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As Richard said, considering all that can go wrong in a developing foetus, we should be more amazed how many are born normal

The most common cause of certain issues in dogs is their owners' unrealistic expectations for them to be like furry human children... and anxiety and the like is on the rise with human children too... maybe there's a common thread? Seriously... why can't we just let dogs be dogs? Let them do doggy things instead of expecting them to act like humans to "fit in". T.

Forgive me for being a little cynical, but I wonder how many puppies they've put down due to parvovirus rather than raising them... I'm cynical about the diagnosis being used to kill them - it way or may not be 100% the case, as unfortunately we only have their word for said diagnosis, and I don't trust anything the RSPCA says. Deformities are more likely when 2 dogs are chucked together with little forethought to the timing or suitability of the mating(s) between two dogs, so I'll concede that one. T.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/act-rspca-desexing-problem-in-canberra/105446390

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-22/medication-dogs-behavioural-issues-what-the-duck-what-the-dog/105374914

I’m not sure about that. About 60 years ago, my parents fostered two dingo pups for Eric Worrell, founder of the Australian Reptile Park. One was extremely timid around people and would leap across the furniture to its hidey-hole if anyone came into the house. The other was highly sociable and greeted everyone as a friend. I also have a photo of my mother teaching one of Eric Worrell’s adult dingos to retrieve a ball. She said it was similar to a dog in its play drive and sociability.

15 years old. Had a good run. I suspect he had domestic dog in his genetics given that he was outgoing to all and played with other dogs. ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/veterinary-telemedicine-ease-stress-on-pet-owners-and-vets/105421918

Thanks everyone. I bought some Stockman & Paddock and will try him on that

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-17/rat-lungworm-disease-spike-dog-infections/105408304

You are a great nurse Poor Rocky ( i remember him from photos you shared ) ....it must have been very painful for him to be so restricted. Here's hoping whatever it was doesn't return!

QCAT may be able to help. Money was owed to me over a different type of dog issue and that’s the road I took. It’s a complicated system but we got there in the end. Good luck

Thankyou for this - the state in question is actually Queensland

I’m just wondering if anyones dog has ever suffered from IVDD. We were, until today looking after my sons French bulldog Rocko. They have been overseas for the past month and we had Rocko with us. He is 4 years old. He can be quite boisterous but we try not to get him overly excited because he then gets too rough for Molly. She likes him when he’s rather calm. So do we. Haha Anyway, on Wednesday I spent most of the day outside gardening while both dogs casually followed me around or just laid about on their beds in the sun. That night Rocko went to bed perfectly fine. He sleeps in a crate with the door shut. We never hear a peep out of him. Thursday morning when I went to let him out he didn’t really seem interested. I encouraged him out but as he got out of the crate I could see he wasn’t really putting much weight on one of his back legs. At first I thought he’d probably been laying on it but as I encouraged him outside I could see he just didn’t want to walk. Both legs weren’t real good. He’d take 2 steps and sit. He eventually peed and I took him back inside. He didn’t want breakfast either. During the day I got him outside a few times to toilet but each time I had to lift him to stand. Once up he’d walk but was very wobbly and I needed to support him. We got a vet appointment that afternoon and after she checked him over she thought he may have IVDD. He’s never had a back issue before and I can honestly say he didn’t do anything stupid while here. She prescribed gaberpentin twice a day with complete bed rest except for on lead toilet breaks. That was easy as he didn’t want to move anyway. Friday he was very much out of it. Very sleepy and quiet. Still not using his legs real good. I had to hand feed him and I was using a syringe to get water into him as he wouldn’t eat or drink by himself. Very upsetting to see him like that but by Friday night I could finally see slight improvement. By Saturday he had improved more and finally started to eat and drink and could walk longer. He was still wobbly but there was improvement. This morning when we opened the crate he walked straight out and was 95% his old self. Eating, drinking, toileting and walking about and walking so much better. My son arrived mid morning and got a very nice happy welcome home from him and he could hardly tell that there was anything wrong with him. Im just rather curious. From what I read IVDD could take weeks to get better. We are guessing the vet was right but I guess she couldn’t be 100% as no tests were done. She could feel a sore spot on his lower back though. My son will take him to his vet and get him checked as a precaution. I’m thinking his miraculous recovery could be due to getting him to the vet and checked out quickly plus I made sure he got the rest and care he needed. He’s been quite spoilt actually. His day bed was in front of the fireplace and his crate was put in the lounge room with the aircon on all night to keep him warm and comfortable as it’s been absolutely freezing here. And of course he obviously responded well to the medication. We do understand that the medication could be masking a problem but as I said he will be checked over by his vet. Just interested to hear other stories or thoughts.

