[nagdu] Poodles Re: groomingog

[Gary Steeves]

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I'm a different person than you wrote to but im thinking you are looking for info about poodles.

I leave bogart at the groomers and he is oftren there for about 5 hours.  I use that day to do errands and keep my cane technique working half decently wel.

Feel free to ask more questgions about poodles.

Gary


On July 8, 2015 11:59:59 AM PDT, Gerardo Corripio via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>  Wow so you've got a Poodle? And yes I know it doesn't answer your 
>question, but have you have experiences with taking her to get broomed 
>like with regular Poodles? Do they let you wait for her to finish, or 
>like with regular pet poodles, do you have to leave her there and go 
>pick her up in the afternoon?
>
>El 08/07/2015 01:44 p.m., Kerri Stovall via nagdu escribió:
>> Hi all,
>> Here's a question I really need suggestions on.  I work a desk job
>from 8 to 5, and therefore my pup only gets work in the evenings when
>it's not sweltering out while we walk home from checking the mail,
>otherwise she has to wait till Saturday and Sunday to get a good old
>fashioned walk in. Well, here's my question. Is there any way I can
>increase her pull during our little walk at lunch? There are very few
>sidewalks at work and only on one side of the street; so I have
>resorted to just walking around the building. Well, understandably, of
>course she'll be getting bored with the same old walk, day after day.
>Even if I skip a day she'll still lolly gag around the walk, with
>almost no pull, and a lot of the time it's where her harness handle
>will jiggle in the clips because there's such little pull in the handle
>at all, and it makes it hard to feel her movements. I guess I could
>just suck it up and walk in the gutter of the street but I really,
>really don't like the idea of doing that unless forced to by
>circumstance, because with me and a dog it makes our path wider and
>more likely to get clipped by a moving car, which is not my idea of a
>good walk. lol. So, how can I make this walk fun for her? I have no
>problem with her excitement on other walks, and if I had an alternative
>way of taking her for a walk at work, I would, but I just feel like
>this may be the only option to get her a little exercise during my
>lunch break, unless, like I said, I resort to curb travel or something,
>because the grassy part of the curb is too uneven to walk at a decent
>pace. Our pace is very slow also, and I wish I could get her to pick up
>the pace and pull a little harder, like she does at other times.
>Poodles are very, very intelligent and I have heard, and I'm finding
>out, they can get bored easily and need something to occupy their minds
>and bodies, so that's what I'm trying to do. Any ideas would be greatly
>appreciated to get this girl going in the middle of our workday. By the
>way, at work, she's not really interested in playing with any toys that
>I have seen so far, she just lays there with nothing to do and no
>interest in chewing a bone or anything. Thanks all for the tips and
>suggestions. Hope to hear from many of yall soon.
>> Kerri and Sadie
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