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Elina I'm sad that you are leaving too soon! I have just paid a HUGE amount to board my three dogs and one cat for mid June to end July. I would have loved a house sitter instead, but three dogs is too many for most people. I'm glad you are enjoying your travels! We should have a DOL Sydney dinner when you're here. ETA although it's not house sitting, we have a spare room 30min train ride to the city on the airport line, if you need it.

Hmmmmm... A Snooze of ... Greyhounds? A Business of ... JRT (or any of the terriers I've ever met) A Prance of ... Pekingese A Dance of Dobes An Evilness of ... (beagles?) A Consequence of

I was thinking a Slurp of Labs, but a Guzzle is very good! A Stare of Kelpies is good too, or maybe a Concentration or a Focus. A Gratitude of Rescues. A Snap of SWFs (I've got one, he's cute but the only dog that's drawn blood from me)

Cute x Munchkin. If he was picked up in my area, the pound would call him a Skye Terrier - they always call the grey/black Maltesers 'Skye Terrier'. Unless there's a bit of tan, then it's SilkyX. He looks a lot like the pup I picked up recently and took to the pound, he was a real sweetie.

There is no equivalent to DOL, anywhere. Cat-world is different in many ways. Rescue forum has kitties, so has PetRescue. The cat chat forum here is nice too. Man DOLers have cats, we just don't talk about them as much as the dogs!

This looks like fun: http://www.petrescue.com.au/event/283 Any DOLers going? I haven't seen any other threads about it, just some FB posts from Ruthless, Goldie Rescue and PetRescue. Flood and Cyclone Relief Pet Picnic Fundraiser - Rozelle, NSW Sunday 27 February 2011 3:00 PM FLOOD AND CYCLONE RELIEF PET PICNIC FUNDRAISER Dr Katrina Warren and The Wonderdogs invite pet lovers and their pooches to pack a picnic and join them for a special community event to raise funds for animals and their families affected by the recent floods and cyclone. All proceeds will go to the Animal Welfare League NSW. If you are unable to attend, please donate at www.awlnsw.com.au Featuring - Wonderdog trick shows, training demos and agility - The creation of a Memory Tree * for your pets and those lost in the floods and cyclone - Raffle - Kids colouring competition - Dog trick competition - Meet and greet Dr Katrina and other celebs and dogs - Photo opportunities with the Wonderdogs - Pet photographer - Community choir 5pm – Ceremony led by celebrant, Victoria Spence, in which we celebrate our pets and what they give us; and honour those pets and animals who have lost their lives in the recent floods and cyclone. Please bring a photo of a pet you would like to remember to add to the Memory Tree or make a memorial on the day. Some materials will be available. All dogs must be on leash. Registration: $10 per adult and children free. Sunday 27th February, 2011 Time: 3 - 6 pm Callan Park, Rozelle Enter via main gate, Cecily St, off Balmain Rd

We had a family of mice jump out of a cupboard once in front a cat and an Aussie Terrier. No reaction, I had to search them out and then my husband had to do the deed (with a heavy weight). Current cat LOVES mice, she can keep them playing for hours. I hate that. She kills lizards quite quickly, but mice are toys not food.

Story from the Tele reports strychnine and police investigation: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-...i-1226007210663 (actually the words below might be from aj earlier version of the story) PICTURED beneath the Christmas tree in happier times, these are two of the three dogs cruelly poisoned in a Sydney park. Tragically, the Labrador, named Maggie died soon after eating what police believe was a piece of bread soaked in the fatal poison strychnine. Her best friend Zena, a 13-year-old Boxer ingested a small amount of the poisoned bread, and was seriously Ill, but survived the ordeal. A third dog, a six-month-old Labrador puppy died yesterday after eating baited bread, scattered in a reserve in Glenview St at Earlwood. Owner Susie Griffin was walking her dog Maggie, and her partner Penny Gulliver's dog Zena, early yesterday morning, when the dogs ran ahead towards the brightly-coloured piece of bread. "Maggie ran off, because she's mad about food and she's a guts...Zena only had a small bit of the bread," Ms Gulliver said. Moments later, both dogs began frothing at the mouth, and Maggie started convulsing. "Susie was screaming my name... I ran down to the park and Maggie was convulsing. It was the most horrific thing I have ever seen," she said. Earlwood veterinarian Peter Nicholl said poisoning dogs is highly dangerous, and warned other dog owners to be vigilant. "There is someone out there doing this who thinks it's a good idea, but it's causing a huge amount of trauma," Mr Nicholl said. Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

