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K: Why do you think that? :?

I'm too trusting as well and people have taken advantige of that WAY too many times allready and I let them... over and over again. :roll: Please join us Guest! Dogo is like a family... atleast my family... Sometimes they get too involved and fuzzy... but you love them anyway! :oops: :buzi:

I can't really go on "marathon walks" with a hairless dog with not proper clothing (it's no use to buy clothes when they're puppies because they out grow them too quickly) in the middle of the winter. Plus that I've been sick a lot this winter too... :? So it's been just walks around the block. Ben does his buissness on that walk several times but not Bella.

Yup! :D Mommy's proud!! She did take a "step back" and pee on the floor once, but since I started using the Get Off spray this has happend only twice.

I voted last night and again now. Gladi's is in the leed by 5 votes!

Ha ha, Zoey!! :lol: You crack me up!! :lol: :lol:

Thanks for all the help and advice. She did her buissness outside today where I put the poo she did inside last night. Yay! :D SexxieRacerChik: I have the "Get Off" spray that works wonders the way you described. I can't let her be outside untill she does her buissness because it's still a bit too cold for her. So I have to have her out for 5min tops. When the weather becomes warmer I can keep her out longer. Walking her doesn't work. If I go on a walk with her she does NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. When she comes inside or comes back to our yard... then she does her buissness. :?

Bella did her buissness on the floor again... now I picked it up and threw it at the place where she uses to wee-wee when we put her out. Mabye she'll see the big picture. kendalyn: I'm going to remove the papers (I use old newspapers) when I see that she stops using them or starts to go out more then now. I think with pee'ing I could do that now allready, but with the big buissness beeing as it is now... I can't.

This is so disgusting. I have no problems with other cultures, but this is just cruel! I saw this one document from the TV once about dogs that are killed for their skin to make coats for humans. The skins are told to be fox skins or wolf skins but in fact they are colored dog skins. They showed one peace where they tied the dog to a (deep sigh)... this still makes me cry... they tie the dog into a fence from it's collar ALIVE. They pull the dog's hind legs back and start cutting and tearing the skin off the screaming dog. I couldn't watch it anymore after that. I had to turn to another channel. I can still hear the screaming of that dog in my head. I wish I hadn't seen that. :cry: They skinned the dog alive. My guess is that the dog must pass out because of the pain at some point... And if you would have seen the places the dogs were kept.. the filth... the pure terror in their eyes as they tried to cramb into one corner of the house they were kept in. Actually it wasn't even a house... Just four walls and a roof. No floor... or mabye there was, but I couldn't atleast see it from the mixture of pee and poop covering the floor. I don't remember where this was shot, but on the other hand... I don't even want to remember this at all. Sorry... I can't write anymore... the tears are starting to roll down my cheeks... Atleast you know now how strongly I feel about this...

No poo of her outside AT ALL. She's not done her "number two" outide the whole time I've had her! I'll try that idea you suggested the next time she does her buissness. She pees always in the same spot on some flowers, but that's no problem as we are going to remove them (the flower plants) anyway so...

I've got a small... hmm... that might not be the right adjective for this... hmm... Well you decide the adjective. I have a _______ problem with Bella's pooping. Since I got her, she hasn't pooped outside a single time. She's now 8 months old. Ok, ok... Don't start stoning me for this yet. Just continue reading. The reason why I diddn't want to housetrain her before now was the cold winter. A little [i]hairless[/i] girl with way over -20 degrees celcius outside (sometimes even over -30) and snow way over her head. Not the perfect timing for house braking, right? So I thought I'd wait untill spring. Well... spring is here and nearly all the snow has melted. It's still cold, but not as cold as two or three months ago, so I thought now was the time to start training. The whole family has chipped in and praised her from top to toe whenever she's done her buissness outside. I even bought the "Get Off" spray that has worked wonders. Now I only have papers in front of the doors that lead outside. So she seeks to the door when she needs to go. So with pee'ing we're doing exellent!! ...the pooping is the problem. No matter how long I keep her outside, she just pees but no "nr. 2". I'm starting to run out of ideas of what to do. So I thought I'd come over here and ask you guys: WHAT SHOULD I DO?

