lucylotto

Hi T time, I am from that area and a poodle rescue lady Janet Crilley, on the rescue page with a couple of poodles now, did give me a name and no of a good groomer down that way. Maybe give her a call. I live north end of Illawarra so have used a local person who I would recommend - Robyn from Diamond dog (0428 829 788) wash and she just clipped my x2 poodle types beautifully - but its 30 mins north Wgong. cheers

He looks beautiful and soo happy! What a great life you made for him with so much love.

He looks beautiful and soo happy! What a great life you made for him with so much love.

I think I saw it in petcare 200 today

I simply wasn't aware of that, thanks. I'll leave it in the list like Orijen for those who were using it before to still see the comparison. NB. I've also moved Dick Van Patten's above Artemis Maximal as 'meat' beats 'meal' as one of the first ingredients. thanks anthony! I have been looking and looking and getting soo confused.

yep my boy LOVES poo. especially possum poo, a real delicacy He also likes deer poo and sometimes his or his friends altho not as likely to eat this type but picks it up and brings it to me as a present!

thanks kirty and labby, I am thinking too, crate her at night. Never done this before and with other dog being compromised I think it best to narrow this down for her and us to gain control. She is also beginning to do an early am barking sesion which is not going down too well with 5 family members She is desexed. Unfortunaely we have designed our house so that all bedrooms are long way and closed offf from rest of house. So need them near to hear them. Also no.1 dog just huffs in my ear to wake me if he needs to go out. Day time is OK as when am home I do routinely take her outside and praise etc regularly and she very rarely makes a mistake. Now, have never crated before, so which crate? eg size, is portability important and where to buy? any suggestions. She is the size of a toy poodle and will end up large toy or small miniature I'm told. thanks again

Hoping to hear from anyone who may have advice: We have recently taken in a min poodle who is now 5months old. She has been with a carer since approx 10 weeks (or carer had her for 10weeks) after her initial owners had trouble having her in a unit. In rescue home I think she may have spent a fair chunk of time in kennel/run (not sure of %time). Her carer advised me she was pad trained. She is our second dog. 7month old 1st dog has been sleeping in my room and toilet training has gone well, at 7mth he has good overnite capacity and rarely needs to go during the nite now. He has always wanted to go outside for no. 2's to the point of some very disturbed nites when he had upset tummy wher he would run to door and be frantic to get out to 'go'. He is pretty much trained now. She wouldn't stay in her bed beside me when I tried her in with us (I realise looking back on past 2 weeks how different and scary the change was for her and her personality is now surfacing and she is gorgeous) So I have been leaving her in the family room with access to rest of house blocked off overnite. No1 dog has since joined her and sleeps out there with her now, but what worries me if he needs to let me know he wants to go out, he can't if he's out there with her. At nite she has been using the pads to wee on but poos anywhere and always overnite. OH is up at 5am and takes them outside but she has always weed and pood by then. She is toilet timed regularly when we are home during the day and evening with appropriate amount of language association and praise. She wees outside every time we take her. We rarely manage to catch her in the act of pooing to be able to praise plus she has often left her calling card on the door mat or pavers. Once I saw her scratching her bed and then squatting to wee and told her "no" and took her outside to finish and I think she understood as haven't 'caught ' her doing that again. However, she was inadvertantly woken one night and ended up weeing on my sons bed and another night the kids shut dogs inside bedrooms all evening and one of them weed on our bed and think must have been her as no.1 never has. Last nite for first time I put her in her bed and she stayed instead of running down the hall after me. Major breakthru. (no.1 was already in his bed) Today I realised her bed was urine soiled, even tho she had used the pad near the back door to wee. (and poo on floor) Tonite she was in a deep sleep beside me on the lounge and when she woke I took her outside to toilet. When we came inside I realised her fur was wet across her back and the cushion she was sleeping next to on lounge was soaked....she had wet the bed in her sleep. No.1 did this x2 when he was very young. I am OK with TT from 8 weeks with brand new pup but not sure with older pup who has a history. 1. how do I train her to poo a) outside and b)on grass preferably 2. will she grow out of bedwetting? Is 5 mths old for bedwetting? 3. how can I get her thru the nite no poos or wees 4. I'd eventually like her to be able to sleep in bedrooms and ask to go out when need be. 5. should I take no1 back in with me so he can ask to be let out? thankyou in advance

