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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.

Its a bloody mess added to that is take details to council to log and get told "we dont do it any more, you have to go into the pet registry yourself and do it" then try and cant get in. they have created a new one and the program or whatever it is, is a nightmare to negotiate. Have to ring the help line every time, except, no one is there during lunch time. they shut early...... so your window to actually get help is bloody narrow as well ask for the transfer of ownership paperwork and get told you have to log in and download and print it yourself govt doesn't supply them anymore?????????????? meanwhile pollies wages go up and up. taxes are going through the roof and now they are even going to tax the super???? while big business of course pays ZERO TAX!!!!! Its only the mug voters unrepresented and taxed to the eyeballs to keep the bastards in the manner they intend to be accustomed too. meanwhile busy making so many laws anyone with a pet is heading underground to evade the ever more strangling PETA drafted legislations designed, not to "protect" our pets. But designed to send them and every domestic animal species extinct which is the real PETA agenda. what a bloody, blasted mess Meanwhile every member of the ankc is still busy chanting, "we have to get rid of unethical breeders and puppy farmers" still too stupid to twig the only ones being targeted for elimination is to PETA, and our zombie politicians doing their bidding, that's it's them, the chanters, the self appointed thought police, hounding fellow members whose only crime is dont march to the accuser's drum.. ???????????? Billy Connelly must be laughing his arse off as for the other people who created their own pet registries, RPBA, MDBA along with all the rest they too are a visible target same as ANKC. as Richard said. its increasing obvious he was so right. our pets will only survive thanks to the underground people who stay under the radar. .

OK - I spoke to another friend who is an implanter, and they still have access to enter the details of the dogs they chip directly to the database, so whatever the issue is with new owners being unable to access their pet's details is not related to that, unless vet clinics who chip dogs/cats are being slack at entering those details because they are too bloody busy with everything else they do in any given day. Most likely it's when the change of ownership information is required to be entered into the database that there is some sort of delay, but I'm pretty sure that vet clinics aren't responsible for that stage of the identification process, so whatever excuse is being given for the PetRegistry portal not working as planned is probably just made up to deflect attention from the fact that the stupid thing doesn't work because they are constantly having to change how it works every time government makes legislative changes. T.

Hey @asalI heard that there have been changes made to the NSW microchip online registry whereas licensed implanters can no longer directly input the animal's details to the chip registry in NSW via the online process? I was told that this is now supposed to only be done by local councils or vets. Is this true? As an implanter, can you still access the NSW online registry to enter details for newly chipped animals, or do you have to send paperwork or an online form off for someone else to enter those details? I was told the above during a conversation about issues with new owners not being able to register their pet via the NSW online PetRegistry portal, as there is a backlog of details having not been entered by vets or councils in a timely manner. I'm thinking that it would be stupid to remove the ability for implanters to immediately enter animal details at the time of chipping, and that the backlog most likely pertains to the change of ownership form details not being entered in a timely manner when that pet is transfered to the new owner... is that more likely the case here? T.

I’m not a breeder but I’ve spent my life around the “dog world”. I’ve had three puppies come home with health problems and spent thousands of dollars treating those problems. I didn’t ask for refunds or help with vet expenses, although I was relieved to get a refund for the puppy that died of congenital kidney disease. Actually, thinking back, I was too distraught at the time to be relieved about anything, but I was thankful later. The breed standard is someone’s ideal of perfection. Most dogs, not being machines off a production line, are not perfect. That’s why breeders spend decades striving for that breed-standard-perfect puppy. Ears often don’t align with breed standards and semi-prick ears are particularly problematic. They shouldn’t be up, they shouldn’t be down, they should fold the right way and they should stay that way all the time. Owners in search of perfection often tape the ears, as described in this blog. https://www.theink-stainedgypsy.com/2021/12/the-struggle-is-real.html

I hope you return the dog as obviously the ears will totally impact your respect for the dog as it doesnt look good enough to you The dog certainly didnt sign up for that kind of owner . Im gathering you didnt tape the ears whilst teething ?? Have you tried taping the ears now ?? Where they rose bud as a baby . Are you rubbing them upwards ?? Greyhounds,Whippets many breeds get funny ears whilst teething & we will assist them during the process . And many breeders have ended up in breeds with ears that just dont tick the plan they wished for .it comes under Sh&t Happens & many thousands of dollars spent ,your investment a very small amount & if you wanted perfect & statue would have been cheaper . Yes i get your disappointed but seriously this is a living creature that thinks your its humans & you are p*ssed & want compensation for ears that at 6 months with effort may sit folded . Good things about dogs is they dont judge humans in the same way And yes just like a human you may think your a super model good looking human & have children not getting the same good looks ,the world doesnt end nor are you going to offload your kids . As a breeder no way would i partially refund for prick ears The breeder has offered you a full refund on return of the pup which is how it works in consumer law .

Thank you everyone, shall pass these on, and let her process what her next step will be. Much appreciated.

I agree but tips and tricks are what you'll get from dog owners PK, and is pretty much why people ask on Dol about any dog topic. Everyone likes to gather information here and there from other dog owners. Saying that, we've no idea if the vet has been the one to suggest a change of diet or if everything has been tried for treating the ears.

One post, to complain, and you chose that name.

It’s an annoying thing to hear but I’d go back to the vet. Sometimes it can be a process of deduction where we try first line interventions then move on to the next thing. When we just try tips and tricks that others have found helpful, we can end up spending a lot of money on things that were never going to help or have much of an impact, only to end up in the same place of needing more veterinary work ups and treatment. Meanwhile the dog is suffering… and humans also annoyed by the constant scratching!

Vent away. Yes you are entitled to be disappointed. Can you get any sort of refund, no idea. Beauty is as beauty does. I have Greyhounds, have bred them and shown them. Same ears as whippets. But my adopted retired race dog, nope, not only does she have prick ears but also a Roman nose. Though at least I knew what she was as soon as I saw her. As your disappointment eases you'll see what you have. A wonderful friend and pet for your family, and the ears will grow on you ❤️

It currently is a system with so many holes in it that you could drive a tank through it and no one would notice!