Hello everyone, our Dakota has progressively decided she does not like to ride in our truck at all. She will have a bowel movement within about 5 min. in the crate almost guaranteed which makes it very difficult to take her anywhere with us. So we haven't take her out in the truck at all for a month or so which maybe is making this worse now. I think it has to do with anxiety possibly because she never does this in the house anymore, maybe a pee once in a while so we know she can hold it. Any ideas how to how to get her more comfortable?
Also, I have on and off taken her jogging with me and she's mainly on the grass next to me but obviously is on the pavement too and she really pulls me along a lot of the way. This has happened once before and now today when we got back, upon examination of her back feet, in 2 places the pads are all worn down and one is hanging off and it's worn all the way to the skin looks like. It's not bleeding but I'm beginning to wonder what I'm doing wrong. Should she not be running about 1-2 miles a day? She's over a year. I thought her pads would be toughened up by now and the vet even recommended running with her because she's 25 lb. now and they said she shouldn't gain anymore.
So these are my worries. Any thoughts and advice is greatly appreciated.
Also, I have on and off taken her jogging with me and she's mainly on the grass next to me but obviously is on the pavement too and she really pulls me along a lot of the way. This has happened once before and now today when we got back, upon examination of her back feet, in 2 places the pads are all worn down and one is hanging off and it's worn all the way to the skin looks like. It's not bleeding but I'm beginning to wonder what I'm doing wrong. Should she not be running about 1-2 miles a day? She's over a year. I thought her pads would be toughened up by now and the vet even recommended running with her because she's 25 lb. now and they said she shouldn't gain anymore.
So these are my worries. Any thoughts and advice is greatly appreciated.