[Blue Fox]

Your not alone LOL. T does it too, he doesn't start till I do his face and then the first pass when the hair falls past his mouth he starts to eat it and won't sit still for me to finish. I fish it out of his mouth and growl at him but he does get some of it too, not sure what you can do about it, they are quite fast LOL.

As for feet I'm with you - it is annoying and hard and time consuming!! Everyone reckons it gets easier with practice but it takes me sooo long I just don't seem to be getting any faster. I take the first pass across the top of the toes and then do underneath and then go back and get whats left between the toes.

I did my first poodle feet on a clients dog yesterday, a little poodle X about the size of a mini and believe me although those feet are smaller it took me just as long and the dog was so well behaved. I felt so sorry for him, he was so patient with me, truly he seemed to keep looking at me like "are you still working on those feet, gosh your slow"

 

[Blue Fox]

Yeah funny, dear little man, lovely eyes, very expressive. He normally goes to another part time groomer who has had toy poodles for years so I imagine she is probably a lot more practiced than me LOL. But he put up with me and we eventually got it done.

Bailey (the poodle X) came to me for boarding after the other groomer had clipped him last time and he had clipper rash everywhere which I put cream on while he was here with me, so I was very careful about how hot my blades got and did all his clipping with the grain yesterday and today no clipper rash so I am well pleased with myself. It might take me a long time but I am careful and the dog isn't scratching himself raw.

 

[Blue Fox]

LOL I love tinned sardines on toast with lots of salt and pepper and lemon. My mum use to give it to me as a kid for an easy lunch, think I must have developed a taste for it. I buy sardines in oil for T and sardines in springwater for me :rofl:

 

[Blue Fox]

T is very selective on who he likes and is becoming more so. He is a bit stand offish with people he has never met but if they hang around for 5 - 10 minutes he will decide if he is going to let them pat him or not - funny bugger. It was difficult to socialise him for that few weeks while he had his cast on and he seems to have decided since then that he likes his family and anyone else might be a little suspicious so better to wait and see!

 

[Blue Fox]

Ohh dear ToddW! I assume he is fine after the duct tape incident? They are sent to try us

 

[Blue Fox]

I feed pretty much raw but do still leave kibble out for him as well. We feed meat trims, offal, chicken necks and frames, meaty beef bones, sardines, yoghurt, cottage cheese, eggs hmmm other things as well that I can't remember at the minute LOL. He isn't getting many vegies or fruit and I have a recipe to make some up but I just haven't got to it so he gets our leftovers just to keep it balanced.

I like to think he is getting variety and he seems to like it although he does have his favourites being chicken necks.