Photo time...my 2 fattest female Sheltie GP. They are so fat, so round and not pregnant.




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The baby Shebby (the one Koaru reserved)...getting prettier now. It looks like a Coronet with a bit of crest on forehead.

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Okay...usually this forumers get the first hand news when my GPs given birth.

That picture I shown with long fur was one of my male Sheltie, the photo was taken 2 years ago. Now I put them all outside of my house, the temperature is much much more hotter, so their fur no longer able to grow until that long. Last time when I kept them indoor, their fur could grow very long, until I have to trim them every now and then. And last time I bath them almost every week or 2 week once. Now I bath them only once a month or 2 months once, so can see a lot of difference, their fur now no longer silky shine as before, all because of my laziness.

My house garden now full of green veg, my gps have non-stop daily fresh veg supplies. That's why all very healthy and round. I found out that using rabbit shit is much more fertilize than gp shit. I have one bunny to produce natural organic fertilizer for me. Here is my bunny. Isn't she beautiful?

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Yes, it is strong if you are putting them indoor. But if you are only keep one or 2 gps and change the bedding everyday, should be no problem.
Last time got one visitor came to my house, and he asked me how come my house has cow dunk's smell. So embarrassing......

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Added on January 26, 2010, 10:57 pmNever experience this before, not sure how to help. But may be you can try this method, use the normal saline (contact lens use type of saline water) rinse the eye, and wipe off the excess discharge. Do this as frequent as possible. This method was thaught by my vet when my puppy had its eyes surgery.

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Sorry for your lost. Usually when you noticed a GP is not feeling well, the survival rate is very very slim. The best thing to avoid such fatal experience is:

- buy from reliable source (healthy gene)
- feed healthy diet (hay, veg and good GP pellets, vitamin C supplements)
- make sure the veg you feed is free from commercial fertilizer, better still use organic veg.
- check your GP teeth for any over-grown teeth every 3 months. If have over grown teeth, need to trim it. I trim my own GPs teeth, not advisable for inexperience owner, please bring to vet to trim its teeth.

Possible that the fresh veg didn't clean properly or had too strong chemical in it. Now I grown my own veg and feed my gps. If I used commercial veg, I normally will soak the veg for 2 hours in water first, then only feed my piggys.

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Added on January 27, 2010, 1:33 pmHehehe....wanna learn? Must pay school fee, then only I teach.

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Added on January 27, 2010, 2:27 pmIf you just feed pellets alone, your gp will eventually die because lack of enough vitamin C. If you don't feed enough fresh veg, then you have to add vit-C into the bottle drink for your GP. In fact, hay does not provide enough vit-C to the gps too. Some how still need to feed fresh veg.

I have been feeding daily fresh veg to my gps for 1 year, they don't have any lacking vit-c sign at all. And I don't need to give any more Vit-C supplements through drinks. My piggies prefer fresh veg than hay. I am not saying hay is not important, hay is needed too to supply for other nutrition.

Just need to becareful when choosing the right veg to feed.

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Added on January 27, 2010, 2:38 pmIf you want your long fur gp have healthy long and shinny fur, here are the tips:

- bath your gp weekly with conditional shampoo for small animal or kitten. (sorry...I know some of you against bathing gp as frequent as possible, but based on my experience it is ok, no harm on the fur quality in fact benefited more than hardly bath, all depends on what sort of shampoo you used).
- every 3 weeks of the month bath your gp with anti-flea medicated shampoo, this will prevent mites and fungal that will cause hair loss.
- comb your gp fur twice a week.
- healthy diet promote fur quality too.

I used to maintain my long fur gp grooming similar to those showdog grooming condition.

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Depends on you. If you like them to grow long with skirts, then don't need to trim, but then have to clean your cage and maintain your GP fur frequently.

If you are lazy to maintain the GP long fur skirting, then trim your gp's skirting every time you see they are long.

No need special tool...but cannot disclose here what I use, afraid later people accuse me of animal abuse.

Hehehe..You are correct! Hmm...did I mention that to you before?

Yes, I used the small dog breed nail clipper, not human type, ok?

