alrite!! This Saturday, 3 July 2010, meet around 530-6pm at the children's playground! Can't wait! Sherry will be wearing a pink&white striped tshirt.. Just bought from pet safari earlier hehe

Yay! Good to see more MS and owners Poppy will not be wearing anything cause she's outgrown all her cute shirts and the new ones are all oversized for her currently.

See ya all this saturday!

yea the more the merrier!!

eric, your MS gonna wear this dress on saturday?

This post has been edited by furrybutts: Jun 30 2010, 12:15 PM

I was thinking of getting some things done this weekend, but if I get them done early I might stop by

We're going to miss this one again!

Cool. Meet you guys there at around 6pm..hubby is working during the weekend.
So need to wait for him to finish work.
Pepper as usual will be naked coz Mummy lazy to wash her clothes after she roll on the sand and grass

will try to make it this weekend.

hehehe Fatty and Ally may not be wearing dresses, but they'll carry their own ladybird backpacks!

hi..

wanna know if any of ur MS have schnauzer bumps ?

i think mine has. lately i noticed some bumps on his back n armpits. feels like dried crust and got flaky stuff like dandruff. very itchy if i scratch it. did some research and it could be schnauzer bumps and there's no cure

how do u handle it ? i read need vitamin e daily (human wan can ar?), medicated shampoo and keep the coat short

Scottie has the bumps, but I usually only notice this happen when it's tick season...when it's at the worse (most number of ticks I've seen on his body) I just give him a tick wash and the ticks die off. Bumps also will subside naturally after that, usually about 1-2 weeks after. He gets it on and off, but it's not really a big problem to me coz he seldom scratches his body (when he does, it often indicates ticks, so I search like crazy on his body! ) I use a cream also to help with the bumps healing since they're mostly nasty tick bites. You can get those from the vet or just get a natural herbal ointment for bites which you can get from the pet stores.

I don't give vitamin E, but if you want to give supplements you can use salmon or fish body oil (NOT to be confused with cod liver oil). When I have them, I would give Scottie about a capsule or two. But this would depend on the amount of DPA & EHA in each capsule. Let me look for the therapeutic dosage for it.

EDIT: I found an old post that I did previously in this thread about how much to give. It's here. Hope this helps a little!

This post has been edited by Rayne: Jul 1 2010, 10:56 AM

thanks for the tips.

talking about tick season...err when is tick season ?...i noticed after the bumps, now got lots of ticks. i have to use frontline treatment to keep it under control.. any relation between the ticks n bumps ? the groomer recommend me Malasab medicated shampoo for the bumps. Somehow I suspect I got this from the groomers (bumps n ticks)

maybe i need to change his kibbles to salmon to get the fish oil ?

This post has been edited by surfsmurf: Jul 1 2010, 11:35 AM

Umm....I'm also not too sure myself, but I would know when I see a presence of ticks on Scottie. Usually he wouldn't have even one on his body...sometimes every now and then maybe one or two I'm not too worried. It's when I see more than 10 ticks on his body (especially the big ones) then I roughly know it's tick season. We get it about two times a year if I remember correctly. I don't really use frontline but a lot of owners do What I do is I would check very often on Scottie's body and if there are too many to pick off, I'll just do a tick wash (Bayticol) one time and it kind of solves his tick problem until the next season comes along

I've used Malaseb before but it was recommended by Scottie's vet though. It was when Kenji (my sister's Chihuahua who shares the same play pen as Scottie) had some fungal infection on the fur. As far as I know from the vet, Malaseb is used for the skin / coat infections, but he doesn't advise to use it very often. I only use Malaseb for Kenji once every two weeks when I see his fur dropping a lot and stop after his problem ceases. The vet very strongly advised to leave the shampoo on for 10 mins before rinsing though...he says if we leave it for less than that, the shampoo doesn't work so if you use it, make sure you leave it on for 10 mins

Well, if you think you need to change the kibbles coz the kibbles are causing the bumps, then yes. If you don't think it's the food, then maybe it's ticks or other factors (chemicals like cleaners, environment, grass seeds, etc) that could be causing the itchiness? If you could supplement with salmon oil it would be good too Or if you can't find those, some pet shops sell the MyBeau supplement. It contains salmon oil and other stuff for the coat I've tried that with Kenji & Scottie before and they do quite good with it too

ally in her new trolley bag, now can go to Pavilion already!

Wah nice stroller! Can fit fatty & ally together inside?

Went desa park city juz now...but din c u guys =(
But still met lot of fur frens there^^

I went there at 6pm..didn't see any schnauzers there too. Luckily at the end got to meet Poppy, Sherry and another schnauzer that called Chaser

Had a good time looking at the dogs chasing each other. Not to mentioned had a good chat with the owners as well.

We should do this more often ^^

Agreed, we should meet more often! Yesterday was sherry's happiest day out, got to play with so many dogs! We plan to bring her to DPC every Saturday evening

Great to meet you guys at DPC the other day. It was Poppy's first time out and she was so scared at first. She just stood still and din wanna walk much.

I thought that the meeting was cancelled as i din see anyone near the children's playground so I just walked and Poppy around till I met GenkiGal with her cute Pepper! Soon after furrybutts with her smiley face Sherry joined us.

It was so fun seeing the furkids running around chasing each other. I'll try to bring Poppy there every Saturday from now on as she was so happy! Great outing.

Sorry, didn't get to go to meet you guys coz I had to work on Saturday (last minute call by project manager...#*^&+@!) Glad to hear that you guys had fun It's been ages since I've brought Scottie out, but these days I've also been finding quite a few ticks on Scottie, so I don't want to risk 'passing' them to your furkids. Best let me get control over it first

No worries, Rayne, Sherry just got treated with Frontline Spot On

Do you guys pull out the hair from your MS's ears? Sherry was whining away when the vet pulled out her ear hairs previously.. so pitiful. I've been looking online, some ppl advice that if there's nothing wrong with the ear (no infection etc) then its better to just let things be and not pull out the hair. Does anyone here leave the hair to grow in their MS's ears, and not have any problems with ear infection?