Swizzlestick

"Are you stupid?"

"Nooooooooooooo"

Too cute.

Slighty OT, but I noticed yesterday even the DogsVic website is referring to SBT as "staffies" these days! On the show schedule I came across some "staffie shows". :rolleyes:

Lara looks like a sweet girl. Glad she has a nice new home with you.

Edit cos I can't spell.

Amazes me just how many people ask "is she an ex greyhound?"

Um, what does that even mean? I used to reply with "no, she's always been a greyhound and always will be."

By the way anyone that has met me or the dogs know I spend a lot of $$$$ on name pronunciation cards for the breed!!

Well worth it!

Your phonetic spelling of the name is fabulous, and it is the only reason I know how to pronounce it. :D

Me too. Without you, I wouldn't even attempt to pronounce it. :laugh:

"The RSPCA's Hugh Wirth said the dog appeared to be an English bull terrier cross"

I always thought the dog was a "Bull Terrier".

I've even seen them called English Bull Terrier on websites of registered breeders.

I've always been told to stear clear of a breeder who calls them "English BT's"

Calling it a Burmese instead of a Bernese is not a big sin - a least they recognise it as a breed.

I was talking about vets and vet nurses. You'd think they'd know better. They should anyway. Both breeds are fairly well known. In fact, one of the other vn I work with owns two Bernese Mountain Dogs, so everyone at work recognises the breed.

Someone in my profession should at least be able to pronounce them correctly. Not too much to ask.

People I work with (yes, vets and vet nurses) continually call Bernese Mountain Dogs, Burmese Mountain Dogs.

I've tried to exlain that the cat is a Burmese, the dog is a BERNESE Mountain Dog.

Is very embarrassing when they say it in front of clients.

thats a mighty big cat.....oops i mean dog *picturing a Bernese using a little catlitter box* :D

Might have solved the "big cat" mystery in Australia Maybe they're all just Burmese Mountain Dog sightings. :D

when Penny was quite young she found an enormous, ahem, I'll call it sex toy at the park, very realistic it was too, apart from the size, surely no one is really that big.

She grabbed it and ran around and around doing that gleeful buckjumping you see some dogs do and shaking it vigorously from side to side. It was going thwack thwack thwack on her ribs as she shook it.

Then she lay down, placed her paws on it to hold it still and started pulling at the "skin". Just then a man walked past and saw what she was doing. I was horrified and very quickly claimed innocence. 'It's not mine!' I say. All he said was "that looks painful" and kept walking.

Oh my god! This kind of stuff actually happens? It sounds like the stuff of movies!

What sort of movies do you watch?

People I work with (yes, vets and vet nurses) continually call Bernese Mountain Dogs, Burmese Mountain Dogs.

I've tried to exlain that the cat is a Burmese, the dog is a BERNESE Mountain Dog.

Is very embarrassing when they say it in front of clients.

when Penny was quite young she found an enormous, ahem, I'll call it sex toy at the park, very realistic it was too, apart from the size, surely no one is really that big.

She grabbed it and ran around and around doing that gleeful buckjumping you see some dogs do and shaking it vigorously from side to side. It was going thwack thwack thwack on her ribs as she shook it.

Then she lay down, placed her paws on it to hold it still and started pulling at the "skin". Just then a man walked past and saw what she was doing. I was horrified and very quickly claimed innocence. 'It's not mine!' I say. All he said was "that looks painful" and kept walking.

:rofl:

Nice one Penny!!!

Only time I've been embarrassed was by my Afghan Hound. He knows beeping the car horn draws attention.

Everytime I'd pop into a shop for a minute, he'd jump over into the front seat, and start beeping. First with beep, beep. Then a beep beep beeeeep. Then eventually he'd graduate to just "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep"

People in the shops all got to know him. It's not everday one sees an Afghan Hound in the drivers seat with both front feet on the steering wheel.

Once a day minimum here, more often twice though.

Considering I have 6 dogs, there isn't that much poo to pick up.

I feed premium dry mixed with raw meat or 4 legs all natural roll.

RIP Beauties.

Sincere condolences to the owner.

The salary sounds right to me - low paying and very physically demanding

Reason I asked was because I'm a qualifed vet nurse, in a regional town in Vic, and I (and everyone else I work with) earn a considerable amount more than $32,000.

I wouldn't do what I do know if I only got paid $32,000.

Are you sure that salary is correct?

Seems very low to me. Once qualified, you should get a decent amount more than that.

I've been continually checking in here, hoping for some good news.

I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of Willow. Every owners worst nightmare.

:hug: For sway and Willows owners.

RIP big girl.

Pretty much all blood and bone that comes from garden centres have added ingredients that are bad for dogs.

Eating that sort of product in large enough quantities (comparitive to the size of the dog) can cause haemorrhagic gastro and death.

Exactly, and if they eat enough of it, liver damage will result too.

It won't matter if they lick a small amount off the garden.

However, there's not a snowflakes chance in hell I'd EVER deliberately feed it to my dogs.

The MSDS on the Yates website says "do not lay in heaps as dogs find the product attractive to eat. Whilst it's not poisonous to dogs, it may cause gastric irritation".

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Sounds like a normal cat to me. Puurrrrrfectly designed to kill other animals.

My belief is that it doesn't work on dogs. It works on their people. The owner becomes relaxed, therefore the dogs relax too. JMO

Oh dear, this might get expensive.

Maybe I shouldn't have looked.

I'm just going to say Whippet. :D

Everything I want in a dog is what they've got.

Everything that I don't want in a dog, they don't have.

I can't think of anything about the breed I'd change if I could.

I think it would actually be safer without the cover.

A family friend of ours had their pup fall in the pool and drown. He fell in the side and went under the soft cover that was floating on the water.

Without the cover he may have had a chance though.

If your dogs feet can touch the ground whilst keeping his head out, I'd be inclined to leave it open.

Our local grooming place is called 'The Happy Dog'

There's one near me too called "Happy Dog Grooming"

Many people very pleased with their work too.

I avoid businesses with the word 'cheap'. Instantly I think of lesser quality. Food for thought.

it was a pun on words - ac/dc song

We know this already.

Still has "cheap" in the title though. Whether it's a play on words or not, it won't matter to clients.