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While out for his off-leash run last night with his sister, my dear, sweet, special boy managed to literally run into and fall onto a porcupine. 303 quills later (a couple likely still in there) and he’s on the mend.

I took my old boy Vizsla to work along with The Left Hand of Darkness. I guess this photo makes the hierarchy clear. They are best mates though- the Vizsla is the only dog The Left Hand gets along with.

Hey All!

I have a vet appointment scheduled for tomorrow, but I figured I’d post here to get some more thoughts.

Since last Friday, my boy has been waking up with this pale-yellow discharge from his eyes. It started with just the left eye, and it’s gradually moved over to both eyes since today — the amount looks to be less each day since it began, along with no apparent pain, and he doesn’t paw at his eyes.

My hunch is that it might have started as allergies, and progressed to an infection, as even I was feeling a bit under the weather with the slight shift in temps these past few days.

Anyway, I appreciate any and all input — thanks in advance!

*first image was yesterday, the following 2 are from today.

She thinks she’s a puppy still, don’t think so…

Someone cannot stop licking the cream, then cone is a must. He broke bottom part of the nail, but fortunately is not that serious.

Hi everyone! My 15 month old Male vizsla has started to frequently lick/gnaw his front legs. He seems to do it when he’s settling on his bed or sofa. People have said a lot of vizslas do this but he seems to be a bit more aggressive doing so. Any help would be great, he’s off to the vet for a 2nd opinion this week.

Our 4-month-old lady, Seaweed, had my boyfriend and I down BAD our first few weeks together but we’ve settled into life together and we absolutely love her. She’s a funny, weird, smart, incredibly loving girl who also gets overstimulated VERY easily in certain situations.. I’m sure no one here is shocked by that.

One thing we’re still struggling with is how she behaves around my parents’ dogs, who are 5 and 7 year-old Labradoodles.

Seaweed desperately wants to interact/play with them and absolutely does not understand when they’re not interested. She’ll keep trying until she gets more and more worked up - play bowing, pawing/slapping at them, getting in their faces, and eventually lunging/bouncing at them trying to initiate something.

The interesting part is that my parents’ dogs will often choose to stay relatively close to her or follow her around, so they seem interested in what she’s doing, but they very clearly do not want the level of interaction she’s trying to have with them.

Right now I mostly keep them separated or give them very controlled time together because I don’t want Seaweed rehearsing this behavior and I especially don’t want to put any of the dogs in a situation where someone eventually feels like they have to escalate.

She’s similar with most dogs. We take her to a supervised puppy playgroup and she tends to be one of the puppies who needs the most help regulating herself. She goes from 0–100 very quickly and doesn’t seem to naturally know when to disengage. Interestingly, she recently found one dog she clicked with (a Great Dane/Vizsla mix). They played tug together and it was the first time I didn’t have to be ready to grab & separate her the entire time which felt like a huge win.

She can calmly coexist with dogs when interaction isn’t expected. She does puppy training class next to other dogs and can usually sit with us at a coffee shop or park while other dogs are around without needing to get to them. It seems like the problem starts once she thinks another dog is available for interaction.

My goal isn’t necessarily to get the three dogs to play together. I’d really just like to teach Seaweed that she can exist around other dogs without constantly interacting with them, while also helping her learn to recognize and respect when another dog is not interested.

For those of you who have had very social/easily overstimulated puppies: how did you help teach this? Would you work on structured parallel activities, place/settle around the other dogs, very short interactions followed by separation, or something else?

I’d especially love any advice on how to build a healthy relationship between Seaweed and my parents’ dogs without expecting the older dogs to be the ones responsible for teaching her boundaries.

Murphy is 15 weeks old and I’ve just noticed that his jaw seems to be much bigger/lower on one side. The photos don’t really do it justice.

Is this normal or something to worry about?

My 10yo Vizsla/GSP has done this his whole life. Just locks in and sucks on his blanket (with paws involved). He’s always been like this, never grew out of it. Wondering if it’s just a comfort thing or maybe overstimulation? Anyone else’s dog do the exact same thing?

Waiting for their treat!

Some puppy spam of our 16 weeks old boy Toon. He get’s a little bitey sometime (open for tips) but other than that he’s a very good boy😁 He’s weighing 14kg’s at 16 weeks so hell probably be a big man later on. Anyone here that’s had similar experience with bigger vizsla’s with this weight at that age?

Introducing Miss Winnie, our gorgeous girl. Our first Vizsla, whilst she’s certainly kept us busy, she’s honestly been a little easier than some of the Vizsla stories had us expecting 😂. We know there’s still plenty of time for her to surprise us though