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O poop, perhaps I have blown all my money now.

try this link http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2011/08/static-dog/

I am drying 6 trays of Herb Robert at the moment (I have a Harvest Maid dryer like the one in the link but mine has only 6 trays!) http://wudhi.com/recipes/equipment.htm If Mac would like some more, and Sheridan, if Grumpy would also like some, (and anyone else who has a demented dog) let me know and I'll send some off. It is chopped stalks, leaves and flowers.

I lashed out and bought some as well. I have been using Aquadent but I don't really know if it works. Mac's teeth are getting tartar on them and he gets a chicken wing or 1/2 turkey neck each day. He is a bugger as he goes ow ow ow ow ow ow ow hu hu hu hu hu if I try to brush his teeth (or brush his feet or wipe the 'sleep' out of his eyes) Hope it works.

Pity they don't do an article on Don-the-Berk

That's the stuff I was looking for SecretKei (you beat OSoSwift to the post :-D ). I may have got the hip score info wrong...maybe he is talking about the parents, I'll find out. I think he is hesitant about breeding so the info may get a bomb under him to go and get her desexed. Thanks everyone.

I know I have read on some forums here about problems and expenses on breeding. A neighbour has a pretty 8 month old GSD,(no papers) when I asked him when he was going to get her spayed he said that he was unsure as 'people' had been telling him that it is good for a bitch to have a litter. I asked him if these people were registered breeders, or, even had a dog (they didn't, surprise surprise) I did tell him if he thought he would be improving his breed if he had her mated, and that there may be problems with whelping that could be expensive. He did say that she had hip scores done and that they were #2 Can someone here direct me to any threads on problems with breeding so that I can cut and paste and email him with some facts so he can make a informed decision (like get her desexed now! :-D ) Thanks, B

Yes Drumbeat, I also thought that when I read a little of it....you UK Terrier-peeps had better wake up to yourselves By the way...my Westies don't want to be part of the UK Breeds http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43077321/ns/world_news-europe/t/scotland-split-uk-be-nation-again/

It's ok now, I found it (sort-of) I searched the breed sub-forums, I could only search 'Terrier'...if I wrote 'Border terrier' in the search box I got this message: The following search terms are not allowed and were removed from your query: border perhaps the DOL computer thinks the word 'Border' is rude. Border terriers are in the UK Terrier Breeds forum.

I have a friend who has a Border Terrier...I have suggested she check-out DOL and was going to direct her to the forum But where is it? Can't find it at all :-D

Yep...straw mulch in my house as well! Also some banana skins...Mac found some bananas that had ripened and fell off the tree, he and the girls ate them but he bought the skins upstairs for me.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-03/dogs-get-a-ride-as-man-stand-up-paddles/2822660

At least the dog didn't do a poo and put more crap on the street...those women may be beautiful but they could quit throwing their rubbish hither-thither-willie-nilly all over the paths. How annoying they are.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/elderly-parents-booted-to-make-room-for-dogs/story-e6freonf-1226103940961 A ST Petersburg woman threw her elderly parents out of their shared apartment to accommodate her 11 dogs, then bombarded court officers with glasses, dishes and tear gas when they arrived to remove the animals. A court had ruled the unidentified woman must give up her pets so her 70-year-old parents could return to the apartment, RIA Novosti news agency reported overnight. When the court officers, who had found a place to take the dogs, informed the woman when they would arrive to pick them up, she said she would have a "surprise" waiting. First, she locked herself in a room with the dogs, barricading the door with boxes and wardrobes. When the officers finally got inside, after more than three hours, the woman pelted them with glasses and dishes and sprayed tear gas through a hole between doors. One of the dogs jumped to her assistance and bit an officer on the shin. RIA Novosti said the woman eventually was handcuffed and the animals given sleeping pills and taken to their new locale. The parents reportedly returned to the apartment.

I think she eventually wants to do agility...she has the right dog for the job

My friend is interested in training her rescue Belgian Shepherd Just over 1 year old) at Redland Bay Obedience or Cleveland Obedience Clubs. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks :-)

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/late-designer-mcqueen-leaves-75k-to-pets/story-e6freonf-1226102436994 BRITISH fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide in 2010, left £50,000 ($74,805) of his £16 million ($24 million) fortune to his beloved pet dogs, according to details of his will released today. McQueen, the former enfant terrible of the fashion world who went on to find huge success with his provocative designs, left the money to insure his dogs were pampered after he was gone. Family members, his housekeepers and his favourite charities also received large sums in the will. The will, released after a request from Britain's Press Association news agency, said £50,000 was being left "for the upkeep and maintenance of my dog or dogs so long as my dog or dogs shall live". He left behind three dogs named Minter, Juice and Callum, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported. McQueen wrote a suicide note asking his family to "look after my dogs" before he hanged himself in his central London flat after taking a cocktail of drugs the day before his mother's funeral. McQueen left the lion's share of his estate in a trust for his Sarabande charity, named after his spring/summer 2007 collection, with a request that part of it be used for scholarships to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, which he attended.

I just read this article in the Brisbane Times PM, it is so sad the dog has to be euthanased...poor dog and poor owners, how awful for them.

+ me as well

The word Westie is easier to say than West Highland White Terrier, if someone asks what sort of dogs mine are and I say West Highland White Terrier, they then usually say..Oh, a Westie. So I say Westie so I don't appear to seem superior

There is a company called Pet Sit Australia where they have people who mind dogs in their own homes as well as taking care of them in the minder's home, for a fee. It may be worth contacting them http://www.petsitaustralia.com.au/ Hope this helps

Penny did this when we first got her...we thought it was because she was an older dog and had been a puppy producer at a BYB. Shortly after we got her I needed to take her to the vet for another problem, she was given ABs for that and she was also cured from needing to go out to pee several times a night. I didn't even think of taking her to the vet at the time, it didn't even dawn on me that it was a UTI

Hi Stolzseinrotts, it may be an idea to write to Inghams to ask them if they have a supplier in Melbourne. I get mine from Capalaba Pet Foods who buy them from a supplier in Jacobs Well (I think) and that supplier must get them direct from Inghams. They are human grade. I usually buy a 14kg box and mince 1/2 and the dogs get a whole one cut in half a couple of times a week. Daisy sometimes hucks hers up but then she eats it up again (sort of like a cow chewing it's cud I suppose ) Here is their web site http://www.inghams.com.au/enterprises/home.aspx?docId=397

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post...what I meant was...if a vet nurse does advise a person and that person doesn't follow the advice or follows the advice incorrectly, it may open the nurse to verbal abuse or legal proceedings. At least when the nurses are working in the surgery environment they are covered by insurance (though they will still get verbal abuse from some of the general public I reckon ) I didn't mean the notice-board nurse was unqualified for giving advice....good on her for helping. As a little note.. I do love my friend who is a vet nurse and gives me some great advice...and especially good vaccination advice.