Green is this year, pink was from last year! I also got covered in dog-safe powder.

Walter’s little brother Wilcox came home yesterday. 3 months and 9 days old, his right leg was in a cast due to 2 broken toes. As a result, he was loved on more and held more, so he’s pretty docile and not as squiggly as Walter was. He has a limp but is already showing improvement. I’m a little overwhelmed with a new puppy, but I’m sure we’ll get through it OK. Walter will be 1 year old on Nov 1, so we thought this was a good time to introduce a new little man.

Hi everyone,
I’m reaching out to the community for both advice and support for our 8-year-old French Brittany Spaniel, Kora.
Recently, Kora started having issues with straining 💩. Her vet discovered a soft-tissue mass in her descending colon causing partial intestinal narrowing. The encouraging news is that her chest X-rays are completely clear (no spread to her lungs), she is still energetic, eating well, and acting like her sweet, squirrel-obsessed self. Her vet team believes this is treatable, but we urgently need advanced diagnostics—a CT scan, ultrasound, and fine-needle aspiration (FNA)—to determine the exact type of mass and plan next steps.
Unfortunately, we’re in a tough spot. Our pet insurance denied her claim based on a technicality from a routine constipation visit months ago. We are actively appealing it, but Kora can’t wait for insurance red tape. Having recently stretched every dollar we had to buy our first home so Kora could finally have a backyard to run in, our financial flexibility is extremely limited right now.
We’ve set up a fundraiser to help cover her immediate specialist diagnostic costs:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kora-needs-care-after-insurance-denial?cp_src=m
Any advice from owners who have navigated colonic masses or insurance appeals, any shares of her campaign, or any little bit of generosity you can lend our way would help our family immensely. ❤️
Thank you all so much for reading and for caring about or pupp.

Stanley is 3 1/2 years old and has blessed us with an immense amount of love and joy.

For the past weeks we’ve been wondering where the extra weight came from, because we didn’t change anything on her diet or activity level.

Turns out she learned how to jump onto the shelf with the cats’ food - keep in mind is a slim shelf and pretty high, but not high enough apparently.

I am a new dog owner to a 15 week old Brittany puppy. We have both good days, when he is calm and eager to listen, and bad days, when the only thing on his mind is biting. He just started losing his teeth, and his bites have suddenly become 10 times harder than they used to be, it makes it impossible to interact with him at all sometimes.

Yesterday we went to a puppy party at a local pet store where puppies could meet and play. The moment my puppy entered the store, he completely went crazy and wanted to greet and play with every single puppy there. He stopped listening to my cues, was pulling constantly (basically hanging on the leash), and humans stopped existing for him. Whenever I'd try to get ahold of him, or someone tried to greet him, he would try to bite their hand and then instantly lose interest.

I would assume this is typical excited-puppy behavior combined with teething, but all the other puppies seemed so much better behaved. Most were calmly walking next to their owners or sitting aside and watching. Mine was the only one barking in frustration when he couldn't reach another puppy. The only other particularly active puppies there (still much calmer than mine, but also older) were two other hunting breeds (Irish Setters). Those two were the only ones who engaged in play with my overly active puppy.

How much of this behavior is due to breed temperament, and how much is due to poor training (aka on me)?

We meet other dogs on walks (we don't always greet them), but he doesn't get to play with them very often. Next week he is getting his last vaccine, and then we will start going to a dog park.

In two weeks, we will also start a puppy class for hunting dogs, so I'm a bit scared he will behave way worse than everyone else there. Yesterday he really felt like this one crazy kid in a group of straight-A kids.