congratz for the new version!
I wonder in which version my name would be appear as 1 of the poodle owner

Just to state my opinion
I still prefer giving heartgard+drontal for deworming and Front line spot on combo for ticks preventions. In my opinion giving things separately as in Heartgard for heart worm, drontal for deworming and front line for tick prevention suits me better thou the price is not cheap. This is because I believe things that came in package as in Revolution (included all) might not contains all 100% prevention for all types of heartworm etc. I'm not saying heartgard, drontal n front line do provide 100% either but I've been using these products for 2 years and so far so good so I'm gonna stick with it. I just hope the price not going to increase in the future xD

Well I get your point
the thing is... I only applied front line when I plan to bring my girls out for a walk in the park or out for holiday in which I'm practically very sensitive towards 'ticks' I bought tick shampoo and shower them with it once a month. As for heartgard, I gave them every month and drontal for 6 months once? for deworming.

Since your vet recommend it to you and you've been using it well. I guess you should stick with it. As for me or other ppl who do good with our combination I think we should stick to it either. unless if they want to try la..but for me I scared to try any new things on them so I would just stick to what I've been doing all the while

agreed with Divas. Some groomer are just too lazy to dematt the fur and they prefer to just cut or shave.
My maltese kena shaved by groomer when my friend bring her to their usual groomers. When I asked, the groomer said my girl's hair is tangled to much and cannot save so they propose to my friend to shave her till botak
I have no idea about it that time because my friend only told me the groomer said need to cut short and I thought really CUT SHORT, thought I tell them not to cut face and tail area but everything done.... she came back as 'chinese crested' breed instead of maltese!!!!

Some more the groomer cut short the tail (which is now the tails is not growing like previously and also because her tails fur breaks a lot) and the face part cut one side short n one side long and her neck area like those beginner cut -.-" Some more I suspect the groomer treat her very badly as she got clipper burn on her body and rashes on one side due to her allergic to the clipper. She was so emo and angry when she reach home but I need to bring her to my usual groomer to help me trim her nice. From that day until now, she refuses to go for grooming and will scream/shout like dogs in pain and her body will shiver when I bring her to grooming.

I'm not her to scared you all but I hope people will learn more and understand about grooming. Like Divas mentioned, professional groomers will most likely to propose you bout dematting first but not to shave all the fur cause I know sometimes there are groomers who are lazy to dematt the worst tangle and prefer to shave it as it save time and easy to do. Honestly I prefer to pay more for dematt and how they treat my kids rather than pay cheap and shave when they said need to shave.

This post has been edited by muchan86: Dec 6 2010, 09:59 PM

Dodo Pet at Subang here got this brand of food. The price quite costly I think but it was a super premium food?

oohhh... I see... never try it so not sure bout it but if you're looking for BRIT you can go to the shop as they carried many brands of dog food there


Kelvenwai : Patrick so cute~! Miniature? too bad I can't afford another dog as end of year might need to bring my 2 dogs back with me if not I'd love to adopt this cutie

I dont have poodle but sometimes I read other threads as well and regarding BARF I do have something to say.
First of all feeding BARF is an individual choice cause its all depends on those who believe of not bout the adv n disadv between both kibbles n BARF. For me sometimes I do prefer feeding kibbles cause its easy, I mean no need to prepare all the necessities to do the BARF. However, I must acknowledge the diff in poos for both feeding (BARF = less poo and no smell, kibbles = poo more smelly). There are also many articles on supporting and also 'rejecting' feeding raw to dogs and I've read some of them. However, on my personal experience (tried both kibbles n raw) I am now plan to switch back to BARF as 1 of my maltese was having an allergy after fed by kibbles for a month thou I dont think it was cause by the food.

Anyway just some opinion from me thou I think it wont be of any help?
One thing for sure, if you plan to try on barf and scared that it will become choosy over food, you should try it once they reach 1 years old. Some puppies will tend to be choosy if u fed them on barf when they're below 1 yo and most of my friend try barf for their dog when it passed 1 yo old n has no prob switching it back to kibbles

haha I tried not to come in so often cause it might really trigger me to get a poodle while my hands are full now


I've tried artemis, regal and now! brands thou I fed artemis more often than those brands. In fact, for the past month they were on artemis but only autumn was found rashes on her body while Jasmine, my adopted maltese have no issue at all. I do think of switching to now! brand which is grain free and some were also good for sensitive skin or allergies but I do thought of switching it back to barf cause autumn was on barf ever since she was puppy and when I fed her kibbles it was not a fully fed (morning kibbles, night barf). While this happen because she was fed with kibbles for the whole months. Been to vet and the med seems like no improvement so I am now spraying magic mist onto her skin/body and plan to switch back to barf to see if there's any improvement. Well... should say that I'm more comfortable switching it back to barf compare to other brands of kibbles cause with barf I know how much I should fed while for kibbles I just simple gave them the amount of how much I 'thought' it would good for them

