Congratulations !! Leela is so cute!

Thanks so much!!!

Thanks for looking at my photos. Buffy was a real beauty that only lived 6 years but she had a good life. Izzy is a very special girl that gets along great with all the other animals in our house. Nibbler is really cute. Have a great Easter!

It was horrible. I'm still sad about it and it's been over a year. Thanks for saying that/ Good to know there are dog lover's like me that feel the same way.

I can't seem to locate "manage my photo" on the profile page. Could it be elsewhere?

Good for you! Everyone falls in love with Finn. He's a lucky boy! Cardigan's really are wonderful. I thought i would want a Pem and a Cardi but I think if we got a second dog i would want a another Cardi, this time a girl. I just have to convince my husband since he wants a Scottish Deer Hound. :)

Yayuh, Nibbler! Is she a food fiend like mine? =D

-chill

I really appreciate the advice! Hopefully we'll manage. It's just going to be two of us trying to bring back two puppies, but I'm sure we'll figure it out. I'm counting on them wanting to sleep for the most part.

I realize that's almost certainly wishful thinking on my part, but I'll hold onto my delusions for now.

We're getting two puppies from Kim soon! Both were sired by Gilby but have different dams. We're going to be picking them up in early April which gives me a good six weeks or so to bundle up cables, hide anything chewable and figure out how best to handle a 9 hour car ride with two puppies. :)

I hope ours are half as cute as Nibbler! What a cutie.

I just read your little about my corgi section...and it so sounds like my Bailey :-) Yay for Poso Creek Puppies and offsprings of Gilby :-)

Oh great! I'm glad you like the Honest Kitchen. I love it. I don't feed it completely, as it is a little pricey, but certainly is around the same price as feeding the pre-made raw foods. I feed Orijen kibble in the AM and either the Honest Kitchen (sometimes mixed with raw ground turkey meat from the store) at night or raw meaty bones. Good luck!

Hi!

For a gentle shampoo I'd either use a show-dog shampoo or I'd use a human shampoo. Both are designed for daily use and are weaker in detergents than the ones that are formulated to clean a dog who gets a bath once a year.

I love Chris Christensen products, and he has a Day to Day shampoo that is very gentle. Plush Puppy products are also wonderful, as is Best Shot UltraVitalizing. You don't want anything called "professional"; in dog groom-speak that means "super concentrated." If you don't want to order something, you can use a human shampoo. We use Bed Head and Pantene a lot around here and many people, groomers included, swear by Sally Beauty's store brand.

Whatever you use, apply it diluted. Squirt some into a cup of warm water, swish it around, and then pour that over the dog and work it in. You should try for a shampoo-ed slick feeling all over the dog but you don't need thick lather. Then rinse like bonkers, using your fingers to push under the coat, especially around the chest and where the legs meet the belly and on the mid-back where the coat is thickest and hardest. If you rinse very well and still feel like the coat isn't clean, repeat the dilute wash. I can usually tell I'm done when the water starts to bead up on the coat again (i.e., the hairs are clean and shiny).

Hope this helps!

What you want to do is find a good, all natural, human grade food, preferably grain free. Orijen and Evo are both great. Fromm is a pretty good food as well. If the food you are on is an all life stages food, your dog can eat it no matter what age. If it is an adult v puppy food it is up to your judgement. I switched my pups over around 8 months. The absolute most important thing though is that you are feeding a healthy food!

Thank you very much, Mary! We are very excited about it :)

Thanks! Nibbler is such a cutie. It's so good to meet other Corgis from Kim. She such a wonderful person and breeder.

ps. Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi Mary,

Yes, SIdney loves the time he spends at classes, so we took basic, intermediate and trick training classes. At the end of the 6-week therapy class, the dogs had to take a test to make sure they were ready.

At our school, they are not supposed to start doing therapy training until they are 1 year old. Sidney was about 1 year 9 months when we started. He's almost 2 1/2 now...we took a break over summer because my daughter was graduating high school :)

Yeah, I saw that one also. She's really adorable but I want to be able to get another one if I want to... Her description sounds like my parent's dog, and I hate to see her bullying their other older dog around all the time. I hope she finds a good home though.

Oh, thanks for letting me me know about the pictures. I looked on her page before and saw a few of the first ones (the ones taken later in the night when their costumes were off) but I thought it was from something else so I stopped before the costume pictures showed up.. Hehe.