Amika

EEEEEEEwwwwww. Reminds me of a time I came home in the dead of the night, greated by the dogs as usual and naturally bent down to give the old boy at pat hello.......wiping my hand in some sort of slimmy substance. SMELLY...slimmy substance!! Turns out they had had a lovely day digging up a rotting decaying lamb that I had buried some weeks earlier! Lesson learnt........make sure you dig a deeper hole!!

That's a really good idea! Our dogs wreck their beds too but they are allowed on the couch and stuff but I may have to copy you and pop one of those in the lounge for them. I've got Bullmastiffs and am using a single bed mattress with a mattress protector and a (cheap) woolen underlay as the cover. I have two underlays, one on the mattress and one in the wash. They love it! Can get single bed foam mattress second hand from salvo's or the likes or at Clarks from $50 up. I recently bought a new crate off ebay from Petstation for $99.......thats the xlarge 48inch. I was lazy and had it delivered though so if you're able and want to save on delivery then pick up is the better option. Toys - one of their favourite toys is an excercise ball....can't remember what they're called. $8 at Coles on special at some stage.

AAAAAAwwww how cute. Does Linus (Scout) suck on her blanky....my 2yr old BM girl does.

It suprises me all the things people will protest to as being disgusting yet are happy to engage in things such as unprotected oral sex and the likes..... It's not like I'd let the dog lick a surgical wound, but a small cut or graze, didn't kill me as a kid and it didn't kill my kids......theres bacteria everywhere. Oh and I am hygenic even though I own dogs and allow them inside.

I read this too quickly. I read the me as my. :D Ditto

We use to own a vineyard which also had some citrus trees, various other fruit trees and a walnut tree, all of which the dogs(not just one or two) would help themselves too. The grapes were dried as well as picked for wine so the dogs ate them dried and fresh. The only reason any of the dogs ended up at the vet were from snake bite, none of the fruit or nuts seemed to have affected them at all. I can't say any of the neighbors dogs ever came down sick from eating grapes either......no one ever mentioned it and they all had free for all on the blocks.

Some of these I have posted before in the Bullmastiff thread but thought I'd share them here for those that don't frequent that thread. Always up for a cuddle in our house..... In the beginning... Old married Couple Aunty and Neice

Is this considered a cuddle? Sorry about the size.

All mine do the same thing too.....even my new pup! Great idea I got from you though, to do a poo run before going for a walk.

It was a gorgeous sunny day here, though still a bit fresh but unfortunately I woke up feeling like I'd been hit by a mack truck in the form of a cold/flu so the furry's have had to amuse themselves outside, sunbaking and the like. What a waste would have loved to have done something more productive with them today.

When I was a child our mini foxie went missing,(presumed stolen because of circumstances). As children we were always keeping a look out for her and to this day (in my 40's) I still wonder what happened to her. With the dog microchipped there is always that possibilty that the dog will turn up, a new pup/dog could help distract the boys from their loss and maybe you could explain that while you may get a new pup that if the missing dog is found it will still have a home with the new one and they would be companions. At least their is one positive here....at least your boys don't see animals as replaceable commodities, I think you can be proud of that.

No words needed.......it can work, depends on you and your dogs.

Just a thought......I'm assuming he is desexed? Some of my medical friends believe that desexed male dogs are prone to dementia....from the lowered to nil testosterone levels. I don't know if any one has done an actual study, but it's something which I wonder about, having worked in aged care.

We had a Corgi as well when we were kids and she was an awesome kids dog!! Rough and tumble, in to anything we were in to, loved ball games be they small tennis balls or footballs, swimming and also going out on our horse rides. All the neighborhood kids loved playing with her. Nice compact size dog to take anywhere, never a hassle.......but.... even though she wasn't meant to, she slept on the foot of my bed. LOL Corgi....what a great suggestion

I think it's more about "how" the dog eats, Pug's can be little scoffers and almost try to "inhale" their food. Our Pug was a scoffer so he was mostly fed things he had to chew. One of my Bullmastiffs is a scoffer..... while she gets mince and chopped meats at times, I make sure they aren't of a size that could get stuck in her throat, mostly though I feed things like frames and lamb necks where the meat has to be chewed off the bone. (Mind you I have heard of large dogs that have "inhaled" chicken frames and choked like your pug on the cheese).