Dog Care- An essential home hygene care for your furkid

Hi.. As we all know, Sabah community is very lucky and blessed. Every household has got ample space, every household can even have up to 3 dogs at home, and a domestic dog is only serve as a purpose to be guard dog or alert dog for each household.

In metropolitan city, dogs are not only serve as a purpose of alert, they also serve as a therapeutic companion and service dog. Certain dogs does give comfort to their masters, some even sleep with the masters, day in and out. So how do we actually take care of our dogs hygene?

A few things we need to note and always check on is their ears, under carriage( sanitary area), claws, paws pad, and hair mat...

Ears -

Ears are the most significant area in checking your dogs. this is because most dirt, germs and even ticks and fleas likes to trap themselves in between the folded ears and breed in it. Hence, the floppy ears are easy infected and caused skin desease.

Under carriage ( sanitary area) -

sanitary area are always in touch with hair during the urine. Hence, the discharge from urine always trap at the tip of the hair and sometimes around the sanitary area. it is important to keep all hair away from sanitary area in order to avoid, anal infection, as well as skin problem around under carriage.

Pad Paw-

As you can see they are always hair growth in between the paw pads of our furkid ( especially, Goldent retriever, husky, poodle, shit Tzu, Chow Chow, Cocker Spaniel, maltese, Havanese ....) it is important to remove the paw pads hair in order to keep our dogs feet clean and away from external trapped germs.

Hair mat-

This matting issue has been occuring to most of the long hair furkids i.e : maltese, shitzu, silky terrier and even poodle. de matting is important to make our dogs always Look good , fluffy and confident while going out with the master.... De matting is a form of cleaning our dog by letting the air in between their fur to loosen so germs doesnt easyly trap inside.

An Amateur pet lover should know the basic knowledge of a dog's care. I will post more pictures on the condition of desease, infected ears and also long paw pads condition in my post soon.

Just to share my 8 days experience with Sabah dog lovers on an experience with DogCare singapore

Chow Chow In transit- by Puppy Central

My friend's Chow Chow has arrived the same day as Vicky and Pacco... Chow Chow is the type of breed that doesnt really active and hyper.. he is calm and quiet.. and till today i havent hear him bark as much....

Today he enjoyed a good padicure ( Paw pads cleaning) and Hair trimming... A good bath and Wallah.... Check this little teddy bear out :)

PadPaw Cleaning, trimming and nails cutting

De matting, .. "hmm, she said there is so much tangle on my hair"

" Heheh, mummy, sont worry i m having good manicure here" ~ like you too.

" Ah~ this lady not bad... now i can lay my paw freely to her"

~ This Chow Chow is on transit to Tawau, belongs to another canine lover Chloe~

Mas Cargo- Pet Animal Hotel

I have experience few customers whom are very eager to know, the process of transporting their love pet.

As i have run a few times of pet transporting process. I believe that, a ground handling work and person who handle your pet is very much important. Today, i would really want to mention and give two thumbs up to Mas Cargo Pet Animal Hotel. They have superb fascilities and responsible, loving and friendly ground handling personnel. In fact, Mas cargo has been the bottle neck for all animals from live cockles, feline, canine, and even imported sheep and cattle.

I had a detour on the pet homestay/ storage behind the hotel.. It was marvellously beautiful well fascilities, temperature and even soft light for pet.

This is the front door and outlook of the retail side welcoming your pet arrival... Cute isnt it?Wait till you see inside..

Canine Home-Homestay at 80/night

Feline HOmestay at RM80/night

This is feline storage which cost RM150/night. If you have more then 2 cats then you can join them together in a storage cage like this.

Thought About Grooming? And see how you pedipaws are more lucky then you are :)

Spa Room for dogs

And last but not least, yes you can choose all these fascilities even only for transitting yor dog to sabah and enter the quarantine ..

QUARANTINE

QUARANTINE - Is the word that most pet owner, pet transport agent or even pet lovers hate.. it a jail period for our beloved pet..

The purpose of Quarantine is to identify an easyly spreadable desease called Rabies.The rabies virus, are presented in the saliva of an animal. It is usually spread through bites and also scratches of punctures the victim's skin. Most human victimes suffer from rabies through their own dog bites ( saliva) , suffer excruciating pain on swallowing liquids. Though they suffer from thirst, animal and human rabies victims can be terrified by the sight of water, hence another name for the disease, hydrophobia.

