1st Low-Stress Handling Certified™ Pet Grooming Salon in Singapore - The Grooming Table

Experienced, Gentle and Affordable Dog & Cat Groomers. Keeping your pets safe, satisfied and looking good since 2012.

  • Services & Prices
    • Grooming FAQ
    • Dog Grooming Services & Prices
      • Microbubble Spa
    • Rabbits and Guinea Pigs
    • Cat Grooming Services & Prices
    • Gallery
  • The Salon
    • Contact Info
    • Groomer Profiles
    • Total Wellness Concept
    • Our Social Cause
    • Job Opportunities
    • Links
    • Articles
      • Dog Articles
        • Dog Grooming
        • Dog Health
        • Dog Nutrition
      • Cat Articles
        • Cat Grooming
        • Long Live The Cat
        • Katty Diet
  • Book Your Appointment Online
You are here: Home / Archives for Dog Articles

Diseases: Dealing with diarrhoea

January 16, 2013 By Sunny Lim

Just the day I came back from Malaysia, I got the runs immediately the morning after. But from all the good food I had, it was well worth it.

That reminded about my Maltese which I adopted. She was never in the pink of health and she has bouts of diarrhoea or rather soft stools very often. However even with a healthy pet, they can get diarrhoea from a sudden change in diet, food intolerance, stress and intestinal parasites.

Soft stools caused but dietary intolerances usually go away pretty quickly if the stomach is given enough rest, but remember, If the diarrhoea persists for more than a week or is followed by any or a combination of the following symptoms, please seek medical advice from a vet immediately:

  • Black tarry stools
  • Blood/mucous in the stool
  • Foamy stools
  • Abdominal pain
  • Accompanied with frequent vomiting
  • Marked lethargy

Otherwise, here are some suggestions that may help your pet alleviate their symptoms after two days.

  1. Keep a tube of probiotic product for animals in your fridge. Choose those that contains clay which helps to harden their stool.
  2. If you don’t have probiotics with you, you can feed small dogs a teaspoon of plain yoghurt  twice daily and a tablespoon for big dogs. It doesn’t work as effectively as the probiotic supplement, but what the hell, it’s a healthy treat!
  3. Fast your pet for a meal and in the evening, feed it something light and in small portions. E.g. Cooked oats, rice, vegetables, pumpkin, sweet potato, chicken breasts, fibrous fruits like banana or guava. Save the broth for them to drink to help replenish their fluids.
  4. To test if your pet is properly hydrated, pull on the skin on their neck and if the skin retracts back quickly, then they’re okay.
  5. To be safe however, you might want to mix isotonic beverages into their drinking water or better, get electrolyte sachets from the pharmacy if you have one near you.
  6. To make your own electrolyte supplement, you may stir some raw honey and pink rock salt/unrefined sea salt (those that aren’t pure white) into their drinking water.
  7. If your pet refuses to drink, get a syringe without the needle, fill it with the solution you choose to feed, place the syringe between the space between the cheeks and teeth and feed the solution slowly. OR simply, add wet food or water to their diet. As a rule of thumb, a dog should be getting 60ml of fluid per kilogram body weight per day and cats half that amount.

Finally if your pet constantly has problems with soft stool due to poor digestion, may I suggest that you try this brand of pet food K9 Natural. From my own experience and from many others, pets fed on K9 Natural experienced very good absorption resulting in very little, firm stools. I really like that because I know that my pets are being fed with what they need and very little is turned to waste.

Again, if you have any feedback or if you have any tips that you’d like to share, please write us a comment! Good luck and may your pet be healthy always.

Filed Under: Cat Articles, Catty Every Day Tips, Dog Articles, Dog Health, Featured, First aid, General Dog Care, Long Live The Cat, Pet Articles, Tips Tagged With: animal health, diarrhea, diarrhoea in cats, diarrhoea in dogs, pets care, pets health

Nutrition: Make your own treats

January 2, 2013 By Sunny Lim

So it’s the festive season once again and everybody’s celebrating. Hopefully it was a blessed one with your friends, family and furry ones. While we are all indulging in our festive feasts, we shouldn’t leave our fur kids drooling and begging isn’t it?

But rather than giving them treats that you have no idea what they’re being made from, why not make them instead? For the love our pets shower us with everyday, everyday should be Christmas for them!

What you’ll need:

1. Convectional oven/Dehydrator

2. Lean cuts of meat/organs/tendon (Fat on the end product would spoil rather quickly)

Directions:

1. Cut the lean meat into thin strips. Thinner pieces will be easier to dry.

2. As an advocate of raw diets, I usually just cut thin strips of meat and dry them. But if time is an issue, you can boil the meat first until it’s cooked thorough, pat them dry, then cut into small pieces.

3. If you have an oven, set it to the lowest heat setting. In addition, I’d usually leave the oven door ajar to further lower down the temperature and facilitate air circulation. If you’re using a dehydrator, set it to 75 degrees Celsius. Too hot the meat will get burnt and lose its nutrients; too low and it may take too long and dry improperly.

4. If you’re using an oven, lay the treats on a aluminium foil and spread them out evenly. Flip them over every hour or so.

5. Dry them until they are tough and dry, yet flexible, like jerky.

6. Given Singapore’s weather, I would recommend keeping them in the fridge for maximum freshness. The ones I make usually lasts for a month without any problems.

