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Just another quick update. Mid December I came home from doing kennels at work in the evening. I hadn't been gone more than 15 minutes, both dachshunds were in their x pen while I had slipped out and my partner was upstairs taking care of some work while I was gone. He didn't hear anything...

This is completely off topic and not something I really have the energy for at the moment, however, I'm always up for a friendly debate so if you'd like to continue it we can either create another thread (as this one is about experiences with Hills B/D food) or we can take this to PMs. I do...

This is absolutely not true. To keep it very simple, cats, or any animal for that matter, get crystals when the pH of their urine isn't neutral (although there are some types of crystals that can form in neutral urine). The main reason wet food is recommended rather than dry is so that the...

Just coming back to update and saw the response. B/D doesn't come in a wet formula, at least not here. We did a trial of B/D alone and it did help a bit. I would definitely suggest it for a dog that is not as bad as Sadie. We added Anipryl (the generic version though), starting at the lowest...

Oh I definitely don't care about the quality at this point! One thing that I've noticed, at least with my dogs, is that they are actually doing better than they have done in years on "crap" food compared to the holistic/premium/raw diets. The boys (standard dachshund and king shepherd) are...

All of my dogs do it. The dachshunds and the shepherd. Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk

I have a standard and a mini, they are only allowed to sleep with us occasionally. Sometimes that's a couple of times a week, other times just on Saturday's. They always sleep with us Saturday night, I work Monday to Saturday and need a good night's sleep. Saturday night it doesn't matter...

It could be a medical issue as well, the stress of moving may have flared up a uti or something similar. I would have her in for a general exam with urinalysis to start. If she continues to do it, she should be contained until you can get it under control again. Either use a crate or ex pen...

The do sometimes drop after 8 weeks, we give them up until around 6-8 months before we're pretty sure they won't come down. Is there actually a testicle present? You can try lifting his front half up so he's standing upright (like a person), sometimes this will cause it to fall down for a bit so...

She looks smooth to me, might have a thicker coat than most though. I have two broken coated longs (1 long parent, 1 smooth), both has very visible feathering on their ears as that age. Sadie, the mini, has a very short but fluffy coat. The hair is fine but there is a lot of it. Fynn, the...

I thought I'd update this since we've now tried the food. Sadie has been on b/d for roughly 1 month now. There had been some slow progress but she had started to plateau. Her improvement on the food was enough that we have decided to continue with it. We have also started her on selegiline...

Dogs yelp when corrected by them because they aren't being used properly or aren't fitted properly. Next time you see one on a dog look at how it's positioned - 99% of the time they are in the wrong place. My dogs have never yelped with them. I did not say they were for every dog either. I used...

Micro-prong collars are prong collars with smaller links so they fit properly on small breeds. I'm not going to get into a debate over them, I've heavily researched them, read studies on all types of training aides, spoken with trainers and even tried it on myself before putting one on any...

She's adorable! Mine don't let me know when they need to go out (ages nearly 6 and nearly 8), we just let them out every 2-4 hours and they go. They are either crated or in an exercise pen when we aren't home. Due to different living situations, Sadie is trained to go outside, on pee pads...

IMO, teaching them to walk properly on a leash is the most important. There are dangers with every type of training tool, collars and harnesses included, especially when not used properly. I have Buddy Belts for Sadie and Fynn, but we don't use them often. Most often we just walk them on...

I used to feed prey model raw, commerical raw and the all natural kibbles - I even worked for one of the brands for a while. The longest part of that time was on prey model raw. Our cats were on raw too. She did ok on all of them, but has done the best on prescription kibble, probably because...

Sadie, my nearly 8 year old mini has, among many other things, dementia. She's a bit young for it, but given that she also has epilepsy and potentially other neuro issues, we figure she is aging faster than normal. She has been getting terrible lately, I think we're entering a "bad" phase (she...

It's been a long time since I was a member of a dachshund forum, all the ones I used to frequent are long since gone or not very active any longer. I'm sure there are a few people on here that I will (eventually!) remember from the other sites. A bit about my and my monsters... I work at a...