Greytmate

Get it all out of your house and sealed up in bags. Quick! Weevils won't hurt, but you are entitled to buy food in a weevil free condition. All dry foodstuffs will succumb to weevils eventually, depending on storage conditions.

And the opposite of game, a lack of gameness. It is instability and insecurity. Not good or safe traits in a family pet. Most dogs that are bred for gameness fall in the middle of a huge scale. Greyhounds are bred to try to get that winning temperament, but not everyone achieves that and in my breed there are countless stories of fast dogs that couldn't cut it in the field. So it is not simply extreme gameness or lack of gameness that is a problem with APBT. Not all APBT are game, especially now in Australia that the breeding is virtually underground, and the test for gameness in that breed is illegal. A game APBT could be a disaster in the wrong hands, but one that is not game at all could be a disaster in anyone's hands. An intrinsic lack of gameness is a fault that cannot be fixed, despite any behaviour modification.

In my breed, if you look at what makes the differences between a true champion and the rest, one is a different temperament. It is a very, very strong will to win. And that means you do have to handle the dog carefully to avoid incidences of DA, because that dog is competitive, and really enjoys a challenge. If there is something that dog wants that it thinks it can get, it will try harder than other dogs do. Luckily the challenge in greyhounds is to catch and win the fluffy toy. Once caught, and in the dog's possession, the challenge is more or less over. And if it isn't, it is no problem in releasing a greyhound's jaws. DA doesn't always go with gameness, but in the wrong hands it is more likely to. In the right hands these dogs are very special and worthy dogs. It's scary the way that people choose breeds on looks or image with no understanding of what lies inside the dog's mind. It is so important that people choose the right breed and the right individual from that breed, but people just enter into it so blindly sometimes.

Ants have an extremely strong smell. I am sure the dog would realise before it came too close.

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Now that you have had the dental done, she will probably produce less saliva, which will lead to less staining. There will also be less bacteria in her mouth because of the dental. You can swab the teeth with listerine daily, although I have heard that there are long-term health implications with that. Possibly worth doing for a little while. That will definitely alter the bacteria in the mouth. This problem is really common in QLD dogs, but rare down south. I would say that the bacteria thrives in the warmer climate, and it is possible that you may not be able to completely get rid of the problem. I have used warm salty water to wash it away daily, in the dogs that I have fostered with this problem.

I think an Aussie would be a good choice for you. To me the breed seems to have a consistently stable temperament, which means that you can be more certain of getting a strong nerved and confident dog that still have a soft temperament. There is a such a range of colours in the breed, that I think that if you chose by colour, you could me missing out on the right pup in any given litter. Think of them all as green, and you will ensure you won't miss out on that special pup with exactly the right temperament.

Cats get hackles up too. I would imagine some other mammals would as well.

A sheltie...lol

Goldie steals nothing. Woody steals the feather duster, so that must stay out of sight. Woody, Leo and CocoNut will steal food off the benchtops, if they think nobody is around. Sometimes I leave a plastic bag hanging on the pantry door. If I do that, and go out leaving the dogs alone in the house, they open the pantry by pulling on the bag and then they steal the pantry contents. It was jasmine rice and spiral pasta the other day, rice all over the house. Luckily they usually only pull out a few items, never more than two or three in one go. They can't reach anything liquid, that is all stored up high. Roasted nuts and Nutrigrain are their favourites I think, nothing left to clean up except the torn up packaging.

The list of dogs you are considering is still more based on appearances rather than temperament. That's fine, but I think you could narrow it down more. You say you want the dog to be relaxed about the house, but what do you mean exactly? Restful attentiveness? Comatose? How do you want the dog to react to the doorbell? Strange sounds outside? Friends? Strangers in the street who may want to pat your dog? Don't automatically rule out the sighthounds, with your capability you could get a reliable recall if that is what you concentrated on, and you bought the right pup from the litter. I think any of the gun-dogs would probably require more attention (interaction and training) from you than your current breed, and all of the sighthounds would probably require less.