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Added on January 28, 2010, 12:24 amThe only challenge is your skill in holding the GP and snapping need to be fast and accurate. Also need to avoid accidentally cut the tongue.

Well..how I discover this skill, I used a dead gp to test it out 3 years ago, and realize this could be done. But my first attempt was not very good, the teeth was not trim evenly. So need to trim once more. Of course the GP was freak out like crazy. Now my skill improved, and my GPs are used to this too. Honestly not advisable for 1st timer.

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Added on January 28, 2010, 12:28 amI used to bath them every week. Now lazy..that's why their fur no longer as beautiful as before.

The anti-flea shampoo for dogs depending on brands, if it is indicated suitable for puppy, then ok. If it didn't then better don't try. If it indicated it is natural herbal type, like neem-oil shampoo for dog is alright to use.

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Dog nail clipper got many sizes, just use the small breed dog type. Good luck in trying...remember 1st time try, don't trim too much first.

Yup...last time I didn't have so many gps, at most only 8, so can be so rajin. Now have 15, not enough time to bath them all. Even wash the cage also have to split into 2 days job. Clean the cage twice a week, so in shot cleaning cages also 4 times a week. So no more time left for other tasks.

The shampoo brand I used no longer in the market. The manufacturer stopped producing. Last time I bought 4L pack, now left only 500ml for self use. After finishing will need to start trying out new brand in the market.

I have put up my "Kung Fu Panda" baby Abby for sale, anyone interested quickly grab...as I have another Peruvian SOW is pregnant, and another pregnant Abby SOW need rooms for babyboom again.


http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1311041

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Added on January 29, 2010, 1:06 pmYes, GP is very smart, can recognise owner face as well as each person's foot step sound. As I and my maid feed the GP the most, so they know when we put on slipper walk around, when my son walks around, they don't week for him.

Same like my dogs, they know which GPs are new comer, when there are new babies born or new comers, my dogs would be very busy checking on those gps. Initially the GP would freak out, but after sometimes, they are also get use to my dogs. Each time I hold my piggy, all my dogs will be busy to sniff it too. LOL! That's how I trained my piggy to get use to the dogs too.

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Nice marking!! I always like this kinda marking..like little lamb.

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Added on January 29, 2010, 6:57 pmCool...tomorrow I will go and check it out!!

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Here is my sister's pet guinea pigs picture. They are from New Zealand. I loved the one with white face. Don't know what breed is it, but defnitely is hybrid.

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Ya lor, the marking very unique. And the fur color also looks like bronze color like that. Very lovely......! Over there in NZ got more variety of choices to choose. We in Malaysia, limited variety. I loved Himalayan breed very much, but too bad nobody import this breed in.

Nope it is not flat face, but it reminds me of the flat face owl. LOL!

Today went to piggy hunting at PLC Sunway, and...and....I bought new couple! One is a bit Chinchilla looking male Sheltie, and a female grey and white Peruvian.

Oh..boy...oh..boy, so costly!!! But can't control myself...just fell in love with them.


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Lost count actually...It is definitely more than 17 gps.

Each couple have their own house. Some have 2 wifes, some have 3 wifes. By end of the year, all my gps will shift to a bigger nature house.

Mines got PLC also? Hmm...I didn't know, I stayed so near yet hardly go there jalan-jalan.

I bought them from Sunway PLC. There are about 6 more left. They are:-

- 1 Peruvian Brindle color (Black and brown)
- 1 (Coronet?) mixed Peru&Sheltie (brown and white)
- 1 Peruvian broken tri-color (Black, brown and white)
- 1 Peruvian (pure brown color)
- 1 Peruvian (white color)
- 1 Sheltie (brown and white)

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I do agree Oxbow is better quality, it will promote fur quality too. But I can't aford it, so no choice have to continue feed them Hagen. Oxbow price is double the Hagen brand, I currently spent RM500 a month by feeding Hagen. Just imagine if I changed to Oxbow, my monthly expenses on GP would be RM1k. Gosh....

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Added on January 31, 2010, 4:57 pmYes, still available. Have not heard from the other party yet.

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