Our dog is old, by normal measures, and we’ve had a year of issues which has allowed me to take a glimpse into the world of pet medicine. It’s not pretty out there.
Dogs are dying from flea medicine that you give orally as a tablet. One woman lost both her dogs within hours—one big, one small dog. Obviously a lethal dose .
Vet bills that are beyond astronomical, obviously a deterrent to having or keeping your dog. We spent $3,000 in a day. The vet apologized personally for the ridiculous price, explaining the vet clinic is part of a corporation and that it embarrasses her to charge people so much for relatively minor occurrences. Our dog had three teeth pulled and a small cyst removed.
Flea medicine that simply does not work. And the thing is, you know it worked before. We’ve had a handful of dogs throughout my life and have never had so many products that simply aren’t effective at all. And reading reviews, you see this is true for a lot of people.
Medicines that can’t be trusted, just as in the human world.
Constant vaccines. We can’t buy our dog low-fat food from our vet unless he has all his vaccines. Some vaccines are worthwhile, I suppose, but others seem unnecessary and ridiculous. And we have to have an actual prescription card because this is “special food.” The control is beyond ridiculous.
Cheap plastic toys from China coated with who knows what crap. I read the cancer rate for dogs is incredibly high these days.
Really low quality food. We make our dog homemade food with chicken sweet potato, etc., which is why he’s still alive at 13. The food we used to feed him almost killed him.
Insisting on putting your dog to sleep for a teeth cleaning, which kills some dogs or at the very least, is a wallet killer.
After this sweet dog crosses the rainbow bridge, we aren’t getting another dog. And I hate to say it, but if these are control measures to keep you from having pets, at least at this house, it’s worked.
If you can go to a vet out in the country, you will be much better off. If you can feed them a raw or natural diet, that helps too. Some breeds are more prone to illness than others. A lot of the antiviral (heartworm) are ivermectin or similar structure.
I do believe at the heart of the Deep State desire, they want us to not have pets, as you noted below, pets are pure love. Dogs and cats especially. I'd argue dogs moreover, because they also serve purposes in MIL and LE. And they can sense evil, take down bad guys and save lives.
You touch my Belgian Malinois and I will kill you.
agree completely about vets out in the country being more reasonably priced, and often times, know about and will advise old remedies and ways of doing things...my older rescued bull mastiff was aging fast couple of years ago, listless and seemed like might have kidney issues...bloodwork all came back perfect, so i began to look online for alternate solutions and came across honey, must be raw and unfiltered...so, since my boy didn't have diabetes, i started him on honey twice a day, immediately cleared up his urine issues, and he started acting like a puppy again...i feel like the honey gave him another good year...neighbor had an older dog that seemed to be failing unnecessarily, so shared my honey experience, and he decided to try as a last resort, before EU...that was a couple of years ago, and his dog immediately responded well, and still going strong...not dispensing vet/med advice here, just some anecdotal info, fyi, but get bloodwork done to ck for diabetes first...
It was my understanding that if you touch the furry alligator, the owner won't have the time to get to you.
It's very possible. She's not bite trained, however she has a tremendous bite.
We are considering on getting a Mal pup. Currently have an energic six year old kid, two cats, and five chickens. Going to research the hell out of training methods before we do bring one home.
It's nice to hear that there are some vets that really care for the animals and not totally brainwash by the system.
You have to be the boss. I call my method the three Cs - Crisp, Concise, Consistent.
Crisp - Short, sharp words. If you train in English, feel free to substitute words. I use “pace” to keep her next to me when walking. “Spot” means sit and stay at the same time.
Concise - Dont give commands in the middle of a sentence like you’re talking to a toddler. Sit, not need “you need to SIT down”
Consistent - Self explanatory including whole family.
Use a good (Educator) e colllar. Don’t electrocute the beast but a low voltage zap is good for correcting bad behavior. Vibrate is a reminder.
Be patient. They are psychos until 6 mo. Exercise 30 min to 2 hours daily.
Don’t teach them stuff you don’t want them to like climbing a fence. Let them win at games - don’t make it too tough.
Expose them to everything you can - shooting range, cars, construction sites etc.
Consider adopting. Lots of Quality young Mals on the market.
Mine is service rated. I trained her myself.
Mine is a 3/10 on the Mal intensity Scale. Got lucky but I told the breeder what I wanted. They should be able to select your pup based on requirements at 4 weeks if they know their shit.
Research your breeder.
Can passing pedestrians pet your Malinois? I enjoy being friendly with pets in the neighborhood. I do ask, unless it's obvious.
She's very friendly after an initial inspection of said pedestrian. Best dog I've had. But she is an anomaly for Mals. Very low drive as long as she gets 30-45 min of hard exercise a day. Highly socialized. Service registered and good in all conditions.
Beautiful!