That poor postie! I am thinking if she was shorter the bite may have been on the neck ! It's always been a joke- dogs & posties ...but it's getting nasty now

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/pets/powerful-jaws-postie-reveals-horrific-trauma-after-vicious-dog-attack-on-the-job/news-story/e50b9af0b7d73811cdf8df9180c7d21a

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No idea if this works...I tend to need to slim down fatties. But if there's a real butcher anywhere near, you might ask about fatty offcuts. I've often had to trim off and dispose of fat from chooks frames and brisket bones, and sometimes when I am at our local butcher I see guys in the background trimming off fat.

Nothing wrong with porridge. Proper rolled oats is, imo, a whole food. Just feed him this over winter. Or get supercoat puppy for him. Or just up his normal foods by 1/3.

I have had this happen with adolescent sighthounds.There is nothing wrong with having a greyhound or sighthound build! If he is very active he may just have a marathon runner's physique, very lean, or his hormones are not doing him any favours. If he is otherwise healthy (and not losing weight) I wouldn't worry and wouldn't add anything except perhaps carefully add some extra oil, or feed another small balanced meal.

I have 3 border collies...14 years, 6 years & almost 1. They all get the same food with the puppy getting a bit more plus training treats. Currently they are on Supercoat Adult, plus eggs, fresh (frozen) sardines, yogurt, chicken wings or drumsticks, & fish oil The two older dogs do well on this, so much so that I have to watch that they don't gain too much weight. The old boy is going well for his age & the six year old is very active. However, the puppy (1 yr old) struggles to gain weight. He is very active & growing tall (his front legs come right up to his chin lol, & his back legs are so long, that when he sits, he sits like a frog. He weighs 19 kilo & so far not desexed. I can feel his ribs & his backbone really easy, & I feel he is quite skinny... a bit like a greyhound with long hair. Am I worried about nothing & he is just having a growing spurt?? Or is there something I could feed him , apart from 100% raw (as we are camping & have limited freezer space). I know I could feed him things like porridge, but would prefer it to be a whole food. Looking for recommendations please that is readily available in our local pet stores

