Well this is our GSD M's Sassafrass....."Sassy".....and fits her name well....she's still a talker too...
she usually helps out in the fish room....usually that is.....
..and enjoys our deck swing....hogs it, I should say.....
Well this is our GSD M's Sassafrass....."Sassy".....and fits her name well....she's still a talker too...
she usually helps out in the fish room....usually that is.....
..and enjoys our deck swing....hogs it, I should say.....
http://www.mugwump-fish-world.com/
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
We have a nutso Quaker parrot too........Igor......he's actually been flying with that tube over his head too.....not too successfully, but it seems to amuse him...as when he crashes he laughs my wife's phone laugh.....
He's in a much bigger cage ow.....
http://www.mugwump-fish-world.com/
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
Lol! What a character!
I enjoyed everyone's dogs story and pictures.
This is Gypsy! A neighbor mentioned seeing two cats and a small dog in the front pasture. Sure enough that is exactly what I found. So I setup a feeding station and got to know "the crew". Once they trusted me I had the two cats fixed at an cat rescue, both were male. Blaze was one of the two cats who I introduced in the cat thread. The other cat was a three month old kitten and he became Tuxedo cat due to his black and white marking. Gypsy went to my vet to be spayed since her operation was a bit more personal.
The vet said Gypsy was about two years old and is a border terrier. She is a great little dog and it took her forever to trust us. Today she is eight and loves to hunt lizards and is slowly becoming a lap dog. In her mind her duty is to escort the car down the driveway. Our driveway is about 800 feet and she stops 2/3 down the driveway and returns to the house.
Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
She's not a Border Terrier, but she sure has a terrier coat. I wish I could get my hands on it in my shop. I know how to hand pluck a terrier coat and my greatest ability is bring out the best features of a dog while still maintaining a natural look. I'm out of luck though because you are in Florida an I'm in Mississippi. Besides, she's a very cool looking dog as she is. She looks like a happy country dog.
Mama Bear
She is a happy dog Liz and her coat is "fluffy" but not thick. She seems to have an inner and outer coat. I have read that you "hand shear" the coat vs using chippers. Not quite sure what that means lol. I do trim the hair about the eyes and muzzle a little. I agree she does not really match the border terrier pictures. If not a border terrier then what...a mutt?
Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
She is a proud American Terrier mix (a mutt). Her coat is what's called a broken coat. There is a soft undercoat and a harsh top coat. If you use clippers on a coat like that it supresses the growth of the top coat and encourages the growth of the undercoat which ruins the coat.
She doesn't need grooming. She's fine as she is. But if I had her in the shop I would pluck off the fluffy stuff on her thighs. It doesn't hurt when you pluck the coat breaks off at the place the break is. It's not like you yank it out from the skin. I would clean up the top of her head and the hair on her ears to make those lovely drop ears stand out. I would also pluck out some of the hair on her face to enhance her fine neck ruff. That bit of cleaning up would make her pretty face stand out and her body look tidy but still a bit rough.
If a Terrier person where to groom the dog you as the owner would see a big difference in the dog's appearance. A person who had never seen the dog would think that it's hair had just grown that way. I've always wanted to mentor someone in the finer points of grooming but I've been doing this for 40 years and the only poeple interested in learning to groom only wanted to know enough to be able to open their own shop. That's why dog grooming is considered by the government to be unskilled labor. It usually it is.
Sorry to go off on a rant. Gypsy is a good looking dog just as she is.
Mama Bear
Liz can you help me? My dog is deathly afraid of the shower head. It sounds like I'm murdering huskies when I give him a bath. His eyes literally pop out if his head and my back probably can't take much more of his flailing around in the tub. In tips to calm him down?
What kind of dog. If it actually is a Husky they all think they're going to die of water. Even the ones that go swimming are like that. No dog enjoy's a bath but most of them can be tamed.
Mama Bear