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RIP Copper

I was thinking about posting to some subreddit about this for a bit to he honestly, but yeah. We got our dog Copper in 2015, when I was 5.His original name was Wesley, but we changed it. He was my best friend and he was actually healthy for a while until like a year/ couple months ago. He started losing a lot of weight and he still ate for a bit, then stopped all together a couple months/weeks before he died. We suspect he had cancer. Also, couple months to a year ago he got diagnosed with heart failure so I'm not sure what got him first. On August 11th or maybe 12th (can't remember) my dad found him laying dead around 11 PM/2 AM (We don't know exactly when he died, just that he died in the night). We got him cremated and yeah... That's where we are today. I miss him so much.

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u/HamSandwichMapping2 — 11 hours ago

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Ziggy the Gentleman

This is Ziggy he's 9 years old.

u/Vesuvius_Witness — 17 hours ago

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Help with what to look for

I'm looking to get a Sheltie puppy. I've contacted some breeders and the breeder I really liked actually has no formal vet check of the pups. They offer a 2 year health guarantee, parents screened and are a smaller in home breeding program. They said they never needed to bring their puppies in, do own vaccines and deworming. They also don't allow visiting puppies, you can if course go there to pick up the pup you reserved for a non-refunable deposit and see the dad, but are very strict on illness protocols for their puppies. They don't appear to be apart of associations for the breed, their dogs do show and have a great verifiable bloodline. Another breeder I talked to allows you to come amd encourages it, offered for me to bring my adult dog to see their interactions before deciding. She does own vaccines and deworming, 1 year health guarantee and did have the puppies go to the vet for declaring removal only. They screen parents, have been breeding for 20 years are apar of local associations, and I'm not sure about the bloodline as we didn't discuss that yet.

Any recommendations on things to ask, look for in a breeder, etc?

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u/Ok-Hat-5037 — 18 hours ago

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Fun for injured Sheltie

Hi! So my girl Aurora is only 3 and this poor baby has gone through so much 😕 She had ANNPE 5 months ago (no surgery needed luckily) so I put rugs throughout my house because her left back leg still slips a little when walking fast or running. She finally started to be okay using stairs again and jumping on the couch if she wanted to.
A month ago she ripped her whole nail off (of the bad back left leg 😭) while running and chasing that favorite ball she’s cuddling. She won’t go up the stairs anymore now but will go down them. It was healing fine till last night I think a loop in the carpet caught that nail and was bleeding a little but was just the tip of it at least and it’s alright now.

What can she do for another few months that don’t involve playing with her ball and running like crazy? I feel so bad, she loves this thing so much but I want her nail to fully heal before we do anymore fetch on rugs/carpet 🫠 She just stares at it then stares at us 🤣 or throws it at us repeatedly lol. When she had ANNPE we gave her so many treats the vet was telling us she should lose weight but like that’s all she could do. Also most “heavy chewer” treats don’t last long at all.
So if you have another idea, please let me know! Thanks!!

u/Emmashayxx — 1 day ago

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Recon-Sheltie🥷🏼😆

u/RichtigbledeSau — 2 days ago

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New puppy in the house

This is Milo! He is 11 weeks. We are still working on the potty training and the crate training but he is doing great so far! He is very cuddly and a little bit shy at first with strangers. 😊

u/Beginning_Donut_1876 — 2 days ago

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Too cute

u/kendr75 — 2 days ago

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My mom took this crazy gorgeous picture while babysitting my 2yo pup

u/Sealion72 — 3 days ago

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Hamish paid his respects to all the Wiarton Willies.

On our recent trip to the Saugeen Peninsula, Hamish visited the Wiarton Willie memorial, a tribute to the many groundhogs who have offered their best guesses to Canadians’ yearly question, “Will this winter ever end?”

u/LaMetisse — 3 days ago

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