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SkySoaringMagpie

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  1. With which breeds are the following UK toffs associated? Captain George Augustus Graham Lady Aberdeen The Hon Florence Amherst Edit: That should read "British Empire" not UK on reflection...
  2. Doberman Jack Russell Cavalier King Charles ETA: Gordon Setter
  3. Speaking of big dogs and little dogs, at a show I was at recently there were two people who had dogs offlead around the hound ring. One had two cavaliers, the other some baby puppy springers. All the sighthound people were responsible, but it bothered me a lot that these dogs weren't in crates and were being allowed to run about offlead. It's disruptive and if I owned a small neotenous dog with ears like a rabbit, I'd not be letting it run about loose around a hound ring. The other loose dog that weekend was an Akita.
  4. As you may have to wait some time for a consult at this time of year, I would separate them at all times. It's not fair on the old girl for him to keep going at her.
  5. Their CEO owns a pit bull. Doesn't answer your question directly, as I don't know - but he is pibble friendly.
  6. You really need to start as you mean to go on. It's a bit late for the bed issue, but something Ian Dunbar mentions is that it is better to start with a fairly strict set of rules and then relax as the dog is better able to deal with more freedom, than to start with a lot of freedom and then try and take it away. For example, I think it's pretty unfair to start a dog on your bed, and expect that later he will be happy to live outside. That's much harder on the dog than a crate in the laundry from the very start which stays the rule for the rest of his life.
  7. I know! After thinking I was pretty special for successfully calling Jadir off a hare the other night, tonight I called and got 2/3 dogs. Had to get the torch and walk Miss Lucy down from the furthest corner of the yard. And I mean walk all the way down there, not just shine the torch. Bloody dogs, stupid moon. ;)
  8. It depends a bit on what I know of their spiritual beliefs. Sometimes I will say something about how hard it is to lose an old friend and companion. Sometimes I will comfort them on their decision if it was a line ball call about if or when and I know they are feeling torn about that. There are some nice poems that work for some people, including some that run on a theme that your companion is still with you, but in a different way now. The Rainbow bridge forum has them. There are also some poems that talk specifically about the pain of losing an animal as well, they might be more comforting to someone really hurting. Like this one: We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan." Irving Townsend There are grief counsellors that specialise in this kind of situation, some also combine an element animal communication which works for some people and not for others. Here's an example: http://user.digisurf.com.au/soulcompanions/hospice.html If I thought the person was really not functioning, I would suggest grief counselling. Things not to do - talk about yourself and your own dogs, dog people are terrible at this but it's one time to listen, rather than talk.
  9. The legislation also requires breeders already registered by DogsACT to go through another Government licensing program to be licenced as breeders and requires them to do things like supply a desexing certificate with the sale of puppies etc. While I'm disappointed about the pet shop angle in the Chief Minister's press release, most of the rest of the bill falls into the category of onerous legislation that will force compliant people out and, given existing levels of funding for compliance intervention, let the non-compliant continue on their merry way.
  10. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local...is/2029762.aspx RSPCA Crisis BIANCA HALL 19 Dec, 2010 01:00 AM The RSPCA will be forced to slash animal welfare services unless it receives an urgent funding boost, the service warns. The Canberra branch says it is critically under-funded, requiring an additional $674,184 a year in government funding, on top of $3million it plans to fund-raise next year. Meanwhile, demand for RSPCA services has risen 40per cent since 2005. But Treasury says it needs to find an additional $25million in budget savings to return to surplus next financial year. It has invited those making submissions for funding in the 2011-12 financial year to identify areas of spending that could be cut, scaled back or privatised to meet these savings. However the RSPCA submission, provided exclusively to the Sunday Canberra Times, said the Government last year failed to fulfil its contractual obligations to negotiate with the service about ongoing funding requirements. The RSPCA said it continued to operate under outdated assessments of its cost pressures. Unless this was urgently redressed, it would be forced to cut its 24-hour telephone service, its animal ambulance service, welfare outreach services and at least one job without urgent funding increases. ''It'd be devastating and it's something I don't want to do at all,'' chief executive Michael Linke said. For more, pick up a copy of today's Canberra Times
  11. If people want to chuck their dogs around, they'll rationalise it somehow - as you found when offering an alternative method. I think you've done all you could do, maybe at some later stage when the dog is stopping short on her or something she'll think back to your conversation and reconsider. Personally, even leaving aside the ethical issues of using more force than necessary, I'd not want to be paying the chiro bills for that puppy. That is probably what I would have said. I find an appeal to practical consequences works much better than an appeal for gentle mindfulness. Used properly and in a targeted way, food shoudn't be a bribe tho'. Agree tho' that there are a range of ways of teaching a drop, and the method the OP describes isn't the only non-food method.
