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12-11-2006, 02:42 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Chicago
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| Few Housekeeping Questions Hey, guys, I've been a happy mommy for two weeks now. Most of the things I do to my baby girl are tried, tested and researched to almost mathematical certainty. At the same time, I still have a few outstanding issues I need to resolve. 1) Car travel I've been using her bag carrier strapped with a seat belt to the fron passenger seat when I traveled in my car on short distances. However, it is neither is the most comfortable for me because she constantly sneaks out of the opening to join me in the driver's seat, nor is it safe for her. Most of the car seats or boosters I saw on the market are too big for her. She is 1.38 lbs. I also believe that most of the car harnesses are big for her too. In clothes sizes she is 4-6'. I recently ordered a "Pet Stow-Away" car seat for her that can function as a car seat, a suitcase and a travel bag. While it is a really good product, I just received it in the mail and am afraid that it might be too big for her as well. What do you, guys, use to transport your kids? 2) Grooming Being a ridiculously crazy mom, I ordered Chris Christensen Fusion Pin Brush for her coat that cost me $ 57 with s&h. Between us, I would never in a million years buy myself such an expensive brush, but, and I am sure you can relate to that, our kids are special. At the same time, this brush really DOES work. It is much better than all of the competing products. I also ordered her Cowboy Magic detangler. For a comb, I used to use the kind (don't know the brand) that my breeder provided me. It is a combination of coarse and fine or medium. I brush her every day religiously, but still have mats on her back legs and the tail. Those are really painful spots for her. So, I decided to go ahead and buy her a better comb, hoping that it will be less painful for her. The comb is the Original Greyhound one in coarse and medium. So, my question is whether anybody else found this product to work better? What size do they use (fine, medium or coarse)? Or, alternatively, what are the best product(s) that you discovered in fighting the mat problem? 3) Pooping (pardon my French): My puppy is fifteen weeks now. She came to me paper trained to go on reusable pads. At the same time, while housetraining her, I encountered that she would go pee on the pad religiously, but can poop at different places, including the pad. How do you stop this behavior and train her to do it differently, i.e., on the same pad? Sometimes it seems to me that she knows it better than I do that it is not good but is too spoiled to hold it. So, she ends up pooping where it is the most convenient for her and not for me. 4) House proofing: When my baby just arrived to live with me, I gave her a floor to ran around ( a have a four story town house). She had her bed, her toys, food and water there. The floor she was given is huge. It contains a dining area, a living room and a kitchen. So, she is not constrained by any means. So, initially, she was fine with this arrangement and have not even attempted to use the stairs. My boyfriend and I also figured that since each stair is almost her height, she would not be able to jump so high even if she wanted. Ha-ha, as she progressed in her development, which didn't take long at all, she started jumping the stairs, initially just one, but then the whole flight. It really amused me but not my boyfriend who got determined to stop this invasion into our privacy, LOL. So, he got a gate, but the baby has discovered how to get throw the holes. He put lots of s**t in front, but she got through it again. Finally, he put staff in front and behind the gate so that she would not be able to get through. It was amost a barricade. However, today in the morning, I discovered her hiding behind my bed. I don't know when she got in. She was so quiet not to wake up my boyfriend. Since he is the disciplinarian one, she immediately ran towards me without any fear. My boyfriend was shocked. His primary fear is that he can either step on her and not see her at night or that she gets inside one of the second floor rooms and would not be able to get out since she can ran upstairs, but is afraid to go down. So, my question is what do you, guys, do when you want to prevent them from running around the house? Thank you. |
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12-11-2006, 02:53 PM | #4 |
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| Sounds like you have your hands full! Car travel-Emma hates crates and is also a bag escapee in the car, so I got a doggie car seat from PetSmart. It was the "Outward Hound" brand, the smallest size. It's basically a fabric box for her to sit in that straps over the headrest and around the seat, with a harness clip attachment to keep her in the seat. I put her blanket and a toy or two in there for her. My car has backseat headrests, so when my husband and I both go somewhere, I put it in the backseat, but it fits well in the front seat as well. When it's not in use, I either leave it installed, or hang it on the back of the passenger side headrest. I think I paid around $40 for it, and it is one of the best things I've bought for her. For House proofing, I'd get her an x pen to confine her to her own area when you can't be with her. Get the tallest one you can find in case she decides she's a jumper. You can get add-on packs to make it larger than the standard size if you want her area to be larger. Put her bed, food, water, and toys in there along with a pee pad. |
12-11-2006, 04:06 PM | #5 |
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| I have that pet stowaway seat, and if you put a rolled up towel in it, it doesn't seem so big anymore. She'll grow into it PLEASE, everyone---Unless you can turn off your front seat airbag, or it's the new kind with a weight sensor in the seat that automatically turns off the airbag, have your babies ride in the backseat. Just imagine what the force of a deploying airbag could do to a 1-15 lb pup
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