sparkycat

Great - hopefully the rest of Australia will follow

To me they are attacking and I'm sick of the victim blaming - those dogs should not have been out loose.

I would be happy for my body to be fed to the local lions - Monarto Zoo - I hate the whole funeral ripoff business

It make a great difference to my old Borzoi - he was much happier, clearly in less pain and movement improved hugely. He had 7 doses before I lost him. All drugs have side effects - I once gave them over the count worming pills from our local pet shop. My girl was fine but my big boy had a weird reaction - he got very hypo for about 7 hours. Of course it was a weekend - I learnt to never treat them with anything on a weekend.

Back in the day when we had separate breed threads I came across Borzoi and fell in love so started my life with giant hairy magical Unicorns. I watched the Alyosha litter from birth and was mesmerised by little Blackbird. He came to live with me and was the biggest most handsome gentle cuddly boy. At almost 11 years old he told me it was time. There is a huge hole in the house and we miss him terribly.

I have and I would again but my breed is uncommon so we all know the dogs in Australia.

Grizabella took some fantastic photos of my Mindi -it was hard work because she is only 12 months old and didn't want to stay still

Hi - there is a Facebook group who would probably have some good ideas -Australian dog vehicle chat - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2111937139037455/

My dogs love swimming too and don't care if it's summer or winter - they will swim in anything anytime Maybe yours won't care if the water is cooler.

With my Borzoi it depends on the situation - my girl has very good recall and apart from excelling at scenting classes she is not interested in any training although very intelligent. My boy is great at basic trick training and loves games but once he is on a chase nothing gets him back. Rabbits don't stand a chance with the Borzoi. My Lappie is probably the worst and she will encourage them to ignore me. I learnt early on not to take all 3 or even just 2 off lead anywhere without good fencing as they get into pack mode as totally ignore me. However individually their recall is good.

We had a singing X when we lived in Port Moresby - she had the best singing vocalization and was a great watch dog except the local Tom cat beat her up a couple of times

My giants get roo, beef, salmon, chicken ( frames, feet, necks, wings ) carrots, broccoli, rice, pasta for dinner and anything else one in particular can steal off the bench In the morning they get dry - all my giants do well on CopRice - it's cheap and doesn't go through them. I am lucky there is a quality pet food shop in the next town which is fairly cheap - large salmon heads at 50cents each, chicken feet are couple of $ a kg, beef and roo is about $5 kg. I found prepared Barf was too expensive for me and I didn't like the mushy consistency.

Zylkene has worked brilliantly for my big nervous sighthound - She has been on it for 4 couple of months - I can now walk her around the town - before I could hardly get her out of the yard

Thanks - She weighs 37 kgs which is why the vet recommended 2 x450 per day.

On my vets advice my nervous hound has been on Zylkene for 2 weeks. It appears to have made a big difference as I can now take her for a long walk around my town whereas before I had trouble getting her out of the driveway. She is 7 years old and has been becoming more nervous in the last 12 months or so. I got her as a 3 year old after her previous owner died. She is currently on 2 x 450gm per day - I have googled but can't find any info about a maintenance dose - it is expensive at $64 for 30 capsules. Anyone had experience with it ?