new way to groom
 I will try to download so pics it was funny seeing her stand in the cross-ties but eventually she figured out how to slip her collar off  she was good enough to still stand there and left me finish.Next weekend the legs, hopefully. Not sure yet how I am going to hold the oppistie paw up while I trim the other. Maybe I can get her to leave it on my knee if I sit in front of her (of course on my bucket). Any one else groom or bursh in odd ways. I hope I not too weird  |
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| I don't have horses and I am at a loss to know what she was in, but it sounds really interesting! Anyway that will help to groom your dog in a safe way is worth it's weight in gold. Can't wait to see pictures! |
| Having spent 2 hours on my hands and knees trimming Summer with hubby, your way of doing it sounds good to me. Just her head and tail left to trim! |
I am a horse person too - so that makes perfect sense to me  It actually gives you the same control you get with the grooming arm on the table, just at ground level. Collar - use a martigale or similar collar that she can't slip out of. That is a potentially dangerous skill for a dog to have. Martigales tighten w/ pressure, but relax and loosen when not being pulled on. Gives you a safe collar that is still comfortable for your dog.  |
| I had all the barn doors closed just in case she slipped her collar. Next time I think I will try her in her harness when I trim her feet. No way she can get out of that. It will have to be back to her collar when she is ready for her body clip. |
sheepiegail wrote: I had all the barn doors closed just in case she slipped her collar. Next time I think I will try her in her harness when I trim her feet. No way she can get out of that. It will have to be back to her collar when she is ready for her body clip. That is good (the closed barn), but I was trying more to point out that the collar slipping is a nasty habit. A dog that learns how to slip it's collar is never safe on leash - they might as well be loose.  And seeing it usually happens in a bad situation - either scared or trying to get their way - it is a lose:lose situation for both you and your dog. A martingale or limited slip collar is a great choice to prevent this. A regular collar buckled really tight will get the same result, but that is hardly comfortable for your dog. And a harness on an OES with any amount of hair is not a practical choice as it will make a matted mess in very little time. |
| The collar I use when I take her out is a prong collar and no way she is getting out of that baby. I have a hard enough time squeezing the prongs into the loops of the other link. I was using her nylon collar that has her tags on it. She rarely has it on and I have actually been thinking that I should have her microchipped. Anyone else have their pupper chipped??? My horses are microchipped.....not that the chips have my phone number or the house address on them. I was debating when they go in for their yearly shots about asking about the chips and how expensive they are and what info you get etc. |
2 of ours are chipped. Haven't personally had to use it (thank goodness), but I know of several occasions with our basset rescue that a foster has gotten out and they were found and returned because of the chips.  That makes a believer out of me!I am trying to decide what company to go with, as I have a couple more I want to chip. Our vet does HomeAgain and would be easy to do. The other 2 are Avid, and I would like to keep it simple w/ all covered by the same brand...so I am still in limbo. The next one done at our house will be coonhound Maggie. She night hunts with Todd, and her potential for getting lost is the worst. It scares us. She has her tags, but out in the woods and swampy areas, she could get it pulled off so easily The prongs do malfunction, BTW. It is one of the collars we use in our classes, and is the most common equipment failure causing loose dogs in class. The manufacturers recommend a backup collar when used, for that reason. They are the dickens to get on, but they do snap off at the worst times |
I'm in Australia. All my pets are chipped but its mandatory here now. It does mean that a lot more pets get back home to their owners.  In the past 2 months I've taken a dog that I found lose on the main street of my Mom's home town to the local vet and they scanned her and called the owner. The owner got the vet to phone me and thank me as she'd escaped while they were having a garage sale and they'd been driving all around town frantically looking for her.I also took a stray cat to my vet and they scanned it. The owners had moved and the cat had run away so it made it back to its owners too. There was just a case of a dog found in Queensland being returned to its owners in Victoria (24 hours drive away) after something like 5 years. It was found wandering and taken to a local vet. It was a cute little fluffy and had been stolen  from its home here in Victoria. A rescue group and a pet airline got together and transported her back to her owner who was 12 years old when the dog went missing. (I may have ages and times all wrong here but it was a long time)Our local state Dog Control Club holds half price microchipping days so I am taking my Mom's poodle to the one near her in June as she's not chipped. The dog not my Mom. It will cost me $25 and as the poodle's escaped 3 times now I think its worth it. |
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