Hi all, just bought a 8 weeks old toy poddle yesterday from Summer Pet SS2.

After we brought it home to penang (5 hours car travel),
today he started to sneeze intermittently with loud breathe and sleeps once he can lie on anyone's body. Is this normal?
i'm worried if he's sick

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: Feb 1 2011, 03:52 PM

The very first question i ask to the shop owner was about the transportation of the puppy and he assures me it is perfectly fine to do so.
This is my very first encounter with a puppy and i have no experience nor idea how to take care of him.

However, he slept through most of the journey and doesn't appears to have problem travelling.
Now i found out he is very sensitive to temperature. Slightly colder environment, places with fan and stronger wind or places with air conditioning and he will start sneezing.

I'm here to ask for advise from the experienced and i don't like the way you jump to conclusion so fast without knowing the real me.
You're not helping me in any ways by your egoistic reply.
Everyone starts from nothing before they something.

Anyway, the puppy is fine now. Visited vets and were assured that he is perfectly healthy though a bit starved. I'm increasing his meal portion a little.
I am also looking for ways to bath him in a correct way. He's very frightened by water the first time bathed him (ironically poodle is trained as duck hunter).

Thanks for the advice. He'd taken his 2nd bath during the weekend quite well !

Now please meet Biibii,Male, D.O.B 22/11/2010, 0.98KG !


He'd just taken his 2nd vaccination yesterday and doctor says he's gotten a yeast infection in his ears and now he has to put on this medicated lube named "Oridermyl" once a day for a week long.

I read somewhere that his food Eukanuba Puppy Small Breed may have assisted in accelerating yeast infection and i plan to change it. Read on dogfoodanalysis.com about Orijen but i also taken note that in the review, it says that high protein contents in orijen would make them grow huge (which me and bii's mummy do not wish to) and therefore not suitable for small breed. Any thoughts on food that can keep him small and not sacrificing his health as well as my wallet?

One headache i have with ah bii now is that he goes all around and lick/bite whatever he can find. He swallowed a small piece of cotton while we were sleeping in the mid night but thank god he released the cotton together with his poo the next day. Imagine that now i mop the floor almost every other day fearing that he would have licked some foreign dirt again.

I also have problem toilet training him as he goes around and poo/pee around. There was one day i successfully to get him to pee/poo on the tray by giving him snacks but it seems he forgotten all the next day.

Lastly, the pet shop told me that his MKA cert have not arrived but he already has microchip implanted. I called MKA yesterday and they confirmed that his microchip serial number is inside their record but they couldn't say when the cert can be delivered. I also try to confirm with MKA that Biibii is a toy poodle and not just normal poodle (quite a number of my friend go cheated this way by pet shop), but the receptionist was a bit blurred and she simply answer me yes

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: Feb 20 2011, 10:27 PM

I plan to change to these few brand:
Artemis fresh mix small breed RM42 (4star, 28%, 17%, 48%) (4)
Acana puppy small breed RM56 (5star, 37%, 19%, 36%)(2)
Avoderm puppy RM39 (4star, 29%, 11%, 52%) (1)
Orijen Puppy RM65 (5star, 42%, 18%, 32%) (5)
Now Puppy RM87 (4star, 28%, 18%, 45%)(1)

I have a complete post about my food concern over in the food thread.

roam freely simply means i don't lock him in cage. My living room isn't that big anyway and most of the time he stay in my study room on the bed while i'm working. (i don't mind ah bii sleeping on my bed xD)

It takes 7 months for the cert to arrive ?
Btw, when you say "feeding is important to ensure he wont grow into miniature", mind to elaborate on that? Currently i am feeding him 3 times a day (8am-2pm-8pm), each time a spoon full mixed with warm water till they soften. I'm also giving him vitamin gel three times a week.

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: Feb 21 2011, 01:49 PM

To my surprise, he never pee/poo on the bed. He would pee/poo every time i brought him down to my living room. If he's too urgent, you can see he'll run nervous on the bed. Guess what, even when he sneeze, he would go to the edge of the bed where there's nothing around and sneeze into air. And i never trained him to do all this !

i use the chicken rice plastic spoon, the one chicken rice hawker give you when you tapao chicken rice. One spoon full x3 a day. That's too much i guess? The first time i visited the vet during CNY, the vet told me he was starving , and i always thought i was underfeeding him since he looks starved all the time.

normally one poop per meal. occasionally there will be two but that rarely happens

yeah, he drinks lesser than when he just came home previously. What i did is i add lots of water with his kibble. For some reason, my ah bii for sure have to drink all the water before he start chewing his kibble

mine wallop anything he can find. whether its food or not.

Bought Artemis from Pets Family just now for RM42. There was only 2 packs left and that made me worried as someone has mentioned about unstable supplies of Artemis could sometime leads to total shortage.

Visited Pets Lover Center later and they have lots of them. They even have Iskhan that you mentioned, Fish4dog and some other rare brand but it was too late as i already bought Artemis.

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: Feb 22 2011, 02:54 AM

It was midnight when i'm back and therefore ah bii doesn't have the chance to try out his new artemis. I will start changing gradually today but i believe the hungry ghost that lives inside will take this without problem.

After doing two full day of research, i narrowed down to this 5 :
If your poodle exercise a lot and you want to build its body faster, you probably should be looking at higher protein% such as Orijen instead of Artemis. If you have time, pay a visit to the dog food thread as it helps a lot in making my decision.

I did, but the cashier said i can only user the membership card on my next purchase

Initially when i brought him home i thought i was underfeeding, starving him and i increased his portion of meal. Then slowly i realize it seems like all poodle puppy behave like this and i stop increasing his portion.
Pet family charge RM30 for basic grooming right? I think the groomer near my house is cheaper at only RM20. There's even an auntie who offer me on-site grooming at my house for RM20

The problem with researching and reading online is everyone has their own controversial opinion about one same topic with no one's argument being supported by any proper scientific research/proof. Its not like anyone knows for exact where did the 40% protein actually goes to. Therefore i think for the moment i am satisfied with my choice of Artemis that has moderate amount of protein with no controversial ingredients. Cheers.

No matter what brand you feed, i think 5 months is too short to tell anything. If a dog food can cause your dog to develop serious problem in 5 months, it must be made from toxic
And again, even for dogs who develop illness after 10 years time, we wont know for sure too if its the food who's causing the problem. There's just too much environmental factor involved.

Bottom line, make a rational judge yourself and go for the brand trusted.

does that means messi grows faster by feeding artemis?

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: Feb 22 2011, 02:06 PM

gathering, arghhhh. wait till biii is old enough then i'll join u guys.
Yesterday when i was back from work, ah bii was playing with his nutrient supply gel that accidentally fell into his cage. he has the gel all over his body
took me whole night to clean him up, and even now his cheek and coating is still slightly oily

me and my gf's family did not quite like pet dog too. But to our surprise, they take the poodle in quite well and loved him so much. Heck even now we're back to KL, both our parents still call once in a while to check on the dog!
(p/s: they never bother to call and check on how their own kid is doing that often also )

So who knows your parents will be like mine once they see how cute these little furkids are?

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: Feb 24 2011, 11:40 AM