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When it's time, you WILL know... I feel it may be sooner rather than later now for sweet old Penny... so the only advice I can offer is to just enjoy each other for however long that is, OK? T.

I got more experience with scared mums than I care to mention when I was volunteering with rescue... they can be pretty scary, no matter what size they are... I would have filled my pants with a defensive GSD mumma barking that close to my head... errr! Then again, I suppose if I'm game enough to get up close and personal with a Pittie mumma defending her babies (no-one else could get within cooee of her), I probably would have done the same as you did with the GSD... *grin* T.

Lost and frightened mums with pups can be VERY dangerous... you did good! T.

I can vouch for the fact that capsicum/pepper spray doesn't work if the dog is already in the rage stage... and you will suffer from the stuff as well! T.

I get a bit tilted sometimes when out taking photos too... to the point where I'm now VERY conscious about it... like taking lion photos the other day, I was lining up the platform they were on to make sure it looked straight... *grin* T.

Our girl (Nellie) has lost 3 now soon after birth... the keepers said that it can take up to 6 births before some gibbon mums "get it"... Our girl and her man seem to have taken it in their stride, and were getting up to some lovin' the other day, so maybe we could get lucky with the next one... Oh, and apparently the only time our girl gives her man the time of day is when she's ready for mating or pregnant... so seeing them so snuggly with each other was good. T.

Hero (the lab on Bondi Vet) wishes you'd told his owner and Dr Lisa that so he didn't have to go through the indignity of having it fished out of a certain personal area on tv Haha! There is one thing we think Trouble ate, but have never found... one of the small AAA batteries from the TV remote! We know it wasn't inside her soon after it went missing - x-rays proved that... but we have never found that battery anywhere - in the house OR the yard! We did find lots of other interesting shapes inside her though, much to the vet's horror - nothing that wouldn't pass though, which was fine by me. Pickles the Camp Dog has a penchant for bedding... she chews it up into bite sized pieces and swallows... occasionally I have to help her with "danglies" as it passes... *sigh* Harper likes to shred bedding, but she doesn't swallow it like Pickles does thank dog! T.

I had a medium sized mutt get very ill after ingesting a couple of Ratsak flakes... 24 hours of vomiting is not much fun for the dog or the person that has to clean it up. Never had a dog get ill from eating a poisoned rat/mouse though... but my dogs have all been much larger than your tinies Moosepup. One thing to remember is that the reason the poison is so effective on rats/mice is that they can't vomit - therefore they can't get the stuff out of their system like a dog can. T.

Not many dogs on their own will come at you from behind (unless they are going for another dog trailing behind you on a lead). I've found that if alone and approached by a larger not so friendly dog, the thing that has worked for me was to turn my back on it. It can't see your eyes, and only has your butt, legs, and back to try to latch on to if it still decides to have a go. NEVER back away from a dog - you will be off balance, and that is when they are more likely to jump at you. If you MUST engage with the dog at all, a really hard kick towards the chest area can be effective - and possibly kill the dog if landed right... errr! I was attacked by a nasty medium sized mutt when I was about 11. I was walking to a friend's place, and this horrid bloody thing scaled it's fence and just launched at me. I managed to get hold of both it's front legs and reefed them apart... and I actually killed the dog in doing so. The owners were quite upset until I showed them the bites it had inflicted on me before I managed to fight back... and being native Papuans, they were then way more concerned about me asking them for "compensation" for the incident that the fact that I'd killed their dog. When I finally got to my friend's house, the mother treated my wounds and all was good for playing all afternoon as kids do... I would have no problem fighting back hard enough to kill a dog that was attacking me - adrenaline can be an effective tool in those situations. Not the first course of action if you can avoid it, but when it comes down to me or the dog... well... T.

Samsung phones take a pretty good photo, don't they? T.

Our main rescue vet clinic specialised in greyhounds... never met one that wasn't up for some serious snuggling... although I'd advise against letting them try to give you a kiss whilst wearing their muzzles... ouch! T.

