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Remember that the smooth coats will need just a bath and nail trim, the longs will need a bath, good brush/ comb, and a trim of the feet and tidy up any straggly hairs, and nail trim, but the wire coats dontbjust grow in that pattern....they need to be hand stripped, preferably, to maintain the pattern, as well as coat colour and texture. The coat can be clipped into pattern but over time will soften and lighten from the clipping. I groom a mini wire who is now 15 yrs old and still looks pretty sharp, although clippered now for ease of grooming. Your breeder should be able to guide you on the grooming requirements forthe type you choose, just be aware that the wire needs a bit more than the others. Dachshunds have a reputation for longevity. I have known a couple of mini long make it to 17, and the 15 yo mini wire I groom is going strong for his age, and have heard of many other oldies!

I think I see a lot more dew claws these days than I did in the dark ages when tails were routinely docked. Breeds that were docked almost always had dew claws removed at the same time. In the conformation ring a lot of smooth coat dogs have them removed to get clean lines down the legs, or some such nonsense. Dogs injure their other nails just as often. Are we going start cutting them all off? Dogs injure their legs a lot. Are We going start cutting them off? Dogs injure their faces a lot. We going start cutting them off? There are a few breeds required to have rear dew claws. Should we start cutting them off? Personally, i put my flame suit on, and say I think dew claw removal can only be justified If and when a critical injury occurs.

I lurve Dachshund . My first boyfriends mother & sister bred(still do I think!) mini longs and I was enchanted by them. I also adore mini wire.

Did you sign a release /waiver form when you booked the dogs into the kennel? Was there written clause/instruction outlining your dogs specific boarding requirements? Were the STRICT instructions documented, if yes, who wrote them, and who signed them? As much as I would be furious, and wanting/demanding explanation and vet costs covered, you may have signed away your rights. I would be seeking legal advice asap.

English Springer Spaniel?

Pugs are well known for having leaky anal glands. Breathing and walking are enough to set some of them off! It seems to be related to their unique structure. I have to say, hearing puggy gland stories has been enough to put me off owning one, blerk. ETA......good luck with your pup :)

I'd like a dollar for every time I have found fleas, or evidence of fleas, on dogs that come in with a " oh he doesn't have fleas! ". Also, a dog that is truly allergic to fleas can itch incessantly from ONE flea bite for up to 3 weeks. You may never even see the culprit. It sounds like classic flea itch so don't discount that and remain vigilant for fleas, or signs of 'flea dirt' which is flea faeces in the form of tiny black crumbs in the coat. If you think you have found flea dirt, put it on a wet tissue and see if it runs red, which will confirm it is flea dirt/poop.

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Rumour, are they any particular breed ?

Cute!! I want to know what breed/type too!? I have an idea if he is a purebreed, a Podengo?

You will have to wait until I am home again on the weekend and I will see if I can dig one up :D As requested DDD........ I dredged up some old pics of Sonny Boy (and friends) from about 2003. He was a special special boy. His pedigree name was King Mufasa and I had no idea until after he passed that that was a character from Lion King lol... His hair is clipped because we moved from the city the year before to 30 acres of prickles and blazing heat.

When I correct people I smile and say..." well, it is crucial, but is actually called cruciate ......" So many dogs taking magic medicine called quarterzone too....

Purely anecdotal, but among the rolling client base of approx 300 mainly smaller dogs I have dealt with over 28 yrs of dog grooming I would actually say approximately the same , or slightly decreased incidence of cruciate luxation/ injury/ repair. I see many dogs with luxating patellas that never do a critical injury. Some of them have surgery because of the severity of luxation, while others just live with a hop skip gait. Others that have no apparent issues or what appears a low grade luxation do critical injuries requiring surgery. There does seem to be certain contributing factors, but overall I don't think I have noticed an alarming increase of luxation or injury among the thousands of small dog I have handled. There are a couple of breeds that seem to be far more prone to problem knees issues, but my flame suit isn't rated high enough.... ETA..... Oh, I forgot, I also see a lot of dogs with crucial ligaments.......

You will have to wait until I am home again on the weekend and I will see if I can dig one up :D

My poor old male Chow, Sonny Boy, twice had his ear literally pierced by two different JRT. Once at obedience club, and once would you believe, at the two week initiation course for the Delta program! I actually got quizzed when I put down that I was bringing an entire male chow to the delta 2 week live in. I was alarmed at the attitude i got. To his credit, on both occasions, he sat on his fluffy butt and waited patiently for someone to pry the other dog off. He once got rolled by a boxer at a dog park. He just stuck his legs in the air and played dead, and once the boxer had finished with him, he got up, had a fully body shake, snorted like a horse and pranced off. He could have quite efficiently killed any of those dogs, but he was so self assured and cool, he just shook it off. Of course if he had of so much licked any of those dogs too hard, he'd have been made out as the bad guy. Err whoops sorry kinda rambled OT.

