I think I am going to change my dog food from Pro Plan to Nutri Sauce, just came back from a Pet Store, they told me that Pro Plan and many other brands use the internals of the chicken and etc to grind into these dogs biscuits meanwhile Nutri Source is pure meat only, no intestine, liver or internals or chicken / beef / lamb. Super premium.

Oh yea, by-product is the word for it. Thanks for clarifying.

I already connect 3 pieces of play pen to my cage for extension. Put papers there so he can pee and poo on it but he bite it on random and shred it to bits. Then he try his best not to pee or poo there because its still considered his home-ground... Tahan until come out, potty on the floor mat, AGAIN!

Frust!!

What is a soft therapy? I have no idea whats that man... But its amazing that your cat can follow after your maltese!! My puppy, Casper still have this mentality that the newspaper within the cage is 'his clean territory'. Still cannot register that newspaper are for peeing and pooing.

Apa dia Holistic food brand? Tak faham...

I know, those plastics like non slip mat right? I will get one of those too. So after all that, when you set your puppy out, he knows how to get to the newspaper to do his biz?

I live in a double storey terrace so I dont have that much space to confine him now. I am currently looking for someone to buy my piano for cheaps, say around RM500 and then I will have more space for Casper. I will give him a runway within his play pen.

Couldnt find the time to accompany him yesterday, feel so sorry for him this morning. Poor thing but he still hasnt learn to potty on the newspaper yet. Hope he learns soon though.

How long does it take for you to get your puppy to be obedient to you? Whenever I reach out to him, 60% of the time, he walks away from my palm. When I reach out to catch him, he runs. 40% or when he's tired, he will come to me and sleep with me.

Damn it, this is why I use the slipper to hit the floor when I train him on leash. Now he can follow me using leash liao. I only took 2 hours to intro him to the leash. But other stuff like Come and Sit command, he still wont. Sometimes Sit, we have to push his backside, so he sits, for 5 seconds he gets up. Thus can conclude its not really working.

When I ganas, I feel bad. When I nice, he becomes nasty. I use a plastic clothes hanger once, hit the floor one time, hancur kecai. I need to get something else like a baseball bat or something. The slipper I hit the floor also become senget liao... Sister slipper, kena scold!

Everytime I reach my hand out to Casper, he tries to bite it. When I try to pat his head as he approaches, he turn his neck to try to bite it still. Behtahan, I took his paw and I bite him back (gentle oni but he can feel my teeth la)... Hahaha...

Earlier this evening, he pee-d on the floor near my bicycle. Then he run away as I approach him. My gf tells me that he's challenging me. He knows he pee on the wrong spot, thats why he runs away. Kwai-lan with me... I think I am going to whallop him liao.

A dog trainer tell me that if cannot tahan, dont use anything hard to hit him. Dont use wood or etc thats mudah pecah, then he will eat the remains and die. He tell me that if he pee / poo on the floor again to test my patience, whack him with the leash. I have a small puppy leash, very short about 1m nia... Should I?

Lastly, please share with me how you teach your dog the COME command. Use treats? Come 100x = 100 treats?

This post has been edited by Pennywise: Jan 21 2007, 01:59 AM

I got two questions...

1. My Westie's ear... one side up, one side down. Will the one down ever come up? Any precaution I have to take?

2. When shower puppy, can we shower the face? Or keep the water away from the face and shoulder/neck down only?

Here is some picture of my Westie. Brought him home for 20 days liao and now only wanna post picture.

Casper, blur to the max as the first time he met Mr. Camera.


Sleepy?


That is his tongue.


The way he sit... Abnormal ke?



Editted for thumbnail posting.

This post has been edited by Pennywise: Jan 22 2007, 12:25 AM

I dont mind giving it a try... What brand is it or what is it called? Let me know. Thanks.

Casper's fur hair has already been trimmed by the breeder when I bought him,

Ok I need some serious help.

1. I bought a non-slip mat from Giant for RM9. It has 6 pieces and when put together, its quite large. I put this in his play-pen so he wont shred the newspapers to bits. Now, I am worried that this non-slip mat smells different and he wont go poo / pee on it.

2. My dog isnt eating his dog biscuit recently. I wonder why. The portion I cut down a bit but then he only eat a bit, walk away to rest or begs to come out to play. Why wont he eat? The dog biscuit, he eat 1/3 of the whole big bag already but now he is so reluctant to finish. Put his bowl in his cage for 4 hours, STILL NOT FINISH! WHY? How do I resolve this?

