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Are any of your pets afraid of strange things? I had a dog that was absolutely terrified of balloons. I'm not actually sure why a 140 lb chocolate lab would be so scared of a balloon, but he really was. Whenever he would see one he got really jumpy and ran away. So since he used to love stomping...

That is nasty...and my dog does the same thing! Peaches will go from room to room, wastebasket to wastebasket searching for tissues or papertowels.

I'll try to paint the picture; you try to imagine it. It's early in the morning, and my husband is seated on an ottoman tying his shoes. Worn out before the day even begins, he drops his head into his hands...that's when he feels the tip of the dog's tongue tentatively licking the tip...

Brittany is quite possibly the sweetest dog I have ever met. She's actually a little too sweet. She's almost the kind of sweet that makes you sick to your stomach. Whenever I walk in she demands I give her attention and will paw at me and cry until I stoop down and give her a hug. She loves hugs...

I once read a summary of a book that claimed that beagles are one of the stupidest breeds of dogs. This shocked me because some of the smartest dogs I have ever encountered are beagles. For example, my family had a beagle that learned how to open the refrigerator! Then, I realized: the book was probably...

My brother was once sitting in a swivel chair eating something. Our huge dog kept begging for it. He put his feet on the dog's back and held the food out to the side. The dog lunged for the food, spinning my brother around and pushing the food out of his reach. He went for it again and had the same...

Do any of you have dogs that beg while you're eating dinner? My beagle will whine and cry every time she smells food. And if you don't pay attention to her, she gets steadily louder until she is barking at us to feed her. So I have been trying to break her of this habit. When she begs, I give...

My brother once looked at my beagle and said, "You know, it's a good thing you're cute because you're SO ANNOYING!" This really sums beagles up in a nutshell. I have had 4 beagles over the course of my lifetime and they are some of my favorite dogs. They have great personalities...

How do you train your dogs to obey you? I used to have a 140 lb chocolate lab. He was very sweet and loving, but he had absolutely no regard for us if he got loose. Whenever a female dog was in heat, he would do anything he could to muscle out the door and run off to find that week's love of his...

I didn't have the good sense to let go. My 140 lb chocolate lab actually DID drag me across the driveway--by his tail! It was the only thing I could grab when he broke out of the house one rainy night. A dog's tail is supposed to be fairly sensitive, but that didn't stop him from dragging...