These are some pic of my furkids before and after HnS...
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It reli helps bt provided there's no other causes of the stain tat remain...eg,earmites, tear duct blocked etc..

I think most of the dogs dun like us to blow dry their face as they feel uncomfortable with the air entering their nose,eyes i guess..

I agree wit cutevb19 tat frequent blow drying will dry up their hair..moreover, their hair is much much more fragile than our hair..

.. digestion time suppose to be around 4-5 hours?

I gave her when she's bout 8mths old..that's where she hav worst tearstain due to the cutting teeth..

Robey...dun worry bout the less poo or less frequent poo...it's normal coz you're feeding barf..they absorb the food better compared to kibbles..if u feed kibbles,you can expect more poops and sometimes even twice a day...

My Charlie n Fausti oredi get used to barf and the food intake quantity is more consistant..i mean,both of them will eat around 300gm a day or 5% of their body weight....mayb too much,bt they sustain their weight wit 5% so i continue with it...even wit tat amount, they dun poo everyday..sometimes 2 days once...normal wan..

Yar... human baby also sleeps a lot...tats normal..

She got cry cry nt?my gal cry a lot..n since she came,my boy also will cry.....even now,if she din c me  bt can hear me or c me go somewhere,even for jus few second,she'll cry....

They are too attached...feed also must be me only....anybody else feed them,they rather starve...i also pening...hehe

my advise : dun cut seriously... later became a bit ugly
Grace...... lol please stop worrying bout tear stain hahaha

the reason why dog have stain is because, they cry alot, whining, teeth changing, ear not clean n some other reason. since spring is just a puppy what u can do to clean the stain is just clean it with saline water and cotton. Last time I clean quiet often, about 2-3 times per day few weeks after I got autumn back.. cuz she cried a lot more than a week

Here are autumn's pic after I got her back
1. First time bring her back home with me and u can see her got tear stain
2. This is her after awhile with me and I clean the stain 2 times a day and can see the stain lesser d also this pic taken after I cleaned her eye stain
3. This after I shower her so of cous so clean
4. While this 1 is about 3 weeks she with me d and stain also lesser
5. her 1 month with me and these taken before I went back to my hometown... can hardly see her stain d.
6. lastly.... her current fugly picture taken at last gathering day... stain became so worst because teeth changing period.. one is from the maltese gathering n another is when I bring her to BU park to meet some poodles friend there..

so conclusion... please wait more patiently grace cuz before this I also like you... so gan chiong see my girl got stain    aiks... so heart pain see my girl last picture..... on that gathering day I just bring her to groom.. but she cried a lot and tears coming out... sigh..

RobeyLim,

I don't own any maltese, i own a male rottweiler puppy now 3months old called ozzie.
cos i dunno how to groom long hair breed... hehehe...

The method I'm using actually gather frm all kind of dog breed books I read from, including small breed books also internet research.
So here, I'm just sharing what I have read and experience, trial and error...

As for me, the way of taking care a pup is still the same whether they are small or large breed.
We just need more patience and observations... don't rush to it...

And I haven't feed my pup BARF yet, I'll wait till he 6 months old, now i'm feeding him kibbles cos dry food won't build up as much plague as BARF and I don't want he has teeth problem another reason also cos he's still young the immune system not strong yet although he gets his boosters, i want to build up his immune system 1st, before feeding him BARF.
I prefer to take things slow.  I'm a slomo
But sometimes I do give him raw meat as a treat...

You want to know more I can give you more infos...

HTH...

Robey : Spring baby indeed must be very happy to have a family like ur family ^^ autumn gonna be 6 months old  next sunday!!! and she is 1.2 kg now... starting to grown liao... autumn's mommy is Fortune daddy is Gizmo.. so practically she is spring sister

when u bath a puppy make sure the water din kena her face esp nose n eyes and also make sure the water din go into her ears. If water go insider her ears u can always use the earific to clean the excess water on the ear