Symtom of Rabies- symptom of rabies usually happen between 20-60 days. Rabid animals may become aggressive, combative, and highly sensitive to touch and other kinds of stimulation. And they can be vicious. The kind traditionally associated with mad dogs. This is the reason why, the JPHPT ( Jabatan Perkhidmatan Haiwan & Perusahaan Ternak ) restricted all entry dogs must be isolated at Kinarut of a minimum of 30 days. Usually a quarantine dog can be detected with rabies if they are lethargic,weak in one or more limbs and eventually unable to raise his head and neck, and fatal.

Since in our states, stray dogs is not fully in control yet, prevention of rabies is very important.

No matter where the wound, authorities emphasize that the first and most valuable preventive measure is thorough cleaning of the site with soap and water, and immediate medical attention.
If rabies vaccine treatment is called for, it should be started as soon as possible after exposure. Counting the first day of vaccine treatment as day 0, injections are administered on days 0, 3, 7, 14, and 28.

In a business perspective, some traders might think that skiping the quarantine is the fasters way to trade their dogs. However to a more social responsibilty point of view, we just pray that the dogs that were smuggle out are rabies free, otherwise, the spreading of mad dog desease, can caused a disasters to all pet owners... which all dogs may have to be euthanized in order to cure the vulnarable spreadable desease.

Last week, I spare the morning to spend quality time with Dingo in the Kinarut quarantine station. He had a good bath, good run and even little triaining. I just wish she can come out fast and stay with us for a home quarantine. Dingo is rabies free and he is healthyly active for the next good home!

Welcome The Arrival Of Dingo- Australian Silky Terrier ( Small)

As you can see, all the pups i have are with short and bright hair... Dingo, an Australian Silky Terrier that lovingly whelped by a lovely couple in KL.. has finally fit to travel across the sea..

Here is Dingo Photo:-

Dingo is pure Australian Silky Terrier and age at 2 months 20 days ( Born 4th May 2009)
He is Silky Brown black in Colour and healthily microchiped. ( No: 458098500173742)
He is now at 1kg and located in Lokawi Quarantine centre.
Blue Emperor Dingo is looking forward to join us in Puppy Central together with Baby and Pugsly :)

Today I feel Like Puppy~

There are just like new born Babies... giving you a sence of softness and calm...preparing for a puppy in your home... is just like welcoming a new born baby...

Coming Up next ~

What you should do before welcoming a new furkid home?

Puppy Proof your Home

( hide all wires, chemical, poisonous plants and remote control too)

Puppy Proof you Yard

( Look around you Yard, is there anything that trigger a puppy curiosity to dig . Ensure block access to your favorite plant and garden)

House train Stratergies

( Potty trainning )

Now you are ready to become a responsible and good master :)

Enjoy furkid at home !

Have a good weekend .

7th MKA International Dog show 2009

Judging the dog show this year, it was much lesser breed then i thought before, however with the limited exposure, Baby and I didnt have much fun, first we were kept in a hot back stage room, and secondly, the mka group 7 under Toy Group, we were kept in the room till 2 pm :(

While Baby and me were waiting for our turn the back stage were really busy with handlers grooming their participants.

This is the chow chow resting together with its owner. Chow chow is type of dog that requires cooling environment, with very frequent burshing and grooming.

As everyone is busy with their grooming before entering the ring, it is also time to all dogs lover to socialize and share their knowledge on dogs .

Here are some photos of competition and various breed during inside the ring. As we know, Sabah most favorable dogs are still German Shepherd, Doberman...here are some breed which is barely known in Sabah, the Dachshund,Chow Chow, Siberian Husky, Pomeranian, Golden Retriever as well as Labrador Retriever.

A Dog Show is just like a beauty contest. Every breed has a written standard which is describe what the head , body forelegs,hindlegs, tail placement,etc....of that particular breed should look like. In other words, the breed standard describe what a perfect specimen of a breed should look like, from head to tail....Its also to let a dog to give his best in the show ring.....

More catch up on ABC Breeds !