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I take our girl on walks in a similar pattern to what Juniper posted. We live in Virginia and have the humidity and heat in the summers, not quite as bad, but we've still had 90+ days already this summer with tons of "smack you in the face" humidity as soon as you walk outside. I usually w...

I'm going to follow-up on my thoughts and ask a naive question - how much hair does a chow shed when they blow their winter coat? Is it the entire undercoat first, then the new fur grows in after the old is entirely shed? We only got Honey this past August and she had a shaved coat at the time, so w...

Hopefully that's all it is. I called our Vet and she said to wait it out a few more days to see if things change, it irritates her, etc... I read around on a few other forums, and a lot of people were bringing up hair loss as signs of a thyroid problem. Honey matches a lot of the symptoms for that, ...

This seems strange to me, but Honey is losing clumps of fur from the same small spot on both of her rear legs. Tonight, I noticed a small tuft of fur on one of her back legs, so I pulled the little spot. Then I noticed more and more fur was coming out from the spot. I grabbed a nearby brush and pull...

Okay, I'm starting to see the reasons a little clearer now. I don't have a forced air dryer; we just have a regular (human?? :lol: ) hair dryer, and an inexpensive one at that. Maybe I'll invest in a nice dog dryer, it can't be too much more than one or two grooming sessions. I also usually brush aw...

Honey snores and snorts loud enough to wake the neighbors sometimes. We tried at first to sleep with her, and neither me nor my wife got any sleep at all. Even if we just closed our door, she would sleep on the landing of the stairs and then it just echoed even louder! So most days she sleeps downst...

I'll try to post some before/afters tonight after work when I get a change to pull them off my camera. Unfortunately, she came home and snoozed the rest of the day, so I've only got shots of her sleeping fresh after the grooming. Although, all she ever seems to do is sleep around the house :lol: The...

We just had Honey professionally groomed for the first time since we've owned her. The past few months that we've had her I gave her a few baths at our home to clean her up, but we decided to get her professionally groomed since my mother-in-law will be meeting honey for the first time this weekend ...

We had a similar situation with Honey. Our breeder decided to retire her from breeding since she had a hard time with the c-sections and puppies, so we got her at 4.5 years old. The first few days she was pretty stand off-sish and didn't eat much for the first week or two. Once she got used to us an...

We have the same thing happen to us all the time. Honey was extremely well socialized when we got her, so she's done well with other dogs. When we go on our walks, she's never acted agressive towards another dog and generally just wants to have a few sniffs and continue on her way. For the most part...

This is my first dog I've had that wasn't already spayed once we got her. Honey is a retired breeding dog (she's 4.5 yrs old), so she's had 2 litters in the past with the most recent being this past spring. After buying her from the breeder, we decided to wait on spaying her by a bit because we woul...

After reading around on this site and other dog forums, we read a lot of great things about Solid Gold products. It's all-natural and holistic, and it has great reviews from everyone. We've been feeding our Chow the Hundenflocken food by Solid Gold for about 2 months now, and she seems to like it a ...

Digging up an old post since Honey's fur is getting a little long on her paws. I've trimmed most of the fur that extends below the pads on her feet, I kind of have to sneak a few clips every once in awhile in there since she hides her paws when she sees me with scissors now. But after reading this t...

http://chowclub.org/ccci/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,54/year,2009/month,10/day,24/Itemid,89/ http://www.visitloudoun.org/events/details?id=153822 The Southern Chow Club Regional Specialty show is on October 24-25th in Leesburg, VA at the Oatlands Planatation. The chow show is b...

There's a list of several dog breeds that are blacklisted by most insurance companies. You'll probably need to call around to a few different companies and ask. We also found that State Farm doesn't discriminate based on the breed you have, and I think there are a few others. http://www.insure.com/a...

Unfortunately, many of us Chow owners have had issues with other dogs attacking. We think it might be because of the Chow posture - stilted back legs, tail not visable because the way it curves over the back - and, the distinct Chow smell. We think other dogs react to the unique Chow smell. If you ...

Stephanie, We went through this exact same situation just a few months ago before getting honey (we still have to come meet you since we're 10 minutes apart!). We spent several months searching through petfinder and other pet sites trying to find a chow to adopt. Most of the chows on petfinder were ...

My Petco carries the 4lbs bags of both Wolf King and Hundenflocken, along with some of their other lines.

I bought the small bag of Hundenflocken to make sure Honey would eat it first as well, I was back the following week to buy the 33lbs bag since she seemed to like it a lot.

Thanks, I hadn't found too much info on the new about Chows in particular, and most dog sites said it varied between breeds. Honey had puppies back at the end of April, so we want to be ready for when she next goes into heat. We're not breeding her (she was the breeding dam from the breeder we bough...

Just out of curiosity, how often do chows go into heat?

They had those for sale in Pet Smart too.

My wife made us buy the Midwest Crate and Playpen because it had the Chow on the picture, haha, she said it must be the right size if there's one in the photo

I was surprised at how easy it was to house-train Honey. We've had her for about 3-4 weeks now, but she was only kennel trained when we picked her up (ie - wasn't kept in a house). Since she's already 4, we figured she'd be ok holding it longer than a puppy. Anyhow, it took us maybe a week to get he...

Well, she finally started letting out a few barks. Our house AC went out this past week in the middle of our VA heat wave, it's a blistering 91° inside my house. So we went to my parents house with the dog last night, I didnt want to leave Honey at home in that heat all day, especially while we're c...

That sounds like a good plan. I think our local Petco actually carries Solid Gold products, if not we have a bunch of random natural pet stores in the area I'll have to check out. I guess I'll start her out on whichever one they have in stock, or is the best deal. I don't think I can go wrong with e...

So I've been trying to read through all these nutrition posts, and it seems that the Solid Gold food is mentioned numerous times as one of the best dry foods for Chows. I dont really know the nutritionist reasoning behind it all, but I like that fact that it contains natural ingredients and seems to...