  12. If you are still online, the best place to go I think is Murdoch, but really depends where the closest 24 hour vet to you is. http://www.murdoch.edu.au/Services/Veterinary-Hospital/
  13. Possibly the reason it doesn't happen in ACT (to my knowledge anyway) is that the rings are not permanently allocated to specific groups, and depending on the committee and number of judges, sometimes two groups share a single ring.
  14. So it's the hound ring where this self-important carrying on is happening? Great, nice work on welcoming the newbies folks.
  15. Not in NSW/ACT and I haven't seen it at shows I've attended in Vic, NT and WA. Good grief.
  16. I thought this post was going to be about gazebo squatting Other things not covered, I would only set it up for night shows if it was likely to rain, or if insects were a big problem (we have mesh sides for our gazebo). Also, some grounds have rules about when you can set up - ie, not more than 24 hours before, not before midday the day before, not before the day itself at all. Phone the canine control and ask if it's at their grounds, if it's a country show the rules will probably be less strict. You can set up pretty close as PF says, annoying your neighbours will be stuff like letting your dogs yap constantly or using a generator close to the tent or being drunk screaming with laughter at your own lame jokes etc etc. If someone gets cranky just say "sorry, I'm new to all this" and move on. There are plenty of people who get cranky for pathetic reasons too :D Edited to add that sometimes you'll also want to set a gazebo up at a night show with walls if it's windy.
  17. I think the local dog culture in Vic is far more against the neuter class than the culture in NSW. I'm betting "takes too much time" is an excuse that someone came up with probably because so many people have started donating sashes and trophies thus removing the other accepted excuse not to run the class - cost. Ultimately the real reason is that a number of people feel very strongly that neuters have no place in conformation showing. I made an offer to two clubs to donate neuter sashes and trophies. The NSW club accepted, the Vic club declined. I don't have a neuter myself btw, I'm just someone interested in ways we can improve numbers and get more people involved. If any hound people want to donate neuter sashes for the ACT Hound Club 2011 October shows please PM me.
  18. Not going to flame you, but often people over estimate what their dogs "know", particularly in situations like the OPs where both the location, the trainer and the other dogs are all different. Even competition trainers and instructors can be deluded about what their dogs know. Given that likely lack of knowledge I'd be more inclined just to follow up ALL failures to respond to an "outside" by leashing the dog and putting it outside with as little fuss as possible. I'd also reward the bugger every time it followed me outside but NOT bribe it to go outside. Unless it's a pretty unusual lab, it will cotton on pretty quickly. I would also not give cues that I know there is a good chance the dog will ignore unless the dog responds well to an instructive reprimand (and it doesn't sound like this one does). So rather than commanding the dog to go outside, I'd just get it and put it outside until its learning was better. I have had to learn to deal with this issue a lot, having Salukis.
  19. www.dogstardaily.com Ian Dunbar's website, from which you can download his classic "Before you get your Puppy" and "After you get your Puppy" books.
  20. I loved the Christmas Border Terriers, they looked just fabulous, especially the angel dog with the tinsel halo and wings. Too cute!
  21. I was with the smooth, Diva was being a post for my b&w parti-colour girl, and Keshwar handled my black girl. So heaps of Dolers if you spotted us, what a bugger we didn't spot you!!
  22. The main problems were at Narranderra I think, we haven't had any trouble getting from Grong Grong to Wagga via Coolamon and Ganmain. My Jadir Runner up in Hound Group today, the Irish Wolfhound BIG was Dudley who belongs to Irish Lassy. Irish Lassy's little boy Marley Baby in Group yesterday and Diva's Arwen Open in Group yesterday. Yay yay yay! :D
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