Sheridan

It's a wonder you actually have clients given your contempt of them.

How would you groom a wheaten terrier? Right from the moment the dog is brought in, what do you do? Because same as last time doesn't work for me. I was just meaning if the clip IS the same as last time, i don't need a note from the client itemising nails, ears, bath, dry, etc. I would groom a wheaten however you wanted it done, within reason. If you didn't know, (and lots of people with pure breeds don't know how they should look), then i would use a show dog as an example and follow the guidelines set out in the All Breeds Grooming Guide. That said, it's all kinda hypothetical for me as for 5 years now i have limited my clientel to small breeds only. Nothing bigger than a cav! I asked for the first thing you do, which is not a clip. I think if an owner gives you a list, particularly given that some owners actually do know how their dog is supposed to be groomed, you say, 'Thank you very much' and be grateful that an owner takes the trouble.

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How would you groom a wheaten terrier? Right from the moment the dog is brought in, what do you do? Because same as last time doesn't work for me.

I don't know about doublecoated dogs but with my my singlecoated dogs, I remove all the knots, matts, etc, prior to giving them a bath. Makes it easier. Having wet matts just makes them tighter.

He's a wheaten terrier. The fall is the hair over the dog's eyes. If the customer says something the groomer doesn't understand, then perhaps the groomer should say, 'What do you mean?' rather than 'Okay,' particularly given I said, 'The hair is supposed to be over his eyes.'

Okay, here's one from the other side: Me to groomer: do not cut his fall, his hair is supposed to be over his eyes. Groomer: Okay. I arrive back: my dog looks like a schnauzer, which would be fine if he was one but he's not. Needless to say, I took my dog somewhere else after that.

Why do you think AQIS changed the rules. They don't make the rules.

Possible kidney disease. Has there also been a weight loss? I'd get a blood-chem panel done.

My dog eats Eukanuba FP, which is a vet surgery only food, and he does very well on it.

That's a good question BigDaz and I don't have an answer for you. It's what I've always done so I'm interested to hear other's answers, too.

Of the two, I'd say Purina is probably the better supermarket brand ones, at least in comparison to some of the others. Some dogs do very well on cheaper foods. My little girl is on Bonnie Complete, admittedly not a supermarket food, but not a premium one. She does very well on it and prefers it over her doggy brother's Eaglepack and the bag of Orijen I bought for her.

Twice a day for me, though the morning meal is just a small scoop of dry food. My older boy has had tummy troubles previously and I find it helps him to have something in his stomach.

Can't help but good luck in your search. I had no luck at all finding it a couple of years ago when my dog was sick.

Yep, that's one of the kibbles I feed Ardee. He loves it. I also use the Ziwipeak venison and fish for treats. I can get him off a bone by asking him if he wants a Ziwipeak. :D

Interesting. I can't feed most of the uber premium foods because they contain chicken or chicken fat.

My girl got two days of painkillers afterwards.

I had precisely that out of control situation at puppy preschool. My puppy was 10 weeks old and there was a three month old lab puppy who was completely out of control. The owner did nothing and while this lab terrorised the other dogs in class, the other owners were told to do nothing by the f-ing moron 'trainer' (a term I use loosely) from Barkbusters. My dog, for years afterwards, was terrified of things landing near his head after the 'trainer' threw a chain down at him to get him to stop trying to get away from the lab. Finally, I picked him up (and was told to put him back down). My dog actually became sick there. Afterwards, I asked for my money back and took him elsewhere. Ten years later it still pisses me off.

Sounds like you're doing pretty well.

Two suggestions: Chicken wire attached to the bottom bar of the fence and then buried under the ground out from the fence in an L-shape. Concrete the bottom of the fence several feet down. My fence has a concrete path all the way around it and is actually set into concrete.

already had tests done and they were inconclusive. All they could say is that it appeared to be contact driven ie grass pollen etc. we did have wandering jew but I have sorted that out. I have also been looking for a canine/plant expert to look at our garden to see if there is anything else that may be an obvious one. But have not found one yet. Luke, I had a previous dog who was allergic to quite a few things but oddly, one was wattle. This was a contact allergy. My dad said he wasn't going to cut the tree down but within a week it was gone (it suddenly became 'sick', my dad said :D ). It's a good idea to just have a look at what's in your garden and slowly eliminate each. In terms of cortisone use, it's not good to use long-term as it depresses the immune system. I had another dog on cortisone long-term due to an autoimmune disease and it caused him all sorts of problems. It's more of a quick fix solution and doesn't do anything for the underlying problem. In my dog's case, nothing could be done about his autoimmune disease; it just masked the symptoms and helped him move around.

What has the vet suggested as the underlying problem?

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Just keep an eye on them. Sometimes they get infected and have to be surgically removed. My elderly wheaten has a few with nothing to worry about, the vet advises, but my last kerry blue had them all his life and was in and out of surgery a lot. Fortunately, his favourite place to visit was the vet.

You should also have her checked for urinary tract cancer. My dog wee-ed blood and that's what it turned out to be.