The best part? My dogs love it more than regular treats yet it’s way healthier and cheaper. Why don’t you give it a try?

Filed Under: Cat Articles, Dog Articles, Dog Nutrition, Katty Diet, Pet Articles, Tips Tagged With: animal nutrition, daily care, DIY treats, homemade treats, jerky, pet treats, treats

Pet Grooming: The Never Ending Struggle With Ticks

December 26, 2012 By Sunny Lim

In Singapore, ticks are just like mosquitoes. Even as the weather turns cooler, I’ve still been getting a lot of complaints about ticks lately. Inevitably, I’ve brought a few home from the grooming shop and passed it on to my poor dogs.

This.Means.War! 

Some of you who bring your dogs out for daily walks may often find ticks on them and you may have chosen monthly spot-on treatments as a form of convenient solution. However, based on personal experiences and feedback from customers, it’s effectiveness

on subsequent applications is questionable. Why? I really do not know and neither have I found any answers online. Instead of answers, I found more people complaining about the same problem on the internet.

Bio-X d-Bug Flea & Tick Spray

What I have realised that works though, is using sprays and switching around brands often. Although I do not know why spray works better, but it may be possible that some factors may be preventing spot on treatment to spread evenly throughout the body. So the most obvious advantage of using sprays is that you can make sure that the whole body is evenly treated. Secondly, be it sprays or spot on, the effects do wear out. So with sprays, you are able to give the protection a boost when ever needed with just a spritz here and there.

Resistance is Futile

It could be that some sort of resistance has been formed that made spot on treatments less effective as it should be. Also, I’ve experienced scenarios where I applied the spot on and the same brand of spray a week later, the spray did not work as effectively as before. Luckily, I had another brand of flea and tick spray with me and it worked quite well in the end.

Apart from having a different brand, it’s useful to note that you should have different active ingredients as well. Try switching around Fipronil, permethrins, Pyrethrins, as well as natural alternatives like Etofenprox. Neem and eucalyptus are more of a preventive measure than an insecticide. But if you have the patience and is meticulous enough to give your dog thorough checks, then of course I would recommend using natural alternatives.

I Will Find You, And I Will Kill You

Even after applying flea and tick products, it is still necessary to give your pets a thorough check to remove any dead creepers as well as to see if there’re still any live ones. It would really help if you pet has a short coat. If it doesn’t, I would recommend you bring it to a pet a stylist and get it trimmed short for ease of checking. Don’t give yourself too much credit for being meticulous. I even have problems finding those pesky ticks on my Maltese.  The animals’ health should be of top priority and it’s looks should come later.

If there’s really a lot of ticks on the body, you may request your pet groomer to remove the ticks for a charge. Just make sure the services includes the physical removal of the ticks rather than just soaking your poor dog in a chemical dip and just letting the ticks die attached to Fido. Worse still, sometimes they wouldn’t even die.

As a word of caution, do not let your pet groomer charge you by the number of ticks removed. It’s a good indication that the groomer is a rip-off. Charges for a small dog is usually $20-$30, maybe $40 tops (rarely), if the condition is really bad.

How to remove them

how to remove a tickOther than keeping a keen eye during daily grooming sessions, a particularly good time to groom for ticks is after bathing your dog and its body is still wet. The coat would stick would stick together and close to the skin, giving you a better view of the skin. If your dog’s coat is just a centimeter long, you can use a flea comb and by placing it almost flat against the dog’s skin, comb against the lay of the coat. Remove any ticks you have found on the flea comb with sticky tape.

Otherwise, you can use a strong hair dryer, set it to cool and use it to part the dog’s hair. Remove the tick  by holding the tick at the mouth and pulling straight up. Squeezing the tick or killing it whilst on the skin will risk releasing toxins and pathogens into your pet.

If you do find baby ticks crawling around your house, try to find where they hatched. But unfortunately, fogging your house is usually the solution.

Prevention is better than cure

Ticks usually wait on grasses for animals to pass by and latch on them. But I also have owners who let their pets roam around without having any tick problems. Similarly, I have also found that there are areas around my house where my dog commonly get ticks from. After I change the walking route, my dogs seldom got ticks any more.

For topical prevention, mix water, a few drops of dog shampoo, neem oil and eucalyptus oil into a bottle and apply over their body. Towel lightly and dry them as usual. This method usually lasts two days tops.

Remember, keep your pets away from grass, apply flea and tick spray every 3-4 days and check everyday.

—

If you find this article useful, please share it and if you like us particular grooming tips, please share them in the comments below!

Filed Under: Cat Articles, Cat Grooming, Dog Articles, Dog Grooming, Featured, General Dog Care, Long Live The Cat, Pet Articles, Uncategorized Tagged With: cats, dogs, natural tick prevention, pet care, pet grooming, the grooming table, tick problems, ticks

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

How To Find Us

Address:
55 Lengkok Bahru #01-391 Singapore 151055

Contact:
6250 2938

Whatsapp:
8753 4783

Opening Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday
10am – 7pm
Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Services & Prices
  • The Salon
  • Book Your Appointment Online

Copyright © 2019 · The Grooming Table Pte. Ltd. · Log in
Dog Grooming Services & Prices | Low Stress Pet Grooming Salon in Singapore. Gentle & Safe. | Pet Groomers in Redhill & Bukit Merah | Grooming Serivce For Rabbits and Guinea Pigs | Cat Grooming | Book A Grooming Session