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Wow thanks Helen, I was hoping you would pop in here!

Hi Guys, just wondering if any of the Geelong DOLers would be able to recommend a good place to have lunch on a Saturday around the CBD? Prefer dog friendly as I will have 2 of my dogs with me but if not somewhere that parking is close so they can stay in the car and I can check on them periodically. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Fantastic photos, great to see gorgeous doggies enjoying themselves.

Thanks for the vote of confidence guys, Ive been working a lot wth Tully especially the last few weeks. She is perfectly fine around dogs she knows big and small but dogs she doesnt know she is reacitve too, so I have had to her to obedience the last few weeks and yesterday she was the best she has been for a while. I will have her ball in my pocket (she is ball mad and nothing else exsists if the ball is about) so if I get desperate I can pull it out if I have to. Not sure if we can have treats in our pocket. Im probly seriously worrying about nothing. Anyone that knows Tully knows she is all front, if a dog gets in her face she chases them away and thats the end of it. Occasionally she will single a strange dog out and bark at it but stays close to me she is never confrontational. Yesterday at obedience she single out a stafford out of a group of about 20 dogs from a distance but she did not like this stafford at all and yet one of her doggy buddys is a stafford. I guess they go by body language and this dog was new and also DA and had a muzzle on so this could have been why she barked at him?? Anyway Im rambling now, thanks again for the positive vibes!!

Bargain of the century!

Great job Bec, lovely shots of gorgous pups!

Well we only have 5 more sleeps till the assessment day and I'm a little nervous but thinking positive and had lots of positive vibes to get us through.

what great age for a dryer, don't think I have any electrical items that old! I really think I jinxed us with the nice weather comments, sounded like we had a lot of rain during the night!

I agree, that's discusting, those poor kids and poor doggies what a horrible way to die.

I use mine a fair bit too, we got one if those ones that senses when the clothes are dry and turns itself off ( they may all be like that now) I was a bugger with our old one, I'd put it on then forget about it and remember it was on 2 hours later. Very dry crispy clothes and a massive electric bill!!

I don't mind if you guys wanna discuss it here, it maybe of benifit to others. So hijack away!

Your right Jess so nice to have the washing out to get dry instead of hanging round on the clothes horse!

Oh exciting, you are one brave dude Sounds like your day was great too!

Well I'm thinking after today Summer may just nearly be upon us! We went to obedience this morning then me and the dogs went to vic park this arvo for a run. It was evident the dogs all enjoyed the sun as much as I did. Hope everyone else has had a lovely day too.

Ok well after reading all the responses in this thread so far, for me I would never leave one on unless I was attached to the end of it. But in saying that it is a bad example as I don't use one. This is why I am taking in all responses on thier own merit, just genuinely interested in people opinions nothing more nothing less. Sure I can see that it would make sense in your opinion Erny if you have been out and about and also then in a little while going off again to do something else and also under full supervsion and common sense used this makes sense. Edited to add, to use poodlefans example of the dog that needed the CC cut off it is obvious that it had been left on 24/7 and I guess the reason for this is people are not educated on how to use them and this is why that happened.

Oh your kitty is so cute, very sweet face! Nice shots. I agree mush different than taking pics of the doggies.

Yep I get ya! I guess the thing I am getting at or better put trying to understand is the CC being a tool for training, should it only be used for training and is there a bigger risk for the dog to run free with it on rather than a flat collar. I can understand if you use a CC and you are out and about you don't want to have to carry another collar. Say for the likes of a gentle leader or a halti (both of which I have never used so no little about) if a person uses one of these then for the dog to be off lead to play etc do they remove it. I have a friend who always removes her dogs if they are off lead to run or play.

My intention to this thread was not to judge but just curious as to why people do it. Of course each to thier own and we all have our own opinions. I think for dog savy people it is probly acceptable as they are aware of the pit falls but for the average jo they may not be aware of what can potentially happen.

I have seen photos on forums of dogs in CCs with no lead attached.

I wasn't generalizing about any dogs in particular. Just an observation about dogs with CCs left on when no person is attached to the other end. It is only my opinion that I think it is not the right thing to do. To me they are a training tool and to be used as such. The reason for the thread was to see if others felt the same.

Happy Birthday Beautiful Boy! Looks like Micha is having an awesome day.

I never said while unsupervised, I said when not training/walking etc.... What prompted this thread was the amount of dogs I have seen with the chain just loose around the dogs neck, while not working, walking, training etc. There was an incident once here in town of two dogs playing both in Check Chains they got caught up and one of the dogs died becasue they could not free them before one chocked to death. Both dogs were supervised at the time and this could have been prevented. I've seen a young dog brought into the vet to have a check chain cut off. It was never taken off and the pup had grown to the extent it could not be removed over its head. I've also seen a pup with the scars left behind when an embedded chain had to be removed. thats aweful!

Great work, Well done!!

I can't for the life of me understand why people would think it's ok?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's a bad thing. It's amazing how many dogs you see with them on.