Rascalmyshadow

Thanks I’m going to ring them as soon as they open this morning. Unfortunately up here vet visits are expensive and they charge even for follow up stuff. Its been quite a few years since I had a female dog desexed and I don’t recall any of them having anything like this afterwards.

I am having some issues with our 9 month old chi and her toileting. They are a breed that are notoriously hard to toilet train, we had our previous girl very well trained but Maisie will get up on furniture and poop/pee, she will do it on the carpets and even in the big dogs beds. She is in a puppy pen at night so that’s not an issue but any other time it’s a big problem. We have the bedroom gated so she can’t access the carpet, but the dog beds and couches are more problematic. I had major surgery 8 weeks ago and spent a week in hospital, then I had a huge recovery, due to this I was put on multiple extremely strong pain meds so I haven’t been able to keep a good routine with her, I also find it hard with her being so small, she disappears and by the time you find where she is she’s peed/pooped somewhere she shouldn’t have. Can someone please just give me a good daily routine to follow with her to correct the toileting. This is something I should know but with everything that’s happened recently my brain isn’t functioning at its best and trying to put a schedule together in my head is just a bit too overwhelming at the moment.

On Tue Cassie my kelpie girl went in to be desexed, surgery didn’t go straight forward and she lost more blood than she should of. We took her home and had to monitor her closely for a couple of days, luckily she was fine. Today I have noticed a hard marble size lump at the surgical site, not sure if I should be worried, stupidly I forgot to close my bedroom door during the day and she jumped over the baby gate a few times. I assume it’s not a hernia as it’s hard but not sure if it warrants spending even more money at the vet tomorrow. I am super paranoid about anything happening to her as she has been my support over the last 18 months, helping me get through the loss of two children, and having major surgery to remove two spinal tumours.

Rather than giving chicken necks give whole chicken frames, I stuff them with other food and give them as a meal twice a week to my bigger dogs.

Of the breeds you have listed I personally would put the Samoyed at the top of the list, they tend to be bouncy, happy, easy going dogs, ideal around young kids although probably not the best guard dogs. I grew up with 2 GSD’s they were both amazing tolerant dogs but were extremely protective especially the female, nobody could get anywhere near us. Another breed you might not have considered is a Bearded Collie, they are amazing with kids, are very smart and so easy to train, you can clip their coat to any length you like, they tend to be very social and love lots of activity. They will bark (and they have a good bark) if anyone is around but are useless guard dogs, they’d rather lick someone to death. This is our girl.

It is best not to clip a dog with a double coat however if you feel your dog would be better off don’t clip too short, not only does it wreck the coat but it also leaves no protection from the sun and heat, shaving a dog in summer doesn’t make it more comfortable but clipping to a medium length can help.

I have owned, rescued and professionally groomed poodles for over 20 years (this is the first time I haven’t had one in the house since I was a teenager) in all three sizes, I have seen a few that have been great family dogs but the majority not suitable around very young kids, in fact out of any breed they have been the most common breed to bite their owners. I took on a few rescues because of their behaviour around the families young kids and I have also rehomed my own for the same reason. Good luck to the OP hopefully it works out for you but clearly you have not considered or acknowledged my post which gives the honest truth, they are a breed I adore and would love to own again but until my youngest daughter is a teenager I would never risk bringing another one into my house. They are great dogs in the right environment and if I was so desperate to have one with a young child then a small standard would be the best choice.

Yes that’s exactly how I have found them, adaptable is the right word. Poodles on the other hand the opposite and often have no patience for young children or often even other people besides their owner.

I would use Wind in the Willows. We got the choice with our little chi, we chose her pedigree name South Sea Pearl (which are the most beautiful expensive pearls) and her name is Maisie which means pearl in Scottish (my grand mother was Scottish), thought it all tied together well.

Interesting you say your schnauzer isn’t tolerant, I have handled many in the 25 years I’ve been grooming and with a couple of exceptions they have all been tough tolerant little dogs and talking with their owners they were quite sociable as well.

