Love "Bella" too.. You get her day after tomorrow..?
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Gina:
If you get Bella used to being on her back early on, that will get her used to being combed and brushed.
Labradoodles need to be combed & brushed.
Trinityheart:
This is something you won't have to endure!
Actually, some owners of longhaired animals enjoy combing their animals, and some animals actually enjoy being combed. (Not all do, though.) If you learn the right techniques/approaches, use the appropriate combs & brushes and do it frequently enough, it doesn't hurt. If you want for mats to develop, that's another thing.
Ross
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Again, I'm not responsible for this, so stop looking at me.
AgilityDog
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Ohhh puppy breath! Congrats! Sorry, I'm really bad with names. Takes me forever to name a dog.
My favorite book for new owners is "how to housebreak a dog in 7 days." See if you can find it on Amazon. It discusses how to minimize accidents in the weeks prior to the pup getting control of its sphincters (at about 11 weeks) and crate training (in which I firmly believe) as well as paper training v. housebreaking. It has schedules for those who work and those who are home.
I second the vote for obedience training. Lots of places have good puppy classes and then beginners classes.
Ask your breeder for a referral, or check out the local obedience clubs. Any competent trainer will be happy to have you come visit classes (to watch, without your dog) before you sign up. Pup can learn sit, down, and come before he or she is 16 weeks old, and can learn to tolerate a collar and leash around the house, too. In fact, this is the best time to start.
Don't permit a behavior, like jumping up, as a puppy, just because it is cute, that you won't tolerate from a grown dog.
Pup-pup begins to learn the day he/she is whelped, so begin as you mean to go on - rules, discipline, exercise, love.
Or as Caesar Milan says: exercise first, discipline next, then love and affection.
My favorite book for new owners is "how to housebreak a dog in 7 days." See if you can find it on Amazon. It discusses how to minimize accidents in the weeks prior to the pup getting control of its sphincters (at about 11 weeks) and crate training (in which I firmly believe) as well as paper training v. housebreaking. It has schedules for those who work and those who are home.
I second the vote for obedience training. Lots of places have good puppy classes and then beginners classes.
Ask your breeder for a referral, or check out the local obedience clubs. Any competent trainer will be happy to have you come visit classes (to watch, without your dog) before you sign up. Pup can learn sit, down, and come before he or she is 16 weeks old, and can learn to tolerate a collar and leash around the house, too. In fact, this is the best time to start.
Don't permit a behavior, like jumping up, as a puppy, just because it is cute, that you won't tolerate from a grown dog.
Pup-pup begins to learn the day he/she is whelped, so begin as you mean to go on - rules, discipline, exercise, love.
Or as Caesar Milan says: exercise first, discipline next, then love and affection.
hensylee
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Miss Sally Sue is a combo dobie/hound and so lovable. she loves to be brushed and looks on it as petting. one cat who hates even to be held, will brush herself. I just hold the brush down near her, she rubs and rubs and rubs like a cat rubbing against legs. on the other hand our shihtzu-poo can't hold still long enough to be brushed and tries to eat the brush. She's daughter's dog so I just don't try.
I think brushing is important to keep the coat clean and oiled. We cannot bathe Sally in a tub because she won't be still and is about 65 lbs and neither daughter or I can hold her so we found a spray shampoo that gets sprayed into the coat, rubbed in and dried off and that's like brushing. the coat is so shiny afterwards. I am sure it doesn't get her as clean as a water bath would, but daughter and I would have broken bones and spirits if we tried the water bath. even my strong son can't bathe her. since Sally loves to be rubbed, this is the ticket.
