Greetings!

Anyone else here owns a Maltese ? Recently, I've just bought one Maltese pup who is now around 2 months old and his name is Muika.

This post has been edited by jdreamer: Mar 6 2006, 08:48 AM

Hi there, i own 2 maltese two. 1 is larry and the other 1 is lucky. we could attach the photo here. mind to share it. i will post my after i bath them. hehe

great,cant wait to see the photos of your larry and lucky.

Oh, hi! Finally, there's someone who owns Maltese show up. Yes, please post the photos of Larry and Lucky! Mine is only 2 months young Maltese, what about urs ? Are ur Larry & Lucky pure white fur ? Mine is abit milky, and has brownish fur in certain parts. Btw, please share more expriences of them with us.

Anyway, here's my Muika! I took these photos just now.





For more photos, u can visit my blog. The link is in my sig.

haha.. so cuteee..

ur Maltese is so nice..

Thanks! So, which breed r u getting ? Get a Maltese then we can talk about it together.

Thankew..

Dont know yet,got to wait for my mum's friend to contact me..
i cant wait,so excited..

Oh, what did she promised to give u ? Which breed ?

She said its either shih tzu,Miniature schnauzer or pug.
the other day she called me to ask whether i want a poodle,but i dont really like poodle,so i said i'll wait until she gets a MS or shih tzu.
sighz.. so long,i was actually going to get a shih tzu from a local petshop but she insisted that she will get one for me,as long im wiling to wait.
sighz..

Then get a MS! If me, I prefer MS to Shih Tzu.

Shih Tzu is such a common dog these days.. My cousin had a Miniature Schnauzer but was dog-napped...

Yea, Shih Tzu is quite common nowadays. Wah, ur cousin so pity...

yeap,i prefer MS as its nicer and it love to go out,walk around.. that is what i plan to do when i have one.

But becareful of those dog-nappers.

yeap.. i will..
if i do get one,i'll put he/she at home with me,same room..hhee

Hahaz good then.





Anyway, Im still having troubles with my Muika. Today, for the whole day he has been quite okie, I bring him out to pee/poo and everything seems to be undercontrol. But then, just now.. before I come up, I brought him out for pee/poo but he went into a scary mode. He runs very fast and keep chasing me, then bite everything so agressively. Then, he even barks at me, and growls loudly. Im not sure what did I done that caused him so mad at me.. Really not sure lah..

That is not aggressive, that is being hyper active. He has too much energy so he released it in such a big boost that he made all those antics.

yeap.. that's true...
try to train him to be tame.

Alright.. But I prefer him to release it bit by bit. Release it in one shot is abit too aggresive for me. Owh yea, he scratched my legs until bleeding. When he was charging to the slippers, I quickly took it away then he used his nails to scratch me.

I'll try my best.


Anyway, I brought him for vacination today. Need to feed him the deworm tablet tomorrow. A bit worried about it.

Your puppy is young, it is hyper lah.... Very normal with all puppies. All you need is training. I suggest you find a website on dog training or buy a book on it. Really helps a lot.

A dog or puppy won't know what hurts you. Coz in nature, they play rough to excercise the muscle and skill. So of course to us is like hurting us lah. But you gotta understand, a puppy won't know the difference.

Thanks for telling me so much. Hmm, oh yea, do u know why sometimes he do the same but with better attitude ? Like, he doesnt barks or growls, but looks like playing with me. Sometimes, he looks very fierce ? Whats the different ?

hi guys, back for the day. i will post lucky and larry's pic asap. So please hang on for few more days. I will be away for family trip to Bkt tinggi. jd,my maltese is pure white colour. I am getting myself another dog thinking of chihuahua or beagle. Last time use to go for MKA dog shows with my dad. Now he already semi-retire say want to rest liow. All my dogs cannot go for show show jor. Some sold to breeders in Ipoh. Haizz...kinda miss them. Golden and lab...what a great pet they can be. Now i am fully on MALTESEEEE!!! Cheers for maltese keepers. Yeah!!!

Oh nice, pure white. Mine is abit milky colour, I wonder why.

Hmm, please post their photos as soon as possible!

I think is better tat dun give him both in once time.. izzit ur vet advise u to do so?? if not then i think better give him the deworm tablet after 1 week he took the vacination..

btw, fyi u cant bath ur Muika for 1 week time after he took the vac..


