SkySoaringMagpie

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Give us a clue Rozzie :D Is it a Podengo variety?

Oh bugger, I was going to guess Chart Polski

Yay! We have a winner, over to you Alyosha.

No, not a sloughi.

No, need to go a bit further east.

:laugh: maybe someone who has a picture can PM you for the answer!

The rules of the game are: - Guess the breed by posting the name of the breed. - The first successful guess is the winner and is confirmed by the original poster, eg, "You got it CleverClogs, you're next!" - Once confirmed by the original poster, the successful guesser then posts the next picture - don't wander too far away because you then have to adjudicate on the guesses of your picture. - When you post your picture, please save it and upload with a file title that doesn't give it away. You can edit to give credit/links once the correct guess is made. - One breed at a time, otherwise it gets far too confusing to keep track of. If you want a go, be the fastest guesser! - Try not to succumb to google, the fun is in playing the game honestly. Righto, let's start: What breed is this? Info about the Xigou and picture credit - http://stephenbodio.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/xigou.html

I do think desexing can influence it, but the answer is still the same - adjust the food intake and keep up the exercise. Our dog dinner portions vary a LOT depending on the dog. The two oldest get "health spa" sized rations that would probably upset a novice dog owner. I still think my oldest Saluki bitch could stand to lose a kilo of fat and get some more muscle tone but the vet said she looked great when she went in for her check up a month ago. Perhaps because up against what they usually see, a somewhat flabby Saluki looks pretty good... Edited to add - I wonder if part of the issue with desexing is that it can make dogs more food motivated. We have one desexed dog, and by far and away he is the most food motivated, and I don't recall him being as food obsessed when he was entire.

It is not possible to look after your dog's interests and not alienate anyone, ever. The etiquette boils down to "don't interfere with other people and their dogs" but not everyone is blessed with insight about their own behaviour. If you want to protect your dog, you have to crack through the self-interested, the clueless and the bullies. Answers to questions 1 - Well find someone who is willing to work with you, my dog and I are not available. 2 - My dog, my decision 3 - I don't care, keep him away 4 - See question 1 5 - See question 3 Talk to some show people, it's defend your dog against interference or give up showing in the show ring. You start out trying to be nice and then you realise you have to make sure you are taken seriously. Good luck! Edited to insert missing verb!

Info here, the short version is that the NSW Board may now take into consideration things said online when considering complaints. http://dogsnsw.org.au/members/noticeboard/438-attention-members-complaint-lodged-by-affiliated-club.html

Doesn't matter Tralee, they have to go as freight from Canberra even if they are going with a passenger and they don't accept animals on the weekend.

It's correct, no-one will be available on the weekend in Canberra. I have been caught by this before but fortunately tried to book right at the start of her season so had time to rebook the flights to get the mating. Sorry, no other ideas. Road is probably the way but at this late notice and with a bitch in season it will probably be too hard for her to hitch a ride. The greyhound people here might be able to comment on whether there is a regular greyhound transport run to Melbourne on the weekend and whether they would take a bitch in season... Edit: If this was me, something I might try is meeting in Albury-Wodonga, but then I'd probably drive to Melb anyway. When I had trouble with flights it was to Perth.

Message from the RNCAS dog section follows: Dr. Keating has advised that unfortunately he is unable to come to Australia for the Royal Canberra Show. We now have contracted replacements for Dr Keating. Utility Group will be judged by Mr Tom Johnston of UK on the Friday and Saturday and Toy Group by Mrs Norma Fearn of New Zealand on the Saturday and Sunday. The amended schedule and additional details of the show will be found at www.rncas.org.au. and www.dogsact.org.au Mr Johnston will also judge Basenjis, all Dachshund varieties, Rhodesian Ridgebacks and Pharaoh Hounds at the Twilight Championship Show of the Hound Club of the ACT being held on the Saturday night of the Royal. The balance (including Beagles and Whippets) will be judged by the Hound Club General Specials judge Mr Norm Strathdee. I can answer hound club inquiries but I cannot answer Canberra Royal inquiries, please contact the numbers on the schedule for Canberra Royal inquiries.