It's not "allegedly", it is. "Yellow" is geneticaly ee - recessive red. There is an Intensity gene which determines how much of the red pigment is displayed. ee recessive red is anything from cream to a deep red. It is the same gene in Goldens. Thank you for explaining that. I guess what I was trying to say is looks can be deceiving, as in the fox red colour doesn't look like yellow

The fox red Labs that I have seen have a very distinct coat colour. Although it is allegedly a dark shade yellow, it looks nothing like a yellow, not even a darkly shaded yellow. Nor does it look like a chocolate, or a washed out chocolate. In my memory bank I put the fox red coloring as about the colour of a dark coated RR. They were a solid even colour with no lighter points throughout the coat.

About fifteen years ago I visited a kennel around the Plainlands area in QLD and saw with my own eyes, several Fox Red Labradors. They were magnificent dogs. I believe they had been imported via the UK. The beautiful colour threw my at first and I had to look at them for a moment until the penny dropped what I was seeing! Someone here may remember the kennel name. ETA.... a quick search of 'boarding kennels Plainlands QLD' and i found this link CLICK HERE If you open the link, and then click on the link for pictures, that is definitely the property I visited. I cannot tell how old the advertisement is, but that is the best lead I have.

Yet again proof positive that the PIAA support puppy farming....you know, only the nice big shiny registered ones though. I want to have a massive rant but will just say to everyone dealing with any aspect of the pet industry.....pet shop, grooming, boarding, trade shows, magazines etc etc. Please be aware of what memberships they have or who is running/sponsoring them and make up your own mind whether you support them in turn.

Good advice as always already , but I think what the OP means when they say 'stud', is the names of good kennels, not so much just a stud dog.

Both! Your second point crossed my mind too when I looked at the article! Regarding my grievances about the associations not being able to toss out members so clearly breeding against the rules they signed up to, perhaps the wording and structure of the rules needs to be looked at.

Yes, unfortunately an Dogs SA/ANKC puppy farmer able to sell registered, papered puppies. Why the heck don't these associations toss these kinds of breeders out? It's a disgrace that breeders trying their hearts out, giving everything to their breed, breeding to the written standard, health testing, showing etc etc, have to be aligned with the likes of breeders like this. Does it not state in the rules that breeders agree to breed to the current written standard and breed only for the improvement of a breed? I can grasp that there needs to be volume breeding esp in some popular breeds, but it can be achieved within the regulations and to the written standards This guy is an example of completely the opposite. Speaking from experience, because its incredibly difficult to do so without cast iron proof of ethics breaches and for a cashed up breeder with a good lawyer, potentially financially ruinous for the Association. It is also my belief that you don't fix an imperfect system by leaving it. First let me say I am not replying to you personally HW, just in a general sense. I find it really sad that an organisation might not try to enforce it's own rules because of the reasons you stated in your post. People pay a lot of money for membership, registrations, transfers, entry fees, etc. By not upholding it's own ethics, it cheapens the values of membership for everyone else doing the right things. Maybe an imperfect system is not fixed by leaving it, but staying with heads in the sand, and not enforcing their own rules, might be just as bad. I don't know where the answer is. I am just venting my grievances.

Yes, unfortunately an Dogs SA/ANKC puppy farmer able to sell registered, papered puppies. Why the heck don't these associations toss these kinds of breeders out? It's a disgrace that breeders trying their hearts out, giving everything to their breed, breeding to the written standard, health testing, showing etc etc, have to be aligned with the likes of breeders like this. Does it not state in the rules that breeders agree to breed to the current written standard and breed only for the improvement of a breed? I can grasp that there needs to be volume breeding esp in some popular breeds, but it can be achieved within the regulations and to the written standards This guy is an example of completely the opposite.

This is one direct reason why I dropped my Dogs SA/ ANKC membership a couple of years ago. None of the dogs from this kennel are shown or have titles. I got tired of seeing several litters listed every single month in the Dogs SA journal, many of them with the same sire. He volume breeds, and is not breeding to better the breed against the written standard. While he is not doing anything incredibly wrong, he is breeding massively pumped up off standard dogs, with pedigrees, for the market, that obviously love his 'type' of AmStaff. Im not saying he shouldn't be allowed to breed like this, as his dogs are obviously loved and cared for, I just wish that ANKC membership would be disallowed, as it should be, under the codes of practice signed up to by members. I lost respect for the system when I see many great breeders breeding to standard, and out there showing, trying to improve upon what the have and know, being true to the rules of their membership. And at the same time, they allow folks like in the OP to register dogs that are bred away from the standard and that would be tossed out of a show ring. grumpy rant over and out.

Just noticed this.... Dog wash trailer