I would stick with the schnauzer providing your child is gentle, they are more tolerant and more likely to be family orientated. We owned and rescued poodles for 20 years, the main reason we no longer have them is they often aren’t great with younger kids and tend to attach to one person, there are of course exceptions but overall I wouldn’t recommend one in your situation.

I spent years trying to do the same thing, I realised I was wasting my time, to be honest many of the ‘oodles’ I groomed had great temperaments and were great family dogs and in all honesty we’re perfectly suitable for what their owners wanted.

My very first own dog was a Doberman called Taran.

Ok I think I’ll give them the Supercoat and not stress too much, I have noticed they only eat the Canidae if they are really hungry and some days they won’t eat it at all. Would prefer them to enjoy their food, it’s also a lot cheaper and easier to get.

Would you change to a lesser quality dry food if your dogs preferred it. We normally use Canidae dry along with tinned, cooked and raw foods, the dogs get lots of variety. When we got Maisie the breeder was using Supercoat so we bought a bag and planned on slowly swapping her over, I have been mixing it in with the other dogs dry and have noticed they pick it all out and leave the Canidae. Trying to decide which food to now use, the better quality or the one they prefer.

Yeah I decided on medium, thought asking on here would be some help but obviously not lol. After searching everywhere Etsy, EBay, online pet stores etc. I have decided on this Red Dingo tag for Cassie and waiting for my OH to choose one for Abby, although if he doesn’t hurry up I’m going to decide on something! I found a few I liked but these looked like the best quality and they have a lifetime guarantee.

I want to order tags for Abby and Cassie but trying to work out what size would be best, Abby is a bearded collie and Cassie is a kelpie, the tags will be circular with either a 30mm (medium) or 38mm (large) diameter, I was thinking medium but not 100% certain.

Contact KCR pet transport 1300766992, I used them to fly my chihuahua puppy from Broken Hill to Melbourne with a 4 hour stop off in Sydney, they were great to deal with.

We have an acre of backyard for the dogs, they love my daughters sandpit, the frog pond and fish pond, running over and under our bridges, digging the gravel from between the pavers, collecting and chewing sticks that have turned to charcoal from the fire, and the two big girls absolute favourite is using our hedges to play hide and seek, chasey through them and climbing on top of them. Abby in the sandpit. Abby and Cassie playing on top of one of the smaller hedges, they have also created a tunnel through it and through the big one in the background. This is the bridge that’s at ground level, they love running over it and using underneath as a tunnel.

I think $2000 for a well bred, well raised, cared for puppy is quite reasonable, that is around the amount we have paid for our last two, but when breeders of most breeds are starting at $3000 and up, plenty in the $4000-$5000 price range I think that is getting ridiculous for a family pet.

At the moment puppy prices are ridiculous, we were lucky our last two were reasonably priced but over all they are way over priced, $3000+ for limited register for so many breeds????? I paid $300 for my kelpie x and less for Rascal and they are just as good as our two pedigree dogs.

There is no short term solution, dog’s like yours were my specialty when I was grooming, from here on all grooming needs to be slow and positive, aim for a good experience rather than a great job. i would sedate and muzzle, as your dog improves lessen the sedation, then aim to reduce the use of the muzzle (although he may need to be muzzled always when doing the front legs). Try to touch his feet and legs between grooming while rewarding him, stop as soon as he reacts badly, wait for him to calm, reward then touch again. Do this each day in a non threatening way. Some dogs improve very quickly, others take weeks to months. Keep in mind once you remove the fear you lose the bad reactions. Where are you located?

If she is happy with a medium size dog that needs regular grooming and lots of exercise/mental stimulation a bearded collie would be fitting. One of the main reasons I agreed with my husband getting a beardie is because of their beautiful temperament and cuddly nature with out being overly needy. Everyone tends to lean toward poodles when they have allergies but on the whole they easily become one ownered and clingy and not overly social (not all of them of course) one of the biggest reasons we no longer have any after living with them for the last 20 or so years.

Oh sounds good.

Oh what sort of doggie? I looked for breeders and decided to be flexible. glad I did because she’s fitted in beautifully. Maybe we could catch up and go walking.