Kirislin

I watched it on iview.  I’ve been following Aticia (Pilbara Dogs) for a few years on Facebook. She’d mentioned Gossip Girl but nothing about how or why she had her. I was surprised to see them on this.

A friend of mine is very good. Belinda Blight. Her face book page is Hound and Hand.

this is the portrait she did of Secret’s brother Obi 

9 hours ago, asal said:

the caption on faceplant says 'only horse people will get this.'

 

prove em wrong everyone

 

 

Grab a hold of his ear and twist it too!  

I wonder if her transportation down to you might’ve terrified her and sort of imprinted on her brain. I don’t know how to describe it, but my puppy was a bit of a loner although liked trotting along with her outside I think, from what the breeder told me. 
when I got him flown down he was terrified and also completely shut down.  He improved fairly quickly but there’s some things I notice about him and I wonder if his natural temperament along with a frightening experience of being flown to a strange place and a person he didn’t know, at a sensitive and impressionable age might’ve influenced his behaviour.

do you think it’s possible something like this has affected your puppy too?

I think I’d just give them a full refund. I’d rather get the puppy back than have them try to recoup their money by on selling without telling me on gumtree or similar.

That’s amazing.  Good dog Zollie!

As a kid I always thought my dog Bobby would save me if anyone attacked me because whenever my brother would beat me up Bobby would always come to my aid.

Then one day I was walking through the railway underpass and a man grabbed me.  I was terrified……and so was Bobby. He took off for home without a second glance back at me and left me to look after myself and fend the man off, which luckily for me I did.  
 

I had a friend with a lovely German Shepherd and she saved his life.  He had a fire break out in his kitchen. Annie the Shepherd started barking and bolted out of the house. My friend was disappointed in her and thought she was a coward.  A short time later some people from up the street came to his house because Annie hadn’t run away in fear, she’d gone for help.   They said she went running into their yard barking and then running back out onto the street. They quickly realised she wanted them to follow her.  What a star she was.   I actually knew Annie and she was a beautiful dog.  If I had a Shepherd I’d love one like her.  Sadly she and her owner have now passed away. 

I rarely take my dogs to parks now. I used to go every day to the large park near me. Back then I knew most of the dogs and people.  There was a regular group who all walked together but now there is so many people with no clue about dogs, and dogs they haven’t trained.  I’d be terrified one would kill my Italian greyhounds who wouldn’t have a chance.  It’s too risky.  I’d love to regularly take Soda there. He’s been twice and I didn’t see a single familiar face.  Maybe it will be better now lockdown is over. Perhaps people will go back to work and I can find a quiet time to take him. 

He’s growing like a weed.  I weighed him yesterday at 14 weeks old. He’s 8.2 kgs.  Like most modern whippets today he won’t be small.  I’m hoping he won’t be much more than 15 kilos. Actually I’m hoping he will be less, but it’s unlikely and I’ll love him regardless.  He’s already stolen my heart. 
Todays photo. I’d picked all the dog beds and toys, and blankets and everything else puppy related off the floor to vacuum.  He clambered up off the floor too. 

Ebony and Ivory. 

From a couple of days ago. 

Secret today. Still miniscule with a big personality, and still wearing the temporary puppy collar I made for her 5 years ago.

On 29/09/2021 at 9:28 AM, persephone said:

What a great photo  ! He will certainly inject more energy into the household 

He certainly does!

I haven’t bought meat for my dogs from pet suppliers for years now. I know from past experience that when the knacker man comes to collect a dead beast they never ask if it was given medication with a withholding period, or even how it died. It could’ve been given the green dream, they don’t care.  I wouldn’t feed it to my pets.  

I just get supermarket or butcher meat.  I buy a whole raw chook for $3.90kg and chop it up.  I buy lamb chop off cuts for $7kg or sometimes on special for $5kg.  Free range eggs from  a local grower $5 per dozen. Salmon off cuts $3 kg. Then lamb or beef heart, liver etc.  all fit for human consumption.   Occasionally I get some venison from a friend. They dogs loved that! 
Bone dust for free and  the occasional road kill bunny that gets chucked in the freezer for about a month and then fed whole to them, fur, guts, the lot.

The puppy foot is on the left. 

On 10/09/2021 at 7:03 PM, DogsAndTheMob said:

He’s gorgeous. That combination of dark eyes against the cream and white is just so special.Genetically,what’s the difference between cream and fawn in whippets? Is cream ee and fawn Ay__?

