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I've been a dog person for close to 60 years and we brought home our first female dog tonight. She is a retired breeder and gave birth about 6 weeks ago. I notice that one of her teats is quite swollen. It doesn't seem hot to the touch, red or particularly tender. Should I be worried? We...

Mickey got neutered on Friday, December 17th. Since one of his testicles didn't descend, he has 2 incisions. The one in the usual place seems to be healing nicely but the one in the fold where his back leg meets the bottom of his torso seems like it has a small red bubble. It's really...

I saw on the kennel web page that the breeder that owns our dachshund puppy's mom is looking to rehome her. I called and told her that I want her. I'm so excited. This is the second breeder (that I know of) that has owned this little 4 year old red, long coat doxie. I can pick her up (7...

I was told by my breeder that my Mickey is a Mini Dachshund. And I see his parents have a new litter and the puppies are listed as being between 5 - 8 lb as adults. Mickey is 6 1/2 months old and weighs 12 lbs!! He's certainly not overweight as you can feel his ribs when you pet him. I...

So Mickey will be 5 months old next week and we are planning to take our first road trip tomorrow morning at 5 am. I came home from work to find that he has the runs (1st time!). There were 3 small puddles of poop on the puppy pad and then he vomited just a little. THEN he ate his dinner and...

I took Mickey to the vet last week for his first check up since he's been home. The vet says he's healthy and maybe just a tad underweight but better to be a tad underweight then overweight. He's 10 1/2 weeks old now. A couple of days a week I have to leave him at home alone (with 2...

I just brought my beautiful 8 week old mini dachshund pup home. He's so sweet but he seems too skinny to me. When I pet him it seems like I can feel every rib, vertebrae and hip bone. Now, I'm a portly lady so maybe I'm just not used to normal. And he doesn't seem especially hungry even...

I told a friend that I am adopting a mini-doxie, dapple long coat puppy and she said "Oh no! Doxies are the bossyist dogs in the world". Although I fostered a mini-doxie for a few months I've never raised one. Do you think they are bossy?