1 hour ago, possum1986 said:

Hi, I have been using Double K, Groomers Edge, Grimeinator shampoo for years and absolutely love it. Leaves my dogs coats smelling great and really soft. Can't seem to get it any where right now and am nearly out. Can anyone recommend a shampoo that is just as good? I have a Lhasa Apso and a Scottish Terrier which get bathed about once a fortnight. Thanks

I’m pretty sure I saw some on the shelves at Clipper Jack in SA a couple of weeks ago. Worth a shot if you’re desperate. 

Where were you getting it?

oh, and I just remembered I saw this post on the Pupkus page the other day. It might be there has been a change of distributor disrupting supply.

“”  Pupkus Australia is Proud to announce that we will soon be distributing DoubleK Products.
This will include Dryers, Clippers and Groomer’s Edge Shampoo as well as we will be continuing on with the servicing & repairs of dryers and clippers.
We are just finalising all the necessary details with DoubleK and will be placing our first order with them very shortly, with the plan to get the order over to Australia as quickly as we can. 
We understand many of you have been waiting for products for a while so to ensure we can supply as many of you as quickly as we can, we are now taking orders for both Dryers and Shampoo to ensure our first shipment caters to as many of you as possible. 
Please email us your order at [email protected] “”

So sorry to read this.

i did immediately think of this recent thread. I don’t know if the dog is still in need 

https://www.dolforums.com.au/topic/271000-4-yr-old-male-springer-spaniel-in-need-sydney/?tab=comments#comment-6926814

also keep keep an eye out here 

https://www.dogzonline.com.au/breeds/dogs.asp

Message @Troy and see if you can put him on the breed rescue page on DOL. I was able to list a couple of pure breed rescues that came through on there a few yrs ago. https://www.dogzonline.com.au/breeds/rescue.asp

Have the vets considered chiari malformation/SM, or similar. 

It’s a condition of degrees and not all dogs display overt symptoms that are often put forward in the media. Some are very subtle. From a head tilt to licking parts of the body, ear scratching, tongue flapping etc. not all dogs are a screaming mess with it. 

I’ll add that what I’d really suggest is you chase up some breeders either to visit them at home or see them at a dog show, and actually spend some time up close and personal with more than a couple of Newfoundland.  They are so much more dog than a Labrador. 

I worked at a Newfoundland kennel for 3 yrs back in the 80’s. 

They are divine animals, although not for everyone. 

Personally not the dog for me. I like a more serious personality myself. 

The main points I would make are do your homework on breeders. A healthy well conformed Newfy is a thing of beauty and an asset to cherish. But a poorly bred Newfy will bring you nothing but heartache and expense. Also A breeder that will support you through the life stages of your Newfy. 

Like many giant breeds, they can be expensive to buy, expensive to run, and wear out a little earlier than you might like. They really are more than your average dog. 

Once you have sourced a great dog from a great breeder, like mentioned above, it is CRITICAL to implement boundaries from the moment the dog steps into your life. They are a breed that needs a lot of work on self control. You really really don’t want to be trying to teach that to a juvenile Newfy. It must be enforced from the absolutely earliest days. 

And, again as mentioned before, and being a groomer myself, if your Newfy is not well maintained between professional grooms, and not well versed in decent grooming manners, don’t expect much sympathy from your groomer. If you can find one! 

A well bred Newfy kept slim, fit, active and well trained will be a delight. 

I wouldn’t suggest a Newfy if you’re particularly house proud. Slobber for one. Hair for another, but mostly because of the sheer size and magnitude of the dog and the coat, a simple walk around the garden will see a lot of garden tracked inside. A trip to the beach will see half the beach in your car, and some more in your living room. Theyre not a wipe down and you’re done kind of a dog. A whole other league to a Labrador coat. 

49 minutes ago, asal said:

 A few years ago I took a litter of feral kittens to animal welfare, I had trapped them in a airport carry cage along with their mum by feeding them in it for a week to get them to go in to it and putting a string on it to pull it shut, to my astonishment the girl opened the door, it was amazing.

They took off like rockets and pinghed all over the place. but they never refused to take them when I brought them in, think she must have been new and didnt realise how wild ferals are,  once the cats were out of the bag so to speak, the rest of the staff  did a wonderful job catching them and dealing with them, so I recommend to anyone to go to animal Welfare.

 

took a dog I found injoured recently and they took him in immediately and were very caring

My very first dog came from the RSPCA 37 yrs ago, when I was 10. It sparked a life long love of animals. I still work with animals now. 

In the last several years I’ve had a few less than satisfactory encounters with the RSPCA trying to adopt dogs. Until early last year when I managed to adopt my current dog which they actually went above and beyond, although there were some communication issues.

