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He's definitely got a lot of adorable in him!

Cairns crossed with sweetheart definately! I love his little ears

Can I steal him????

My Whippets will always have out of style, old fashioned English names. Next one might be Nigel or Rodney. That said I have a coworker named Howard sitting right next to me :D

ETA: I'm a bit of a Pride and Prejudice fan (loved it with Zombies) so Bingley might be good too.

Then I can sing "I like Bing Ley..... "

;)

Can't go passed Ethelbert

Given the latest trend in people naming, if we can only name our dogs non human names, we'll be very limited!

But just because the pup is blue doesn't mean the breeder is bad and/or unethical. Non blue-blue matings can produce blues, yeah?

Warning signs are if both parents are blue, the price was exorbitant and the kennel name has blue in it.

I second this. Just because the pup is blue, doesn't mean the breeder is breeding blue pups deliberately.

don't know if this will work as never done it before

one of the threads I started in the photo section....with my kids and theri love of bubbles

http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?show...&hl=bubbles

Brilliant! I love their beautiful little faces

If anyone wants a bubble buddy I have one that has been used twice. mine just arent interested

I also have 2 unopened bottles of scented bubbles and 1 opened and 3/4 full.

The whole set is practacilly brand new and cost me almost $40

Really? Could you PM me details? Thank you

Pfft! The house can clean itself ... This is WAY MORE fun

Beautiful!!!!

A dark green?

oohh..this has purple! Sexy collar! LINK leather & tattoo!!

I am always worried the leather will be hard on his neck

I think dark green will look lovely on him!

Now that I have a girl, I can probably stop forcing him to wear girly colours! :D

My two wear cotton harnesses. Anything else wears away their coat. While they aren't show dogs I still don't want them running around bald...

Thanks everyone!

I was blowing bubbles for Anouk on the weekend and she loved it. She kept trying to catch them. Funny little girl.

I want to get one of those automatic bubble blowing toys for Anouk and Ziggy, but I'm not sure where to get them from.

Anyone have any suggestions?

definitely.

Jewel tone greens might work for Bubby too.

ohh I do like the sound of green.

I bought him a brown collar with pink bones on it and everyone thinks he's a girl in it and I am like "Its BROWN!!!!"

Green is nice too!

I had a lovely harness for Ziggy - it was in earth tones and had little birds on it, but OH said it was girly...

Male dogs can totally wear purple! Purple in an imperial colour.

OUT OF SIGHT = IN TROUBLE I think this can be said for many breeds and individual dogs.

This is so true. All puppies should come with this warning....

Anouk was one of the naughtiest puppies ever. In many ways she was worse than a baby. I couldn't take my eyes off her for a second.

It is because she is so very smart and she gets bored easily. She also saw stealing things as a way of getting attention.

The way we dealt with this was to

1) remove ANYTHING within reach that she could chew on - shoes, clothes, remote controls, mobile phones - if she can reach it, it was hers.

2) crate her at night

3) Frequent short training and play sessions

4) Ignoring her when she stole something (unless it was really valuable in which case I'd bribe her); and

5) Giving her kongs and other self entertaining toys.

I read once that you can beat a wheaten senseless and s/he won't change the behaviour. Most dogs are people pleasers. If you punish a dog when s/he comes to you, the dog will avoid coming to you. Instead praise the dog for recall and distract from the behaviour you don't want.

Quite frankly I'd say the majority of people get to their wits end with their pup at least once!

They are so beautiful. If only they didn't shed, I'd have one in a heartbeat.... Damn allergies.

(And no, I'm not advocating crossing a Finnish Lapphund with a poodle )

of course they can get black eyes/blood noses/bruises/grazes... they miscalculate distances/speed etc just like any other animal He will have learned from it,though.

Erm....

But given Ziggy isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, I won't hold my breath. I honestly didn't know dogs could get bleeding noses. I'd never really had cause to think about it before.

They all lick to some extent but I have one who has a need to do it. Unfortunately it's how she appeases people, so it goes like this: she licks someone, who tells her "No!" and she says to herself "Oh dear, I've upset them, I better say sorry!" and gives them a few licks. They say "No!" ..... etc etc

Licking doesn't really bother me.

This is a bit like Ziggy. He licked constantly when he first came to live with us. Now he's a lot better. He can contain himself to a few licks and be content

No black eye, but Ziggy got a bleeding nose once. Collided with another dog and all of a sudden there was blood dripping everywhere without an injury. I rang the vet and she said it's quite common and so long as it stops on its own there was nothing to worry about.

These dogs are doofuses.

Happy belated birthday Maxi! Hope you had a good one!

Our SBT girl Zola is 11 this year in May. She has been going grey since she was young but it is the only obvious sign of her age. Except for laying down on the nature strip on a walk last week! ;)

When I walk him and Gracie, people stop and make a fuss over Gracie (too cute) then turn to Maxi and go "Aww, say hello to the old one" (sniff), or "he's getting old now isn't he".