I've stopped to think about what people think of me. I mean... I'm tiny and I'm fat... I have two small HAIRLESS dogs of wich one pulls like madman on walks and the other tries to run to every person walking by seeking attention. In the beginning peoples jaws dropped and their eyes got all big. Especially the ones I knew. They had this "[b]she[/b] has a... [b]DOG[/b]?!?!" look on their faces. (at that time I had only Ben.) I mean... I have SEVERE allergies and SEVERE asthma. I can't go anywhere without my medicines and eatin lets say nuts or beeing on a farm is as life threatening to me as having someone choke me to death. So sure they were surprised to see me walking a DOG at the age of 16. Then the word got around (I live in a [u]very[/u] small town) and peoples faces started to lit up every time they saw me walking with Ben and I felt proud. I could hear everyone whispering: "Look at that gorgeous dog!!" or people would walk up to me and ask questions of him and pet him. And people started to become really facinated about the fact that I'm this allergic and I [b]do[/b] have a dog. But then there were those people who thought I was mad. And when I started planning on a second hairless dog (Bella) they thought I should be locked in a mental institution. Then I got Bella and I started to get the same reaction as I got with Ben. But now it's devided in half. One half LOVES both Ben and Bella and think it's amazing that I've got TWO dogs even though the doctors told me I could never EVER own a dog. The other half again... well... Let's put it this way... I talked to a relative on the phone and he told me to ship Ben and Bella to China because that's all they're good for. Guess if that hurt my feelings. Now I'm just tired of the whole thing. The next time I heard this "shipping to China" -thing I told him I would NEVER part from my dogs and I haven't. I've not slept a night away from either of my dogs since I got Ben. Ben's now 2 years and 8 months. Bella is 8 months. So... If people point at me or my dogs and laugh or tell comments like "he/she looks like a hyena", "he/she is an overgrown rat" or if someone straight out says that I abuse my dogs because I keep them in this cold weather... I just don't care. All I care about is how [b]I[/b] feel about my dogs. I mean... they are [b]MY[/b] dogs not anybody elses. And that's exacly the way I want it and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Hairless Chinese Cresteds: Skinny, Skinner... :o Ummm... Powder puffs: Powder, Puff...

Ooh! I know those and they were very good written too! :D I have to try and check out if I can find those... Bella had a rough night last night... I guess the paw hurt so much she couldn't really sleep. So she's really tired now and taking naps all the time. The Betadine did miracles again.

Bella is using her paw now a little bit. If she runs or wants to go fast from one place to another, she jumps on three legs. If she walks slowly then she carefully uses the fourth paw. I put some antibacterial liquid (the Betadine I told you about) today and it seems to have taken a big part of the pain away. Bella's very pain sensitive and Ben again don't care of small bumps etc. Bella's the kind of dog who whines for the tinyest thing. When she was a pup and Ben played with his sock toy (a squeeky toy in the end of a sock and then tied in the middle) she got hit by the head with the squeeky part. (Ben was throwling it around) She screamed and didn't want to even look at Ben for the rest of the day. I've been hit by that toy too and I know it don't hurt THAT much. I mean... I've been lying on the floor and Ben's been playing with that toy, so I've been hit in the face, on my arms, legs... Practically any body part you can think of. And when she got her vaccination she screamed from the top of her lungs and whined still when I picked her up after it was done. Ben on the other hand, don't even notice the suringe. :roll: So I think I'll keep an eye on her today and if it goes worse then this then I'll go to the vet. She IS using her paw much more then she did yesterday so... She sometimes even uses it once and a while while running too... Kind of giving extra speed. But she's not putting her whole body weight on it yet. Well I have to thank DOG that she's very light weighted. She weighs only about 4,4kg so (not sure what that's in lbs)... kendalyn: Oooh! THAT salt... I'm so dumb... :oops: TDG: I'm not sure I can get all of those things here. I've not heard of any of the products you mentioned. :-?

