Schnauzers typically hate baths! In this blog post as part of our Practical Tips series, Tracy Bliss gives us her top tips and advice on bathing reluctant schnauzers. Tracy has used her extensive experience with Baxter and Winnie, who are both nervous about baths. Some of us have dogs that are great to bath, some…
In our new blog series, Schnauzers On Tour, members will share their schnauzer-friendly holiday experiences. Hopefully it will help you think about all the lovely places you can take your schnauzers when you next go on a dog-friendly holiday! Our first contributer is Linda Sloan who visited Rosemarkie with her husband Dave and her gang…
We know that the cornerstone to optimal health for our dogs is providing them with a healthy balanced diet so do we really need to be adding anything else into their diet? Do dogs need supplements, pills and potions? The answer to this is yes, quite possibly! What is really exciting is that we can…
A few weeks ago, Lara Hewitt and Karen Miller adopted Purple Princess, Thistle. Thistle was one of Lara’a puppies, born at DBARC. In this series of blog posts, Lara and Karen are going to tell us all about how Thistle is developing and growing up and about her adventures. Their first post is an introduction…
Loubilou is a talented needle felt artist who has been creating likenesses of our schnauzers for over a year. Lou has raised hundreds of pounds for Mad About Schnauzers. In this post, she tells us about how she got involved in schnauzer needle felting and a bit about how it is done. I first joined…
In our new blog series on nutrition, Carole Sandhu, Dog Nutritionist, will give us some incredibly valuable insight into how food effects our schnauzers. Her first post is all about the healing power of protein. We certainly have a huge choice of dog food on the market to help us provide a diet that is…
Ava’s story continues and takes a positive turn. Ava makes huge progress when she begins exploring the big wide world – Ava Chapter 5. As the days passed, we settled into a routine of Ava spending most of her days behind the chair, often ignoring the comfortable dog bed and instead lying on the wooden…
Today someone asked on the Mad About Schnauzers Facebook Group what the collective noun is for a group of schnauzers. There were lots of excellent suggestions but my favourite was a Schnuggle of Schnauzers (and also the very apt suggestion of a Shout of Schnauzers!). I paid a visit to DBARC today with The Fabulous…
To groom or not to groom? Definitely not in my case!! I am Heidi and here is my story… I remember you guys posting pictures of how you love to groom your miniature schnauzers. I always take Bonnie my Miniature Schnauzer to the groomers. She has the long legs and skirt. I’d never have the…
Beards on the Beach was only a month ago. Everyone had such a lovely day meeting new people and raising money for Schnauzers in Need at the same time. We had a very large number of responses requesting that this should be an annual event so we have saved the dates for next year already!…