They can pull you over if they want to, I have been pulled over by one, as I held it for the owner and they walked off. Heading off to the beach? Expect your newfie to drag you back to shore. I am sure you will be fine though, as you will do the early training needed. One thing you may not have considered is the drool factor. Having a tight lipped breed, you wouldn't know about that yet. If you get a newfie you will know.

I find that afghans in general can be a little aloof and so are the salukis. The borzoi seem a lot happier to meet new people and appreciate the attention.

I have worked with Ipswich council too in the past, and I found them proactive towards animal welfare. I also live there, with four dogs, and the council was helpful to us too.

What qualifications are there for communicating with animals once they have died? People with qualifications in animal behaviour usually call themselves behaviourists.

Yes. I have always found that Ipswich CC goes to more than the minimum effort to look after dog welfare. I can think of a few examples where they put welfare ahead of the dollar. Not all QLD councils do this. But there is more that could be done, so please stay around Cr Antoniolli. Not only do we love dogs here, we want to promote responsible dog ownership that benefits the whole community.

Given that it is on his paws, a contact allergy is possible. When determining the cause of possible allergies, there is a process known as elimination. You go back to basics and remove all possible allergens, and then introduce each new thing very slowly, one thing at a time, to see what could be causing the problem. You can start off on a basic chicken diet, wash off all shampoos with water, and wash bedding in a basic white laundry soap and rinse well. Then if you can keep your dog on lead to reduce it coming into contact with vegetation for a few weeks, you can see if it makes any difference.

As far as I know they are not rubber, which is a natural product. Rather they are a flexible synthetic. But I guess different brands might be different. There is some evidence that chemicals in those type of plastics can be ingested, and there has been a ban on children's toys being made out of flexible plastic for quite a while now. The ingestion of those chemicals has been tenuously linked to cancer in dogs.

I wouldn't use soft plastic for a dog toy. It would have all sorts of chemicals and uv stabilisers and things in it, and those things leach out over time.

You did not let the snake come out of the tub on its own, even though that is what it looked like the snake was trying to do. It was halfway out and you grabbed in with your hand, and then you got out your hook and for some strange reason you then started flipping the snake around. Why didn't you just let the snake continue to slide out of the tub itself? Why did you have to handle it? It appeared that you were trying to steer the snake towards something. A person with a video camera! Yes, a frightened snake is really going to enjoy being herded by you towards a person. You might have been following the snake, but the person videoing was right in front of the snake. I can't imagine how it wouldn't have felt trapped with the camera person continually approaching it directly. Why didn't the cameraman stay filming from the side or behind instead of continually getting directly in front of the snake each time the snake changed its direction? Maybe then the snake wouldn't have felt threatened enough to strike. The snake was obviously distressed. It tried to change direction many times, but the camera kept getting back right in front of it. Pity the need to get the video of the snake striking was more important than just releasing the snake near the reeds and walking right away from the frightened animal. That is what you did in the end after you had had your fun and got the video you wanted. I didn't enjoy watching it, and I don't need a warning like that to tell me it might be dangerous to get in the face of any wild animal.

Except it doesn't seem to be a paper, only a website?

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Maybe at this age, start off with a clam shell pool with some shallow water and some toys. That way he can get used to the feel of the water and associate it with fun things and playing, and not just associate water with baths and being restrained.

This story is no different to any of the other thousands of pups that were bought home, not adequately fenced, not tagged or chipped (even though it has been law to chip dogs sold since July 09), and not searched for at the local pound when it went missing. Luckily this dog was euthed painlessly rather than being squashed on the road or, shot by a farmer or being attacked by wild dogs. Why do we even have this topic here "in the News". It isn't news, it is a whinge on an obscure website by Jen Harris, a person that did not even bother to visit her local pound when her dog 'dug under the fence'. That lack of care is really sad.

There was one welfare organisation person interveiwed on the ABC. They wanted to immediately immunise as many dogs as possible. I couldn't find anything recent on the ABC website, but maybe if you called them they could give you the charity contacts. I did find this old article on the ABC site. Vets warned on Bali rabies threat It looks like Australia has been supporting mass vaccinations.