drjeffrock: Oh, I'm terrible with describing but I'll give it a try. It's on the left paw and if you look at the paw from the top and count the four toes from left to right (I mean that the first toe is the furthest to the left) the cuts are on the right side of the third toe and on the left side of the fourth toe. So the cuts are there practically in between the toes. There's even a very small cut on the middle of the nail aswell, but it's not deep enough to reach the vain inside, so the blood don'g come from there. That's allso why I was thinking it must be the ice. We have a very thin layer of ice on top of the snow that cracks and brakes very easilly. I soaked it in warm water, but doesn't salt really sting and hurt if you put that on the cuts???? I do have some Betadine antibacterial liquid that has a bit of a numbing effect (not sure why, but it does) and it's used even in surgery like nutering and sterilizing to clean the area that's going to have the operation. At least the vet used that on Ben when I got him fixed about a year ago.

I have a little paw trouble with Bella. I took her out a couple hours ago and she had so much fun. When we came inside I noticed that every step she took a little puddle of blood came on the floor. So I picked her up and the blood just dripped down to the floor from one of her front paws. So I washed it and noticed two small cuts on her two toes. I took a bandade and put that on it untill the blood stopped to come. Then I took it off to see if she would put some weight on the leg, but no. I thought she didn't want to put her weight on the paw because of the bandade, but I guess not... It's been about 30 minutes now since I took the bandade off and she's still "jumping" on three legs. You can't call it walking... I'm thinking of taking her to the vet if she doesn't put weight on it untill tomorrow. Is there anything else I can do?

The funniest question I've got of Ben (Bella was still at her breeder at this time) was "what does he eat?" and "does he eat normal dog food?". I was a weekend at a camping place and I had to anwser those questions several times. Like beeing hairless means that you have to eat a strange diet. ;-) Hmm... I wonder how they would have reacted if I'd anwserd "cats and human flesh." :lol: I think I'll do that the next time someone asks that! ;-) Oh, and I allso get "what sex is he/she" all the time. As if it wouldn't be obvious. ;-) Ben's been mistaken for a girl once too. :lol: Hmm... I wonder if I could teach Ben and Bella to lift their hind leg when asked just to show their private parts. That would make it easier to me. :lol:

Ben has separation anxiety problems, but luckilly it hasn't gone that far that I've had to do anything about it. First he whines and howls for a couple minutes (I've tested this) and when he notices that we don't come running to him, he calms down and goes to sleep on the bed. The problem is that there is always someone home, so both Ben and Bella are very rarely alone. Ben hasn't ever done any destructive work when we've been away (wich at most has been 2-3 hours). The only thing is that when he panicks he poops. So that there willl be a nice smelly "alien" on the floor when we come back, but that's about it. We've even asked the neighbourgs if they have heard Ben screaming when we've been away, but there's been nothing like that. It can be that he sences that some people are too strong and it mostly is when that somebody has a dog of his/her own. I guess he smells the other dog on this person and that makes him nervous. He's never been calm around other dogs. It's taken him a long while to get used to Bella even. When we got Bella, he couldn't be on the back seat with her. He screamed from the top of his lungs petrified all the time untill mom took him to the front seat. (dad drove, mom was next to him, I was on the back seat and Bella had his seatbelt on, so he couldn't go and disturb dad's driving either) And it took a LONG while before I could sit down on the couch with both of them with me. I know that I did one thing wrong when he was a little pup, I didn't sozialize him enough. I knew it was important, but I didn't know HOW important it was. But they say that you do the worst mistakes with your first ever dog. But he has been that way since he was a pup. From the first day he came to us, he was scared to death of the piano sound. But slowly he got used to it. He still jumps up and runs away if somebody sneezes etc. I've not been able to remove that problem. And I can't undo what's been done. And I can't say what he saw or experienced before I got him either. So it's an impossible mission to get him to act like Bella. If Ben gets to try and get to know someone at his own pace and taking as much time as he wants, then he will be ok. It's the beginning that is the tough thing. But there's no way I'm putting Ben on any kind of medication for that. If it would be that he'd bite if he was afraid. Or if he'd relief himself when he gets scared. Or if he would get so petrified he couldn't move. That would be a totally diffirent thing.