AND ITS GETS WHAT?" our property at Gilgandra is trisected by the Newell Highway and another road. cant even move feed with the tractor from one paddock to another if its on the other side of the road now? been in drought for last 5 years. hubby's ute has transported so many round bales its axle lost the plot and collapsed bringing another load on the way home recently no one with animals has any rights anymore old Australian Truck Driver’s Group. Kings Forman · postrnodSe31h337ui24m61f5237hl59h10307m5c05712hmlm50157falf3 · A VICTORIAN farmer fined $398 for carrying two bales of hay on his tractor forks across a road to feed sheep at the weekend will contest the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator action. Condah farmer and hay contractor Graham Thomson said the NHVR fine was “very heavy handed” and it meant farmers across the state have been acting illegally by transporting hay on tractors across roads to livestock during the drought. “Every farmer is breaking the law as soon as they put a round roll or a square bale on those forks to go across a road. “The fine was worth more than the value of the hay.” Mr Thomson said he owns four separate titles with livestock surrounded by roads in the Condah area, but was told by an NHVR officer he would need to put any hay bales on a truck to transport hay on a road. Fellow farmer Andy Satchell said the fine was “way over the top, totally impractical and completely unnecessary.” “It is just showing how over-regulated we are as a society. “Everyone is doing the same thing to feed their stock,” he said. “It just shows the complete disconnect between city and country too.” He said the fine came as farmers were fighting the emergency fire services levy and on the same day as a mental health day for farmers at the local Condah Hotel. Mr Thomson said he was taking two bales of hay on his tractor about 600 metres down Fleece Road and after checking there were no vehicles in sight, across the Henty Highway, before being stopped with flashing lights and a siren by an NHVR officer. The farmer was told he was not allowed to cart anything on a front-end loader on a public road, and that it was an expensive fine but he would be fined for having bales on the front of the tractor “not restrained.” “I’m meant to have a load binder over them. “I’ve been farming for about 50 years and I didn’t know that,” he said. “I didn’t say anything, but one minute he says I can’t carry anything on the road and then he books me for carrying something on it that’s not restrained. “So that didn’t make sense to me.” The offence recorded was ‘Driver of a heavy vehicle that does not comply with the loading requirements – MINOR Risk Breach. “It was very heavy handed,” Mr Thomson said. Mr Thomson is a life member of the Australian Fodder Industry Association and has about 400 phone messages from people across Australia after Mr Satchell made his Facebook post. “I’ve got about 300 people want to go (to court) and back me up – it’s being contested.” The post had been shared 589 times by 2.30pm today, had about 380,000 views and generated more than 130 comments, mostly sympathetic and urging him to contest the fine. Polite commentators branded the fine as “ridiculous”, while others branded it a joke and “absolute bullshit.” AFIA president Louis Kelly said was aware hay loads on a truck or ute it would need to be secured but he had not heard of farmers being fined for transporting hay on tractors. “It’s a stupid rule, I’m not in favour of it at all – I’ve never heard of it before.” “I’ve seen so many tractors on the road with hay on them, does that constitute a truck or a ute?” Mr Kelly said he had been working with the NHVR on standardising road rules. “What are we going to do here, stifle agriculture altogether? “How is this going to work?” he asked. “As far as I am concerned, Thommo’s in the right to feed his animals, but if someone challenges him on how he ties his load down on a tractor which is registered as an agricultural machine, I just think that’s a bit different.” Sheep Central was told the NHVR regulates all heavy vehicles with a gross vehicle mass or aggregate trailer mass of more than 4.5 tonnes, including livestock and agricultural vehicles. The Schedule of HVNL Penalties, Infringement Penalties and Demerit Points 2024/25 (PDF, 403KB) provides a summary of the penalties and infringements outlined in the HVNL. This includes breaches of mass, dimension or loading requirement, where a minor risk breach carries a minimum fine of $398 fine and a more substantial or severe breach may see a maximum penalty of $13,310. The NHVR said agricultural vehicles, such as tractors, are permitted on the roads if the driver and vehicle comply with all jurisdictional and Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) requirements, such as holding the correct registration and access permit, as well as safe restraint of the load.

From all sides isnt it. not just our dogs being targeted so are we. good luck folks O and how many times have you had to do a click the whatever to prove your not a robot? to a computer program who wont give u access until you do? Shades of Terminator future? O and dont be fooled, Barnabay Joyce and David Littleproud drafted the legislation that created the Water Trading Scheme, whereby the irrigation farmer can no longer buy their water from the government, they have to buy it from water traders and now twice the price once cost. Who profits? the Water Traders and who are they? Majority Chinese investors and the families of Barnabv Joyce and David Littleproud. Thanks to implementing it during the worst drought in memory at the time it send thousands of dairy farmers already being strangled by the $1 a litre milk off the edge to bankruptcy and being snapped up by corporations, ending generations of family farms. Liberal is wings of the same bird as Labor. Littleproud was computer savy enough to create the offshore water trading company himself and then hand over to the family so could not be charged with profiting from his legislation. No idea who created Barnabys, probably advised by Littleproud how too though. Traitors to the people of Australia, sure are. most of the farms sold are now overseas owned, increased china's holdings to 5%.

