Loving my Oldies

Lovely update, slk. Time soon for a pic of the two bonding ones?

A shovel and the long drop even better - more environmentally friendly :D

You won't have any choice :D . They'll just jump on your lap whether you have the room or not. You should see me trying to take a kip on the lounge or watch the tennis with six (Sari hasn't learnt yet) dogs leaping up around me :D

It's called Market Research, Chewbacca.

I was thinking about this thread this morning as I was trying to move around the house with between 4 and 7 dogs at my heels. I apologised to them for shutting them out of the bathroom as I needed "to be alone" without many paws scratching my bare legs . Years ago, I used to go to Hawthorn Parade (where Cafe Bones is in Sydney) and I used to see these women (always women - sorry ) coming into the park with 4, 5, 6 dogs trailing along behind them. I used to watch them in awe and a little, umm, wonderingly .... to put it kindly. However, by the time I left the Inner West, I had become one of those women with: Danny, Jeune, Tamar, Gong Zhu and Tirra trailing behind me. So ...... I guess I'm GLAD I didn't know that was going to happen when I got my first dog. :D :D

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Sounds spiffing, spiff ;) . You just need to put your advertisement with "All Advertisers" on this forum so we know where you are. Get ready, mate, you are going to be inundated. ;)

I dont think Wendy was intentional but the worry is that some people want to create lines with this mutant gene, and it would be a very bad thing. Those are not healthy dogs. On the Blog site, someone wanted to breed her with a pit bull - s**t for brains, I guess, is pretty common.

Few thoughts: Vaccination Records: Do you request that up to date vaccination records be sighted? Insurance Cover: Does your insurance cover anyone/anything damaged in case of dog fight, eg furniture knocked over, someone bitten trying to break up a fight, any damage to neighbouring properties, livestock. Check list for guests: Do you have a check list for people who bring their dogs: eg all waste must be correctly disposed of, all dogs to be on leads when entering and leaving the property, any accidents in the rooms must be immediately attended to and cleaned. There would be a quite a few more, but that's all I can think of at the moment. Congratulations on helping people to holiday with their pets.

A pound is not a rescue facility. Delving into the depths of my memory, I believe Logan Pound was one of the first pounds to actually have a website. I remember reading about it in Dogs Life! many years ago and being absolutely gobsmacked at the innovation. What an absolutely pathetic argument to say the bidding system was introduced to stop BYB and Puppy Millers. Typical of politicians. As plenty have said: if you want to stop the Puppy Millers and BYBers, desex the animals.

I think so too. Put the cat close to the defendant, if the cat hisses, or scratches, or takes off at 60ks an hour: GUILTY AS CHARGED !! Save a lot of money and a lot of time. ;)

More frightening than a batallion of Wendys are the comments on this site. Every second word is "F**K" and every second person is called a moron. Just horrendous. ;)

What! lol Yep, sadly that is true. The vet I had when I first got dogs used to tell me that. Also if a dog/cat/animal was brought in who had obviously been sick for ages (but just got sick that day of course) and no amount of veterinary skill was going to save the poor creature, the people would just not pay the account: You didn't save my dog, why should I pay you? Not all cuddles and smooches working with animals.

Some people feel that way about childcare workers too ;) Exactly. So do you tell them: well you love them, stay home and look after them :D

Maltese in there somewhere, I would think. And a terrier breed to coarsen the hair which is a plus. Gorgeous little dog, whatever he is ;)

Particularly when no one is physically hurt, I think a lot of us don't realise how confronting, scary, invasive, frightening something like this can be. Don't down play it FranCQ and expect yourself to just shrug it off with: oh well, nothing happened. It must have been terrifying even with your hero in full protection mode.

The people who think it outrageous that they have to pay you. Afterall you love animals don't you? You should do it for love then.

Feels good, doesn't it. Congratulations

Well done, FranCQ. Obviously you can't leave Rockhampton ------- the place needs you

Oh! What excellent fun !!

Goes to reinforce the point that when you are dealing with animals there can never be a "one size fits all".

Now that is exciting. Congratulations. They are great little dogs and you should have so much fun bringing her into your lives.

I remember seeing that on the New Inventors when the woman first showed it. I thought at the time, it would never take off, but I believe she is making a motzer. How many things do we buy on line and they turn out to be a fizzer - LOL.

Wonderful: dogs, photos, people. Just terrific

You need to say what sort of dogs they are