Bichon Frise vs Shih Tzu?

antw23uk

Off topic but reference the poster who dog sits for her neighbours dog. Have your dog castrated, it will sort out the hormones and you wil get much much less fighting and to be honest if you keep treating your dog as top dog then he stays top dog ... he will soon not give two hoots anyway because he wont have all those hormones raging and confusing him.

To be honest your neighbour is putting her dog in danger health wise by keeping him entire and at the end of the day if your looking after it more than her then you have the responsibility to your own animal to tell her its neutered or it doesnt stay with you. There is a reason your local rescue wont let you have a rescue dog and a simple solution. Its a no brainer to me.

Battybird

antw23uk wrote: »

Off topic but reference the poster who dog sits for her neighbours dog. Have your dog castrated, it will sort out the hormones and you wil get much much less fighting and to be honest if you keep treating your dog as top dog then he stays top dog ... he will soon not give two hoots anyway because he wont have all those hormones raging and confusing him.

To be honest your neighbour is putting her dog in danger health wise by keeping him entire and at the end of the day if your looking after it more than her then you have the responsibility to your own animal to tell her its neutered or it doesnt stay with you. There is a reason your local rescue wont let you have a rescue dog and a simple solution. Its a no brainer to me.

To be honest, there has only been a few very noisy dog fights.
My dog is alpha dog through eye contact, to the Bichon, the dirty looks. Do I tell him off for that? I don't think so.

Knowing both dogs inside out, I honestly think fights (and more peeing) would happen if my dog was castrated.

I cannot let my neighbour down, as I'm sure no other neighbours would offer to help her.

My big apologies to Vicki488 whose thread I have taken over. If you decide to buy a Bichon, my advice is to buy a female. :D:D

WelshWoofer

I have a Bichon and he's fab - I'd recommend one to anyone. They have really funny little personalities, think that they are bigger dogs than they are and are very loving. They do need quite a lot of attention and mine loves walks and the park (as does my mum's) and is only ever really Bichon looking for about a week after he's cut. It costs £26 and he's done every 10 weeks or (longer in the winter). I bung him in the bath if he rolls in fox poo (stinks) but otherwise most of the time any other dirt brushes out when dry. Mine toilet trained very quickly and never goes in the house.

One up side of a Bichon is the lack of moulting - no hair all over the place and good for people that have dog allergies.

Next time (after my woofer's days) I'll get two from the same litter - double the trouble!

pawsies

We groom our Bichon ourselves. He's been a great dog for me to grow up with- very easygoing and doesn't demand too much attention.
They often get staining (we've tried to remove it and failed) although you can get Angel Eye's product which works but is £29 a pot so a bit much for us when tear staining doesn't affect his day-day life.
He doesn't eat that much (although he is 14 now!) and when he was younger he loved being chased.
Great dog for kids I would say (obviously always supervise them) and they don't moult much either!