I've only had rescues desexed so don't know prior history. Some of the boys have swollen quite badly but none have shown any other signs of issues. Unfortunately I haven't hung on to know about any long term issues. It seems to take an edge off their behaviour within a couple of weeks, but it doesn't necessarily change behaviour such as barking in response to other dogs, or sometimes 'pushiness' at the park, unless it's combined with training. My street waif SWF was desexed about five months ago, aged somewhere between 12 and 14. The hardest trick was to balance his dodgy lungs after a bad pound experience in the middle of winter, and several weeks of antibiotics, and that he had to have a dental at the same time. The vet kept putting it off because of his lungs but his heart is very strong and blood tests showed no other issues, and he had the least swelling and best recovery of any desex I've seen. Since then, his coat is thick but that's good because he had very little due to bad diet. He was house-trained from the start, he wouldn't deliberately wee anywhere, but sometimes he would mark where other male dogs had marked on furniture in the house*, but from the day of desexing he just didn't do that anymore and it's a huge relief. Maybe I should start a new thread about this, but I've got a question. A lovely family of reg PB Goldies at our local park has been having problems because the two entire males, who are perfectly behaved at all times, seem to be targeted by less well trained entire males. To the point of lots of blood and stitches. Is being entire, and getting a bit older, making them a target for challenge? The breeder has never had reason to desex her blokes but is now thinking about it for their own protection. These are well trained, non-aggressive dogs, not pushy or even too friendly like some Goldies and Labs can be. * It seems that masses of vinegar and lemon juice cannot trick an entire male dog that there wasn't one there before, even after many years, and no human can possibly tell it ever happened!

what a nightmare! This is too close to home. My council area, and even after five years of training Stevie will still pick up food when we're out walking, if we don't watch out. Must be powerful poison to kill large dogs so quickly, so I agree the danger to humans must be huge too and I trust the police take this very seriously.

Happy birthday Charlie! And well done to your mum for getting you there - you're a very special boy indeed!

Ancient, never quite finished properly floorboards in the kitchen, so not too slippery underfoot. Water dribble isn't as slippery as 'please please feed me now' drool. Now that stuff's dangerous! The stains have just added to the 'character' of our house ;)

Anyone interested in six weeks in Sydney? Mid-June to end of July, three pretty easy dogs and a very easy cat, other cat-friendly dogs welcome. We're close to a good train service, would suit someone who's sick of commuting from Campbelltown area and wants more sleep in the cold winter mornings! That's the person who stayed last time we were away for this long, but she's married with kids now. Six weeks is just too long for the cat to be in boarding, she stresses away from home, and very expensive for the dogs!

"Bitterant solution" (don't know its real name, sorry) worked well on one rescue girl we had spayed, I'd be trying that first before a bucket-head next time. Nice to know there are other alternatives to the Elizabethan though. ETA am I the only person who ends up with bruises all over my legs, when there's an Elizabethan collar in the household?

Stevie = our best man at our wedding, who gave her to us as a wedding gift. We often introduce her as 'Stephanie' because people assume she's male, because she's big and black. Also Stevie Nicks, because she's blonde inside (Lab x Goldie). Jodie = Jodie Foster, somebody called her that when she went into foster care. She's now under our surname at the vet, but her formal name when she's in trouble is Josephine. One day I'll have the perfect dog that will fit the name Frodo, but so far hasn't suited anyone. I've had budgies called Bill (Bilbo, the best bird ever), Perry (Peregrine), Tookie, and Alf (Gandalf) and a very special cat with stumpy legs like the king of the Dwarves called Balin. Also some nice dannio fish called Huey, Dewey and Louie (and one died, so the next one was called QE2). You call them as you see them. Doing rescue stuff, you realise they really don't care as long as they get dinner! ETA the dogs don't usually care, especially Labs, but cats might!

I'm very happy with my Vebo crate, but I live close by and picked it up. Plastic tray rather than metal, but it's survived a couple of untrained Labs and quite a few littlies going in and out. Tip - keep the cardboard box it comes in. Fits perfectly as a base if you need some insulation under the crate! Until some stupid little dog wees on it!

Not something I've had experience of, thankfully, but I've read that the 'safer' plan is to wait until the dog has passed out, no matter how hard that is, because you can then remove the obstruction quickly - but then again, maybe I read that about dogs that are choking by their collar, hanging off fences etc. Then do CPR (mainly just the PR bit, working on lungs and breathing for them) until they are breathing on their own or at the vet. I hope I'm never in that situation. ETA I'd probably do what you did, and end up in plaster because of it! Hope you feel better soon.