just completed toilet training successfully and still have to 'toilet time' a bit. Used Ian Dunbar method includes no scolding for misses and much praise for hits (google it) taking him out for a toilet session every 30mins and building up the time in between. Its really 'toilet timing' until they reach an age where they actually have physiological control (same as humans) which could be as late as 16-20 weeks. I even got up thru nite as soon as I felt him move signalling he was awake and set alarm to wake me as well and had no accident during the nite. (he slept in a basket beside me) He gradually went longer each nite as his bladder capacity grew with him. Now he can hold overnite and wee on command - if he needs to go. Number twos I rushed ouside after every meal gave lots praise when he did it outside too. Good luck

Hi, my pup is a real chewer at moment but I wasted lots $ on kong style toys of every combination. He does however LOVE an empty plastic drink bottle which he uses as a football and spends +++ time trying to remove the screw cap. My previous dog loved them too and I put the liver treats inside and punched small airholes in it and presto! a cheap kong toy! Worth a try as all are different in their likes etc. but won't cost to try. good luck

mmmmmn. am thinking.... I applied advocate to my 7month old pup and gave him capstarat same time and he went nuts for 1/2 hr or so. Don't know which caused it. It was as tho his skin was crawling and he couldn't shake off whatwas biting him and I was wondering if the fleas were going ape sh.. which made him crazy. My cats hate the spot ons, whichever I use as did my old lab...they all ran amile if they got a whiff when I popped the top off.

Ok Taken this bit to quote...whilst just doing the dishes I was thinking.... Humans do something for another human to PLEASE the recipient of whatever is being done. Fine... How do we KNOW the recipient is pleased? They smile, they say ,thankyou, they may hug us, or jump for joy.... all very visible signs which are the 'giver' /doer's' REWARD Is this then SO different from a dog sitting quietly, because it thinks that by doing so we will say "good dog", or pat it, or some other tangible reward? ..........thinking.... but cannot find the right word combinations *goes back to thinking*

I am home training a new dog at present, different personality than I've had before and am finding your comments interesting.eg. letting them get a little close to other dogs and work out the danger signals. excuse my ignorance but what makes a dog aggressive? Is it genes, environment or both? I can understand dogs are territorial and hierarchial when it comes to other dogs but not all dogs, whats the difference between those that are and those that are not? I ask as not all dogs are or ever will be. eg. I have owned x3 labradors, a kelpie cross and none were aggressive towards people or other dogs nor had to be trained to be non aggressive. One of my labs had been badly abused (rescue dog) and he did bark at the news reader on TV (in a small country town) My kelpie had the habit of rounding us up, ran around us in rings as we walked with pram to protect us and he would bark at strangers coming to the door. He died at 12yrs and had never gone at anyone or dog. If the grandparents got too rough with the toddler he would gently place his mouth around their hand to say 'stop'. Do you think that was that potential aggression?

We only went to puppy school x2. In hindsight should have shopped around for course content. Like the sound of cosmo course with practical advice re health, doggie psychology, toilet training, milestones, council rules etc. Both weeks were exactly the same so my friend and I had learned enough about sit, drop and stay to continue on at home with (not planning serious doggie school). there was no other content, to be fair we didn't go back again so maybe that was covered later. The class was huge,around x15-20. Luckily outside. The class size meant we were spread out far and wide, difficult to hear, no time for any familiarity between trainer and dog/owner as too many to get around. I would like to try a more intimate setting. The playtime was all in together big and small and yes, the larger breeds dominated but I thinks its a combination of size plus exuberance not aggressive or bullying. Labs are very good at this behaviour and can be threatening to small dogs and small kids as they don't really know their own strength. mine and my friends dog who is a toy poodle stayed close to us and were too wary and I think tired to mix. I also thought being young they were worn out after a 30mins in the training paddock, they just crashed as they hadn't had a sleep prior to class.