I think you did an amazing job without my 400mm lens... *grin* Those photos are definitely of the "I wish I'd taken that" category! Our gibbons had a baby not long ago, but not with the same adorable result. Apparently it can take the mothers a few goes before they "get it" with regards to raising young... I was told our girl has lost 3 now... Maybe next time for us? T.

You can assure Stan that all sorts of things will pass through a Labrador just fine... I have plenty of experience with the wierd and wonderful things one can find during poo patrol... errr! Camp dogs are even better at passing the impossible... T.

Gorgeous!! I'm so jealous... T.

Canon use the Rebel moniker in the US, and Kiss in Japan. 500D = Rebel T1i = Kiss X3 550D = Rebel T2i = Kiss X4 600D = Rebel T3i = Kiss X5 650D = Rebel T4i = Kiss X6 700D = Rebel T5i = Kiss X7 Prior to that... 300D = Rebel = Kiss 350D = Rebel XT = Kiss Digital N 400D = Rebel XTI = Kiss X 450D = Rebel XSI = Kiss X2 T.

The x00D are also known as "Rebel" models overseas - so the 700D is the Rebel T5i model... or generally speaking most of the Canon EF-S lenses should fit it. The 70D is the next "more professional" model up the chain in Canon... the smaller the number before the D, the better the camera (generally speaking). I have a 60D, which is the predecessor to the 70D... T.

Taronga had one born earlier this year... sadly it didn't make it... I saw them trying for another today though... *grin* T.

Hmmm... Zeddy is now 14.5 years old, and had her last vaccination when she was 5. Last June I had a litter of rescue foster pups who all had Parvo. I'd say that Zeddy's immunity to Parvo after nearly 10 years seems to be intact... My biggest worry was Harper, who had only had her puppy vaccinations before we had the Parvo pups here... again, they seem to have held just fine. Harper has since had her adult booster and won't be vaccinated again. Trouble (who is 8 and hadn't had any vaccs since her adult booster at 15 months) had to have a C5 earlier this year only because I had to board her while I had my gallbladder out... silly rules but they have to be followed... *sigh* There is something a bit different with my dogs' immunities though. As I was fostering lots of rescue pups over the years, my dogs have been getting small exposures to all number of things continually, thus making their immune systems work all the time - as opposed to dogs who don't interact with many other dogs on a regular basis. As a result my girls all have very nice titres... *grin* T.

My Lab wants to play with EVERYONE... *sigh* My Staffy/Dane really loves small scruffies... like 3kg small... and she's 30kg! She plays with smalls so gently though - lays down and lets them belt her up. I think it's because as a pup her bestie in the whole wide world was a small scruffy mad terrier. She worked out that play with them worked better if she was laying down... watching a 20kg pup play bitey face with a dog she can swallow in one gulp is an eye-opener, I can tell you! T.

When Zeddy was younger, we were at the park up the road near the freeway, and some kids and their mother were there. The kids wanted to play with Zeddy and I said OK. Anyways, chatting away with the mother for a good 10-15 mins before she decided to ask what breed Zeddy was... When I told her that Zeddy was a Rotti/Pittie cross, she went completely mental, screaming at the 3 children (who were playing ball happily with Zeddy for a good 10-15 mins already) to get away from the "vicious" dog... *sigh* Another observation... walking my male Rottweiler, we'd get lots of people wanting to come pat him... different story if same dog was wearing a muzzle... go figure? Ummm... muzzle usually means he CAN'T bite you. Poor Rastus had had a bad experience with the neighbour's children throwing bricks at him over the fence, and was quite leery of children after that - hence the muzzle on walks... just in case a child ran up to him and scared him... as is their wont. T.

Tsotsi is a stunning looking chimp! T.

Gorgeous photos of one of the most divine dogs ever! T.

The MDBA has a Rescue COP for their rescue members... just saying... T.

Would the desexing agreement extend to the dog being moved out of the ACT though? T.

Pugs shed like the bejeebus! Iggies can be easily broken. Neither would be a fit methinks... T.