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Originally Posted by bjh  Mary, do you have any tips on preventing accidents in the ring? So far I have been lucky and have not had a dog have a accident in the ring but one time I had a dog get bad diarrhea right before going into the ring. That was very stressful. Luckily I had time to run back to the grooming area and clean him up before show time. I think the bait I had bought at the show the day before had made him sick.
Usually I will feed the dog a small meal the morning of the show. When I get to the show I will walk the dog and let him relieve himself before I start the grooming process. I like to give myself at least an hour to do the grooming. |
If a show is early in the morning I don't feed.
Is potty them first thing in the morning, bathe, dry and wrap.......That is if I stay at a hotel.
Dependent on how many dogs I have I give myself an hour of grooming time for each dog at the show site. I have an x-pen or large crate for pottying. Immediately upon arriving each dog is pottied again and then excersized around the show site before grooming. Then I groom. I've yet to have an accident. Well, I take that back.....my Go-Go had show jitters and always had a bout of dirreah...until we discovered what it was that was causing it. So, on Friday morning before traveling she was put on Flagyl...and a 1/4 tablet give each day we were away......If I have more than 1 dog I keep the other one in the x-pen while the other one is being groomed.
Preventing accidents.....well they will happen, if they gotta go they gotta go.