Edit: U can visit tis URL to gain more knowlegde abt ur doggie... i personally think it is a good website.. but a bit messy..



This post has been edited by @lice~~: Mar 8 2006, 10:45 AM

Yea, the vet advise me to feed him the tablet. I know about the bath, hehe. And thanks for the sites too, I do visit it sometimes.

Anyway, I just feed him the tablet, a bit difficult to control him as he keep struggle when Im trying to feed him and he doesnt want to get the tablet down, then I have to push it down myself which is the way that the vet taught me. Ahh.. scary.

Tat's another method u can use.. mix the tablet together wif the food o snack n let him eat it.. if he is not tat 'smart' then he wil juz swallow it... if he is too 'smart' o picky then u must put the tablet directly to his mouth..

Hahaz, I tried that just now. I put the dog food and the tablet on my hand and feed him, then he got everything into his mouth then suddenly he spit the tablet out.

tell u wat .. u get a bread ... then u squeez the tablet in the bread then give it eat lo ... thats wat i didnt last time ..

smash the tablet and mix with food lor,that is what i alwiz do when my dog dowan do eat her medicine

Just stick down the throat up in the tongue. Works for me and I just gave my puppy the Heart Guard pill, she doesn't mind I open her mouth and stick my hand inside ghahahah...

Yea, thats the way that the vet show me hahaz, quite scary tho. When I open his mouth, he was like struggling hahaz..

Will struggle one lah.... Not all dogs will let you open their mouths. To make your dog know you are alpha, then control him, don't always manja manja him. It will become a problem whem older.

The open mouth and stick pill not only vet says. EVERY DOG CARE GUIDE BOOK says....

Hahaz, yea okie..

Muika biten my hand until red.. somemore got a bit like kembang. Very painful.. first time so painful..

Haha..
Give the dog some time,he will know that u are his owner and u love him.

Yea, I'll try my best..

Anyway, do u guys train ur dogs some tricks.. like fetch, shake hands, sit, stay or lie down ?

Yup.. my bf trained my QQ sit n down... but ask her to shake hand she dun wan but sometime she wil.. He use dog snack to train her btw..

Dogs i think can recognise your sound like sit,shake hands..

I try to train Muika to sit, by giving him dog food by he doesnt care about me. I pressed his back legs to the floor then make him stay like that for like 2-3 secs then only I treat him but its quite difficult.

This post has been edited by jdreamer: Mar 9 2006, 07:12 PM

No one mention that taking care of a dog is an easy job.

Wah, why do u have to post this kind of provoking posts ?

Besides, I didnt said its easy before Im getting the dog either.

Chill...
Training a puppy is never easy. U gotta be patient.
I taught my doggie (besides pee/poo) sit, up, stay, come, go, kiss ().
basic one lar....u can teach him more if you like
And my doggie loves it when i lay him down on the floor and massage his tummy

Cool cool!

Just now, I bathed Muika. He keep struggles and keep sneezing. Then after that he cries.. awww... So, I bath him in a quick speed, and dry him faster. I dont know how to remove his tear stain and dont know how to clean his ear also...

After I bathed him, he keep barked at me, very fierce.

Looks like u really do have problem with him.

It's like that one. Dogs will get hyper when they just bathed.
Yes...most of the puppies will cry when they bathed ( which i found very cute and adorable )
Hey...did u bath him with warm water? must ya
For tears...i think petshops do sell tear remover right? im not sure. I never use it. I only use water.
1 of my doggie has the same problem too. When i ask vet, he said that something has blocked his tear pores. Can be cured by small operation to his eye. But its not worth it. He said only those owner that wanna bring their dogs to competition will only do that.
If its only a home dog then its not worth it.
As for his ear, u can buy the ear cleaner at the petshops.
Pour 1 or 2 drops to its ear...close it and massage it gently. Then u can use cotton bud to clean the surface. My doggie dont like this method. So i just wet the cleaners to the face cotton and then i open his ear and clean it gently.
Hope this helps

Edited: Typo

This post has been edited by Cresie: Mar 10 2006, 04:22 PM

U mayb scared him.. so he cried then bark at u like marah u... nvm.. every1 hv the 1st time to trying something new.. u mayb can get more advise o knowledge from ur vet by asking them to show u the correct way to bath ur baby..

