Oily Drop Bullies

14/02/2025

Valentines Day PSA from GrCh Sugar Daddy 🧠💬:
"Reasons I Should Be Your Valentine 💐🍫🧁:
5. Lots of Cuddle Experience 💝
3. I have been told all my life I am handsome 👀
h. I will protect you from all evildoers 🦸‍♂️
1. Convenience. I am literally right here.. 👋
a. I don't have a valentine yet. 🥹"

13/02/2025

Article:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/pet-fur-found-in-songbird-nests-contains-high-levels-of-pesticides-study-finds?fbclid=IwY2xjawIbMuFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHW_flD6oBVCjDU8nlmPvUQZUWhXfacRP_2Fzn6P4atzKxWotHkYiaDpVgQ_aem_3sxbLjSl86cvufociNXTtQ

Study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725000737?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=908a988c1c6d63c1

10/02/2025

06/02/2025

GrCh Sugar Daddy got his first play date today with his son; i totally didn't expect the level of excitement from him that he gave us 😅😅 I was certainly ill prepared in the moment.

The b***y swinging and side hopping was in full force; we really don't have enough room for these 100lbs of uncoordinated antics, sir 🫠

P.s. I'll apologize for the number of times you have to see b***y 🕳 's in the video (🫠🫣)

29/01/2025

"Yeah... you do it anyway" 🥲🐾💓

📖: R.M. Drake - "Dog People"

22/01/2025

9 weeks post baby body 😘🤌

Homegirl got thicccc in all the right places 🥰🙌

🟢 RACEN ODB'S Divine Manifestation, SPOT, CGCA, CGCU, BCAT, FDN, NTD, T3, BR3K23, BR3K24 ("Chakra")

Health Testing Results:
Embark - Clear
"Rage Syndrome" - BPBM - A0/A0 (Not Affected)
BAER - Normal
CAER - Normal
Dentition - Full
Thyroid - Normal
Patella- Normal
Kidney - Normal
Cardiac: Normal
Trachea - Normal
Shoulders - Normal
Spine - Normal
Elbows - Normal
Hips - Fair
Pennhip: R: .43 L: .38 (No OA/ No Cavitation)

18/01/2025

Crate Training ✅️💪
Car Rides ✅️💪

18/01/2025

The unfortunate blessing of dog breeding is even when you dont want to get out of bed after losing a monumental dog; the Littles will always force you to "keep going". There's no time to mourn, you just go into autopilot to make sure the little ones aren't ever missing a single necessary step in their emotional growth.

Its a blessing & a curse to have the puppies around to distract from the heartbreaks

Enjoy Blooper being Blooper 🥲🫶

Hes still looking for his forever couch:

https://apply.gooddog.com/oily-drop-bullies-new-york

16/01/2025

Today is an emotionally tough day.

I've made the incredibly hard decision to put SolidBlueKennel's Hazel (the matriarch) of my kennel down later today. I had really strong hopes that she would still be going strong come April 1st for her 14th birthday celebration, but unfortunately she has started to rapidly decline and it has becoming unsafe for her getting around the house after a few slips/falls down stairs while just trying to get outside for bathroom duties. Her appointment has been made for 1:30 p.m. today with a company called "In The Comfort of Home".

Did you know Hazel had actually saved my life at one time... I've been pretty open about my domestic violence background with an ex (that breakup is what landed me with the dogs and out of pure desperation I decided to become a Breeder, with zero knowledge at the time of what I was doing and what was entailed in that decision.

I don't think we had her for even a few months at the time when there was an "incident" between us in my garage over the summertime and this dog took it upon herself to breakout through the door into the garage (where I was being held by my throat, with my feet off the ground) and charged full speed ahead to slam her body into said person which caused grip to let loose and me to fall to the ground; gasping to catch my breath. Hazel then put herself between me and said person growling and snarling, which thankfully intimidated said person enough at the time they actually left the property (for a few days). I knew in that moment she wasn't ever going anywhere.

Hazel helped me raise every single dog that's come into my home in our 12 years together. Not to mention she's the reason Prince Charmer ever existed..... She is definitely a one in a million dog.

Forgive me if I'm quiet or not as responsive these next few weeks especially. Things are going to look really different in my life now that I'm losing the last of my original crew of the dogs that made me fall absolutely in love with the American Bully breed.
Just a few photos of her 12 years in my life ❤

16/01/2025

“What’s the hardest part about having a dog?” they asked, their tone casual, like it was just another question.

I glanced at the worn leash hanging by the door, my chest tightening. “Letting them go,” I said quietly.

They frowned a little, waiting for me to explain. “They come into your life like they were always meant to be there,” I said, trying to find the words. “They make everything better—simpler, brighter. And you think it’s always going to be that way. But it’s not. One day, they’re gone, and you’re left with all the space they used to fill.”

They nodded, but I wasn’t sure they understood. “It’s not the messes they made or the routines you have to let go of,” I continued. “It’s the absence. You walk into the house, and it feels... wrong. The quiet is heavier. The mornings don’t feel the same without them nudging you awake.”

“So why do it?” they asked, their voice softer this time.

I sighed, glancing down at my hands. “Because the love they give you is worth every bit of the heartache. They teach you how to love without holding back, even when you know it’s going to hurt in the end. And you keep choosing that love because you know it’s one of the best things you’ll ever feel.”

R.M. Drake 🐶 from the book ' Dog People'

Artist Credit : Iain Welch

13/01/2025

Today the babies were introduced to Whole Prey🐥 Quail Chicks 🐥(freeze dried):

Quail is a lean & Low Calorie Protein
High in Phosphorus & Iron (great for strong muscle, bone 🦴 & tissue development 💪)

They definitely loved it!