The difficulty is that if you have already talked this situation blue, then you will probably find that no amount of information will help because positions are entrenched. People don't like to feel judged or bossed about, and will often go ahead and make their own choice just to prove a point. There is an art to steering people away from making bad choices, and even then you can't always do it. My approach is usually to look encouraging and say something like "great you are getting a dog - yeah those [whatevers] are really cute - I'd be worried about the [unpredictability of the coat/mad energy/conditions the parents are kept in/whatever] tho'" and then drop it. You've seeded the concern but not put anyone's back up. If they want to keep talking, they will, then you can suggest other options.

Even if there was one, and I cant see that happening, members who have been here for any length of time probably wouldnt even bother looking at it. They're quite capable of searching ads themselves if they want to. Exactly, it serves no useful purpose. As I mentioned upthread, we monitor gumtree by having an email alert in place for NSW for the two breeds we rescue. Sometimes you don't intervene, sometimes it looks like a mess in the making and you do. DOL doesn't have to be involved. As to why Gumtree, I suppose we monitor there because it is the home of choice for many fringe sales activities and that is almost always where people flogging off/giving away their 9 to 18 month old difficult adolescents show up. But I think what HW is objecting to is not people monitoring the environment to pull pure bred breeding dogs from the BYB pool, but people deliberately driving past the train wreck, and then wanting to drive the rest of us for a look as well without any intention of doing anything practical to improve anything. The world is full of idiots, I'd rather discuss the smart, useful and interesting aspects of dogs.

Agree, I do breed rescue and we have an email alert set up on gumtree for NSW/ACT so if dogs are advertised we can go and have a look. If it's clearly under control - owner is selling a desexed dog, the ad provides breed information, and a price is being charged, then my view is to stay out of it. If the ad looks dangerous for whatever reason - entire dogs, free, looks like they won't screen well - then the best way to deal with it is to set up an arrangement to secure the dog privately. That said, I do really appreciate people giving us a heads up. Recently in my breed someone let us know about a adolescent pure bred pup that had been surrendered to a vet. Because they did that I could shoot a note out to the breed list asking if anyone bred it, the breeder identified the pup as one of hers and took it from there with the vet. If the breeder hadn't been keen to get involved, we had some pre-screened homes we could have referred on to the vet. The key tho' is that it's done privately, it's targeted to people who can help, and it's practical, not "oh woe, people are so dumb!"

I know we appreciate people "spotting" pure bred Salukis and Afghans on gumtree etc and alerting us. From my perspective, the best way to do that tho' is either emailing breed rescue directly, posting in a breed thread or posting on a breed list - with a screen grab of just the dog's picture if it's this board. That way you get a concentration of people in one spot who know the breed and can make an educated guess about who may have bred it. You don't get that in the rescue forum, tho' some of us keep an eye on it and pass information on. Also, where they are desexed and being sold for a decent price, I am far less worried about them than I am about the entire ones that are FTGH or cheap as chips. For a breed like a pug, I'd happily let the people rehome their dog and not try and step in.

I have heard rumours of all sorts of start dates from 1 January to 1 July but this is the official website from the Government about the proposed changes. The "when" question is second from the bottom. http://www.daff.gov.au/aqis/cat-dogs/policy-review-of-the-importation-of-dogs,-cats-and-their-semen--faq

Unfortunately as you are not on site I think all you can do is point her to a resource. If you can get her to do anything, please get her to stop telling the dog off inside and try and catch the dog doing the right thing outside and praise and treat. This is a good website: http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/guide/house-training-adult-dogs

