RuralPug

I have that book as well, it does bring back the memories - I still have a trolley that was at that Melbourne Royal. It is a wooden one and definitely has seen better days LOL! One of the biggest changes is in the handler's clothing - no day-glo suits for the boys back then!!!

Have you in my thoughts for tomorrow, Tenties. Plenty of puggy good healing vibes are being sent (and some Kelpie and Tentie ones too!)

If a dog reacts to the proteins in venison meat, that is no indication that he will react to the deer antler as the antler is entirely keratin with no muscle at all. Don't confuse the entire animal with the part of it that triggers the allergy. Quite often a dog that is allergic to beef, for instance, is not allergic to tripe or ox liver, or marrow bone with no meat, but would react to ox heart, which is largely muscle tissue. I think you also need to make sure that the chewing is happening in a place which rules out any sort of contact allergy, which I be suspecting if you got allergy symptoms from both bone and antler chewing. Breed forum I am on overseas, there was a dog in which deer antlers did not cause allergies in a dog which was reacting to rawhide treats. (Dog was not allergic to beef protein, but was to chicken and most poultry.) Rawhide and antlers are both keratin, it is suspected that the processing treatment in the rawhide manufacture was actually the culprit in that case.

Will probably stick my nose in on at least the Sunday as it's not too far from here.

That last one of Buzz would make a stunning head shot if cropped! Shame on you, Tenties, taking little one to get breed pics and not training him to stand first!!!!! Hey, do you see where there are DOL name badges available now? We could have used those at the Warrnambool show LOL! I've ordered a couple (in case I lose one) with my DOL name and my first name...might stick my nose in at Noorat/Camperdown to show it off! The name badge thread is here :DOL name badges

Second this...Standard Schnauzer ticks all the boxes including medium size. They do need firmer handling than mini's though, but so do Irish. There is at least one good breeder in WA...Samantha (can't remember her surname, sorry. ) Most of the minis I know are very outgoing but a couple are a bit subdued and clingy, so sounds like their mini is one of that type.

Love it! Been meaning to suggest this to Troy for awhile, well done!

Here is some Tentie cross tooshie, playing ball with the Kelpie cross foster.

Yeah, price is about par for surgery around here too. Note to self - move to UK where small animal vet are plentiful and anaesththics cheaper! Good luck with the pet insurance - but since one has already been removed, won't future ones automatically be excluded from claims? Better check that so you know exactly what is covered and what is not.

And while I'm emptying the P&P and have a captive audience (think Uncle Arthur's slideshow AAAAARGH) Kelpie cross foster pup Izzie playing with my boy Cheddar, who is keeping the ball from her by fancy footwork and his best David Beckham pout and headtoss! Now the Tentie cross young visitor, Sam, is trying to take the ball from Izzie. Gotta catch me first! says Izzie. Ha! ha! Sam has the ball! Race you to the drinks stand! And one more, just to prove that Cheddar is, in reality, much cuter than David Beckham:

Stupid weather, can't sleep so emptied the camera...here are some BBQ st the show pics from my little P&P, still waiting for the good ones from RJ. naughty DOLers!! BBQ chefs on the job Mum and friend (oh well, at least one of them was facing the camera!) Finally, one of the more well behaved guests at the BBQ (caught checking with agent to see if ok to pose for the paparazzi)

There are plenty of actaully valuable tests already that the ANKC could make mandatory to report but hasn't. Unless this particular private company can afford huge $$$$ undertable kickbacks to politicians and civil servants I doubt that this will be the first. Ooops, is my sarcarm showing?

Well I pop in & read this thread most days, but don't often have anything to add though, maybe it's the same for your missing regulars? Although, shall we shout? RJ WHERE ARE THE BBQ PICS FROM YOUR YUMMY CAMERA????

Have desexed a few boys once fully mature. Two were active studs desexed at age 7, the only change was they were a bit less stressed when bitch in season was anywhere in the neighbourhood - as active studs they both would fret, go off their food etc. for almost the whole time. The third one is my current boy, a foster failure desexed at age 3, no idea if he ever had any opportunity at stud before I got him, he certainly was still interested when I had a visting entire bitch just coming off heat!!!! She told him off well and truly but he just continued to admire her from a safe distance! No other personality changes, nor did I notice any weight gain in any of them that couldn't be attributed to just plain slowing down from age.

I've seen them in the ring with all-white bodies, just a spot near the tail and head markings. There are a heap like that in the breed profile pictures on DOL, even some grand champions with white bodies, so it shouldn't, by itself, be a problem.

