Happy Birthday to my baby JASMINE~~~




This post has been edited by muchan86: Jun 23 2010, 12:18 AM

hey..anyone buy maltese from this website b4???
http://www.puppyhouse.tk/

My friend bought her male maltese from them

how to take care maltese to avoid tear stain?

actually I think tear stain is quiet common but as long as u know how to deal with it, it shouldn't be a problem thou.
Tear stain came from interna n external body i.e, for internal cause things like bacteria inside the body so any tear stain supplement like health n shine or eye vita can deal with it. While external cause like the ear hair which u need to constant clean and pluck the ear hair then make sure ur dog doesnt whine too much then u will be stain free

As for the supplement I suggest u to feed it earlier as earlier feeding deal better when they still puppy

If I may ask, how come Jasmine's mouth area so dark? Is it the lighting or stain?

The mouth area is kinda 'dirty' or u may say she got stain around her mouth. In fact she got 'stain' for almost everywhere i.e. all 4 legs, tear stains and the mouth area. I've been trying to deal with it by feeding her some supplement and constantly wipe the tear stain and prevent her to lick her legs to make sure the fur wont be so wet or the stain wont heal. So far she kinda improve compare to a month ago when I just adopted her that time she doesnt like like a maltese at all with all those stain.. and not to mention the butt there also got stain which I suspect she 'may' be sit on her poo etc

Hey.....thx for ur recommendation...
i order 1 maltese from Kinzonu ald...

Going to pick him up next week.....

i wanna get a cage for the maltese..
any recommendation?????

cause kinzonu ask me buy a stainless steel one...

but i got no idea where to buy it...

hey....
can give some opinion??

I suggest you to buy play pen if u want
cuz I used pen as well... for me pen is better cuz they got more space to run but decision is in ur hand. If you have enough budget u can opt to pen cuz the price for 4 pcs is just a lil bit more than the price of the small cage.

for both cage or pen u can go to lyn pet store, got ppl sell it there =]

This post has been edited by muchan86: Jun 27 2010, 01:23 AM

ya oh...
cause im renting room only..
thinking to put maltese in my room..
so i think no place for play pen ya....

i saw there is one from Japan one...
is queit expensive..
is it necessary to buy so expensive one???
or something like rm50 to 80 will do???

Peak_wei88,
Just some input for you.

1. If you're renting a room, why would you need a cage?

2. Not wanting to spoil a breeder's business, but before you get a dog, you have to really think through very hard about this COMMITMENT, its like having a baby for 10-15 years.

3. Except that if its a human baby, after a few years, it can eat, shit and cleanup by itself. A dog cant. You literally have to take care of the 'baby' for life.

4. Do you think you can be attentive to the dog and make an effort to learn its behavioral patterns, i.e. as it grows older it can 'talk' to you. E.g. I have established an understanding with my dog whereby she will 'call' me for certain things, like she wants to go pee, or she wants to eat, etc.

5. How well will you take care of it? IMO, just feeding it the basic, cleaning up its poo, taking it out for a walk once in 6mths, taking it for a shower/grooming once in 3-6mths, bringing it to a vet only when a sickness/disease is severe, etc IS NOT taking care of a dog. Its just having a dog and its suffering silently.

6. The list can go on, but the bottomline is this
a) Do you see yourself being accountable or have ownership of the dog for life? Or will you have it for a few years and then give it up for adoption? Alot of pet owners always say they are the former, but end up being the latter.

b) On one end of the tangent, there are pet owners (oh I have a dog!) and on the other end, there are 'father/mother' to dogs (really really treat the dog like their own and really taken care very well. So where do you measure up?

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Added on June 27, 2010, 2:54 amYea most likely prev owner/breeder never take care properly. Have you tried shaving her (or a crew cut) to do a 'reset'?





This post has been edited by saingau: Jun 27 2010, 02:54 AM

I rent a room as well but I still prefer play pen because for me I think pen is a better choice than a cage as I don't like my girl to be cage so far the pen works fine with me as I put her into the pen whenever I went out to prevent her get into trouble like jumping to my table but when I'm at home she will have my roam as her cage

are u a student or working? make sure u got an agreement with ur landlord or housemate before u actually bring back or pay for ur puppy cuz there are so many cases in which 'owner' has to sell off the pup again due to the argument with their housemate, landlord etc and I do hope it wont happen to u. If you are a student you must also think for the future cost and money on hand which u need to spent for the starter kit like food, shampoo, grooming tools, etc because u need to spend more on if this is ur 1st pup as u don't have any necessities for the pup. Plus u gotta forged the money to pay for the vaccines, deworm n emergency fund for the vet if anything happen. But if u are working, please make sure you have time and want to commit to ur pup cuz there are also many cases ppl let out their pup with reason cannot cope up with working time which ended up no time to take care the pup.