Barnaby Joyce dospteSnro7t89769aJ56 u4a172a6l m5n1le0tf72lg7ft5252 0uh5:h1 · How do you pay off a trillion dollars in government debt when you are smashing the economy by an impossible jihad to change the weather called Net Zero? Answer, you pay it off with someone else’s savings. The trillions that Australians were told were safe in superannuation is the solution. Since its inception under Paul Keating, we were told superannuation was sacrosanct. It was to cover the fact that it would be impossible for the Government to properly pay for retirees an amount of money that could sustain their standard of living to a reasonable level. People were told to trust the Government their money was safe. But now the Government, rather than acknowledge super was to pay a cost that the Government couldn’t cover, are covering the cost of further Government expenditure which the superannuant never had a say in the spending. Compulsory superannuation was guided by accountants who were given the remit to legally minimise your tax. There is no nefarious purpose in people transferring or buying assets for their super fund. The Government said we had to have super and the people invested in their super fund. For many on the land the assets that they placed in their super fund was the family farm because this is what they were advised to do by their accountant and their accountant had no knowledge aforethought that this would be a very bad idea. But the nasty bitey bit is coming now thanks to the Labor Party. Many farms, if they can provide a living for the family, are worth vastly in excess of $3 million. But farms are like a third parent. With most family farms there is no intention of selling them, in fact it is looked on as failure or treachery if a family member sells the farm out of the family. Once a family farm is sold it can never be bought back. As the globe is not creating more farming country and as the population of the globe races towards eight billion people that can’t properly feed themselves, the value of land and farm produce is going up. In fact, farm land has been appreciating at around 18% per year. This is just a figure on the books because there is no intention of selling the asset, however the Labor Party is going to tax Australians 30% on the increase on the book value of an asset even though it hasn’t been sold. So, let’s go through the figures. $5 million for a farm that can support a family is not unreasonable at all, in fact it might be a bit light-on. Now, if this farm is in the super fund then an 18% increase would mean an unrealised capital gain of $900,000. If $900,000 is taxed at 30% that is $270,000 that family has to find to pay Dr Jim Chalmers. If a farm worth $5 million could make a $270,000 profit they would be genius farmers. Not only is it one-off, it could be every year including droughts. As corporate farming buys out family farms and overseas buyers buy out Australians without any government wanting to do very much about it, family farms are going to be pushed further into the history books of Australia. As farms become bigger the number of people supplying the market for your food becomes smaller and inevitably makes the price of food larger. This combines with a bat poo crazy idea of Net Zero emissions by 2050 and further restrictions on how farmers operate their farms to placate the great god Gaia and his environmental policies which exacerbates the cost of food you see in shops today. Remember everybody ridiculing me about my claim there would be $100 Sunday lamb roasts because of environmental policies such as the carbon tax, with lamb selling now at over $50/kg in the shops you’ve got it. Remember when I lost my job as the Shadow Finance Minister when debt was around $100 billion because I had the temerity to say if you keep spending money on the trajectory you’re spending it the gross debt will race through half a trillion dollars and all the wise sages from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Governor of the Reserve Bank chuckled at how silly I was to say such a thing. Well, it’s now gone through a trillion dollars and I’m still waiting for them to pop their chuckling heads back up and say they were wrong. So, here are two things, one we should not start doing and the next we should stop. We should not start doing the raiding of superannuation to pay back government debt. If you need to pay back government debt you do it by having an economy that has the capacity to service the debt and repay the principle, otherwise you should never have borrowed the money in the first place. Number two, if you want an economy that can service a debt and repay the principle you must remove this ludicrous and dangerous attachment to a social policy that will have no effect on the weather but will merely inspire the faux virtue one gets from aspiring to the impossible Net Zero by 2050. If you pursue Net Zero you will never attain Net Zero nor change the weather but you will blast the economy out of the water. If you go in hot pursuit of Net Zero you are a fool and if you take someone’s savings you are a thief.