Costs

Unfortunately starting in the New Year, our costs will go up. Please contact nathan for updated costs.

Picnic Photos & Details

The picnic date took place on August 17, 2019 from 12pm to 5pm at Yvonne's place in Brighton. Check out the details here. Photos from the 2019 picnic can be found here. Yvonne's place is NEXT DOOR to her old place. I will try to put a havanese flag out front. Hope you can join us. Directions are here. The house # is 25. There is no picnic in 2020 due to COVID but hopefully in 2021. Stay Tuned!

Grooming 101

Want to see how I get a smooth coat and what equipment I use? I am continually learning and perfecting but I created this video Windows version) and for you Mac apple folks - here's a conversion. - not a professional one, to help you get a head start and perfect your own skill. Got questions? Ask away.

Want to know how to create a bathing machine that will save you time, product and wash your dog better than ever before? Check out Dick and Irma's instructions on how to create your own machine for a fraction of the cost.

Woofstock Is Back

Meet us at Woofstock. Dogs are welcomed. We meet at the restaurant across the street from Woodbine Park. Here is the location. Meet up happens on June 22, 2024 at 9:30 to 945am. Rain date is the next day. Look forward to seeing your havanese there and the humans too! Don't have your havanese yet? Well join us anyway! 

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Apr112017

Why Bother

Why bother to wash when you have wet that keeps coming. Oh well most is done. Today's gallery has a mix of groomed and ungroomed. 

I am trashed. Tried a new method on dematting where you lather them up with dematting fluid, heat it up then take a high velocity dryer to each knot and push the knots out. Well, they only somewhat pushed away from the skin. Either I need to perfect the skill or it doesn't work as well as I need. 

We have a trouble maker in the house. Stormy rips out everyone's rubber bands. We are correcting her. She does listen for a millisecond then tries it again. She is killing everyone's hair. Soon she will be in the tv room with only dogs that have their hair cut. That gal is mischievous as all get out. You should see how she kills the toys. 

Dogs are having fun despite the wet but they only want to run in the house. Easier for me cause when they run in wet, I have to groom and groom. On wet days, Dennis gets his workout running with the dogs down the halls. 

It is funny to see who runs for the recliner in the tv room. It is the must have seat lately.

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Why bother is right, I had to wash Coop's feet so many times today. Our grass is mushy and muddy and Coop loves it. Oh well, such is a dog's life. Soon the grass will be dryer and cleaner....Stormy and Coop are so alike in the toy department. Cooper destroys a toy within minutes, if not less, of getting a new one. He shakes the &#% out of it like there's no tomorrow!

April 11, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAnne and Cooper

Stormy is so funny, she is a little character for sure, hahaha!

Darlah, I really think you should stop dematting dogs when the mats are at the skin, your hands will cripple up and nothing is worth that.

Radar chews through his toys in minutes too and I must be very careful, he seems to eat some of it when he finally gets through the toys to the stuffing. Just last weekend Ren's Scarborough had a big sale and I 'thought' I got him a couple of indestructible toys. One is in the garbage already. It is kind of throwing money down the drain but they do enjoy them so! 😉

Yup, doggies may have had white feet when they woke up ...
Stormy certainly lives up to her name!
Clarity is so good with her toys, they last forever ... then came Farley! He tears them all apart, pulls out the stuffing and every sqeeky, but the worst is he chews all the rubber and eats it. Can't be good for him. I ended up cutting all the feet, hands, ears and tails off the rubber toys.

This trouble maker lives up to her name. But she is such a delightful Stormy!!!! It looks like she keeps everybody on their toes and paws. :) I could say that we are lucky, Ines is very gentle, even with her toys.:)

April 11, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterCarmen and Ines

Oh Stormy!! You sound so much like your brother LOL. I can't wait to see you together! Marco went to the groomers again and we trimmed his face. He looks so adorable. I'll send you some pictures. Hugs

April 12, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterPatricia Charney

I know I shouldn't laugh but Stormy's antics are just too funny !!! In my house the mischief is a cat who sometimes "re-decorates" when I go to work.

April 12, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMaureen

It is funny how each of the dogs treats their toys.
Kona has some he treats gently and others I have to take away or he will eat the
pieces he pull off or out of them. He really loves the little Kong balls.

April 12, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterKathy & Kona

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