Most common Poodle / Dog Questions - Feedback Thread! - Poodle Forum - Standard Poodle, Toy Poodle, Miniature Poodle Forum ALL Poodle owners too!

cuddleparty · 07-22-2009, 02:40 PM

We are working on a "New Puppy / New Poodle Owner" guide... what are the most common questions we see asked over and over? (And what about ones that haven't been asked a lot but are still common / new puppy/poodle owner questions?)

Contribute the list of questions then we will research the forum here for the answers, and if we can't find them we`ll make new posts to ask and answer Then Todd will create a central location with the questions and links to the answers!

FOOD
1. How much food do you feed a pup?
1a. How often do you feed your dog?
2. How old do you transition a pup from puppy food to adult food?
3. What is the best brand of food for puppy?
4. What is good food for sick dogs?

Poddy/Crate
1. How do you poddy train your dog?
2. How do you crate train your dog?
3. How do the puppy poddy pads work?
4. How do you stop diarrhea?

cuddleparty · 07-22-2009, 03:45 PM

Cool Todd!!! So this is one of the "powers" of being a moderator, huh? NEAT! So you get to be me... lol! I wanna be other members too!

Here's another:

1. How to get rid of fleas?
2. Best flea products to use?

BFF · 07-22-2009, 04:13 PM

For the toy poodle owners, I think it's important to keep packets of honey available in the event your puppy starts experiencing hypoglycemia. If you are feeding 3x a day (or better yet, every 4 hours), this is less likely to happen.

Maybe it would be nice to have a recommended list of items to have in a first aid kit to keep at home/car.

Antiseptic spray
Bandage wrap
scissors
hemostat (remove stickers, ticks)
card to scrape off a bee stinger (they say if you pull it out, it will inject more poison)
folding water bowl
honey packets
benadryl (to help with inflammation from bee stings)

BFF · 07-22-2009, 04:20 PM

Items one would need before they bring puppy home.

How to puppy proof a home.

Is the poodle right you? It gets me how some people don't realize what care a poodle needs before they choose the breed (such as frequency of grooming).

How to choose what size of poodle is best.

How to avoid marketing gimmicks when choosing a breeder.

cuddleparty · 07-22-2009, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BFF

Items one would need before they bring puppy home.

How to puppy proof a home.

Is the poodle right you? It gets me how some people don't realize what care a poodle needs before they choose the breed (such as frequency of grooming).

How to choose what size of poodle is best.

How to avoid marketing gimmicks when choosing a breeder.

Maybe for the Grooming Heading, some of the groomers on the board can take care of that section?

I agreed that I would help research some links, etc to help answer some of these common questions but I know I most definitely will need some help!
There are others on this board who are WAY MORE qualified than me to answer these questions. But I will do my best to find some interesting sites to direct everyone to for more info

T o d d · 07-22-2009, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cuddleparty

Maybe for the Grooming Heading, some of the groomers on the board can take care of that section?

I agreed that I would help research some links, etc to help answer some of these common questions but I know I most definitely will need some help!
There are others on this board who are WAY MORE qualified than me to answer these questions. But I will do my best to find some interesting sites to direct everyone to for more info

cuddleparty - Try to find the answers on poodleforum.com we probably have 99% of them here... search button is at the top, drop down click advanced search and go-at-it

Anything not answered / found we will create a new thread/post for it so we can have it all here for our new members to enjoy w/out sending them around the web hehe

Thanks everyone!!

aki · 07-22-2009, 05:21 PM

1) How much exercise do they need daily? OR How much time would you be willing to expend towards exercising?
2) How do you leash train?
3) How do you properly socialize your puppy?
4) Should you supplement your puppies diet?
5) How do you properly correct puppy biting behaviors?
6) Should you get dog insurance?
7) Should your puppy stay inside or outside?
8) How do you assimilate the current dogs/cats to the new puppy?
9) What are the dangers of leaving your puppy unsupervised?
10) What are the common health issues with your breed?
11) How do you correct constant barking?
12) What vaccinations should your puppy have?
13) What toys are unsafe for your puppy?

I think this is a great idea as some people really don't understand what goes into taking care of a puppy, let alone a poodle. I would love to help out some more in making this puppy/poodle tome of knowledge!

Bella's Momma · 07-26-2009, 12:18 AM

Along the lines of the 'how much do you feed them,' would be information on how to know when to up the food intake and decrease the frequency.

-Book Recommendations (poodle-specific and otherwise)

cuddleparty · 07-27-2009, 09:07 AM

I haven't dropped the ball on this ... just been very busy with birthdays the past few days! And Snoops turned 9 months on Friday!

Todd - any way you can sticky this so it stays on the top of the page?

Daddy123 · 07-28-2009, 08:12 AM

I also have a yorshire and they have a large website. You probably can get some questions to add to your library there.

Main address is : http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/index.php

FAQ is : http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...tions-faq.html

I know when I got my poodle (didn't know anything about poodle) I searched the web high and low to see what cut you could do on them.