 

How about Brûlée for the name?

I can’t explain the genetics of cream.  It’s been referred to as a masking gene and can pop up after generations from any colour whippet. I’ve seen it appear from a lot of brindles.  I do know if you mate 2 creams together you will only get creams.

it reminds me of my favourite breed of horse, the Akhal Teke with their magnificent metallic sheen. They often produce creams.   
I even considered naming him Teke but decided against it.

I’ve gone back to Soda and it’s sticking now and he answers to it.   He’s doing well, growing like a weed.  He will be bigger than the sort of whippet I like but then so were Tag and Puck and I couldn’t have loved them more, so in the end it doesn’t matter. 
His pedigree certificate arrived yesterday, his registered name is Ridgesetter Locked In My Heart. 

Neko has a new challenge in her life. A puppy! But not hers.  Soda the whippet joined our little pack a few weeks ago.  Yes! I bought a Covid puppy! . Not really. I’ve been whippetless for almost a year and have been looking the whole time.  Neko is fantastic with him, Secret is doing her best, but he’s goofy, clumsy and rough, and she’s smart enough to know he could hurt her.  Of course I do my best to protect all of them.   Keeps me busy, makes me get out of bed in the mornings. Puppy’s name is Soda….as in Creamy Soda.  His colour is very unusual in Australia. He’s the first one I’ve actually seen here, although I think there has to be more because we have all the same bloodlines that produce them overseas.  

On 27/09/2021 at 3:17 PM, tdierikx said:

The problem I have with anthropomorphising is that the lunatic fringe tend to take things to the extreme and lobby loudly to end our close relationships with animals.

 

T.

 

 

Nothing will stop the lunatic fringe.   No matter what you say or do. 

Did you get him at 7 weeks old?  That is far too young.  Was he wormed and given his first vaccination?  How does he look? Does he have a lovely soft coat or is it dry?  Does he look nice and chubby all over or is he bony with a pot belly?  Some puppies do tend to make a lot of noises. My puppy talks in his sleep and sometimes just moans and groans because he wants to get in my bed and I don’t let him, so it’s hard to know if the sounds your puppy is making are normal or cries of pain.    I suspect if he was sold so young he could well be sick with any number of things.  How is he after the vets visit?

Well worth the price.

I’ve always believed dogs have a sense of humour, and make believe.  They know that squeaky toy isn’t a real live animal, but they still love chucking it around, making it squeak and ripping its guts out.   

On 27/09/2021 at 3:04 PM, tdierikx said:

The simple economics of the matter is that the market will price to what the buyer will pay.

 

I see no problem with a reputable breeder making a profit from the sale of their quality pups... why the hell shouldn't they? And I also have no problem with reputable breeders dictating what register they put their pups on either... if they would prefer their pups not to be bred from, then that's their perogative.

 

I have already picked a breed and breeder that I will be contacting once I'm able to take on another pup... fingers crossed that I can afford the pup I want at that time... lol!

 

T.

Ooooo! What breed?

On 21/09/2021 at 9:02 AM, Ann Renders said:

My 5 year old grandaughter is devastated because her mother had to euthanase there 12 year old dog who was very ill. She asked her mother for a puppy but because the prices are in the thousands of dollars her mother cannot afford one. It's just heartbreaking and I think it is just disgusting & greedy...it would have a loving family & good home, it's a pity people care more about the money than the wellbeing of their puppy. Just because people have a lot of money  doesnt mean it will go to a loving home..

Cross breeds are usually much more expensive than pedigrees and they don’t have the costs that pedigree breeders have.  You have come to the wrong place to criticise breeders for the prices they charge.

I have just bought a pedigree puppy which cost many times more than the last puppy I bought over 20 years ago.  I am not complaining one single bit, in fact knowing what’s involved I think the breeder was very reasonable with her price.

Don’t forget the purchase price is probably the cheapest part of getting a puppy. From then on you have a lifelong obligation to care for that pup, it’s like a marriage, in sickness and in health.  If you can’t afford the purchase price then you probably can’t afford to own a dog.  

how much do you think a pedigree puppy should cost and what have you based your costing on?

On 21/09/2021 at 7:39 AM, tdierikx said:

What about Obi? Short for Oberon... and follows the Midsummer Night's Dream theme started by Puck... *grin*

 

T.

Secret’s brother is named Obi. 

As much as I like the name Soda it’s just not sticking.  I’m now calling him Bodi.  I’m hoping that will stick.