Maddy

I've heard, if you leave it for longer than 6 months your dog will become a out of control horndog...

or if you do it before a year, your dog wont grow properly and can have huge amounts of problems.

Seems to be its your screwed if you do and screwed if you don't

My Lab was desexed after 12 months and he never mounts anything

One of my greyhounds was desexed after five years of age and even when we had a bitch come into season here, he displayed zero interest. If anything, he went out of his way to avoid her.

I ended up buying one from petitude, not happy I paid for it on the 17th and im yet to receive anything, I emailed them this morning so hopefully Ill get some answers off them

I've purchased from them before and I'd definitely not recommend them (for a number of reasons).

To answer the OP, my greyhound has a Black Dog Wear backpack, it's pretty basic but it seems comfortable enough and he doesn't try to get it off.

Unfunny joke yes but if it was just a joke (and who in their right mind would in all seriousness brag about such an act) it has well and truly bitten him in the butt.

Assuming it was a joke, he should've known the likely outcome of it. It'd be like joking to your child's doctor that you have sex with them (the child, not the doctor)- you'd expect (and rightfully so) that the doctor would take steps to prevent further mistreatment, even if they didn't have physical evidence. Suspicion that this sort of abuse may be happening should be enough to warrant police involvement, in my opinion. I'm sure some consider the reporting an overreaction but where there's a question of gross mistreatment, better to be safe than possibly allow it to continue.

My daughter recently did an assignment on Thylacines. All of the research pointed to them being extinct. A few unsubstantiated sightings on both the mainland and Tas, but no confirmed sightings, no dropping or other evidence. I hope they are hidden away somewhere just like the wollemi pine.

There were some (typically) blurry photos taken a while back by an aboriginal tracker up in WA, Google is being unhelpful with the site that has copies of them (from memory it was in Spanish) but it had a few different shots and excerpts from an interview with the tracker. It was quite an interesting story, despite how unlikely it is.

Hmmm...let me know if you find a web version I'd be intrigued to read it.

Obviously I should be asking some traditional land owners when I'm up north!!

ETA: The size of foxes here in suburban Melbourne is getting quite scarey, I have seen one between small and medium dog size in Doncaster.

I managed to find this.. Somewhere in amongst the spam comments for Ed Hardy clothing and knockoff designer handbags, there was a link to the site that contains a scan of the full article and the original images.

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Found it.. http://thylacine.1979.ws/ it's the August 9th entry.

I give them to the greyhounds and we haven't had any problems

The Static collars are, in effect, delivering an electric shock to the pups neck. This is inhumane, and most states have banned them. You can't import one from somewhere like an american seller on ebay either. Load up a charge on a 9 volt battery and stick it on your tongue and hold it there, before you ever think about putting a static collar on a baby. Yes, I do have strong feelings about this subject.

When used properly, there is nothing inhumane about static bark collars.

In some situations, there is simply no other option and I know of several very responsible and caring owners who use them.

Personally, I'd prefer a static collar over a bark muzzle yet the bark muzzles are legal everywhere. With a bark muzzle on, the dog can't eat, drink or pant properly (regardless of what the manufacturers claim ) and they seem to cause a considerable amount of stress to the dog.. seems worse to me than the occasional shock when the dog barks

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Bailey?

PTS at 11am on Sunday morning.

Sooty will miss you Cheyanne

I'm so sorry I couldn't be there with you.

He'll be safe at the bridge Ellz, He'll have Molly, Sharkie and George to play with :rolleyes:

For Ellz...

The naughty little baby when he first arrived (pictured with Brinny and Sooty, his little accomplises)

I'm so sorry Lisa :rolleyes:

next time I am around the airport I ll call in and check it out. At the moment it s usually animal tucker box and pets domain, which I am sad to say have now started selling live animals.

Both of them?

I didn't think Animal Tuckerbox would sell puppies or kittens because of the deal they have with the Tas Canine Defense League but Pets Domain.... their stores up here are always stuffed with crossbreed puppies (usually horrible combinations like JRT x kelpie )

Oh yes they do... the new animal tucker box in the city, across from K & D on the corner there, had puppies beagles for $600. they had kittens and baby bunnies, as well as the fish and bird population.