This is just a little advice from me, its up to u to take it or leave it I say this because me myself is a student and I used to work part time to buy the pup and all the expenses as I took it as my own responsibilities. Last time I work part time just to get the money for my girl but now I stop doing any part time so I gotta spare my allowance wisely with them now haha. Things are doing good for me cuz my housemate are not those complaints type and they like my dogs even my landlord has accepted my girl althou I never tell them in the 1st place that I'm gonna have a dog and my house rules is actually no pets allowed So far I've been so thankful to my landlord n my housemate thou haha

the rest I agreed with the post above =]


saingau I did think to shave her on the day I got her, but then the previous owner/breeder just shaved her fur so I thought I should try to 'safe' as much as I could haha so far she got lots of improvement as the stains not so 'dirty' as previously and her fur has started to grow and have lots of improvement as well. I guess feeding her good food, supplement, nice and loving environment plus LOTS of conditioner for the fur really pay off

Hey..
really sincerely thanks for ur advice...

actually i really think for it for quiet a long time....
i ald consider for many issue.
at last i oso decide to have one maltese for myself...

I believe i will be able to take care him very well.....

Furthermore, im just study at KL.
therefore, i m renting a room at KL.
I still got 1 more year then i will be graduate and go back my hometown.

Actually my hometowm got one pekingese.
Therefore, this is not first time i own a dog.
But that pekingese is my family dog.
Therefore, i hope to have 1 for my own.......
And able to share time with him......

Thx.....

Muchan...Thx for ur advice ya....
Ya...
actually i oso got same idea.
I will put him in the cage when im not at home only.
If i back home i will definitely let him out to play with him...

Cause using play pen does not have a tray to put his pee and poo right.
Is it i need to get a Wee Wee Pad, let my pups to pee on it???
cause at first when i bring him back, is not toilet train yet....
How u toilet train ur pups?

Ya...im a student...
But this is not my first time to take care dog.
I got one dog in my hometown.
But, my family not allow let me bring it down.
But, in KL, i oso need to spend all the money to buy the starter kit.
I really agree to u, take care a dog is very hard and have to be patience.

Sure....i ald discuss with my housemate abt this issue.
I think they are no problem.
I will be happy that they like my dog as well...

My girl were trained on wee wee pad. You can opt to buy the litter tray and the pad.
For me I think toilet trained on pad quiet efficiency cuz as long as there is wee wee pad, my girl will go to the pad to do her business. Even when I bring her out, I just need to bring the pad along with me. So for me I find it really useful cuz as long as I have the pad she will go there to pee n poo

But its still up to, having a cage also good if u gonna let him out while u're at home. but the toilet trained thing u gotta think which want u want as both cage n pad can be used to toilet trained ur pup

Oh...icic..
So if i decide to put the wee wee pad in the toilet...
For long term, do i still need to put the pad???
or he will go there to pee automatically???

Wee wee pad i saw got reuse and disposable one
actually which one is better????

If u want to train ur pup to do his business in the toilet then u just trained him without using the pad as in u train him go to ur toilet if he wanna pee or poo. Like my friends dog, they trained their dog to do business in the toilet so they just need to bring them to the toilet then the will pee n poo there.

if pad trained means whenever u put wee wee pad there, they will go there to pee n poo.
Both disposable and re-use pad is same it depends on which want u want to use.
disposable pad = u just need to throw them n use the new one but the ecofren or the re-use pad u can wash the pad to be use again. The pad can be wash for about 300x if not mistaken. I got both disposable and ecofren thou most of the time I use the disposable pad. When I'm running low of the disposable pad I will use the ecofren

Oh...clearly understand ya...
really thanks for ur help..
will start online searching for the wee wee pad....

Beside that, what brand of food u purchase for ur gurl??

You can go to the lyn pet store here, got people sell wee wee pad there, but if u want to get the ecofren, u can get from white palace. I got mine from him

My both girls are on barf/ raw diet

Ok...im going to search the item from there ya...

hehe...beside that, any important thing i need to learn while taking care of my maltese?