And for the tear stain.. yes tat is a liquid to clean it n the smell too.. currently i m using a blue bottle 1(sorry dunno the name) n it quite effective compare to the previous 1 i used b4.. the smell n the stain all removed.. but it is a bit expensive compare to other... for ear oso there is a liquid o cleaner to clean it using cotton pad o cotton bar..

Yea, i bought the ear cleaner too. I put some on the cotton bud then clean his ear. Only the surface tho, not the inside, I scare I will hurt him. Hmm, for the tear stain, can I ask my vet to remove it for me ? Hmm.. anyway after his bath, he became very active today. I put him in the living and he keep running around in a top speed. So funny, and when I on the tv, he sat there quietly and watch it with me.

Btw, I really dont know how to clean his ear. How often do u guys clean their ears ? Tell me more about the ears.

As for the tears stain, I tried to remove them just now but they are dried and sticked on the fur, I dont dare to force it so I stopped.

Tear Stains removers aren't effective. Sorry lah but maltese will sure have tear stains wan.... you gotta clean the fur around the eyes with cotton and warm water every day twice a day. Then the stain will lessen.

Oh thankx for the advice. Can I wet the cotton bud and clean it with it everyday instead ? Will this help ?

Cotton bud also can lah but wet cotton more effective coz it is bigger and easier to wipe more stains off.

Oh, okie thankz.

Anyone else has Maltese ?

hey JD,i will upload the photo tomorrow. Cant wait to upload them up. wait ya!!!

cool..cant wait to see it.

Lolz, cool.. Im sure ur dogs are cute.

havent upload the photos yet?

How's Muika been doing? Has he "more-tamed" already?

Yea, more-tamed now. Hahaz, I think he knows whats his name already. Whenever I call his name, he will look at me. Then, he loves to play hide-and-seek with me. Sometimes I pretend that I cant find him, then he quickly run to another spot and peek at me. Hahaz!!

Haha.Good to hear from u that both of u are getting along so well.
Have Fun and Enjoy.

Hehe.. thankz!

aiks....so cute both of you
is he still barking and bite ur hand? u gotta beat him if he do that.
Dont let him get used to it

I think I know why he bite me already, maybe because he wanted to go to pee/poo but I insisted to play with him. So, nowadays I will bring him to pee/poo first before I play with him. So no more biting. Oh yea, he does barks at me at times, but not that serious anymore.

Sometimes, when I play with him in the garden, and i was like turn away for a while, he quickly run to me and lick my toes and quickly run back to where he was playing. I think he wants my attentions.

Owh yea, he buried the toy bone i bought for him behind a pot. Then, buried my sandal also. Hahaz, little naughty thief! Im going to steal his bone later~

This post has been edited by jdreamer: Mar 14 2006, 01:12 PM

so naughty
my doggie also like to hide all the chew bones that i gave to him.
But he hides them at the corners that we wont notice. And sometimes hides under cars in garage.

Muika is so naive at times, but thats what makes him so cute.

Haha,so cuteee and so fun..

Hahaz yea.

Ei,wheres the photos?

Hiak hiak, just now when I bath Muika, he looks so skinny when his fur is wet but looks so fat when the fur dried.

How is he?
Getting along well?

Yea, quite well. He is more obedient now, at least he will control his pee/poo times until he see me and thats when I will bring him out to eliminate. Normally, the first thing he does in the garden is to relieve himself. After that, he will roll on the grass, and dig some holes around. Oh ya, he loves to hide behind the pots and peek at me. And when i go near the pot, he will switch to another pot.

hey, maltese owner here.
she's about 6 months old now, pretty white coat, very active but quite and obedient at times.
as for tear stains, well, all maltese has it, and it is particular obvious when the puppy is teething, mine went through that stage, can notice a lot of tear stains during that time, now it is better already.
and the ear, the smell is really powerful if not cleaned frequently, the ears flop down so less ventilation, and thus the smell

Wow, nice to see another Maltese owner. Is ur Maltese well-trained already ? For example, housebreaking, those shake hands, sit, stand etc etc ? Mine only knows how to sit, but still when i walk he will run to me. Im not sure how to get him stay there yet.

