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Jul 10th, 2020 at 10:26am
 
The Maltese Terrier

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Group 1 (Toys)


General Appearance:
Should be smart, lively and alert. The action must be free, without extended weaving.

Characteristics:
Sweet tempered and very intelligent.


http://ankc.org.au/Breed/Detail/8


Petbarn gives another view:
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Easy to get along with, playful and mild-mannered, Maltese Terriers are the epitome of a companion dog. Small and fragile, this toy dog breed is trusting and devoted to its owner and makes a perfect lapdog. Maltese Terriers are highly intelligent and excel in competitive obedience, agility and learning tricks, but you will need to keep up your training schedule. They are not easy to house-train break and have a tendency to bark a lot if not trained well. In fact, their noisy, vocal habits have made them one of the most surrendered breeds in Australia.

Maltese Terriers are not ideal for a home with small children as due to their size they can get easily injured, but they do well with other pets if socialised early. You might find your favourite pair of bed socks chewed up when you come home from work. That’s because Maltese Terriers exhibit abnormal chewing patterns when they suffer from separation anxiety, so give them the mental and physical activity they need to keep them healthy and happy. They live for 13-15 years.

Fun fact: The Maltese Terrier breed is around 2800 years old
and has had many names, including Roman Ladies’ dog and Shock dog.
Their compact size makes them ideal for urban living. They are very active indoors and do not need a yard to romp about. However, a daily walk is strongly recommended. They remain playful well into their old age. They are prone to chills and do not do well in extremely hot weather either. In fact, your Maltese is quite content just lazing around the house.

Famed for the straight, silky white hair that forms their coat, it takes some maintenance to keep a Maltese Terrier looking clean and dry. Daily combing and brushing, along with weekly baths, are essential or their long luxurious coat will mat. Be gentle when grooming as their coat is very soft. If you aren’t up to grooming daily, clip the coat just long enough to keep your buddy warm.

Clean their eyes daily to prevent staining, as well as their ears, pulling out any hair from inside the canal. Ideally tie the hair on top of their head into a top knot. Maltese Terriers don’t grow very big, standing around 22cms on average. A Maltese Terrier sheds little or no hair.

Scheduled six monthly health check visits with your vet are important to ensure that your dog is healthy and happy throughout all life stages. Maltese Terriers are prone to sunburn as well as teeth and eye problems. Together with your vet, you can determine and maintain a preventative health care program based on the individual needs of your canine companion.


https://www.petbarn.com.au/petspot/dog/dog-breeds/maltese-terrier/

Barking can be a problem—it could set off another dog that then gets yours barking again. Chihuahuas are supposed to be yappy—that is the owner’s fault, not the dog’s!

Consider the average soppy chi owner: chi yaps at nothing, owner picks it up and pets it “Good dog! {ton of sloppy anthropomorphisms removed.}”

Tiffany got promptly told to shut up. Tiffany was not a yappy dog.

With a Maltese the same needs to be done. Don’t accidentally encourage the barking!




The above descriptions sound like your buddy, Lols?
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Reply #1 - Jul 10th, 2020 at 11:19pm
 
Thank Monk, interesting to read.

Hutchy was Maltese Shi Xu
So he had attributes of both.

Intelligent, very alert and focused.

Incredible how they (dogs) understand us humans with our speech, emotions, they just know.

I see horses show emotion too, the lass that’s agisting here, when she hugs her horse, it just shows love and emotion and it nudges into her arm and closes it eyes.

There are a lot of incredible moments one sees in an animal if one tunes in.

I’m just missing him so much, I have his photo on a stand near the TV, and I hope there really is a rainbow bridge and a heaven for animals, because I will sometimes “talk” to him. Then I get all sooky lala and have a cry 😢
I know I will get another dog eventually, but I’m just not feeling ready at present.

Now tonight I’m worried where the cat has gone!
Usually annoys me at this time of night for a feed.
I mean, like kids, we want to let them have their freedom but still got to keep a check on them.


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Reply #3 - Jul 11th, 2020 at 6:48am
 
A dog will study you until the day it dies.

Facial expression

Tone of voice

Body language

They will study you then close their eyes and think about it then drift into sleep.

