Rainey

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! That site looks fantastic and the prices are great too! :rolleyes:

I'm really frustrated at the moment as to the availability of the RC Labrador mixes at our pet shop. Not so long ago we switched Scud from the Maxi-Junior on to the Labrador Junior mix and since then he has thrived substantially and it had eradicated all of that 'doggy dandruff' he was getting on the Maxi-Junior. WELL, now the pet shop has run out (of both Lab Junior and Adult) and can't tell me when they are getting any more, what makes this worse is that these guys Animal Tuckerbox have the monopoly on Royal Canin, so it isn't sold anywhere else and they tell me that all their other stores are also sold out of the Labrador mix. The guy at the store told me Royal Canin are struggling to keep up with demand and selectively choose whos orders they will fulfill and who will miss out. Is this a load of garbage to cover up their mistake, or is there some truth to it?

Thats really cute! She's having a blast!

Someone is getting very big now! He's bootiful!

Drool running like a tap... oh yes we get that too! I make Scud sit and wait for his meal and by the time I give him the okay he's virtually standing in a puddle.

She is still so beautiful! I love the stories you tell, what a crack up!

The tip I learnt from shooting handheld is that your shutter speed should be equivalent to your focal length or faster. For example: If you were using a lense at 50mm, then your shutter speed should be at least 1/50s or faster. The further you zoom, the faster shutter speed you'd need. Once you have those aspects down, just play with the ISO and aperture until your exposure meter indicator is in the centre of the display. Examples: 300mm zoom, you would want the shutter set at 1/300s or faster 10mm zoom (wideangle), you could probably get away with a 1/10s shutter (which is pretty slow, but hand vibration is less pronounced at that length)

Hehe, yeah it was a cool experience. I actually made a short video with my little Cybershot in the Maranello: Can't complain about the Nissan 350Z, they are a solid beast of a car.

I have the same two kit lenses, this is what my camera bag looks like. Canon 75-300mm that I use for motorsports. eg. a Ferrari club event (I got a ride in this one): Canon 18-55mm is a walkaround all-purpose. eg. this is my friends Lotus: Canon 50mm useful for low light situations (has a wide aperture, letting more light in), portraits, depth of field effects etc. Here's a portrait of my niece: Sigma 10-20mm 'Wideangle' which I use for architectural, and sometimes landscape. eg. beautiful Tassie: ...I also have a circular polariser, which I don't use often but is awesome in the right situation, it can basically remove glare, and surface reflections. Some examples would be to let the sky look like a lovely rich blue, instead of being overexposed. To take a photo through the surface of the water, or even to capture the expression on a drivers face through a car window. This next one is a little test I did on the day I got my circ. polariser, just to show how amazing it really is: Pretty cool huh? :D

Thanks Vickie! My 50mm was only $79.95 (50mm Canon F1.8 EF II). It's my cheapest lens, but also my favourite!

Poor little bubba!

To get this effect you really need to be shooting with a very fast shutter speed and a low F-stop setting (wide aperture). I have a fixed focus 50mm lens that stops down to F1.8 which is great for the depth of field effect. It always helps to be physically closer to the subject you would like in-focus as well. If you are miles away, the effect will be reduced.

Chloebear, I don't think you can ever go too big, so I'd get the 'large' kong. I agree about the dolforum comment, where would we be without such helpful advice! I'm gonna try the margarine tub ice block soon!

Thanks Cazza! Scud and Lou appear to have a lot of similarities!

Here is another video we did of Scud. He's learnt to be patient with his meals and wait for our signal. I can pretty much walk to the other side of our yard and trust him not to break his stay until I give the 'okay'.

We need Moses to teach Scud how to play with his properly. Hehe. Actually I think I need to string his up a big higher so he can't straddle it. Thanks for sharing the vid CTD, I rated it.

Love the pic of him next to the bed! What a duffer!

Here's the other vid! Scud chewing up our electricity bill etc. Hehehe.

Indeed he is! He just keeps getting cleverer too. Learnt how to catch a tennis ball, and also learnt to wait until the 'okay' to eat his meals. I've got another quick video coming shortly. ;)

Just a short video of Scud playing with his "Home Alone". Its a great toy that we hang for him, it holds kibble in the top part and when he plays with it, the kibble is dispensed through a small hole in the bottom of it. Link:

Hehe, Mercedes is right, my sig picture is Scud at 6wks. He'd lost the chubby puppy look by the time we got him home 2wks later. To say that Molly is 'kinda' cute is a huuuuuge understatement! Scud would love her half to death, hehehe.

If you ever want to rehome her, I'll take her! She's sooooo cute! Hehehe. Congrats on the training, it sounds like she's really intelligent, but likes to push the boundaries a bit.

Scud is worryingly calculated with his Kong, I thought dogs were supposed to roll around, chew and flick them every which way in order to get the goodies? Scud simply picks it up from the big hole and gives it a gentle knock on the floor, takes the contents and he's done! It's very amusing to watch. Does anyone elses puppy do this?

How about catch? Like throwing a tennis ball up in the air for the dog. I'm doing this, and also another trick which involves resting a tennis ball on the brow of Scud so that he can balance it there and then catch it when it rolls off. Scud also loves to play chasings, or a game of 'boo'. With chasings I run circles around the archways of our house and he trys to catch me, then we change directions and I chase him. Boo is just the old fashioned hide behind the couch and jump up or sideways, hehe. It's all very childish but he loves it.

Well done! I completely agree, our puppy has been the best thing for my motivation and fitness outside of work. I wanted a thread just to say "I love my dog!" as well, hehe.