Erin, I will defer to the more experienced Wolfie people but I think many Wolfies would find Alice during the hot months impossible without the dogs being inside in airconditioning.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/queens-corgis-rule-by-royal-appointment-20120923-26ey4.html I had just come on for my shift at the Daily Mail when the news editor called me into the glass booth where he sat with his deputy. Two assistants manned switchboards, filtering out nutters. "Zwar, grab a cab to the palace. Find out what goes on with those horrible little dogs. How come they can bite her majesty?" Over to the palace? What does one do? Go up to one of the Coldstream Guards and ask to be let in? Knock on the iron gates? A good reporter, a good Australian reporter, did not ask questions. It was the 1960s and in the ruthlessness of Fleet Street, it was necessary to be noticed, to have an edge. Mine was never to ask questions when given orders. The reference library was there for the details, the phone numbers and how to go about it. My corgis and I ... royal puppies are delivered to Heathrow Airport to accompany the Queen to Balmoral. Photo: AP The first edition of the Evening News had a picture of the Queen with four of her corgis on leashes alleging two had bitten her majesty. The Queen, the caption said, ''was recovering''. I phoned Buckingham Palace Could one perhaps speak to the press secretary? One could, sniffed the operator and put me through to Miss Anne Hawkins, the assistant press secretary. Could one help, she inquired? I wondered if one could actually come around to the palace and sort of, well you know, have a word about the … er dogs? ''There would be no question," she said frostily, "of speaking to the person in charge of the corgis who is, of course, the Queen herself." But one could come and have a background chat. It seemed too good to be true. I drove to the gates, was saluted by a policeman seven feet tall and waved through. The door was opened by a gentleman in tight jacket, pantaloons and buckled shoes. A flunky. In great ceremony he led me down a hallway lined with elephant tusks, shields, glass cases of silver trophies and to Miss Hawkins's tiny office. It held a tiny desk, two chairs, a mini hand-basin, a single-bar radiator and Miss Hawkins in pink twinset and two rows of pearls. ''Where would one care to begin?'' she said. ''Well,'' I said, '''one' wondered about the temper of the corgis. They were persistently in the news for biting policemen, palace sentries and the odd station master. Had there been an attack on a royal before?'' "Oh, they are no less boisterous or mischievous than any others," said Miss Hawkins. ''Who scolds them when they do wrong?" "Oh, one cannot really go into that." ''Who trains them?'' A smile at last. "They have been taught to do tricks. They sit up and beg for food. And they roll over on their backs." Yes, but who taught them to do that? A shake of her immaculately coiffured head. That question, again, was out of bounds. One was quite obviously not about to tell the world about the private lives of her majesty's cantankerous little Welshmen. "Perhaps if you would like to leave your questions I may be able to talk to the Queen?" she said, but not too convincingly. It was obviously a polite way of ending our fruitless little chat. I drove back to my flat, typed a list of questions and drove back again, saluted this time by the policeman, and handed the flunky the sheet of paper. Back to the office where I admitted I might have failed to get a story. "Well at least you got in, old boy," said the news editor. "I have never been there." Two days later, a phone call. Miss Hawkins had not only spoken to her majesty, but the Queen had, seemingly quite enthusiastically, answered my questions. One returned rather fast to the palace. My first question: how and where were the dogs fed? "The Queen, whenever she can", said Miss Hawkins, "has the dogs' food sent up in a dumb-waiter to the drawing room at Buckingham Palace, or Windsor, or Sandringham, at about five o'clock. It is retrieved by a footman who hands it to her majesty, who has donned rubber gloves. ''On the floor, on a tablecloth, stand their individual bowls, each with the dog's name on it, into which her majesty mixes meat, vegetables, gravy and biscuits." (I marvelled at the scene of Her Majesty on her knees). "When the corgis finish their meal, the Queen clears things up and returns the bowls to a tray. ''She very much likes to look after them herself, and of course they go where she goes," said Miss Hawkins. "If you see her in the palace on her way upstairs to one of the state rooms, the chances are that there will be a corgi or two with her. They just wander about with her everywhere. If they happen to wander in when a photograph is being taken they are included." Miss Hawkins gave me a pencilled royal corgi family tree, explaining that her majesty was firmly in charge of breeding. Even when Tiny, a corgi, gave birth to seven puppies fathered by Princess Margaret's dachshund, Pipkin, it was, she insisted, "a planned marriage". ''Would one care to speak to the Queen's kennels?'' Thelma