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gosh, what a tiring day :D

 

Have we got everything we need for our first few days do you think?

 

here's a pic

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2315569&l=19138d890f&id=568396756

 

there's; a dog crate, a bed, food, bowls, denta sticks, vitmain treats, deoderising shampoo, collar and lead, brush and soft squeaky bone :D

 

I would keep an eye on that bed - both ours have plastic beds with old towels in, if they had a lovely cushioned bed like that one it would get chewed!

 

Ruby never got used to her crate, so we didn't use it after the first few weeks, however Lottie knows no different, so depending on what Mollie is used too it may take a little perseverance. :D

 

We also feed ours dry food as it makes the poo more solid and therefore easier to clean up.

 

Love the bowls! :D

 

Good luck for today. :D

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The Dogmother Eggsistentialist

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Stairgate?

 

Until she gets used to the house it's wise to limit her to one area that is easily cleanable. Even a house trained dog will regress when in new and exciting surroundings.

 

Ruby has the run of the kitchen while I'm out and uses her crate for sleeping and eating in. That way, any destruction is minimised and mess easily cleaned, although she's perfect on the house training front and has been since she was 10 weeks old.

 

Have fun today

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we picked her up at about 11.30am, she was as good as gold in the car. We took her straight to Ian's mum's as she's having her bathroom re-done so she said she didn't mind if we washed Molly in her old shower. Well, we tried but Molly wasn't very happy about it :roll: We managed to get a bit of muck off her but we gave up in the end as we didn;t want to stress her out too much. She played for a while in Ian's mum's back yard and did a little wee outside. She's very gentle and really good with our niece.

 

We then took her home and put out her food and water, she's had something to eat but not drunk anything so far.

 

She's been out in the garden and the girls raised the alarm but she didn't flinch and the girls calmed down after a bit. She had a good explore out there but didn't do any 1s or 2s.

 

She's so matted she's got dreadlocks!!!! We've given her a bit of a trim but she didn't like that either. We've got most of them but as soon as I can, I'll try and get the rest and give her a bit of a brush.

 

We've come back in now while I have some lunch and a sit down!

 

She's running btwn the kitchen and living room at the moment. There's tiles in the kitchen and laminate in the living room so if she does do anything, I can wipe it up.

 

She hasn't run in for a while so I peeped in the kitchen and she's lying on the puppy mat we got for her to wee on :doh:

 

she's totally adorable and MUCH cuter than I remembered :D

 

Ian's at work with all the pics on his phone so I'll post some later, just gonna put my feet up for a bit! Phew! :lol:

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Sounds like you're enjoying yourselves.

 

Beware of puppy mats though - they only train the dog to go inside. I dog of her age ought to be in control of her bladder and if you praise her when she does something in the right place and just quietly clear up any accidents, she'll soon get the message. The kennels/pound will usually tell you whether she's 'clean' in the house or not.

 

The breeder that I got Ruby from used puppy pads, but I got rid of them sharpish and just cleared up any mess for the first couple of days.

 

Good luck with getting those matts out :? - the best thing might be to take her to a professional groomer who will give her a nice trim and get rid of them.

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I am so pleased to hear that she is home at last and sounds like she is settling in really well.

Whenever I have had to bath a dog, usually because it has rolled in something totally disgusting :vom: I have always dumped them in the bath rather than try and wash them in a shower then used the shower attachment to hose them down, two people is best for this job, one to hold the dog firmly in the bath, the other to shower and shampoo, it has always worked for me, you do have to stand out of the way once they are out of the bath because they shake themselves like mad and you are in danger of getting very wet indeed.

Perhaps you should wait to do this until she has got used to you and her new home. I agree about maybe taking her to a professional groomer to get rid of all the matts.

 

Tessa

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I agree with Claret regarding both the puppy mat and groomer. We are house training Lottie and basically we take her outside every few hours or just after eating or waking up, say 'go the toilet' and she then gets lots of praise when she goes and it is starting to click with her. We go out with her as you have to praise 'in action', no good after, as she wouldn't relate what she was getting praised for. Same with accidents in the house, she has only done a few and if we see her doing it we say a sharp 'no' and then clean it up, if we don't see her doing it , we just clean it up. All that is for a puppy, when we got Ruby she seemed to know what to do, so Mollie may be fine.

 

Ruby smelt when we first got her too (well, stank really!), so we got a professional groomer - we prefered to use a mobile one that came to our house so that we didn't stress her out at a dog parlour.

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sounds all good Poet.

 

I have an idea, why dont you get one of those "mobile pet grooming" vans to come around to you to do Molly? :think: They do it all in the van so its all contained, they check her nails and some even take care of squeezing the glands if need be. All finished off with a deoderising spray. :D

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Maybe you could get a mobile groomer to come to your house and give her a trim - I do that for jack. It's less stressful as they know where they are and you can be around to reassure her. I agree with Claret - get rid of the puppy mats and just keep taking her outdoors regularly and lot of praise and a small treat if she gets it right - she will soon catch on!! Can't wait to see the pics!! :D

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sounds all good Poet.

 

I have an idea, why dont you get one of those "mobile pet grooming" vans to come around to you to do Molly? :think: They do it all in the van so its all contained, they check her nails and some even take care of squeezing the glands if need be. All finished off with a deoderising spray. :D

 

 

I have someone that does it in my house but I don't think he travels as far as you Poet :(

 

Edit: he does do Greater Manchester so maybe?? Try http://[http://www.barkingbarbers.co.uk]

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I was going to bath her in our bath but my SIL, who has a dog, said her claws would scratch the bath and she said we could have her old baby bath to put in our bath but because we got Molls sooner than expected, she didn't have time to get it down from the loft.

 

My SIL has a groomer that comes to her house and she's going to give us her phone number.

 

We've just been outside again, while I poo picked the cube and eglu, and she did a wee on the grass so I praised her loads.

 

I'll just keep the mat for now, just in case I have to wipe anything up ;)

 

She sounds like she might have kennel cough so I'm going to put some citricidal in her water and she how she is tomorrow. We need to get her a check up at the vets anyway.

 

We've insured her with Animal friends Pet Insurance for £16 odd a month.

 

Her tail is all bald and a bit scabby, should I put some sudocreme on it do you think?

 

That reminds me, the home can't tell you what she's like in a house because they haven't observed her behaviour in a home. They obviously missed the problem with her tail too!

 

They get about 200 dogs a week coming in, apparently, so they can only do very basic checks.

 

Right, time for a cuppa I think :D

 

thanks for all the advice and good wishes, it's really helpful xxxx

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....some even take care of squeezing the glands if need be. ....

 

erm, uh??? You're not telling me I need to do something gross are you? :anxious:

 

Bracken has had hers done once and lots of brown gunky stuff came out, the vet usually does it when they do the yearly check up/booster injections.

 

Keep praising the wees outside and the poos outside. I know it sounds daft Poet but really go over the top when she does it outside and maybe reward with a treat. :) This worked for us brilliantly and now even at 10 years old Bracken runs in the kitchen after a wee and sits by the treat cupboard! :roll:

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