Yes, oakway, I know a lot of farmers that swear by metho to clean ears. Metho and other alchohols are an astringent and a mid antiseptic and also good at removing ear wax. If you have yeasty fungal growths in the ears as well, this recipe will clean them out: 1/3rd cup rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alchohol) 1/3 cup white vinegar 1/3rd cup Witch Hazel (health food stores) about 10 drops of Tea Tree Oil I have been using this for years now as a ear cleaner, a swig in the ear, massage in then clean with a damp cloth and and repeat in a few days if still messy. I also use this weekly to prevent muck and yeasty growths in nose folds and skin folds of my pugs - plus it was the only thing (after trying heaps of prescriptions and off the shelf stuff), that cleared my son's athelete's foot (o god did I just admit that publicly?) EF fat finger typos

Standards are a fantastic dog in the right hands but can be a difficult dog for first time owners - make sure you are right there ready with the 'aunty advice' so their standard becomes one of the fantastic ones. I am astounded you found a soft toy - most things schnauzer seem to be mini schnauzer - I know how incredibly rare it is to find anything for the standards or giants. I am always on the lookout for standard stuff for a close friend who breeds and shows and it is really hard to find.

Some people might, but very few city people have the foggiest idea what "farm dog" can encompass. I was trying to explain why shire registration was discounted for vermin dogs the other day to my new neighbours' group of suburbanite guests and could not even manage to get through to them that "vermin dog" was a job not a specific breed.

Add high value scent to low value stuff. If there's stuff that she's goes crazy for, BBQ chook or fish or goat's cheese or something equally greasy or messy, then put the greasy messy treat in a plastic zip lock bag or airtight container with a hard crunchy treat that is absorbent (like uncoated cat kibble or croutons). Don't need to mix or mash or anything, just a thin layer of the hard crunchy over a substantial amount of the messy yummy stuff. After an hour or so at room temperature, pick out the crunchy bits and bag them up separately for high-value treats, they should smell like the messy treats by that time.

I wouldn't walk a medium or large puppy of that age that distance, but a JRT or other small terrier, if accustomed to regular exercise hasn't got the weight-bearing-on-fragile-growth-plates issue plus they are so small you can and will carry them if they tire. 1400 metres then a rest for a JRT pup isn't excessive in my book, unless it is very steep. Just make sure that if he tires, he gets carried. Last puppy vac is the first booster they should be well and truly covered at that time.

ACD or STCD for sure, plus Basenji was also my first thought but would love to see a face on pic to judge from the head shape and width and ear set if we might be seeing an actual dingo cross there. Although, if he's from suburban Melbourne, a dingo cross seems fairly unlikely...

Wow! Love the article, tlc, very nice, and well-deserved too! Have sent you a PM, Tenties, I am sure we can catch up in Melbourne on Friday and maybe I can even ease some of that tram-phobia!

In the early days, our Pugs were constantly called "miniature bulldogs". These days they are well known enough that most people get it right. When my Mastiff bitch was still alive, more than once people would insist that she (even when still a pup) was "the mummy dog" and my adult pugs were "her babies". Nothing I could say would convince them otherwise. It didn't help that although she was unsound and so I never attempted to breed her, she would lactate at the drop of a hat (or calf or baby rabbit) and the pugs would latch on to the free milk until i dried her up again... Mum had three breeds in her kennels at one stage; pugs, mini wire-haired dach and rough coated griffs. I am still giggling at the visitors who looked at the pug (known breed to them), then at the mini (also known to them) and then tut-tutted over the obvious "accidental" mating that must have produced the griffs!! Last story is of a lovely pair who had a cross breed who knows what, they thought its mum was a malt cross dad was totally unknown. About min pin size and body shape with a long silky parti-coloured coat. They were showing one of mum's pugs and used to take their little cross to the shows with them rather than leave her home. She was always immaculately groomed and had her topknot ribboned up like a malt. They complained to me that at shows, people would approach and ask what breed she was and would get grumpy and suspicious when they told her she was just a Heinz! I jokingly suggested that they claim she was a "Ceylonese Temple Dog" or something like that, they thought it a great joke and did so....Mum told me later the number of people who went off to look up the new breed they had imported was hysterical! :laugh:

Might see you at the Eye and Eye on Friday Tenties, I have an appt there that morning - or might run into you at Spencer St Southern Cross station. Great news on the rehoming front there. I flew back from Adelaide with a mad Tentie cross pup (mum was STCD) to rehome, landed in my driveway and got a text..."Quick! Start the car! We've changed our minds and want him home again!" I thought it was a joke, but no, they are serious. So will have him here for about a month as I must return to Adelaide in mid-March to move Mum and am driving over. So they will get a better behaved pup back and I will be coaching them long distance in training their other pup (10 m.o. SBT) and the older dog (4 yo chihuahua cross). The things you do for family... Might be picking you brains Linda, never had a four-month-old pup DA resource guarding before. Will sing out for ideas if I get stuck. ETA to add I am too tight-fisted to get a cab in Melbourne, I catch a tram right outside the station, it takes me right there in about twelve minutes and you don't have to get a ticket because city trams and buses are included in your VicRail ticket. Might be hard for you to see the tram numbers in your current circumstances though.

Thanks! I will pass that on!