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Had the Lazors for a few months now Jed and have no complaints whatsoever. They hold their charge for a long time, are light and quite quiet and are tough enough to get through the thickest hair. Really good bang for the buck!

I love that thread :) Me too!! What a hoot!

ellz, I would bet that at some stage he has watched another dog and if absolutely not, then he may be a highly territorial dog, which is instinctual and has self taught in order to mark higher on the surfaces. But leg cocking itself, is NOT instinctual. I can say he has absolutely and categorically NOT watched another dog as he has had no contact whatsoever with another male canine (or a leg-cocking female) from the day he was born.

I American Cockers, a Lowchen and Arabian horses - all of which need clipping. I have a set of Osters, 2 sets of Wahls and have recently changed over to Lazor RX and Moser Arco cordless which are fabulous. Light, quiet and very very efficient. Would find it very difficult to go back to the heavy, noisy corded models now.

On the rare occasion it happens with any of mine, I just pinch their nostrils together and it stops.

I've had to modify my use of mine a little because I don't have good enough water pressure from my gravity feed tank to fill the rinse tank quickly so I also fill mine manually (but still leave the hose running as well) and turn the thermostat on to heat the water (cheaper than using hot water). I do my shampooing manually, which I prefer anyway because some areas need more work than others and use the pressure from the hydrobath to rinse. It saves so much time and so much wear and tear on my back and certainly beats hanging over the side of a bathtub for hours rinsing hair out of long coats! Mine lives on my back porch and I just wheel it over to the pathway and point the drain down the garden. If I were really inspired I could no doubt attach a hose to the drain and use the grey water to water the garden but I'm happy enough for it to wash the paths because the shampoo helps stop moss from growing. I got the purple, the magenta was on backorder and not expected in for a few weeks.

I feel your pain, I really do. My Am Cocker girl is coming back from Melbourne any day now and then my own private torture begins. Only this is her first season in three years so I will probably be more surprised if she IS in whelp.

Perhaps a syringe of vegetable or paraffin oil wouldn't go astray either, just to help "grease the way" IYKWIM. My dogs have eaten some pretty bizarre things though with no ill-effects. It's nothing around here to find "gift-wrapped" turds.

Good things come to those who wait!

Does it make the "output" easier to pick up or does it just float away?

Just feed a good balanced diet and you won't need to bother with multivits (or cotton wool).

Best times for u/s are 21 - 28 days. After that the whelps are too big to be picked up on u/s (for counting purposes) unless the vet can find heartbeats. Your best option now is to wait until after about 58 days and have an xray done. U/s isn't infallible though. I've had a bitch ultrasounded and the vet said no puppies and she had 3. By the same token, I've had a bitch ultrasounded and the vet said 4 and there weren't any so presumably she reabsorbed them.

I got my hydrobath from The BARF Shop. It is a heated twin-tank. Basically twin-tank baths have a wash tank and a rinse tank. You attach a garden hose to the bath and the tap and turn it on. The rinse tank automatically fills and heats. When you've finished washing, you turn a handle and it switches to the rinse tank which automatically refills as the water level drops. When you want to empty, you open the drain valve and it drains the bath. How it drains would depend upon where you have it. Mine is outside and on wheels so I just wheel it to where I want the water to go and open the valve. You could easily attache a hose to it for disposal down the sink or wherever. You don't need to have them plumbed in and you don't need any special skills to use it.

Hmmmm....obviously somebody forgot to tell my MIL's dog that. He has NEVER been around another male dog (only boy in the litter and hasn't left her property since) and he has cocked his leg since about the age of 11 months.

If she were a show puppy, I'd say have it pulled ASAP, but as she is due to be speyed, hold off until then. As everybody else has also said, give her heaps of bones to chew and it may well come out, or at least loosen by itself.

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It isn't a collar. It is an ultrasonic unit that you place near the barking. If you want to google it, it is Model BC16.

I have put this in the BSS section in Off Topic, but am aware that some are not able to access that area. So if you are interested in purchasing this unit, please feel free to PM me. I don't need it any more because my "nuisance barker" has moved to a new home.

I'm going to be using a product called K9 Showstopper which is an "overall" product of the ilk of Missing Link. Only problem is that it isn't in the country yet. However the importer tells me that he has a meeting with the "authorities" next week and will hopefully have the product on the market early next month.

Thanks Cavandra. He's a very wise man! I originally started using it because of the taildocking issue....I'm all for freedom of choice. I was tossing up between Voltaire and the one about religions....you know, when they came for the Jews etc etc until there was nobody left to fight and Voltaire won because he was shorter!!!

Is it the coloured part of the eye or the pupil? Solid-colour or opacity? A photo would be very handy.

Shredded newspaper is more absorbent.

Raw egg used to be a no-no and I personally prefer not to feed egg white (unless the egg is cooked) because of the biotin issue. But I think that the current thinking is that like cows milk, provided it is introduced at a young age, there shouldn't be any issues with it in adulthood.

If you feed the whole egg (whites, yolk and shell), it is correctly balanced and you don't have a problem. A correction.....you SHOULDN'T have a problem, UNLESS your dog has an inability to digest the egg which is quite possibly the issue you are having.

It's definitely an instinctive thing. My first American Cocker boy didn't have any other boys around him but he still learned how to lift his leg. I think it's probably something to do with making sure the scent is up high so that it can be picked up by the wind.