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A HUGE advantage.

That said, we also have a dagging plant and some lambing pens in our garage!!!!! Can take the farmer off the land but not the land off the farmer....sigh......We also have a baby gate for the dogs, one to stop them from getting upstairs and the other for the laundry and kitchen.

Lyndee or babs do you have any advice for a badly moulting golden retriever, not just a few hairs but clumps of fur , i am constantly vacuming and mopping the floors. I have tried brushing her ( i filled a supermarket carrier bag with fur) she is nearly 14 , maybe its her age

My two are constantly moulting as they are inside/outside dogs....and we have learnt NOT to wear black clothes..lol. And warn others.

Pin....I have no answer Im sorry, but I love using the Furminator on mine, it does a wonderful job.

Pin...My friend has a lab that lost all her hair. The only thing the vet could think of was that she was grieving their loss if they went away without her. She was a rescue dog who became very attached when they adopted her. TeedOff2009-11-12 14:04:41If you think she is losing too much (considering you are going into winter ?) try giving her one cod liver oil capsule every 2 days (one a day will give her the runs)

thanks for the adviceToo much hair loss: have veterinarian check thyroid.OK, I can't hold back this true story.

After I was divorced I leased a brand new townhouse with off-white carpeting. No sane person with dogs would have very light carpeting, but then, no one ever said I was sane. The town house had 4 levels. The lowest level was a two car garage and HUGE laundry room [uncarpeted, tile flooring].

At the time I had three dogs and on those days when I would be gone more than 4 hours I always worried about an accident happening, even though I walked them outdoors before I left. I decided to put myself at ease and take precautions by having a 3 foot high wrought iron gate custom made that separated the laundry room from the living room. I purposely asked the welder to make sure the vertical bars were no further than 4” apart so that none of my dogs could squeeze through. He did a beautiful job and I felt comfortable leaving the dogs for several hours. They had a big window to look outside of and they had a heated or cooled 16X12 laundry room to play and sleep in while I was gone. Life was good.

One day shortly after the gate was installed I came home and found that somehow Popcorn, my white furry Bichon/mix with apricot years, managed to get his head stuck in the gate. Poor baby - but he wasn’t hurt. After I turned his head and got him out and kissed him to death, I noticed the wall alongside the gate - a hole in the wallboard [sheetrock] that measured about 12” by 12”. Popcorn, my darling neurotic doggie had licked through the wall!

I panicked.

I got our veterinarian’s office on the phone and blabbered that we were on our way to the office - that Popcorn had ingested poison. I stuffed him in the car [and forgot my purse in the process] and fishtailed out of the driveway and drove like a maniac to the vet’s. They were expecting the worst and took us in immediately.

I hurriedly explained what had happened to the vet, who was eyeing Popcorn, who really didn’t look that badly [although I was convinced he was on his deathbed]. Without saying a word the vet left the room. I could only imagine that he was going in the back for stomach pumping equipment or the like. He came back 30 seconds later with the miracle treatment.

A bowl of water.