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If she's having tests then hopefully your vet has also mentioned potential kidney problems or diabetes. Here's hoping the excess drinking it due to being insdie with the heating - fingers crossed.

me too

I would hope the DIY place has dryers, ring them up and if they do that is probably your best bet

Aww :D did you post about Gilbert? I can't remember. I agree with trying to tire her out with walking and games - any chance you know of other smaller dogs she could have 'play dates' with?

D does drontal wormers every 3 months and heartguard monthly tablets he's always been on heartworm meds - don't need that risk

You're braver than me, I'm too scared to trial His coat is looking good too

you can't sharpen the human set?

:cool: hahaha thanks Gail!! Now where is that pic of Angus???

it's like a chamois, but not as rubbery

that doesn’t include pick up and drop off - and it also helps if it isn't the first time a dog has been to the groomer and can tolerate the clippers I don't think I could or would want to maintain that speed for 16 dogs either, but some groomers do. Shmoo - as for wages you've got to consider the overheads of the business and then either increase clients or downsize location, working from home is looking better and better huh

Aww poor old chook I shouldn't read this section at work Thinking of you Katie, let me know if you need any other jobs done.

You can get away with using a human hair dryer, just don't put it on too high and use some common sense. I would probably apply the Aloveen conditioner after the hair drying as you can leave it in :p

You can make the best money in grooming if you own the business and invest in retail. Wages for groomers and 'animal attendants' suck - you'd never get ahead on them. If you go in as a contractor and can work out 50% commission it could be worthwhile - but you might as well start your own business. My brother and I can both do a '20 minute malt' and a '10min terrier' ( :p ) so if you were charging a low rate of $50 for a maltese clip you'd be on $25 an hour, which is almost as much as I make in the APS atm (lowly newbie I am) You could also specialise in larger dogs and from the prices in the Samoyed thread you could do very well, at the moment I only do little dogs (and standard poodles, shepherds and friend's larger dogs) eta: actually that'd be $50 an hour --- dayum! now I just need to find 16 maltese a day x 5 days a week!

Hrm, Jim's stitches didn't look like that - but I think I recall your dog (?) having an undescended teste? I'd try and keep him as stationary as possible over night, poor bugger

Where is Steve? I've read that too, but I figured if you were feeding good quality meat it shouldn't be an issue.

in the end you don't even bother talking to them just be consistent in whatever signals you start to adopt

Left is the side your dog is on I also do different foot positions for when D is in a stay, or if he's just in a wait (for a recall) and different hand positions if he's going to be changing positions. If he's in a stay I'll notice he'll relax and look around, if he knows that position changes are coming he's very focused on me.

Well generally if he was a Beardie you wouldn't clip the top of the foot, but if they are bothering him it's worth giving them a trim. I can explain to you the best way to do it, but it's probably just easier to book him in a groomer for a wash and tidy up. You can even ask them to keep the clipped feet camoflauged if you don't want him looking too silly. Otherwise just ask for poodle feet or tight scissored feet.

Do any groomers have fake nails? One of my coworkers had them for a month or so and when she got the removed the "situation" between her fake nail and real nail was horrible! I think one nail bed was infected. I found a cocker hair stuck in my finger webbing..... after 2 weeks off grooming!

Toohey - have you got any shots of you mob when they start to grow out from that very short clip?

I know Shek, that is classic! Great tribute Warley

:D

hrm.. I can't recall any stupid requests for stylings, although I'm sure there have been some. But I have gotten a few people asking to keep the hair from their dog when we clip it so they can spin it into jumpers etc. And then there are those clips that I refuse to be involved in with healthy double coated breeds and shaving short haired dogs. Although I did have a communication error the other day when a owner told another groomer she "loved the face" on a mini poodle, so I left it long (as it was) and styled a teddybear head so it was at least tidy and eyes clear of hair, when she picked it up she asked for it shorter... and then shorter. Turns out when she said she loved her dogs face, she meant the face under all that hair - standard poodle face! I told her next time to just ask for a face shaved like a poodle. Then there was a lady with a cute little shihtzu pup that had a top knot but wanted the hair trimmed on the nose, I was really hesistant to do this because of all the work it takes to train the hair on top knot so I waited until the owner got back so I wouldn't mess it up. Yep, she still wanted the hair scissored all around the nose, so that the dog looked like a puppy again with all those sticky hairs in her face. It looked cute, but did mess up the base of the knot.

Can you post a picture of your boy? For beardies I tend to only use a steel comb and slicker, but seeing what his coat is like can help people suggest what tools would work.