The other day we were out for a walk and a neighbour we ran into said 'she would of been a good looking dog when she was young'

I bit my tongue

I'm a sucker for a little grey face. I find the grey just makes Zola's eyes look bigger and darker and harder to say no to!

I would so have said "Shame I can't say the same about you." I love the oldies so much.

Happy Belated Birthday Maxi! May you have many more.

I am reminded of a line in the poem The Power of a Dog by Rudyard Kipling that has always touched me: "our love's not given, but only lent, at compound interest, cent for cent...

I'm kicking myself for not asking at the time. Gorgeous dog and very laid back. I've got a photo of him with a man but the board wont let me upload it for some reason

Could just be a cross breed, but s/he is so beautiful. As I said looks a little like a (big) wheaten, so of course I'm partial... love me a shaggy dog!

Belated 15th Birthday wishes from the 'other' DOL wheatens, Anouk and Ziggy Stardust!

Ziggy is with Grumpy on the storms, no dog should have to endure storms on his birthday!

Grumps - keep your nose pointed towards 16. :p ;)

Any ideas on what this hairy boofhead is? South America - could be a mongrel, could be an import. I have no idea.

How big? It kind of looks like an ungroomed wheaten. It's hard to tell from just one photo though.

Huge (wolfie size)

At a guess then a South Russian Ovcharka?

A friend moved back to Sweden in 2009 and took her dog, Jack, with her. Here...she really struggled to find a rental house that would allow her to have a dog, but in Sweden it's not an issue at all.

She, her two boys, a cat and two snakes are all happily living in an apartment.

Jack....a rescue dog, adopted from the AWL is happy in the snow, and in the apartment.

I'm jealous now... I'd move to Sweden in a heartbeat if I could.

This conversation started from 'Caucasian Ovcharka thread' and I was asked if I could start this new thread which I can willingly do. ;)

What I have learned about aussie dog culture within these few moths I have been here, those dogs are not suitable to your environment. You already have too much abandoned dogs (we don't in Finland, instead people are resquing dogs from Estonia, Spain etc.)

Warning, my post is

Hi Elina

Do hope you're still tuned in, or will be soon! I'm very interested in your comment above, from page 3 of this thread. Can you explain why Finland does not have an abandoned dog problem please? As it is off-topic, it would be best if you could start a new thread. Many thanks!

I have found this thread very interesting - I had not heard of the Caucasian Ovcharka before.

What a difficult question and I don't know if I can give absolutely correct answer but I can try. I just want to let you know that this is not 'which country is the best' conversation. I just tell about Finnish dog culture. I know there is people from other European (or other continents) countries as well. They could tell about their countries.

First a little background information. Population in Finland is a bit over five million and estimate is that every fifth household has a dog or two. You are allowed to takes dogs all parks, to buses, trains etc. It is allowed and common to keep dogs in apartments even in city CBD's. It is not allowed to sell puppies in pet stores so most puppies are purchased from responsible breeders who are very thorough to whom they sell their puppies.

People train dogs a lot. We have loads of dog clubs and also commercial training companies etc. Even Finland is a very small country breeders from all over the world respects Finnish dogs, trainers and breeders whether it is about dog shows, obedience, agility or schutchund. We have won world championship and European championship contests in many dog sports. It is easy to travel outside the country border for dog shows and other competitions. It is also easy to import (and export) dogs since we don't have quarantines in Europe.

Of course we have problems as well, but we have quite strict Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. If you don't take your dog for walks, you may soon have someone knocking on your door and ask some questions. There really isn't many abandoned dogs. With cats situation is a bit more difficult. In greater Helsinki area (about 1 million people live in that area) there is one place where all free roaming animals are taken and they have capacity for 100 animals total. This includes places for cats and all other animals as well. They have told that there haven't ever been a situation that there won't be room for new incoming animals. Basically all dogs who's owners won't come to pick them up, will found new homes, which is just great. We don't really have so many situations that people just abandon their dog. With cats that happen more often, especially after summer :p There have been many campaigns that people wouldn't take "summer cats" and those have worked quite well.

I think what I have said about Finnish dog culture will fit quite well also to Sweden, Norway and Denmark. I don't say that we don't have problems with dogs in these countries, but I think we may have have lesser problems. Because situation in Finland is very good, people who wants to help dogs which have been taken on the custody or are abandoned, travel often to our southern neighbour country Estonia, where situation is totally different. They have very different dog culture than in Finland and many dogs are abandoned and won't find new homes.

Finally apologizes about the misspellings.

I was amazed our first night in Stockholm we went into a pub and there were a couple of dogs in there with their owners. I was thrilled. I also bailed up several poor Swedes with dogs on the trains :D There were fenced dog parks everywhere we went. It seemed like a very dog friendly nation.