err... mine not really well trained yet.
Housebreaking is partly there, she would normally pee on the newspaper i put for her. as for poo, well, not yet, but i think poo is easy to clear than pee.
she's very active, so it is pretty hard to get her to sit still when i'm around, unless i sit down then she would come and snuggle up. but luckily she learned about when she should bark and when she shouldn't pretty fast
she's a real glutton, always begging for side treats, and she has a smirk on her face when she does that. She would even lick her mouth to tell me that she wants what i'm eating. But have to be firm, not everything is good for her

Mine's even barks at me and can be a very playful at times. When I put him on the sofa with me, he will only stay still for like 5 minutes, after that he will start to explore the sofa although the space for him is so small. Then when he finished, he will try to go to the floor, and when he sees its too high for him to jump, he will started to bark at the ground.

Anyway, mine will control his poo until I bring him out to the garden, as for pee hmm, he normally pee whenever he wants so, I'll bring him out to the garden first before I play with him. Just to avoid him from peeing on me or anywhere he likes.

mine's very playful too and it behaves like yours when put on a sofa

Yea, they are very playful. Today, when I put him on the sofa and trying to go and get my cell, he realised that Im not there with him and he jumped from the sofa and rushed to me. It's like he's afraid that I'll leave him alone or something. Cute though.

Anyway, a few command will be a great aid in taking care of dogs really. Mine only knows sit, so nowadays when he's doing something that he shouldnt, like biting the slippers or something, I'll say "No" and then "Sit". He will then sits there looking at me, but then, within a minute, he will continue with the bitings.

next trick to teach is hand, lie down and stay.

Yea, today planning to teach him how to lie down, and hand. Btw, I see that stay is quite hard to train as he keep following me. How do u guys train this ? And, nowadays, he had mixed up sit and lie down. Sometimes when I say sit, he lies down.

Please guide me..

Muika is so cute...

Ya.. same like my QQ.. sometime she wil get confused.. I think the best way is practise it always o more often then she wont get confused again.. o mayb lesser..

Yea, he is so cute. Today, I taught him to lie down. He learned it pretty fast, but the things is.... now before he lies down, he will sit first. After he sees me not giving him the treat, he will lie down. Ahhh, wherever I go, which he sees me, he will now immediately lie down and look at me.

I noticed there are some red dots on Muika, is it serious ? Hmm, not very obvious but erm.. I kind of worried.

Er.. Their hair will grow very long ?

Yes, I heard the longest will be around 22cm.

what red dots?

Im not sure, it's like small red brownish dots under his coat. They grow at the place where the fur didnt grow. Near his.. that organ.

does it look like pimple? if it's just normal small red dots, i think no need to worry that much. If it's puss filled pimples, better bring to vet but actually a normal wipe on that portion and clean all the puss would be ok already

Hmm, not really, they're more like a sting by something or what. Im not sure, but anyway I've made an appointment with the vet on 7 April. But Im still worried.

Awww... I prefered their look of short fur..

Anyone know where I can get female maltese? I know I can look for them in petshops but it is not like looking for a can of sardines. They only come in batches and most the time the shops don't 'stock' them. I want to get one for a friend.

Hmm, I prefer them to be in long coat, but u can always trim them. Oh, and long coat is a bit troublesome at times. Can get dirty easily.

Im not sure about that. Sorry.

I recall seeing Maltese in Taman Connaught pet shop before... Cheras area

Should try call MKA and get some numbers. My friend did that and he got a beautiful maltese for only RM1.5k and it came with cert also.... Or was it RM1.2k... can't remember.... but cheaper than a petshop that was selling RM2.5k and the health of the puppy was good, better than petshop.

Sorry.. I'm a car enthusiast but unfortunately don't know much about doggies. My friend is crazy about Maltese but she wants a female. Yeah.. pet store prices are crazy, even rundown looking stores are selling them for RM2.2K. I will see what I can do with MKA. Can I just call them up and ask them for breeder info? They'd just release it to me? Would it be better if I just pay them a visit in TTDI (found MKA website contact) and get the contacts from them? I always prefer face to face contact instead of just anonymously calling on the phone.

Thanks for the info.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Apr 6 2006, 11:05 PM