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I clip my guys all year round about every 6 - 8 weeks but I do find they are much happier in summer with short coats. I don't find any difference in coat type or texture from one clip to another.

Love it, Merry Christmas to you and beautiful Frenchies too.

thats terrible, are you sure you didn't leave your back pack behind your car and accidentally run over it?? Kirislins idea is better!

Im pulling the pin on the get together today, way to wet for my liking I didn't realize how much so till I went outside. ;) Hoping we might be able to catch up Wednesday arvo, I have to work that day till 12 then have a work lunch on so Ill be available by about 2, Sean said AP has been mowed so I will check that out in the mean time and maybe we could go there. Lizzy I am especially bummer about today as I was so looking forward to meeting you. Hope you can make it Wed arvo. Tez, hope you have a lovely lunch who knows with this weather you might be able to roast chestnuts by an open fire. That would be super romantic!! edited to add, I have txt JJ he was busy today but making time to catch up with us so I hope he gets the txt.

I don't have any words of wisdom just hope Chester gets better soon. Just had a thought, could it be a disc in his back?

Dam rain, hope it holds off so we can still have our get together this arvo!

We have bell hanging on the door and to teach we tapped paw on bell then out to the loo. Did this about 3 times and my girl just caught on, the next night she was ringing it on her own. My OH was shocked she picked it up so fast. I think the biggest thing to teaching the ring is make sure the dog needs to go so they make the association between the ring and the out to toilet, hope that makes sense. I never used treats to teach any of mine toileting. The bell doesn't get Rang for anything other than toileting apart from the occasional ring by Tully to let me know the cat wants to come in I used this method for one of mine as she didn't indicate she wanted to go out and would sit by the door and if I was in another room and didn't see her sitting there she would wee at the door. The other 3 ring the bell now too but never taught they just caught on from Tully using it. Give it a go what have you got to lose, I swear by it, especially good for the middle of the night if one needs to go out, they ring the bell and I wake up. Too easy!

Some pics of the Princess on her special day Mmm whats in the box?? She couldn't care about the toy, she just wanted the liver treats. Waiting for a treat. Finally got the goods, nom nom nom Watching telly with dadda

Fanbloodytastic huga!!

Dexer looks so cute with Santa, I love the head tilt in the second one!

Tenties, thats fantastic news!! You must be so excited....! Lizzy thanks for the lovely comments about my gorgeous girl. She is having a great day, she has been with OH out visiting this morning while I was at work no fair I wanted to go visiting too! and when I got home from work, I gave her her little pressy. (photos later) We have braved the shops today to do our xmas food shopping, boy the money you can spend on a few things for xmas, over $300 just for xmas day food things just keep on getting more expensive! Not much you can do about it I guess. Pandii, I spotted you guys in the car park (not sure if you seen me) and thought ah ha at least I'm not the only one crazy enough to brave the shops!!

We have just opened our first 20 kilo bag after finishing the sample, still mixing it with a little Nutro that I had left but I have had 4 empty bowls every night.

Thanks Tez. Is there anyway you can do both?

Where is everyone? Am I in here all on my lonesome??

They keep changing the age on me, when I first started looking into this it was 12 months, then when I was contacting them about it they said 14 months (even though the website still said 12 months) and now its 18 months... I thought that was strange too, when I first looked into it it was definatley 12 months. Might be worth giving them a call, maybe they have changed the rules?

Super cute photos everyone.

Lovely family portrait!!

Mumma when does Santa come???? http://m.youtube.com/index?client=mv-googl...p;v=cVE1VLj_H7g

Hey Tenties, I know your probably not home yet but just wondered if you would be up for a trip to town with the kids on Sunday Arvo? Tez, what about you, I know your flat out but thought you might like one last catch up before chrissy? It's Lacy Birthday tomorrows thoug we could have a little combined Xmas + birthday get together? Anyway no stress you have a day to decide

We have a very similar program at our obedience school, it's called the well behaved dog program. All of the above mentioned things plus a couple more are what the dog needs to do to pass the test. On completion the dog gets a certificate and a medallion saying well behaved dog. After the dog completes the well behaved program they start classes which are more involved. It is a great way to get the dogs generally well behaved. We don't put a time limit on ours to complete, some dogs need longer than others, for example my older 3 had complete the course by around 4 - 6 weeks but my youngest was 2 years before he finally passed, as he wouldn't do the out of site stay without going nuts, i hadn't tested for a while (as im usually instructing) so had him tested for the pass and he just decided he would be good and we passed I'm sure like us other obedience schools must have similar programs to the CGC. Did you check out the Delta site for info on therapy dogs?

so glad to hear Tess is home!

Sperfect Spoodles!

Awwww we C,L,T, & B wanna hunt wabbits too!

God my heart goes out to you, I can only imagine how you feel. Keep trying their number. Come home soon Tess!!

They look great, and cheaper than the kong balls too!