sparkycat

Great photo - they all look very comfy

We do it every year and really enjoy it. There is a great mix of people, dogs, ferrets and other animals.

I am interested in this as I have 2 pets on very expensive medication - Fortekor and Carprieve - is it easy to get from overseas ?

Me "Yes she is pretty" then Jaana will usually howl "I'm a Finnish Lapphund" :laugh: most people get the herding reindeer in Finland part but some do ask why I have one in Adelaide.

I don't take treats to the park and I sometimes wish others wouldn't either. I have a very fluffy cute friendly dog who has perfected the "beg". What people don't realise is that she has a very long memory too and once she gets a treat she doesn't forget and will howl if she doesn't get anymore. I do ask people not to give her treats and most people listen. I did have a very scary incident when she choked because someone gave her a treat after she had been doing zoomies.

We have a cat called Fugly and another called Floud - my vet thought Floud was a very sweet name until I explained it :laugh:

Yes it does effect me . We had a really beautiful deerhound who we lost to bone cancer just before his 5th birthday. It was heartbreaking and although I love giant sighthounds I don't think I could go through the bone cancer risk again. So when we were looking for another dog I looked for a breed that was healthy and long lived.

Well said - I agree

Try Coprice - it was great for our deerhound and wolfie X

Love it !

Try hemorrhoid cream - Anasol or Rectonol - it is thick, tastes horrible, is an antiseptic and anaesthetic. Our deerhound split the end of his tail and Anasol was the only thing that stopped him licking it. We now use it for all dog wounds.

Keely and Jaana trying to convince me that it wasn't them who ate the cats food

Mine do silly faces at the camera and my fierce Siamese Esky (owned by DOLer EskytheHusky) and Kozzie

Deerhound Rough Collie Borzoi Bearded Collie Finnish Lapphund

Agree !

She has settled down a bit now but she managed to pull the bucket off a couple of times- thats the problem with having a neck bigger than a head

Keely my wolfie x BC had a large lump removed from under her front armpit last week. I had put a teeshirt on her but last night she managed to pull open the wound, so she had to get it restitched today. She now has a vet bucket on but is not at all happy I think it scares her. She is fear aggressive at the best of times. So any other ideas on how to stop her getting at the stitches ?

I like dogs and cats equally but I find cats easier to understand. And my Ocicat retrieves a ball much better than either of my dogs do :D

Jaana six weeks old the day she came home to us Now 3 years old

Our deerhound Mungo was a terrible crotch sniffer- one morning OH went out to get the paper and Mungo got a female jogger front on - the female stopped and asked OH if she could buy Mungo as it was the effort a male had made for years - poor OH was speechless !

Sounds like a normal predator - my cats have a run so they only catch small lizards - however my dogs frequently get birds, rats and mice !

This is my favourite- Tarj my Ocicat kitten

Not in my experience. It's variable. Often they pull up and cover the last few metres at a more sedate pace and then perform a lovely appropriate greeting and move on. Other times they run past and loop back around at a trot to greet appropriately. I've never had much trouble with dogs rushing us. The boys usually know what their intention is. The one time someone got body slammed it was me. The dogs ducked out of the way! That was a very rude dog. I have difficulty with the notion that someone could have never been approached by a friendly dog. Happens to me several times a day. Happens to me wherever I take my dogs. I could count the times we've been approached by an unfriendly dog on one hand. Am I living in a different world? Often greetings are tense because dogs don't know who this dog is and what they might do. A tense dog is not an unfriendly dog. I have seen countless tense greetings dissolve into more relaxed interactions once the dogs have established that no one wants to start something. It's worse on the street where the dogs you meet are on leash or may be in their home territory, but even then. I agree completely Corvus - I have a dog who runs up to people and dogs - with people she goes for a cuddle and with dogs she usually circles and play bows. I haven't had any complaints - only comments on how lovely and friendly she is.

I truly hope not! I really hope not too - some of us love the independance of the a Spitz !

Hi Snake Catcher - thanks for all the very useful info on both snake related threads - hopefully it will encourage more people to share the enviroment rather than just kill.