This time I plan to switch it fully back to barf unless I face some prob which need me to fed them back on kibbles. This might sound weird but this decision is made with the thought that I believe switching it back to barf could help with her skin problem or any health issue. This is purely based on my instinct I guess or maybe because I do know some friends who actually cure their skin issue by feeding barf. But what I believe myself is that, before this she was good on barf and has no issue whatsoever but when she was fed with kibbles she developed an allergy. Not sure how to explain but its like deep down inside I was kinda blame it onto the kibbles while it might not be the cause but its like when you bring umbrella every day just in case it was raining but all u got was a hot weather but when you forgot to bring it one day what you got is standing under the roof waiting for the rain to stop. Not sure if you get what I mean thou xDD

I used to have same thoughts like you but my decision to get 2nd dog is because I've only rented a room out here and autumn will always be alone whenever I'm out to school or when I couldn't bring her along with me so I decided to get 2nd dog to company her. Thought of getting poodle for her cause she more like poodle (active like hell xD) so the new pup could handle her activeness but having a poodle isolated in a room is not a choice so I turn back to maltese and start looking for a pup. Been searching for sometimes but couldn't find pup that I want with my budget (I'm more into nice pup with cert thou I'm not really going into show ring now) and that is when I found Jasmine was put up for sale and ended up getting this old girl back home with me. Thou I must agree the 'work-load' on having 2 pups is actually more than have only 1 dog but I do thought of getting another 1 when I moved to a house. Reason is its better to have odd numbers of dogs cause if you have 3, you can bring only 1 to go out cause the other 2 will accompany themself but if only 2 you have to bring both cause when u only take out 1 the rest will get jealous which I'm facing right now and the jealousy is not sweet!! My smaller maltese will get so angry and bark furiously at me if I only bring Jasmine went out and she will try to climb out from pen which is not sometimes I need to confine her inside the small cage if I were to leave her alone -.-""

sorry for getting out of topic
But I do talked bout poodle I'm still searching for a nice silver toy

This post has been edited by muchan86: Mar 23 2011, 11:57 AM

Hi Chris
Since I'm not getting it so soon, I've yet to set on the budget but if its under 2k would be great thou
I need to find job 1st before getting another furkid xD

Hahaha that's one correct answer also but for now I think renting the house is my 1st choice n then slowly save money buy new house xD

yenlu, the magic mist u spray directly into the eyes? my Jasmine tears is worst and soon after shower n look nice nice just in few mins the tears became so wet -.-"'

This is what I heard as well



Below 6 months. It would be great to neuter the dog before they actually learned the 'unwanted behaviour' like marking for male dogs, or aggression for those breed that prone to have i.e. pitbull etc (not bias and I'm looking to have 1 pit but this is just an example )

Neutering early before the unwanted behavior start to escalate might not help 100% to stop the aggression. It's just an early 'way' to help but of course w/o the cooperation of the owner itself, I'm sure the unwanted behavior will come back or kick in soon after the neutering. Unless the owner did a very good job in training its dog as well as commitment in leading it back to the right path when unwanted things happen and not just turn it onto the shelter (thou I believe ppl here will choose to let go their dog rather than turn it into SPCA or PAWS). and yeah I'm actually LOVE pit esp grey coat which is hard to find here They're one cute creature with those big muscular body and I just don't understand why people tend to think they're bad when they actually seen only their big body but ignore their cute eyes


Yeowa,
as what Divas said, Messi did marking at the park because he sense other dogs smell on the park so he tried to cover it with his own urine. So far he never mark on your house cause he only sense his own smell from your house. Believe me, when you try to bring in other dogs into your house, Messi will try to do marking as soon as he sense other dogs are coming into his territorial. I know cause there's time when I took care my friend's dog, they mark in my place as soon as they smell my girls -.-"

I think JXplod was talking bout Yuki, Jason got 2 white poodle

I always get my stock on Dodo Pet at Subang xD Last month when I bought artemis kibbles they gave me 1 can food for free as they're having promotion for artemis

My opening advice : before getting ur 1st pup, you should already know "how often you should bath them" and puppy is developing new teeth so they tend to bite anything.


Anyhoo, I'm not expert in poodle but I guess I can answer some of your questions. First, the food, I think someone got mentioned that Eukanuba dog food brand is not good for poodle? and I never count how many pellets should my dog eat as puppy need to eat more since they're still growing.

Bite things = teething and its not because not enough food but the new teeth are growing and make the mouth itchy so they tend to find things to bite. Solution would be buy some toys for him to bite.

I do clean my dogs butt after poo for hygienic issue and if the poo stuck at his butt you could use wet tissue or I suggest bath him if its too dirty. Also generally you can shower your dog once a week but it depends on individual I think.

Remember NOT to switch to new food at once. It will upset the puppy stomach and you will have more thing to do later on.

This is all I can do to help, the rest you gotta wait for poodles kaki to help

LOL means my maltese consider tea cup then since she was about 1.8 kg when she turn 1 and now at 2 yo I pump her to 2 kg but I think she soon back to her original weight lol


eh chris n yenlu post ur standard poodle la... let me see~~~