Gray, of the Rozavel Kennels, at Pirbright, Surrey, had had a 'By Appointment' relationship with the palace for years. The association went back to Dookie, the dog taken there for mating by the late King George VI in 1933. Mrs Gray's stud corgis had been mated with the Queen's bitches on many occasions. Mrs Gray said: ''Her Majesty has done me the honour of discussing her dog-breeding plans with me, and on occasions I have suggested outstanding dogs owned by other owners as being the best choice of sires." On the question of whether bride goes to groom, or vice versa, Mrs Gray said, "The stud dog is always taken to visit Windsor." The particulars of the stud dogs chosen by the Queen had never been widely broadcast and were known only to a small circle of people, she said. "Therefore, such a stud dog's fee is in no way altered by his having fathered a litter of puppies to a royal corgi bitch; nor is the demand for his services in any way stimulated." The Queen, since she was 18, had generally mated her bitches with dogs outside the ''family''. Because corgis had become trendy, ill-considered breeding has developed a strain of nasty-tempered pets. When she wanted Heather ''married'', she chose Mrs Gray's high-strain gentleman Lees Maldwyn Lancelot. And who house-trains the puppies? Her Majesty. If one of them does terrible things to a palace axminster, she rubs his nose in it. "The puppies are always house-trained by the Queen herself," said Mrs Gray. There was one more link in the doggy saga. Alma McKee, who was for many years a cook at the palaces, told me: "I often used to take up the menus to the Queen Mother, when she was Queen, as the dogs were having their meal. "When the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret were together at Clarence House, their dogs' feeding time was a ritual. Mother and daughter took rather a formal tea together at a small table covered with a white tablecloth in one corner of the drawing-room. Afterwards, they laid another tablecloth on the floor on which the dogs were given their meal. ''The royal corgis fully appreciate their privileged position and have the run of the house. By day, when I was there, they conducted a private war on the policemen who were always on duty to guard the house. The corgis hated their patrolling habits, or uniforms, and in the kitchen we were always sheltering enormous policemen who were being pursued by these small but relentless dogs." One called Bee used to torment cook McKee. "In Scotland I had to walk up the same stairway as the Queen when I went to my private rooms, and Bee used to lie in wait. One day she refused to let me pass. "After lunch, the Queen's corgis used to come down to the kitchen, when they knew nobody was about, to see if they could snatch something to eat. ''I had a feeling all the time that these little dogs knew they belonged to a very special person. They had quite an aloof air. They did not want to talk to you unless you were very nice to them. ''They usually had ordinary meat, but they did enjoy venison. And they loved green vegetables. "The dogs had their own little beds in the day nursery when Prince Charles and Princess Anne were babies. ''The blankets and cushions were pale brown and gold, to go with the dogs' colouring. One had a special blue cushion with red spots. At night, if Sugar did not think her basket was made up properly, she would get out and make it again herself." Desmond Zwar is a journalist and author of 16 non-fiction books, including The Loneliest Man in the World - the Story of Rudolf Hess's Imprisonment.

An Akita is a LOT of dog, more challenging than a Sibe, and they are challenging enough. I agree with Dogmad that spending time with one before making the investment would be very important. I also have a breed that has quite a small suitable owner base due to its characteristics and I have both Western bred dogs and a country of origin dog. Dogs that are not Western bred, but still being bred for country of origin purposes can be an order of magnitude more difficult again. Someone mentioned the issue of dogs not being bred as pets upthread - this is important, because they have not been bred with Western ideas about suitability for companionship in mind, they can be sharper and harder to handle. If you like Spitzes maybe consider a Finnish Lapphund? Or a Japanese Spitz?

Possibly, but a number of show people reading this thread will recognise the journalist's name and he does understand dogs.

Ask someone you trust in the rescue forum to look over the ad. Sometimes the wrong picture or description can cause problems. To be honest, as someone who has advertised rescue Salukis and Afghans, I think the adult dogs section here on DOL is the best place if you are looking for a breed knowledgable owner. The only other exception may be the noticeboards of obedience clubs, especially those who do gundog activities. I would also see if gundog people will share his picture on FB among their doggie friends. Everything else (gumtree, supermarket noticeboard, trading post) you'll get an awful lot of unsuitable stuff to sift through. Sometimes it takes time. Edited to fix punctuation