Very disappointing

We'd been recommending Animal Tuckerbox (for food) to adopters solely because they didn't sell puppies and kittens

I hope they're not planning on starting to sell them at the Launceston store....

next time I am around the airport I ll call in and check it out. At the moment it s usually animal tucker box and pets domain, which I am sad to say have now started selling live animals.

Both of them?

I didn't think Animal Tuckerbox would sell puppies or kittens because of the deal they have with the Tas Canine Defense League but Pets Domain.... their stores up here are always stuffed with crossbreed puppies (usually horrible combinations like JRT x kelpie :rolleyes: )

Ta Pokes. I'm not sure I'll bother if nobody else has heard of him outside of "he writes this stuff" (which is all I can find anywhere). That he's at all connected with Urbandogz in my mind is enough to put me off but I was willing to ignore that if people had some sort of other experience with him -- that make sense?

Sure does.

From what I know, he focuses a lot on clicker training and seems to use it to fix most problems so that would make me slightly wary....

He gave us permission to use his articles in our newsletters but to be honest I haven't had too much of a chance to read his stuff :rolleyes:

He seems to be pretty good though (from the little I have read)

Anyone read Pottenger's Cats? That had some interesting recipes (for people) that could easily be adjusted for dogs.

The Brain Eggnog certainly sounded really disgusting interesting

I did have a copy but can't seem to find it.

So sorry for your loss CDM :D I hope the puppies are going to be ok without her...

The dog had previous vaccinations (required as a racing greyhound) so I can't see any reason to give a booster. The dog is now a pet, will live mostly inside and won't be boarded or exposed to many other dogs.

One of our foster carers had a dog vaccinated at a vet we don't normally use and when she forwarded me his vaccination card, the vet had noted that Rani (3 year old dog) had recieved a C5 vaccination (although he hadn't bothered to note brand used or attach the stickers ).

Beneath that, he had noted that Rani was due for another KC in one month

Our vet has never recommended a follow-up KC vaccination, what does everyone here think?

Would you give another KC vacc only a month after a C5?

Oh that poor boy.. thank goodness he made it back to you so he was loved at the end

What was wrong with the gorgeous man?

It's a bit of a long story but basically, he left us a well behaved, gentle dog who loved the company of other dogs and was returned to us after he and the GSD he lived with attacked two dogs that wandered onto the owner's property.

We retested him with a couple of Lhasas and he was perfect but further testing with other breeds revealed a very serious aggression issue. He seemed to be "keen" on just about anything canine that moved (even a rottie ) and we didn't feel he would be safe to rehome

It was a horrible decision to have to make, I just wish I knew what exactly happened to make him so prey aggressive towards other dogs.

EFS

He was a really stunning boy. His condition when we got him back (from the people who adopted him) was just awful though. He was crawling with worms (almost literally) and it looked like they hadn't groomed him at all since they got him.

Below are some pics for comparison

- Sharkie when he was first with us. Glossy black coat with beautiful muscle tone.

- Sharkie when he was returned to us - Dirty coat, without a shred of muscle left (they hadn't been walking him).

Sharkie - Our first foster hound and the dog I'd always wanted, Sharkie went to his "forever" home in September 07 but returned to us in December.

Our possum-munching, bed-shredding, sweet boy was put to sleep at 2pm on Saturday after weeks of struggling to find a way around the inevitable.

Sharkie, I would've kept you if I could. Looking back on it, I should never have allowed MJ to take you away from us, away from the family who loved you and Kiff, who needed you (you should've heard him crying the night you left). If I knew then what I know now, you would have stayed with us forever.

Wait for me at the bridge, sweet boy. RIP

Bright eyes,

Burning like fire.

Bright eyes,

How can you close and fail?

How can the light that burned so brightly

Suddenly burn so pale?

Bright eyes

Some folk will try to turn posts into a cheap shot psychoanalysis of people they have never met and know nothing at all about.

Tony, I usually find common sense in your posts but it's damned arrogant to accuse people who dare to disagree with you as having undealt with baggage. That's taking a personal shot at people who perhaps think you might have a load of undealt with baggage yourself which may explain why you seem to feel the need to do this at times.

Great post cavNrott, totally agree.