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Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom  No, you are just cuaitous. I had never thoughtof doing those things when showing since I have just started. makes sense to me because even tho my girl held her pee until she was in front of the judges, I had her out on the grounds several times before her turn in the ring. About two or three days after we got home from the show, she had diarreha that took me a week or so to get her over it. Nothing else. Just the runs. None of the other dogs had anything and did not catch anything from her so I figured she must have picked up a bug at the show. I will be more careful from now on. of course, right now, i don't have all the equipement you take with you but i will wipe what I have down and her too when she goes outside. heck, what is even the point of taking her out if she is going to pee in the ring, right?  |
I have a suggestion. I usually don't take mine out on public grounds for potty breaks....I travel with a drop pen (Central metal, I take the bottom out so they are lighter weight) they fold down very nicely and I place a potty pad under them.
As for your little girl dirreah, could have been nervous stomach......I have a girl that throughout her show career....from the time I took her out until the day she retired......would be fine monday through friday.....come saturday, just before show time, she'd start with the squirts. I traveled with my mentor, and she insisted it was the food.....I wasn't buying it, since she was fine during the week. One weekend she had the squirts, followed by bright red blood....I gave her some medication, but Monday I got her to the vet.....what we found out is that all this time she had a nervous stomach, what he described as show jitters. He gave me a prescription for flagyl.....suggested that I give her 1/4 tablet on the day we began travel and 1/4 tablet every day until we returned......no, problems.
I also wipe their feet when we get back from the ring. These lil guys are so clean and have a tendancy to lick their feet.