Some dogs, like Demi, are very denning—always looking for a little cave (under the TV and under the coffee table were Demi’s fave spots—except in winter when she was stretched out in front of the heater. Chi Hua Huas prefer sitting next to you or on your lap—they are lap dogs, this is not dominance unlike most other breeds sitting on your furniture.
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Reply #4 - Jul 11th, 2020 at 7:11am
 
I'm old school when it comes to dogs...... outside.

So that would possibly mean I shouldn't ever have a small dog.

My daughter is one that should have had a small dog because they had theirs in the house all the time .....but they had a horse of a Rhodesian Ridgeback.... as a house dog.

They don't shed- short hair she said  Grin Grin

That's why they've still got course prickly little hairs all through the front of their lounge chairs today after the dog has been passed away 2 years.

All pets - dogs & cats shed. I don't want that smell through the house.

Maybe a good reason I don't own a dog?
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Reply #5 - Jul 11th, 2020 at 7:21am
 
People with little white fluffy dogs are weird.
As if those little dogs are replacement kids that have left the home.
Dog hair and smell throughout their cars and houses.
Probably let their dogs eat the leftovers off their dinner plates put down from the dinner table. Serving the same plates for guests and visitors. Yuck.

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Reply #6 - Jul 11th, 2020 at 7:42am
 
Nice to see you post in C&Cs Jasin!
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Reply #8 - Jul 11th, 2020 at 8:50am
 
Not forgetting the breed I think of as “sh1ts too”

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Reply #9 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 11:15pm
 
Jasin wrote on Jul 11th, 2020 at 7:21am:
People with little white fluffy dogs are weird.
As if those little dogs are replacement kids that have left the home.
Dog hair and smell throughout their cars and houses.
Probably let their dogs eat the leftovers off their dinner plates put down from the dinner table. Serving the same plates for guests and visitors. Yuck.



I looked after my son and his ex partners white with reddish hair fluffy dog and I called it my grand dog as I don’t have grand kids.

Missing him so much now, no grand dog or grand kids.... yeah I can understand feeling lonely without a dog.

White or beige or brown teddy bear digs are just so gorgeous looking!

But when I’m ready I will go to the pound,

I once went to a pound with my friend, she lost two dogs at same time, came home and found them both drowned in kids pool.

I always suspected her teen son had something to do with that. Suffering depression, too much time on x-box, father only recently left to go with another woman. I was concerned my friend’s son was suicidal.
I would often go to have pep talks with him, bring him outside to sit in the sun and talk about stuff.
I’ve known him all his life so he listened to me.

He’s okay now, 21 and has found his life path.

So you understand where I’m coming from thinking he may have drowned them both? I never said anything though.

As for having pets indoors, I was never ever like that.... then son and daughter get these pets and I was broken in  Grin


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Reply #10 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 11:26pm
 
My post was in regards to people who try to make animals into humans.
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Reply #11 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 11:41pm
 
Jasin wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 11:26pm:
My post was in regards to people who try to make animals into humans.


I did tend to call Hutchy “my baby” 🐶
Don’t know if that’s making it human, I respected him as a dog.
But I do see on fb where people do dress up their dogs in different costumes for photographic purposes as a daily thing.

I see these dogs looking a bit unhappy ... I just see it in their eyes.
I bet they are not  allowed in the grass and mud outside!

They don’t even let their kids play freely in the outdoors dirt either!

I always encouraged it... fun outdoors ... but easy for me in country area... city people are “different”.
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Reply #12 - Jul 15th, 2020 at 11:43am
 
We always used to leave our dogs outside.
That is, till my husband took one to the vet's and the vet said that dogs who sleep inside or out of the elements will, on the whole, live longer & with less arthritis etc

We used to have a little dog who slept outside and had the most terrible arthritis and I feel a bit guilty now, although she has been dead for years.

Our present 2 dogs have their beds indoors. They enjoy being outside but tap at the door to get in when they are ready.

It can get pretty cold in Melbourne overnight.
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Reply #13 - Jul 15th, 2020 at 3:45pm
 
Sherri you have a PM
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Reply #14 - Jul 15th, 2020 at 4:02pm
 
Where I am now the dog would have to sleep in the back porch or laundry—that is on the north side of the house—blinding hot in summer so not possible.

Hell, even our Chinese neighbors let their dog inside because of the heat.
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