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youhavenoidea
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 1922
Location: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Fur Kids: Slade - Weimaraner |
 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Seespotrun wrote: | | I always feel funny when people suggest I should sell something. I am more of the mind, just take it, for free. Selling to me becomes a *job* and it somehow then sucks the joy out of it. |
Haha, there's that.
For me it's also a matter of me holding things to a WAY higher standard if I were to charge money for it. I'm such a perfectionist.
I have no problem making them for people I know though. Same with the fleece blankets I make that everyone wants; though they take longer and cost more, so I don't do them as often.
I'll tell ya, my friends with little dogs or puppies are going to hit paydirt in another couple of weeks, when Slade outgrows his "small" bandanas, and moves on to the mediums . . . I'll be giving them all away! And a lot of the puppies around here are right around Slade's age, so there aren't even many Weim Addicts to mail them around to whose puppies won't have also outgrown them! |
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Seespotrun
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 07 Jun 2008
Posts: 1041
Location: Pacific Northwest
Fur Kids: Taren- (Rhymes with Karen) Weim, spoiled and loving every minute of it.
Lola- Himalayan Cat, a.k.a I think I am a pretty pretty princess, just ask me.
Siah- (See-uh) Persian Cat, shedder extraordinaire
Wickan-Fat, lazy, alley cat. |
| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The one thing I really like about the way I make them is that they're not all thin and flimsy like the store ones that end up being a twisted up collar by the end of the day. They keep their shape really well. |
Do you double the material, so there is pattern on each side? That's how I do mine. |
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youhavenoidea
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 1922
Location: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Fur Kids: Slade - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Seespotrun wrote: | | Quote: | | The one thing I really like about the way I make them is that they're not all thin and flimsy like the store ones that end up being a twisted up collar by the end of the day. They keep their shape really well. |
Do you double the material, so there is pattern on each side? That's how I do mine. |
Yep, plus, if I can, I try to find the thicker stiffer cotton fabrics. And I wash them in a mesh lingerie bag so they don't get unduly mangled that way either.
I figure, with a boy dog, collars and bandanas are the only accessorizing I get to do, so I might as well do it right!  |
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weimdogmom
Champion Weim
Joined: 11 Feb 2008
Posts: 680
Fur Kids: Jazz, terrier mix
Mayu, weim |
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Wrench
Adult Weim
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
Posts: 440
Location: Houston,TX
Fur Kids: Wrench, My first Weim, his second. Our Easter puppy at 8 weeks old. |
| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| Going back over some info I have on environmental green homes etc I did remember and find again a few things about toxic woods in the home...like cheap wood from ikea with all the press board, glues etc are toxic....and cedar is for the breathing and respiratory reasons in the home. We did put some down....it's actually not mulch but the stuff you would put in a hamster cage...he ate maybe not even a small hand ful over a weeks time and now it's blended into the yard after a few days mostly ....however it made those nasty pee spots right off the porch smell so much better! haha....I think the fact he doesn't really eat it ( just a little at first) and it's not in a closed area but the open backyard...maybe it's not such a bad thing. I don't really think any mulch will ever be safe enough. But yes..the respiratory problems in the home as people use them for the smell and in trucks and such as well as animal cages which I won't have it in my house and now I remember why I had that rule! haha but I don't think a spread 3 times in the year in the yard is much and it's the hamster cage kind not big milch so it blends in real fast. Hopefully by next year I will find something better though. |
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GailB
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 17 Sep 2007
Posts: 1834
Location: New Brunswick,Canada
Fur Kids: Shadow 10 yr.old Black female labrador retriever. Hunter 4 yr. old weim |
| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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If you plan to do hunting with your dog there is some concern about cedar and the dogs nose  |
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marniekat
Housebroken
Joined: 21 May 2008
Posts: 76
Location: Ontario, Canada
Fur Kids: Weim - Django |
| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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My next concern though, after toxicity, is impaction. Little booger likes to try and EAT everything; not just chew on it. *facepalm* |
I cannot tell you how comforting it is to know that Django is not the only one who does this. He tries to eat EVERYTHING. He's especially fond of clumps of dried up grass that are left on the sidewalk from people cutting their lawn, cigarette butts, rocks, sticks, weeds, trash, dirt, and his favourite, clumps of clay. Have you ever tried to extract a clump of clay from a slimey weimy mouth? BLECK!
He pretty much will try to eat anything. In fact, the morning after we got him, he pooped out a big long white string. Like the kind of cotton string you use in the kitchen. When I was talking to the breeder that day I asked her if he would have possibly eaten it there (I was concerned he got it at the airport somehow) and she freaked out. Turns out his mommy would steal toys from her daughter's room and give them to the puppies and the string was part of this toy. She was freaking out when it happened because when she found the toy in the puppies bed, she couldn't find the string but wasn't sure where it was or if one of the pups had eaten it. I told her it was here and that she could have it back now if she wanted it. |
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Wrench
Adult Weim
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
Posts: 440
Location: Houston,TX
Fur Kids: Wrench, My first Weim, his second. Our Easter puppy at 8 weeks old. |
| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |
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haha we have become such " poop watchers" seriously we seem to examine all his poo's just to see what comes out that we didn't even know he'd eaten or to make sure something we know he ate does coem out! Yesterday he poo'd and Michale and I both walked to it and looked and started laughing!
There have been many...many things, including a battery we never knew he ate...yikes! |
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Welches
Adult Weim
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
Posts: 492
Location: Houston, Texas
Fur Kids: Yukon - Weimaraner, male
Spike - Yorkie, male
Lexi - Weimaraner, female |
| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| GailB wrote: | | If you plan to do hunting with your dog there is some concern about cedar and the dogs nose |
This is true. We can't have any cedar near the dogs - not mixed with the fill in their pet beds or anything. It will mess up their sense of smell and tracking ability. |
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