January's Fab Finds

Yoda's Fab Finds
the must have items for your bulldog
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BRAND NEW

Green Piece Wire Art's "Bulldog Topiary"

A new creation from the award-winning designs of Green Piece Wire Art, this specialty sculpture makes a stunning centerpiece in your garden, home, or business. This handcrafted wire sculpture captures the spirit and personality of the breed as successfully as it does the attention of passersby. In addition to the number of uses available when used alone as a wire frame, this topiary can also be filled with moss and planted with our choice of garden greenery, as well as purchased in a tightly wired frame filled with lights. Bulldog topiary frame measures 16" x 25" x 11". thefind.com

TRIED AND TRUE

Visiglo's "Illuminated Collar"

The Visiglo line of illuminated pet safety products has people and their pets literally glowing. Visiglo illuminated leashes and collars are available in 5 fun designs each specifically targeted to the needs of end users. Visiglo leashes and collars utilize a garment suitable nylon with an extremely high thread count, resulting in durable collars that are more comfortable for dogs to wear and heavy duty leashes that are easier for owners to hold.The electronics have been engineered to maximize battery life and product brightness. Visiglo collars are powered by high capacity CR 2025 batteries and Visiglo leashes are powered by two AA batteries. dog.com

BULL-DACIOUS BLING

English Bulldog Clothing's "Leopard Fashion Jacket"

Show off your English bulldog with this exquisite faux fur coat! This cuddly soft outfit features a fashionable leopard-print faux fur trim with a matching faux fur black collar. This coat is fully lined with fleece to guarantee maximum comfort for your bulldog. But watch out, it will not be easy to walk outside everyone will stop you to comment. If Hollywood fame is what you are looking for, then go for it! Super soft leopard-print faux fur, Matching black faux fur collar, Faux fur of the highest quality, Fully lined with fleece, Lightweight, Comfortable, Very Soft Texture, Velcro Fasteners (easy in/easy out). Clothing sized for English bulldogs only.

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Nails, Nails, Nails

We have recouped from the Holidays and are back at the blog! Thanks for waiting.

The volunteers for CBRR see a lot of stuff with dogs that come in to the program, one of the basics are severely neglected nails. Many people do not see this as a priority, but that is because they are just not aware of the problems this simple grooming task can cause.

There are many reasons dogs nails seem go grow fast. Some owners do not have concrete areas that the dog frequents, concrete is a great natural way for a dog's nails to be grinded down. This often leaves the outer nails longer because they do not touch the concrete as the center ones do. So you will still need to keep those outside ones as short as the center ones.

Other people do not have concrete so the nails have no natural way of keeping them fairly short. These people will have the most work to do having to perform pedicures probably twice a month. Whether you do it yourself, of take your Bullie to the groomer there are 2 ways to manually trim nails. Clippers and Dremmels. Clipping leaves jagged edges that will scratch flooring and furniture/ Dremmeling leaves a uniform and smooth tip to the nail and it less painful and there is less of a chance for you to cut the quick (the vein in the nail) of the nail. even if you clip you can finish off with a dremmel to make sure the nail is rounded and smooth and that your leather sofa will not be destroyed while you and Spike watch movies.

When left untrimmed nails grow so long they start to touch the floor while the dog is not moving.

Left longer the nails grow so long it is uncomfortable for the dog to walk since the nails stop the dogs foot from properly rocking during each step. At this point the change in the way they are forced to walk slowly damages the entire paw and leg. The paw is made to walk a certain way based on the rest of the body.


When nails of this length are left even longer that start to curl under growing that way because of the constant rocking.

The volunteers have the sad reality of getting dogs in past even this point. Past this point the dogs nails can grow into the bottom of the foot. Left infected too long like anything could lead to amputation.