Ive had several dealings with the AWL and they’ve always been very positive. Most recently yesterday, when I adopted a cat from them! My only gripe with that experience is the pricing. I don’t think the cat was too expensive, considering they did do all the vet work, but all the mixed breed cats were $25-50 fully vetted, the one I fell in love with happened to be a pure breed, so was $300. There was another pure breed there at $250. All the animals of that species should be the same price IMO, except maybe senior pets. 

Over all, I don’t have any major gripes with either organisation. I do however have issues with animal welfare laws, and the criminal justice system. 

It sounds like tapeworm to me. They look kind of like short flat segments of pasta. Roundworm looks like long spaghetti. 

Definitely re worm with a different wormer to the one you regularly use. Look at the active ingredients and see if you can’t find something different. Make sure it’s an all wormer, that covers tape worm and seeing as you have a scrounger, hydadit worms as well.

Tapeworms are commonly tied to the life cycle of fleas, so if you find your dog has tapeworm, flea prevention is imperative. 

Also, if it’s tapeworm, they tend to crawl out of the anus in little segments too! Once they are out, they dry up and sometimes you will find them stuck in the hair around the anus, under the tail, in the rear furnishings, dried out looking like grains of rice in the hair. 

They have a FB page with a phone number listed. 

I’ve managed to groom for over 30 yrs without owning or using a cage dryer. I feel they are mainly utilised where volume of grooms takes priority over quality experience for the animal. *some groomers will use fan/cage drying for dogs with age, illness or disability related needs, but then again, I’ve alwyas preferred to manage those grooming experience by making it a hands on drying routine with a stand dryer, rather than stick them in a hostile cage environment to stick it out on their own.

if you really feel you need to look at them, I believe OzGrooming World May be a place to start. I’ve also seen home made versions with box fans attached to crates of various types. There have been more than a few cases of severe injury, mainly burns due to metal cage surfaces becoming red hot, and death, mainly due to overheating, when cage drying has been used. 

Personaly I don’t use them, or advise their use, and certainly would not leave my pet at, or work for, a facility that used them

edited to add.....the only real reason I’ve seen to justify cage drying is where corded breeds are involved, and seeing as this is rare inside pet grooming, I would assume an open penned area with a non heated fan would be suitable. 

14 minutes ago, serena horg said:

We have her papers, she just isn't a recognised colour...

Well that’s one I didn’t know. 

Some Bouvier standards don’t recognise that colour either, while they can be shown in some countries. 

I’m after a large breed myself waiting on a Bouvier, and I’d really love a mature puppy or adult rehome, but I’m not prepared to take on the HD. 

Good luck 

She’s lovely but I thought Russian Black Terriers only came in black? 

This dog could also have Bouvier or Briard heritage if her background isn’t 100% certain. 

Unless RBT throw non standard colours to which I’d love to learn more from someone in the know. 

Shihtzu have ear hair that you can pull out. (As opposed to spaniel type earhair  that doesn’t really pull out the same way, better to use little clippers and shave around the ear canal)

When I started grooming in the mid 80s we were pretty much instructed to pull every hair out of every ear any way we could, usually with artery forceps! Fast forward over the years and thinking has changed. I was never that happy doing it, but owners often pressured us saying the vet said we needed to do it. More recently about three or four years ago, people were coming in saying the vet says don’t pluck the ears. Yay! So I sent an email to the new veterinarian school here in SA and yes, they concurred that ear plucking is not something that should be done as rountine grooming. These days I rarely pluck ears. If I do, I use ear powder, which is super grippy and soaks up wax, and pull gently with my fingers. 

If your dogs ears are healthy, and not particularly thickly haired, then leave them well enough alone. 

If you feel your dogs ears are unhealthy, thinking now is to get them better before going and pulling the hairs causing more irritation, if at all. 

I groomed a lagotto today today whose ears were absolutely plugged with thick hair. Just as they should be for a water retriever!! 

If you choose to use a room instead of a crate, perhaps think about putting a high baby gate in the doorway, or even installing an internal screen door on that room. The dog is more likely to be happy and quiet if it isn’t just locked behind a solid door. 

Skin & coat issues are very much a problem with the blue colour. 

Others here with more experience will hopefully expand on this. 

I love the blue look but would not choose it in several breeds due to the coat & skin issues so often associated with it. 

Also id be wary of breeders who are breeding specifically for popular in demand colours as they may be doing so with colour taking priority above other frankly more important things. 

