These two are staying for Christmas 🎄

I’m looking into getting a Lagotto and I live in Southern California. Any recommendations for reputable breeders near me?

Has anyone else had issues with ear infections with their Lagotto? I know it can be more common in dogs with curly coats and flat ears, but we are really struggling. It seems if I miss cleaning her ears for one week she gets an infection 😞.

Any tips for staying on top of this?

Lovely muppet

Which one would be your choice for the first walks out and heel training for an 11-week-old puppy?

Thank you!

Has anyone’s Lagotto developed lumps on their body? Barry has four but three have recently appeared. I took him to the vet and one has bacteria in it. I’m taking him back for a recheck next week. This breed is not common in my area. Thanks in advance.

Hello!

I have a 16 month old Lagotto (female) and I live in a village. More presicely at the edge of the village. You ‘ll see why this matters.

We have a pretty big yard and the dog lives there, not in the house. The problem is that we are practically surrounded by sheepdogs, some of them pretty nasty. Almost every night they start barking at each other, or to whatever they think they see, dragging along my dog to their… concert.

She doesn’t like them, she barks to them every time she senses them, day or night (that happens more at night for some reason). But I am concerned that we cannot have a good sleep almost every night due to this.

Sometimes I have to get outside, in the dead of night, to calm her. She looks lively, just like daytime, she plays with me, she wants to interact with me, but the moment I get inside, she will start all over again.

It is pretty annoying.

Is there any good advice you can give me? Any word of hope maybe?

I can answer to any of your questions.

Thanks a lot.

P.S. She is my first dog ever. I had zero experience with dogs before.

When my Lagotto was a puppy, I got him a bed, but he immediately tore it up. Now he mostly chooses to sleep on the floor or the couch. I’m wondering if this is just a Lagotto thing or if there’s a bed out there he’d actually love. What have you found works best for your Lagotto? Any recommendations?

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Looking for opinions on getting a second Lagotto. In your experience do they assimilate well? Do they tend to play with each other and entertain each other?

We have an almost 3 year old who is well trained and starting to mellow a little. My wife wants to get him a companion. We do not have kids and we spend most of our free time taking him for a walk so we definitely have the bandwidth. I just worry that he has so much attention now that it might be difficult for him to share it.

Many of you have seen our stories over the last year or so - our not-quite-two year old girl has had on and off diarrhea/vomiting since we got her a year and a half ago. First, it was giardia, which was resolved fairly quickly. We went through a long period of trying several different foods, pumpkin puree, probiotics, but the on and off diarrhea & vomiting continued. X-rays, an ultrasound, and eventually emergency surgery - they thought they saw an obstruction on the ultrasound but it turned out to be an inflamed colon - this was at not even 1 year old.

She was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (extremely uncommon for such a young dog), put on a prescription hydrolyzed protein diet, and all other animal products were removed from her diet, including bones, himalayan cheese chews, even pill pockets and toothpaste with chicken flavor was eliminated. She was put on a course of prednisone (steroids) to bring the inflammation under control, and after a few months, was weaned down to a low maintenance dose every few days.

However, despite all of this, she continues to have varied stools. We started putting a muzzle on her when she went outside, as she also likes to eat things she finds and we are trying to eliminate any additional factors.

Once she stabilized a bit with the steroids, I started noticing her vomiting every month, about 36 hours after I gave her the heartworm preventative (every 30 days), followed by about 2-3 weeks of on and off diarrhea. Just when she starts to feel better, it's time to give her the preventative medication again.

Of course, the medication companies say side effects are rare and not serious, and the vet's calls to the companies repeat the same information. The vet had us switch to a topical preventative in hopes of there being less reaction, however, not only did the same thing happen with the topical, but it was worse. We are now over 2 weeks since the first topical dose, and she's still having diarrhea and now trembling and overall unwell seeming (this is how she started getting when everything came to a head last year and ended with the IBD diagnosis after emergency surgery).

Thankfully, our vet is reasonable and caring and she agreed it's time to pause the heartworm preventatives and see if things get better on their own. I have strongly suspected all along that it was the medications (heartworm and flea/tick) that were causing these problems, as they are the only thing that has been consistent since we got her.

I'm just curious whether other LRs have experienced this sensitivity/reaction to heartworm or flea/tick medications. I know that herding breeds like collies can have issues with them, but LRs are still rare in the US and I cannot find any information on other LRs having such reactions. We did get her from a very reputable breeder in the southeast US, but she's not aware of any of her previous litters having this issue.

Olive (left) meets Clyde - from the other litter born the same month, so they played together for weeks as babes! Clyde has had a puppy cut and Olive hasn’t yet, so it’s fun to see what she might look like after a trim! @motherpupper in Portland Oregon

Hello, I just picked up my 8 week old Lagotto today. He has really bad dandruff and won’t stop scratching. I’m not sure if it’s because the breeder kept them outside or the food they were eating. I gave him a bath when I got him home and that seems to have made it worse. Any advice, ideas, or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Been wanting to set something up for quite awhile. Anyone in the area (seriously) interested? It’s so nice to see them all together 🥹

Obvi want all dogs/humans to be safe and comfortable as well, so open to discussion and other ideas. Note: I find PA more open to off leash scenarios vs NJ (def open to hearing more on other non-dog park activities if peeps have them for NJ).

Have a great wknd and happy holidays!