Loving my Oldies

Awful situation for everyone concerned ---- except negligent owner, of course . She sounds like a fruitloop and they are the ones who do most damage. I'm for reporting to the Ranger. I don't know much about the dog situation at St Ives as I've never taken my dogs there, but it is a huge area and I think there would be enough room to avoid people if necessary. Sue & Crew on this forum goes there regularly. Perhaps you could PM her and get first hand information.

I have to echo Persephone's post. As hard as it is and how much we miss them, we have to think of their health and well being. And, yes, to have to let a young dog go, is so many more times more difficult.

Thanks for the recommendations. I went with Gladesville as they said they had a vet that is good with rabbits. Appointment at 3:15 this afternoon. Thanks Hopefully she is okay Hope the little rabbit is okay. Porche on this forum rescues rabbits so she would be pretty well in the know. Glad that Gladesville can see you.

I don't have any helpful suggestions for you except to say: thank god Banshee is with you. I have plenty for the previous owner, but actually I have read where a lot of people with hair extensions are going bald because the extensions are pulling their own hair out - so hopefully this will happen to her. Alternatively (or as well :D ) she might fall off her shoes. Aren't I horrible, but she has done horrible things to Banshee, if not intentionally, by serious neglect and lack of love and decency. Again: well done Yellowgirl. Your exquisite little family is growing LOL.

What fun. Bert was doing okay, but Sally was just a party pooper. Saw "Happiness on Four Legs" at the vet yesterday . . . . . a little pug just like Bert. Totally gorgeous. I didn't think Pugs could grin, but she proved me wrong.

You are very severely handicapped being in Brisbane, LB. I think you'd have to fight off all the Sydney DOLers

That's interesting; I didn't realise they were as small as that. I'm pretty sure that Caramel was a pure bred German Spitz and having seen his new best friend, also a GS, I am convinced he is. I didn't weigh him before he left, but when I rescued him and he was pretty sick, he was 7.2kg. So I imagine by the time he was all healed, hale and hearty he would have been between 8 and 9kg. The more Kisho's hair grows and he gets better I am pretty sure he had GS in him as well, particularly from looking at the set of his tail. Charlie is still pretty small, isn't he, CW. So I guess there won't be a huge weight difference between them - a few kilos ??

I feel a bit like that too, deelee, but I don't have the energy. Gorgeous pix, B.B.

Sounds as though everything is going wonderfully well and very very happily.

Yes, it is extraordinary isn't it? They don't seem to have the mental capacity to put the two things together. His dogs would go being held and probably wagging their tails. The other poor little things went in fear, horror and pain. And that is what their owner, poor poor man , will be living with for the rest of his life.

What that man is going through I hate to think . Even if the dogs who killed the others were owned by someone who looked after them and had good fences and was to all intents and purposes a perfect owner, I would still want them pts. Until you have experienced having a beloved pet killed by another dog, I don't think you can truly comprehend the anguish - and the never ending "what ifs" you go through. To lose 5 in what must have been a truly shocking sight with the dogs absolutely terrified is unimaginable. The owner of the dogs who killed should be prosecuted and be barred from owning dogs for a long long time.

And so will we DOLers, K9A. Good luck Bailey and have a wonderful life with your new mum and girl friend. ETA: Can't even type one line without a typo these days

I know nothing about it, but lots of information on google http://www.eco-green-cleaning-products.com...cts-review.html

Yep. Make the punishment fit the crime

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/28/2885195.htm

Oh, wow, AMS. Now there's an idea. I can't help wondering what your "friend" is going to think of Emmy, CW . A pure white teacup Malamute maybe.

I came across an old issue of Urban Animal and wondered why I'd kept it. Flipped through and found out why. A fantastic article written by Pat Miller on Mythbusting. Some of the myths regularly come up on DOL and so I thought the article was be very useful for people. I have checked with Urban Animal and can post a link here to their magazine and the article, but can't post the article, so please no one break the copywrite regulations A copy of the email to me from Urban Animal just to reinforce my request to people not to copy any part of the article onto this forum. Thanks for your feedback. As a copyright issue you are welcome to put up the link to our site but not to copy onto a forum website. We're not the original owners of the article but paid Pat for the rights to reprint. http://www.urbananimal.net/pdf/issue17/16_mythbusting.pdf

I don't want to start an argument because I am far from knowledgable on the subject, but I was under the impression it wasn't the dog's hair that is the problem, but the flaking skin? Have you been able to look into this, italmum?

My goodness, what you have to do when you adopt a new puppy - LOL.

AND your ticker thingy . . . . . ;)

Well, I'm glad that's sorted. You get one each of the above, one for every member of the family.

Gosh, I wish I were perfect like some people on DOL - .

It is impossible to get through to some people, because they "are going to be different" and whatever else they can think of to justify. And some just don't care about statistics and the suffering of other dogs. Can only suggest you tell her you are taking her to lunch and divert to a pound on a "PTS" day.

That first photo of Badger and Ivy meeting is quite something .... should be on the wall

Agree 100% with what you have said Crisovar, particularly the emboldened part. People sometimes can be too ready to condemn and not be able to see the whole picture . . . . and often respond without reading properly what OPs have said.