3. Casper still pees on the floor and then he runs away. He 'probably' knows its wrong and was testing my patience so I walk after him quietly and caught him, take him to his pee spot and push him down, then I take a rolled-up newspaper and smack the ground and shouted NO! Then he would struggle. The next two times I hit on the ground, he struggled for his life like that rotating his neck left and right... I scared break. Any better advise?

4. My dog hardly ever sleeps. Whenever I go downstairs, I will see him awake. I come home, I will see him awake. Maybe he still feel unsafe at home. But whenever I hit the ground when he simply potty, later on, he will head-low-low come manja with me.

I feel bad, like I treat my puppy poorly. Teach him potty on newspaper but now worry that non-slip mat smells different, then he confused again. Then he pee, he cabut quickly when he see me turned around. So I had to walk after him and catch him, bring him to his pee spot, he struggle until like kamikaze like that, rather break his neck those type. I feel so heart broken...

Please advise!!

Well, I don't quite get u..I mean how will the non-slip mat help in stopping Casper from shreding the newspapers..Mind to explain in more detail please?

Wow... thanks for the speedy reply. I place the non-slip mat over the newspaper. So the newspaper is under that piece of non-slip mat made out of rubber. The newspaper is beneath it. I just worry he get confused with the whole smell idea because newspaper smell probably covered by the rubber non-slip mat.

Then later he come out of the cage+play-pen-combined. He wont be able to sense that newspaper is potty area cause mat smell overpower newspaper.

Maybe Casper is bored with the taste..he'll continue like this for a few days..but don't worry he'll "appreciate" the food more when he's really hungry

Today, I will be out to work. Nobody at home cause grandma has gone to aunt place. Sister will be back by 2pm after school to look after him. I hope he eats what I just fed him 10 minutes ago.

I think that's the best method u used..I used to train my dogs that way too..no need to pity her too much..like that she'll learn better and faster.

Yea that I know, no need pity so much but then he struggle until neck wanna patah. Now he goes to the newspaper not to potty, just to sit there and scratch his ears. I think he getting the whole idea wrongly.

Planning to take 1 week leave during CNY to house-break him.

Actually Casper does sleep..is just that everytime when u walk down the stairs or nearly reaching home, she already sensed u from far and get excited..that's why u always see her awake..it's actually u woke her up..so don't worry k


Oic, so I woke him up... I see other ppl dog sleep like pig like that cannot wake up wan. Mine like so alert... like scared ppl come bunuh him like that. Haihhh... I'm probably not doing a good job la.

This post has been edited by Pennywise: Jan 29 2007, 07:57 AM

Begging Strips... yellow packet for RM7. Original flavor seems to be many dogs favorite including my Westie and 4 of my other friends' Spitz, Cocker, Silky mixed Shih Tzu and pure Shih Tzu likes it.

Yes, you can use baby-wipes to clean his face everyday like some of the Pugs owner I know. However, I doubt its the face but still, do wipe his mouth every time after he eats. Like many others who wrote, please check his ears.

I think you can get Beggin Strips almost any where. I am not sure about Jusco, Carrefour or Tesco but I think they should have it. Here's the URL of how it looks like, I'm sure you've seen it before.

http://www.begginstrips.com/getPage.aspx?ContentID=422

I feed my Westie the original Bacon flavor.

Hey thanks for your feedback on the advantages of the non-slip mat. I really appreciate this but I think recently, my Casper has stopped walking in circles. Thus, I cannot find any sign of him wanting to do his biz. This gets more difficult each time.

As for the food, I dont keep them for the next session as I mixed his doggy biscuits with milk powder and a little water, making it soggy. I doubt it can be kept for the next session. I believe it's going to be unhealthy for them.

I dont use DETTOL like you do. I use Febreze. I will try to use DETTOL when I run out. I do admit DETTOL is much cleaner but a bit dangerous if not cleaned properly.

He WILL sleep? But the problem is I never catch him with his eyes closed before... Not even once.

My vet has advised me not to trim the hair on his private part... the pee part cause it will cause unnecessary itchiness later on.

Syrian,

The reason why you should not wash your puppy too frequently is so that his body has the time to build up what I would call puppy oil, sort of like baby oil, to protect their skin. The oil is good for their fur and skin so it's best that you only shower your dog NO MORE than twice a week.

