potter
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Apr 8, 2007, 1:52 PM
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Re: [jessicaohh] We need to brush our doggies' teeth???
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I just want to add reading this thread. Anal sacs cannot simply picit one o..If the dog can solve the problem on their own, don't attempt to start doing it for them unless you really need to and after go see vet. Once you picit, in most cases you have to continuosly do it. Also, better for vets to teach you..a lot of groomers have no formal training on it, squeezing to hard can damage the anal sacs and you have a bigger problem in hand, might need surgery to rectify. Even if picit, don't do it too often, once per month is mostly sufficient unless your dog's anal sacs really has a bigger problem. Doing it too often can also irritate it. For a puppy, even if it is 3 months old, there is usually no anal sacs need to be emptied problem. Puppies who scoots a lot are usually due to worms or they just want to clean their butt after poo poo much like human using toilet paper. I know this because my dog does it a lot and I used to bring him to the vet and my vet informed me of what I should know and he didn't attempt to squeeze it because he was only 3 months old at the time! Later, as it turned out, he had round worm problem. His habit stayed till now, 10 months old liao..still like that but vet checked say no anal sac problem..it is because after he poo if I don't fast fast wipe his butt for him, he wipe it on my carpet, treat my carpet like toilet paper...now I always have to deep clean my carpet because of his this behaviour As for teeth, I had Siu Pao's 4 canine baby teeth removed today because they will never come out on their own and the impacted adult and baby teeth causes bad breath and rotten teeth if left untreated. I waited for so long and until now, they still very muchh intact. Hopefully, no more smelly breath from him after this..every time he kiss me, I wanna pengsan ler Still, their teeth need to be brushed ever so frequently to mantain smiling white teeth. A tip for everyone who reads this...its not hard to brush your dog's teeth. Just corner them or put them on a table (small dog) hold the fur under the mouth (hold firmly), they might try to wriggle out but if you hold firmly and you quickly bruh a few times, eventually after a few practice they get the idea and will relax to let you do what you want. My boy is trained this way now he just stand/sit still on the floor let me brush however long I need to, usually 3 minutes done liao. potter www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?j=t&i=410379
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