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Couldn’t Resist

Published July 18, 2022 by Nan Mykel

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Dog Lovers Follow

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Claire Louise

Jun 30

How do I punish a dog that bit my daughter for pulling its tail?

Get a newspaper and roll it up, or get something hard like a rolling pin, make sure your child and dog are both in the room and hit yourself over the head for being so stupid. Your dog is just defending itself, you need to teach your kid what’s acceptable and what isn’t when it comes to the dog. DO NOT ever punish the dog – and what good is it going to do after the incident anyway, it won’t even know what it’s being punished for.

If You Own a Dog, Here is a Helpful Bit of Advice — a re-blog

Published October 16, 2016 by Nan Mykel

Very valuable post, as all yours are!

Diane Ravitch's blog

This is off-topic. It is for dog owners only.

Those who have read this blog for a long while know that I have a dog and a cat, and I take very good care of them.

Ever since I got my big mutt named Mitzi, she has had a tendency towards diarrhea. As a puppy, she had giardia, which is a fancy way to say that her intestines are prone to diarrhea.

For a year or so, I took her to the vet and almost always got a prescription for a pill called metronidazole. That always works for her.

Then the woman who boards her when I travel told me a secret. Metronidazole is sold over the counter and online as Fish Zole. It is used to cure bacteria in fish (i.e., the kind in aquariums). I have since ordered it online, saving huge amounts of money in vet bills…

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