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Same scenario just over a year later. We bought this toy called a mammoth snake biter
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You can but it you lose the additional ride height without the airbags, so you end up with an Audi A6 with a black nose cone and not much else
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We looked at A6 allroads and I avoided due to the air suspension being riddled with age related issues.
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The hand / foot biting nearly drove me to despair when ours was a puppy.
We were recommended using these really hard chew sticks called a bully/pizzle stick, google what it is at your own peril, but one of those used to last months when she was a pup and was a great way to distract her from trying to shred my jeans, and we also used it to placate her when she was trying to settle in the crate / night time / anytime we needed to work from home. I think other people use Yak sticks but they may not be available in Spain, we can't get them in NZ.
I really liked channeling that bitey play into playing tug with the dog. We made some from plaited microfibre cloth strips (we were in lockdown and it was all we could fashion), now we have a tug toy from Tug-E-Nuff in the UK and it's great.
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Getting spayed is a bit more invasive than dogs getting the snip.
We had Phoebe done and we didn't need the cone / donut at all, mostly because the wound on a female dogs stomach is easily covered with a self adhesive dressing generally. They left that on until she went back for a checkup a week or so later.
We had no real issues with her trying to lick even after they took it off, the main issue was stopping her jumping on/off the sofa or bed etc and running about too excitedly.
That and the post op meds they gave us for her gave her the runs something chronic, we stopped giving her them after a few days
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This was my second choice car when i was looking, purely because the boot is a bit smaller than a passat (or outback)
Is it a D5 or a petrol?
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Last time we went to Mallorca we rented through rentalcars.com, we got a seat estate car from Record with no drama at all. Also used Wiber though them the year before and also had no problems.
We got the additional insurance from icarhireinsurance.com
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3.0 H6 is good but quite thirsty. Although actually all the outback’s are quite thirsty by modern standards.
H6 is better in someways - timing chain instead of belt and VVT
Head gaskets on a Subaru is an engine out job FYI so it can be a bit more spendy than a conventional inline 4cyl
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Yeah ours is pretty good off the lead, ultimately she will do everything i want unless there is an Avian intervention shall we say
As others have said, you'll get some good help looking into food guarding or resource guarding.
We started from a very young age by hand feeding the dog at every meal time which i think is what most of the positive reinforcement books tell you (if you start with a puppy).
Spaniels as a breed trait always want a trade - i always think of it as i pay her a wage for doing what i want her to do. It did take a while to train the drop / leave it command particularly with a toy but i just made sure i had something to reward her with that was higher value than the soft toy / sock she'd stolen from somewhere.