charlies_mum

Thanks for your help. the neighbour who complained says she only barks when we are not at home. which is true when we are home she rarely barks and if she does once we call her she is quiet. i dont know what would work because we cant be home to throw the chain at the fence etc when she is barking as she only does it when we arent there so would a collar be better? if so where do i get a collar from and do they need to be properly fitted. thanks for your help and feedback im thinking i will have to give bark busters a miss. i love the story about the car being broken into too. bet they wish they had waited to complain to you hahaha

hi thanks for your feedback we are in the illawarra area in nsw if you know of a great trainer we would be very happy

Hi everyone we have two chihuahuas molly who is 1 today and charlie almost 2. molly is the dominant one and lately she has been barking at everything. they both run to the front door barking when someone comes to the door but they are getting worse. they bark at everything that moves in the backyard etc. has anyone had any experience with Bark Busters? we are desperate one neighbour has already complained. i looked on the bark busters website and they claim to be able to fix alot of problems in 3 hours which sounds like a god send to me. Our puppies are on the whole so good they never make a sound unless they are outside or someone comes over. will bark busters be able to help? thanks for reading sorry its a long post.

had she been on heat before then (sorry if thats a stupid question) we just always though six months so she doesnt come on heat as we have a few dogs that are allowed to just roam in our area and i would hate for one of them to jump our 5ft colourbond fence.

my six month baby chi is being desexed next week. my husband and i have been nervously awaiting this time in her life since we brought her home. she is just so tiny and even though i have full faith in my vets ability i am so worried. how long does it normally take for a female chi to recover? our male chi was desexed last december when he was 6 months old and he was up and about the next day and never even looked at his one stitch!!! i hope she will be the same but she is smaller and its a more complicated operation for her. my breeder is so sweet as she loves molly just as much as we do she is coming down the next day to check on her ( a 3 hour drive) . any advice or similar stories would be appreciated

hi everyone my oldest chi charlie who is 1.5years old loves the sun and on a day like today will lie out in the sun until he is panting (with a gorgeous big smile on his face) then he comes and lies under the pergola on the concrete where it is cooler but i think he has too much coat. (he is a long haired chi) i have spoken to people who say he doesnt need much of a trim as it would not grow back the same but all i care about is his comfort and i dont want him to be too hot this summer (last summer he still had his puppy coat so this wasnt an issue) are there any long haired chis out there that get a haircut in summertime? thanks for your help

our two chihuahuas have a crate harnessed onto the back seat each for travel in the car as they are too small to sit comfortably in the harnesses on the backseat. is it alright to have them both in the same crate?

hi everyone i have two questions today. how do i get photos up to show you charlie and molly and the second question is molly (who is 18 weeks) is still tiny (she was the runt of the litter) we want her to be desexed as soon as she is 6 months old. her older brother charlie was desexed at 5.5 months and at the same age as molly is he was bigger (about .5kg bigger) my vet doesnt specialise in small dogs but we have always been super happy above and beyond what we expect from a vet but because she is so tiny are we better off trying to find a vet that is experienced in tiny dogs to do the desexing? i would prefer my vet to do it as she knows molly and molly loves going to the vets but if it meant she would be safer with someone more experienced then i would go with that option. i should say we were very happy with charlies operation (he only needed one stitch :D ) but i think female desexing is more complicated what do you all think thanks for your help.

our puppy preschool was the best!!!! we have chihuahuas and our beautiful puppy molly started at 9 weeks when she weighed only 700gms. the school was run from our vets and the teacher was so good. they all get weighed at the start then she noticed molly was hiding behind our legs so she let her off her lead first then once she was happy sniffing all the other dogs she let them off one at a time. they had a play and then week by week she taught us more commands and we would have fun competitions to see who was the best at each command and she would go through some new info any week. any questions we had she answered and we got so many samples and toys and all round it was a great experience. i have heard some disaster stories though of puppy school so choose wisely. i hope you and your pup have fun and learn lots

i didnt know that about their coats never growing back the same way. he is such a pretty dog (even though he is very masculine ) i thought he would get too hot in the summer time but i suppose last summer even in the middle of the day he would lie out in the blazing sun on his back with a big grin on his face and refused to come in to the shade even though he was panting thanks for your help everyone

hi everyone. my 14 month old chi will need his first summer haircut next monthish. we are looking for a groomer in the illawarra preferably from wollongong-kiama. does anyone have a reccomendation? i know there are so many out there but we want someone that has been reccomended. also should our 4 month chi have a cut too? they are both long haired and we left charlie last year as the vet said not too until his puppy coat had gone. cheers for any help

hi everyone i have two chis Charlie (13 months desexed male) and 11 week old Molly. they are both being fed science diet charlie has the adult small bites and molly has the puppy small bites. they both happily eat it but i did a search on here a few weeks ago re science diet and one person said they noticed their dogs were growing lankier on the science diet. i have noticed this with molly her legs seem to be growing faster than the rest of her (maybe i am just being paranoid) should i change foods? which is the best for chis? the breeder (who is the same for both of them) was feeding them all homemade stuff but i dont have the time to do that and worried i might mae a mistake with the recipe. i like science diet because they need such a small amount to get all the nutrition they need as they both have such small stomachs. the vet reccomended science diet or royal canin should i switch to that one? they are both a healthy weight by the way. cheers

hi our 10 week old chi molly and her 1 year old chi brother and hubby and i were driving back from their grandparents house on saturday night and molly started crying hysterically from when we first got in the car (which she normally does for about 2 minutes then she is quiet) but she cried for most of the 20 minute trip home and we ignored her as we didnt want her thinking we were giving her attention for crying as this has worked really well and she no longer cries at night. when we got home and i was settling her into her play pen i noticed she had done a poo in her crate!!! i know now that this was why she was crying because she was telling me she wanted the loo... :D i felt terrible. has this now wrecked all the work we had done with her with crate training? will she do it in there all the time now? i soaked the blanket and washed it in the washing machine and hung it in the sun yesterday to get rid of all the smell and cleaned out the crate to eliminate any smell. im feeling very guilty. thanks for reading

thanks so does that just happen all the time now he is an adult? and its definetly not a sign that he may still be fertile is it? when i saw it that was my first thought that maybe they didnt get all his bits and now with a female puppy here who wont be able to get desexed until at least 5 months of age i dont want anything to happen.

hi everyone my chihuahua charlie i noticed this morning after playing with his chihuahua sister has a small amount of white dischagre which looks like a thick fluid on the tip of his penis. he is desexed so i dont think it is because he is excited. do you think it could be that he is just really happy or is it an infection? we have puppy preschool tonight at his vets for the female chi so i will ask the vet nurse as well cheers