If you are going to wash your puppy, make sure its luke warm water in the evening. If it's in the afternoon, cold water is fine. Advise is that do not let water get into their ears, will be extremely troublesome and smelly later on. Try to avoid the nose too. Many people say can shower the face but my gf and I, our dogs, we just wipe with wet clothes or tissue instead of splashing or showering their face.

I am guessing, maybe your dog smell come from the face, or rather more accurately the mouth? Does he have bad breath? He is not a Pug but a Shih-Tzu so you dont usually have to wipe his face everyday. Does he dive his face into his food? For example, I feed Casper his three meals with Nutri Sauce lamb based along with some milk powder for calcium. I will add plain water into it turning his dog biscuit soggy and the powder diluted in the water. He eat in his bowl and then his janggut all got the powder, so sometimes when dry up, you can still smell the powder smell - so just wipe it clean with wet clothe will solve the problem.

As for ear cleaning, use a cottonbud to clean it just like that. Do not clean too deep, only the parts where your eyes can see and then stop. You can push it in but sendiri agak-agak la - not until your dog become deaf. There is a blue solution where you just pour it into your dog's ear without having to apply it on cotton bud. Just a few drops and then your dog will hate it, shake it and you will see tiny dust and flakes come out. I do that for my puppy whenever I shower him.

As for why your Lucky's moustouch cannot grow is because it's not the time yet. Dog's look will take transformation when they are one year old. Be patient. That's also when their weight stabilise. My Westie dont look like a Westie at all.

As for the fur, my friend say got a solution to rub on him. My girlfriend feed her Spitz, Evening Primrose Oil and wipe his lotion that smells like coconut. It helps and the dog's fur is really outstanding. Then cut short, now the dog look like a lamb. Kekekeke...


I am waiting for his fur to be long and I will give him the Lion's Cut! When I got him about 5 weeks ago, he was 2.3kg, now he is 3.5kg. I am kind of worried about his weight so I am taking him out for walk tomorrow and Sunday. Then I can shower him on Sunday cause he had his last vaccination last Sunday.

This post has been edited by Pennywise: Feb 10 2007, 12:21 AM

Now I have a serious house breaking problem of my own.

Today, I let my Casper out to play. So my sister sit with him. To my sister's right is the newspaper where he's supposed to potty. To my sister's left is a floor mat, for us humans to wipe our legs when we step in the living room.

Casper poo on the floor mat instead of the newspaper. So I caught him, roll up a newspaper and push him down to smell it. I smack the newspaper on the floor and kept telling him NO! He was afraid and struggled for his life. I didnt let go, I hit two more times, telling him NO! NO!

Then, I carried him to the newspaper and tell him, here "good boy, clever Casper, good paper"... Then he run off... climb up the stair case until one step, he stop. He pee on the step and lay down on his pee so scared, got all so dirty!!

Then, I have to make him smell, hit the floor again and say NO! NO! again. Brought him to the newspaper again and tell him good boy, good paper, clever Casper. Since he laid on the pee, I had to shower him. That's in the evening around 4pm.

Then, I went to supper... When I come back, I see him quietly laying down on the newspaper that I placed at his playpen... I see him so good boy. Sekali I pick him up, he was actually laying down on his shit... All the shit stick to the stomach and I had to shower him a SECOND time for the day.

WTF?! I think maybe I hit the floor too ganas or my dog is a scaredy cat, so I will have to switch to positive training methods to teach him liao. I cant believe he lay on his own pee and poo! It's worse than before!!!

How many of you train your dog to do his business on newspaper? Recently, I read an article saying not all dogs know how to different floor and newspaper, so if you encourage him to do business indoor on the newspapers, it will makes it too easy for the dog to feel as if it can go elsewhere in the house. For some dogs it may work, but others will have trouble distinguishing the difference.

How many on toilet? Majority let your dog do their business outside? The reason why I dont want my doggy to go outside is I dont want him to get dirty on the mud at the garden or attract any ticks / fleas problem.

Any advise?

This post has been edited by Pennywise: Feb 11 2007, 03:10 AM

Hun,

What do you use to groom your dog? Scissors or electric-charged shavers? Mind telling me and share where you buy and price?

I know this may sound a bit crazy but are there places that sell dog's shoe?

I bring my Westie out for evening walks every alternate days. When I bring him back, I would wash his feet before letting him in the house. Yesterday, I noticed how black his nails were and I cant seem to clean it off.

So, right now I am looking for a solution - either a shoe or a shampoo / cleaning liquid that's strong enough to remove the stain but yet not hurt him.

Any suggestions?