🛍: Girls Gone Raw Pet Food (based in Ohio)

Blooper is still looking for his forever 🏡:
https://apply.gooddog.com/oily-drop-bullies-new-york

13/01/2025

Good information for people wondering what to do when their dogs are sick and throwing up. Hope this helps some owners out 🙂

10/01/2025

ANIMAL TRAINER KAREN PRYOR HAS DIED

Karen Pryor died on January 4th. She was 92.

Ms. Pryor was a marine mammal trainer who first trained porpoises and dolphins in Hawaii at a sea life park founded by her husband, Tap Pryor, using a 20-page manual written by Ron Turner, a student of B. F. Skinner. Turner was training dolphins at Marineland in California using bridging techniques pioneered by Marianne and Keller Breland, also former students of B.F. Skinner.

Though she had little experience training dogs, Ms. Pryor thought rewards-based reinforcement training could be used to train dogs in much the same way it was used to train dolphins.

Ms. Pryor’s 1984 book, “Don’t Shoot the Dog,” (a title created by the publisher) popularized rewards based reinforcement training though, in fact, it gave very little practical information about dog training and was more of a biography sprinkled with anecdote and theory.

Ironically, Karen Pryor, could not let her own Border Terrier off leash in the woods, and used an Invisible Fence to keep that same dog in the yard.

On her web site Ms. Pryor explained her success with a low prey drive Poodle, but her failure with her own high prey drive Border Terrier:

“Going from that collie to terriers in the woods is just a shaping staircase; if you want to do it, it can be done, but it involves a lot of steps. For me, that's too much like work. My practical solution is a mix of training and management. The backyard is fenced, and there the dogs can bark and chase squirrels all they want. Outside the front door, on the sidewalk, we enjoy a shaped behavior of stalking squirrels, with an occasional brief 'chase' reinforcer. In the woods, my poodle, whose lust for squirrels is mitigated by his general timidity, can be off-leash, because he was quite easily shaped to come when called, even from squirrels. My 17-year-old border terrier, however, stays on-leash in the woods. From her standpoint, it's a lot better than no woods at all."

In “Don't Shoot the Dog” Ms. Pryor noted that she relied on an Invisible Fence to keep her Border Terrier in the yard:

"I used [a high voltage ‘Invisible Fence’ shock collar] when my terrier and I lived in a house in the woods. An actual fence would have been a perpetual invitation to try to dig under it or escape through an open gate; the conditioned warning signal and the Invisible Fence were far more secure."

In 1992 Ms. Pryor teamed up with dog trainer Gary Wilkes to demonstrate “clicker training“ for dogs, which proved to be a powerful tool for shaping uncoded tricks, but which was far less effective at suppressing or stopping self-rewarding or instinctive behavior.

Mr. Wilkes had, up to that point, trained over a 1,000 dogs using clicker training, and brought that practical tool and term into Ms. Pryor’s world of theory. “Clickers” were not mentioned at all in Ms. Pryor’s 1984 book.

Acolytes of Ms. Pryor tended to ignore her self-admitted dog training failures and to prosletyze “pure positive” and “force free” dog trainjng as a differentiating marketing gimmick, often incorrectly crediting Ms. Pryor with inventing clicker and rewards-based training.

In 2007 Ms. Pryor developed an on-line dog training franchise called the “Karen Pryor Academy”.

Ms. Pryor’s second husband was Jon Lindbergh, son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

In recent years, Ms. Pryor suffered from age-related dementia.

08/01/2025

C3 vaccines give a LONG LASTING IMMUNITY (with strong antibody levels) of at least 5-7 years! (F3 for cats are the same.)

If your pet has good antibody levels, any so-called 'booster' vaccination never increases antibody levels, or makes your pet's immunity any stronger.

This is because the antibodies grab and neutralise the vaccine before your pet's immune system can respond to it.

However, every single vaccination carries a risk of harm to your pet. This can be mild, but in some cases can trigger life-threatening diseases like immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia.

Sometimes vaccinations can trigger chronic illness, immune system dysregulation, allergies, autoimmune diseases, or other chronic issues.

So why do vets continue to re-vaccinate pets with unnecessary C3 (and F) vaccinations yearly, or three-yearly?

Is it a lack of knowledge?

There are stacks of high-quality evidence that show how long these vaccines give protection for!

Is it financial pressures?

I know my income in my practice dropped by 25% when I stopped re-vaccinating yearly and three-yearly!

What do you need to do to:

a) protect your pets from disease?

and...

b) minimise risk of vaccine injury and harm?

My advice is this.

ALWAYS titer test before any re-vaccination. If there are adequate antibody levels, your pets DON"T need re-vaccination.

Avoid non-core vaccinations unless there is a significant risk/benefit imperative.

And do everything you can to keep your pets vital and well with holistic health care, a high-quality fresh whole foods diet, and LOTS OF LOVE!

Message me if you need a one-on-one Zoom appt to go through the nitty gritty for your pets. (If you have a vaccine-injured pet, there are some things we can do that may help!)

I help animals all over the world heal and be well + happy with holistic veterinary care, kind training, and energy healing. If you want me to help your pets, message me! Zoom and in person appts available.

08/01/2025

Reach and extension are terms you hear often in dog show circles. This refers to the dog's front legs reaching and the rear legs extending when the dog is at a trot. Ideally, the reach and extension are balanced allowing the dog to move smoothly while keeping the topline level.