Crisovar

Is anyone else experiencing these nasty little pests in plague proportions at present. If you are and are using any natural means to deal with them, what are you using and how effective is it. We are talking seriously large numbers of ticks not just the odd one or two.

Maybe simply because with the correct diagnosis and then suitable medication that little dog just may live those extra few years with less discomfort. Some heart diseases left untreated will cause the dog great distress.

I can only think of one good place where I would like to put them sorry. At the end of the same article: "Contrary to myth, PETA does not want to confiscate animals who are well cared for and "set them free." What we want is for the population of dogs and cats to be reduced through spaying and neutering and for people to adopt animals (preferably two so that they can keep each other company when their human companions aren't home) from pounds or shelters—never from pet shops or breeders—thereby reducing suffering in the world. " http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonpets.asp It's interesting what taking things out of context can create. Not that I agree with them here, but it gives you a bit more insight into their views. Again - they may be radical, but they're coming from a good place, and do ocassionally get good results.

Nice folks Hey! How about these, Cris? Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are "acceptable crimes" when used for the animals' cause. -Alex Pacheco (PETA) (_Charleston,_W._VA_Gazette-Mail_, Jan 15, 1989) * * * I believe that this decade will see the first acts of true violence. Some may be accidental - like a bystander killed in a bomb blast; some will be deliberate - like a vivesector shot in the street. The violence will confuse and divide us, but it will be a temporary adjustment and then we will learn to live with it. -Victoria Miller, ARKI: Canadian Animal Rights Network, and former President, Toronto Humane Society (_Animals_Agenda_)

I think these are enough... Ingrid Newkirk Quotes “There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about -- what’s this with all these reforms -- you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation. [emphasis added]” — “Animal Rights 2002” convention, Jun 2002 “The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.” — Animals, May 1993 “Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.” — PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, in the September 1989 issue of Vogue, Sep 1989 “There’s no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals.” — Washingtonian magazine, Aug 1986 “We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.” — Insight on the News, Jul 2000 “I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don’t have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn’t be harming anything.” — The Washington Post, Nov 1983 “We are complete press sluts.” — Ingrid Newkirk, in The New Yorker, Apr 2003 “I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.” — "National Animal Rights Convention", Jun 1997 “I openly hope that it [hoof-and-mouth disease] comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.” — ABC News interview, Apr 2001 “Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses. [emphasis added]” — The Washington Post, Nov 1983 “Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.” — USA Today, Sep 1991 “In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.” — Newsday, Feb 1988 “One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.” — The Chicago Daily Herald, Mar 1990 “Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.” — New York Daily News, Dec 1997 “More power to SHAC if they can get someone’s attention.” — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals president & co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, in The Boston Herald, August 25, 2002 “I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].” — The New York Daily News, Dec 1997 “I don’t use the word 'pet.' I think it’s speciesist language. I prefer 'companion animal.' For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance.” — The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223 “I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.” — PETA President Ingrid Newkirk speaking to onMilwaukee.com, Feb 2005 “Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.” — Harper's, Aug 1988 “Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.” — The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 1999 “Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” — Washingtonian magazine, Feb 1990 “Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.” — Ingrid Newkirk, in the April 8, 2002 issue of US News & World Report , Apr 2002 “Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.” — Washington City Paper, Dec 1985

I am pretty sure that Ingrid Newsplerk is on record as saying they will resort to destruction property etc to get their own way, shall have to look.

Keep him quiet and please keep him home away from other dogs in case he is contagious. Go with the honey, and keep his fluids up.

I agree.

Owners are generally the problem, lack of knowledge about the breed they have, no training, unsuitable breed choice. House training, barking, destruction of property all issues that land smack at the feet of the owner. The majority of unclaimed impounded animals or surrendered animals that I deal with are generally untrained, poorly or totally ungroomed probably half of them are entire. SBT and SBT crossses, working breed crosses and large boofer type crossbreeds dominate mostly shorthaired but high energy. Training issues and containment issues are high on the list. The SWFs are generally ungroomed and untrained and of no particular breed. We get very few purebred dogs or dogs that strongly resemble purebreds apart from SBTs, Labs and Border collies.

There is nothing wrong with chicken skin, guts or bones.. The Lenards mince is carcases and all the off cuts minced. It is free of preservatives so it does need to be used straight away or frozen.

The majority of "Labradoodles" we deal with are simply Lab X poodle, I have seen pedigrees for a couple that were "labradoodle X Labradoodle" but mostly they are first crosses. I am yet to see any sort of type emerging, they are all so very different not only in coat. Personally I think those trying to establish the breed in earnest need to do a name change.

We end up with roos at work on a regular basis, the poor bloody things are stressed beyond belief, thrashing and trying to get away from those trying to restrain them, mostly with messy results. Shot at the scene is the quickest and kindest. There is no humane way to get a vein on a frantic stressed roo.

I read some of the comments on this story and had to stop, people really do have no clue. Worthless is just getting himself in the news again and the cop did what cops do every day all over the country. The roo went in the least stressful way and quickly.

As previous poster said just feed it to him, or if you wish to feed him some vegies pulverise them first and then add to his meat. Dogs cannot digest chopped veggies they need to be put through the food processor first.

What is going to make your dog more likely to be aggressive is the temperament he has inherited from this parents and the way he was raised by his breeders and continues to be raised by you. Train him and socialise him, you can make or break this puppy his nose wont.

Yep, Sensitive Skin & Stomach

I like to look at all the other things that dogs are no exposed to, vaccinations, spot on flea and tick treatments, heartworm prevention etc. Feeding raw meat is by no means new, it is now being marketed, and we have the internet and people promoting their ideas more there openly, but standing in the kitchen chopping up raw meat for the dogs and cats is not new. I remember fishing a piece of heart out my sons mouth that I had dropped whilst bagging up our meat order when he was a tot, he is 30 now.

They don't read them

I have always fed my dogs raw meat and bones, from the very first dogs I owned, and my families dogs ate raw meat. Dogs I have raised on totally raw that have then gone on to eat commercial dry without issues. It is an individual thing with each dog.

The best one I have seen refused to put her cat in a cage, and every time it came for a procedure the distressed animal had to be peeled off her and put in a surgery cage. Eventually she got sick of it peeing in the car and surrendered it to the pound. Give that one a big elephant stamp.

They surely do, loose dogs and cats, always makes for a colourful morning.

We have those, and sadly for some YOU means all those other folks.

I'd say there would be quite a few making the headlines if they were were put in that position. Says something about the most widely known "animal welfare" organisation doesn't it.

I agree, but you don't know they are offlead until they come barrelling through through the door !!! And in a single nurse practice, you are often busy in another area, and go straight to reception when you hear the door, giving the loose dog a few seconds head start !! we are trying to educate our clients :-)) most a wonderful though. fifi Add the ones who you would have to actually physically toss out the door because they refuse to restrain the animals. My cat stresses in a cage, my dog chokes itself, are just two excuses. At very busy times it can be damn hard to do something about it quickly.

Well done getting your letter published. ps. The correct Breed name is simply Bull Terrier