lizzie

well I agree with every thing that was already suggested, but this is what we did, Bozo was already trained :lol: but olive is very sneaky it seemed like every time we took her outside she wouldnt go to the bathroom, we would come back inside and she would poop on the floor, well we live in a duplex and have a big back yard, so we unded up leaving the sliding glass door open so that she could go when ever she wanted to. we took the easy way out!!

I like to watch it on mute so that way you dont have to listen to allof the stupid things that people say but still get to see the cute babbies!!!!!!!

chins are soo cute, you are lucky to have one

I know what you are talking about, from a groomers perspective, I have been profesionally grooming pets for about five years, and there is nothing that pisses you off more than a neglected pet, expecially when you tell the owner that they are neglecting there animals and they still dont care!!!! I have a story If you all would like to hear it I suggest if you have a weak stomach, not to read on........ one early friday morning a guy walked into my shop and said I have a CHOW CHOW that is in despiarate need of a grooming, I quoted him a price of 45.00, being that if it were in despiarate need, it probably would have to be shaved, I made the owner promise to make the dog wear a t shirt for at least 2 weeks after being shaved, It was an outside dog never got any attentionn or shade, so it needed some protection from the sun, he agreed, to have his dog wear the t-shirt and said that he would bring his dog in early monday morning after taking him to the vet to be sedated... monday morning came, so did the sedated chow chow, after looking the dog over, I informed the owner that she would have to be shaved and a t-shirt in this case is a must, he said no problem. I proceed to shaev her with a number 5 blade no luck hmmm maybe a number 7 would be better nope number 10? not a chance #40 sergical blade? ok this works now you have an Idea as to how badly matted this dog was...... so I am shaving shaving shaving..... She is going to get A lion Cut I decided Shaving Shaving Shaving..... there is a foul smell of invection coming off of the dog, I coninue BTW the owners reason for bringing her in was she was starting to chew at her back end!!! well her hair was sooo badly matted that the fuzz had matted over her back end and she could no longer go to the bathroom.... I had to place her in the bathtub, because I knew that when I took the hair off of that area It was not going to stop flowing, and sure enough it did, it must have went on for about half an hour. well there was a foul smell coming out of there, no wonder she was knawing on her back end!!!!but was it the same one I smelt earlier? nope apon shaving her back she woke up, I dont know If you guys know this but there is nothing worse than grooming a sedated dog and it wakes up halfway through, there is nothing in the world worse than a pissed of dog. that dog was such an angel after she woke up!!! I still to this day have no Idea why he had her sedated well I am still shaving her back and WOW that must be why she woke up, she was in pain, Did I hurt her? nope.... and theres that smell again.. This dog was so badly matted that under all of that fur there were flies living and sure enough maggots.... not only that but they had started to eat her!!! she had a hole about the size of a qouarter on the top of her back!!!!!! it was oooozzing puss and maggots crawling all over, well theres the smell.. being soo pissed of at how this guy treats his pet I called the vet, he came and diagnosed her, gave me some medication for her wich I gave to the owner. When the owner came to pick her up I told him how much I want to call the humaine society on him, because no animal should be nglected like that, he said that he was really sorry, and asked how often I thought that she should be groomed, I told him at least every 3 months AT LEAST he said ok and made an appointment for then, I made sure that he knew that the dog was to wear a t-shirt for at least 2 weeeks to avoid sunburn and of course he said OK two days late rhe stoped by to tell me thanks for helping me with his dog, but he never showed up for any of his appointments And I am sure that he is neglecting his dog again as that was over a year and a half ago when I saw her last. I still wish to this day that I would have turned him in!!!!! sorry for ranting in your post I just couldnt help it

poor Ebony, that is kinda why we adopted bozo he was one day away from the nedle, and I just couldnt leave him behind.

wow the subject of HD, just thought that I might add, in the town that I live in we have a chyropractor, if that is the way that you spell it, who just loves dogs, he is always rescuing them and helping them in anyway that he can, anyway he told me that a coulpe of years ago he came accross a dog that had HD and was actually able to cure him by rubbing certain areas of his body, the dog remarkably recovred with no more signs of ever having HD, I am prety sure that it was a fully grown dog that He worked on. I thought that it was extremely nice of him to do this for a stray dog

dont worry, we felt the same way when our bozo[img]http://sc.groups.msn.com/tn/C3/F1/PitBullWorld/34/30f.jpg[/img]went in for emergency surgury a couple of months ago! I am sure your puppy will be just fine just stay by him as much as you can and show him that you love him, and will do ANYTHING to make him feel better!!!! :Dog_run:

miniature dachshund ( a weener dog)

I picked number 5 only because that is the one that I would pick out of the 5 But usuall when getting a new puppy, I go to the breeders house and I dont pick out of looks I go for personality...... OH I used to have a Pet store and I did have puppies but instead of having high priced pure breeds I had mut's and mix's that people did not want to take to the pound, and sold them at cost for theyre puppy booster shots, I had never had to put a puppy down, nor would I ever. I still live in the same town and see allot of the puppies that I have sold, it is so cute to see them with there new families,

my old neighbor used to have a kennel, anyway, when she retired and got rid of all of her animals she kept a couple, one was an English Springer Spaniel Female and the other was a mini doxie male sure enough they breed, I never saw the puppies but I guess that they would have looked funny