mydogroxy: I know that there are as many ways to feed a dog as there are owners, so my goal is to find out as much as possible about home feeding and BARF. ;-) TDG: I currently feed Ben and Bella with a porridge that's made out of buckwheat, millet, barley, rice and ground meat put in a bowl of water and then in the oven for a 2-3 hours. I'm planning on starting to get Ben used to raw meat (he's never had it. Bella has eaten raw meat even at her breeder's and I've continued with it. Ben hasn't been that fond of it) and then taking the meat totally out of the porridge and serving it raw instead. Is it OK to put mixed veggies, raw meat and the porridge into one bowl and giving it? I'm not sure where to start or what to do, so all the advice you can give me is to good help. I've tried to understand about all the vitamins, what they do etc, but it seems very hard. Might be that everyone explains it in a very difficult way or that I'm just plain dumb. :oops:

I don't have a pic of Ben's hat, but here's Bella's with the winter cloak her breeder made. As you can see, she HATES the whole thing. [img]http://personal.inet.fi/koti/crested/images/bella/vaatteetg/talvi.jpg[/img]

[quote name='SexxieRacerChik']Dogs are just like people, they all have seperate personalities. Maybe your Ben just isn't a people person. Or maybe he has some type of social anxiety. You could ask your vet and see if there is medication that might help him..just like we have medicine to help us with anxiety regarding other people. Good Luck.[/quote] I think it's totally unneccecary to put him on any kind of medication for that. He's just frighetend of other people and it might be genetic. I've heard that his sister has the same problem and I've heard rumours that his mother was even worse then that (not sure though... you know rumours). He's good just the way he is. He just needs more time to get used to new people. And it depends on the person he meets how fast he will be ok with it. Last sumemer he saw my cousins for the first time (2 adults and 4 kids) and he was ok with them immediately! But again with some people he's really frightend...

Ok... here are pics of the ones I've done so far... [img]http://personal.inet.fi/koti/crested/images/ben/vaatteetg/looking_cool.jpg[/img] This I made from two types of jeans for Ben and I'm planning on making another one for Bella with a bit of gold paint, glitter and "glamour" as she's a girl, you know! ;-) [img]http://personal.inet.fi/koti/crested/images/bella/vaatteetg/keltainenloimi2.jpg[/img] and this I made for Bella... [img]http://personal.inet.fi/koti/crested/images/bella/vaatteetg/keltainenloimi.jpg[/img] another pic of it. That I made from a sleaf. It was just a quicky as I needed to make something new for her as the ones I got to borrow from her breeder became too small. In the next couple days I'm going to do the jeans one and if I get something warm and more elastic then that yellow fabric, then I'm going to do it to match the jeans one. This way I can put them both on top of eachother and then get it even more warm. Oh, do you want to see the hat my mom made for them??

Have you ever done clothes for your two yourself? ;-) I think that's the best way actually. I made one for Bella from a sleaf and I've made a cloak for Ben from jeans. And it's not that difficult. Want to see pics? ;-)

I thought I'd ask you guys if it's any idea to switch from porridge + dog kibble feeding to porridge + Barf? I'm not that fond of the BARF idea that [b]everything[/b] has to be raw. I mean... I understand and support the meat and the vegetables, but I don't know if I think the wheat, grain etc. think is ok. I mean... I've tried to study BARF, but there's not that much information that I've had the chanse of getting. Especially in Finnish to fit the Finnish lifestyle and goods. I've got a lot of information of why not to feed dog kibble and the info is pretty appauling, so I thought I'd ask what you think of feeding diffirent kind of grain, wheat, rye and stuff like that in a porridge with raw meat and a mixture of vegetables and why not even fruit? I still don't trust myself enought to know about all the vitamins and such, so I will be feeding a bit of dog kibble, but not even close to the ammount I feed now. I mean... atleast I'd know what I'd be feeding...