These are two very stressed dogs. Imagine for a minute being forced to live in such a tense environment with some one who is constantly alert to an opportunity to bully you, or the one being bullied. These aggressive episodes are underlined by a constant state of tension.  

Personally id split these dogs up ( as in re home one), because I don’t think it’s fair to make dogs endure unhealthy friendships to suit ourselves.  But if you insist on trying to keep them together, then get professional advice immediately. 

Ill ixpand on tjis by trying to to explain it in more human terms. Think about how a lot of human relationships split up and divorce. Think about the stories you hear of about how trying to sustain bad relationships, for whatever sake, messes up peoples emotional well-being, and sometimes physical well-being.....ie, domestic violence. People choose bad partners for all sorts of reasons, and relationships go bad for all sorts of reasons. I have to say, I think you probably made a less than wise choice picking another male Staffy to partner your existing dog.

Getting professional help for your dogs is basically the dog version of relationship counselling.  It might work out great, it might work for a while, there may well be bumps in the road, or it very well may come down to irreconcilable differences. That is where most humans will draw the line and realise it’s healthier to walk away from the relationship. If you choose to force dogs that really don’t get alon, to live in the same space and proximity, it’s basically the dog version of domestic violence.....

If they have their heart set on the ‘groodle’ Then make sure they find a quality breeder. There are breeders of these dogs out there that do a terrific job raising lovely companion animals. Just because they can’t be judged against a written standard doesn’t mean they can’t be judged as good dogs of sound mind and body. Of course there are exceptions, as with any type of breed, but over all, the ones I’ve met have been good companion animals. High energy silly happy dogs. 

As a dog groomer I’ve learned to look at the dog in front of me and not judge it against where it came from. We see standard large size groodle, many of which for some reason are like ponies, bigger than either of their origin breeds, and we see increasing numbers of ‘miniature’ groodle which are usually around Springer size.

I don’t think any of the Standard Poodles I’ve met have been like the groodle I’ve handled day in day out for years. Maybe it’s because we see a lot more of the designer mutts than pure breeds these days on our grooming table, but I rarely meet one I don’t like. 

I guess other breeds they might look at in medium ish size range would be Springers, PBGV, Tibetan Terrier, Miniature Poodle. All the other breeds I can think of in the shaggy happy family dog are large dogs 

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Besides what everyone else has said, please consider what it’s done, and will continue to do, to the mental stability and general happiness of the lives of animals forced to coexist, who may not particularly like each other. 

How would we feel forced to live in a confined space with someone giving off bad emotional vibes towards us, and physically harming us. Please consider the emotional needs of the dogs, at arms length from your own emotions. 

Lovely pictures everyone.. 

sorry i I haven’t been feeling much like taking pictures. Well, I take lots of doggy pics at work to load onto our business FB page, but I can’t really post them here. You’ll have to pop in to Fablab to see those. And the few personal ones I take all seem too big to put here. 

Kinda blah atm but everyone else’s pics make me smile. 

I don’t know. In SA as far as I’m aware it’s still leashed & muzzled, except Green collared dogs, which must be on a lead?  I don’t know about NSW

The changes in Vic state the dog still needs to be on a leash, just not muzzled. I was going to say, which makes it the same for Greys as any other dog (except dogs under restriction orders) but I’m not so sure having thought about it. I’d assume the phrase ‘or under effective control’ wouldn’t apply to an unmuzzled Grey, and they must remain on lead at all times? 

I just saw this story 

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/greyhounds-to-shake-muzzles-in-victoria/news-story/8478d6200cebfe8e2db8ab26d181169c

Greyhounds to shake muzzles in Victoria

The Victorian government has announced reforms that will allow non-racing greyhounds to be in public without muzzles.

Oh I’d love it if humans could get over themselves and manage these dogs as they are. But if they were brought to the front and became popular, you’d have the true enthusiasts trying to maintain them as they are for what they are, And over the other side pedigree folks slamming their efforts because the dogs are not being forced into a closed gene pool to their inevitable detriment. 

As highlighted by another thread recently, it doesn’t matter anyway now, because lawmakers in this country have made it next to impossible to work with anything outside of a traditional ANKC breed, or a PIAA accredited puppy factory. 

Makes sense to me until people want to draw up a standard, close the stud book and make them into cookie cut outs with a limited gene pool. 

My Tits in repose   

He he got a new stretcher bed from CAC’s today.  I popped his soft bed on top and He ran over, climbed up, looked and sniffed, jumped off..... then collected some of his best favourite chattels, arranged it up on the bed and jumped back on.... that was about 6.30pm. He has not moved since. I’ve never seen him in quite such deep relaxation, and believe me, my Tits knows how to relax!