed? Gosh...

+1 to the goat's milk! Ironically my little brother (now about to turn 40 - yikes!) was raised on goat's milk when he wouldn't nurse as a newborn, and wouldn't take formula or cow's milk either. Fortunately we lived in Spain at the time (Barcelona), and goat's milk was readily available and...