I just really liked the photo of the Kelpies

Category 18 has very inspiring people nominated, but I'm especially happy that Illy is being recognised. She does an awesome job for the dogs under very difficult circumstances ETF category, stupid iphone

Our local pet food place only had the beef, lamb and chicken, then introduced the rabbit which they kept selling out of. I'm not good at change, I liked the old frozen rolls that had to be banged on concrete to split up! If Dr B's had changed without a competitor we would have stuck with it, the food has been great for years, but there's something worth trying about the Big Dog product, for me. I'll see how we're going in a few weeks. We go through it pretty quickly here, with three hungry dogs

I was going to start a thread on this too! My dogs never refuse any food, so that's no problem. We've had a couple of boxes of the new Dr B's and now a couple of the Big Dog, and the Big Dog is the winner for me. Just looks and smells and feels 'better', it's hard to explain. I also like that we now have roo and turkey options, along with rabbit and the rest.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/dogg...9-1225993853894 A WOMAN who lost everything in the Black Saturday inferno could lose it all again - to floods. Kay Crawford moved from Kinglake to grasslands near Kerang to start a new life, but disaster has followed. The kelpie breeder is refusing to leave her property in the tiny community of Murrabit, about 300km north of Melbourne, so she can stay and protect her beloved dogs. Ms Crawford moved to the area more than a year ago after escaping from the Kinglake bushfire with nothing but her four-legged family. Little did she imagine floodwaters would threaten to wash away her new life. Barricaded in a sandbagged house as the banks of local waterways break around her, Ms Crawford can do little but hope - and pray - that she'll be spared. "I copped the full whack on Black Saturday - I had seven minutes to get out," she said. "I had four cats but I lost them in the fires. I got the dogs loaded up and turned back to get the cats but they bolted under the house before I could get them in the carriers. "I lost everything - lost the lot. It was just me and the dogs after that." Following the devastation, Ms Crawford toughed it out in a caravan on a friend's property for nine months - without hot water or electricity. She chose to make her new home on the grassy plains around Kerang for fear of facing another inferno. "When I moved up here I thought, 'Well, I'm never going to get burnt out here - if I get anything it'll be a grass fire'," she said. Ms Crawford planned to use the donations she received following Black Saturday to put down a deposit on a house, but the money wasn't quite enough to secure a loan from the bank. However, a family who bought a kelpie from her years earlier stepped in to help, purchasing the property so she had a roof over her head. Despite all she's been through, Ms Crawford is philosophical about her position. "It's just a waiting game for everyone, it's like a ticking time bomb," she said. "I've still got my dogs - they're keeping me sane. I wouldn't give up my dogs for anyone. We've been through fires - if we have to go through floods, that's the Australian way." My bold, she must be a great breeder to have puppy buyers so grateful.

Thanks Steve for the chat this morning! I'm very chuffed. Sorry I can't be there for the awards night, but I'm sure it will be a great night if last year is anything to go by. Can I please have the nomination as a certificate so when I ever go looking for the perfect Lab puppy I have something to prove myself to the breeder? I'd like to suggest two new categories: Best Neighbour, because I've got her. She even handles the dog that scares most people, even her, and is reliable for feeding, emergency water dashes in hot weather, and puppy cuddles if I need them! Also Best Husband Putting Up With A MDL (mad dog lady). Powerlegs and I discussed this category last year, and I know a few candidates, but mine should win. He's the reason we still have a cat after the Origen paralysis trauma, because he and the neurologist convinced me to keep going. He's also the BEST with timid or worried foster dogs, and he now tells the story about our Waif as if it was all his idea! I'm very blessed/lucky/good karma, and I appreciate that. There are very deserving people on the list for all the awards and I hope you all have a great time in Melbourne!

This is a very interesting thread and I hope it continues. I was lucky to travel to Europe eight years ago (basic tour through France, Italy and England) but it was before I was a DOLer and I just took photos of dogs without thinking about welfare and social aspects. I do particularly remember seeing a standard Poodle on the Metro in Paris, just travelling like anyone else - never seen that in Sydney! There are some not-so-responsible people though, and the people in Paris aren't very good at picking up poo! Generally though the dogs were very well socialised and sitting under a table or having their playtime in a cobbled square full of pigeons was just life as they knew it. I'm not good at breeds (some long term DOLers will know) but most dogs were an identifiable breed, not so many mixed breeds like here. OT Elina your English is very good, I appreciate your efforts to join this forum :rolleyes:

Beautiful. Thanks for the update!