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Senior Sergeant Charles James Perrin, and his dog, 'Paddy' outside what is possibly Gladstone Police Station, c1931. We do not know the identity of this police officer or at which police station they are located, but the dog’s name was written on the back of the photograph as 'Bell of Bookah', c1934. This information has been supplied by the Queensland Police Museum from the best resources available at the time of writing. The Police Museum is open 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 3pm on the last Sunday of the month (Feb-Nov) and is located on the Ground Floor of Police Headquarters at 200 Roma Street, Brisbane. Contact: E: [email protected] “A police officer’s best friend” by the Queensland Police Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (BY) 2.5 Australia Licence. Permissions may be available beyond the scope of this licence.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/legalcode

I saw this article this morning and emailed QPS Museum to ask if I could pop it in here. I can, so here it is: http://qpsmedia.govspace.gov.au/2012/02/07/from-the-vault-a-police-officer%E2%80%99s-best-friend/ FROM THE VAULT – A police officer’s best friend February 7, 2012, 10:00 am There is no doubt that sworn dogs are integral to Queensland Police work across the state. However we should not forget that dogs also formed part of an officer’s family especially when they were posted to small stations in outback Queensland. Technically these canine companions were not trained as police dogs but more than likely were used for police work if the situation called for it. Some single officers posted to one man stations, would have undoubtedly found the companion of a dog to be a blessing. Constables Thomas Clines (left), and Herman Schnitzerling (right) heading out on patrol, Mossman, 1911. The following is written on the back of the photograph featuring Constables Clines and Schnitzerling: 3rd May 1911 Dear Mother I am forwarding to you a schnapshot taken whilst out on Patrol, The two dogs take a good photo, the black dog on the right hand side of my friend (far right of the photo), is my best beef hound, I am breaking it in to heel the drunks this crushing season. The fellow walking behind is our black tracker, following us out to catch his horse. Good bye with kind love to all at home, from your son HB Schnitzerling. More on next post

well, as his name is Angus he should be extra-caring to Westies or the Bogle will get him.

That is good news varicool

I bought three from this ebay store, the seller was excellent and answered all my questions, the life jackets were also a pretty good price. http://stores.ebay.com.au/funkyvillagepets

I am so sorry for your loss Missymoo. I went to your website and saw his photo, he is so lovely. Your heart will have a huge hole in it form losing such a wonderful friend. Have fun over the Rainbow Skippy.

ouchies...poor little bugger.

Can someone tell me what 'Rolling' means. I brush the dogs, then comb them (with a metal comb) but Penny's coat becomes matted very quickly and I left it for 9 days before brushing and combing last time and had to cut out the mattie-bits with the scissors...yes I know I should have done it sooner she is getting all that fine, fine wispy hair tangled, didn't used to do this but seems more frequent lately.

Someone has a Deluxe Telegraphic Pet Ramp for sale in the classifieds section, about 3/4 of the way down this page--> http://www.dogzonline.com.au/classifieds/forsale.asp?cat=10

and photos of her gorgeous smile :) She may be bent & broken... but she is a happy girl now . +1 Good job Carlo11, you have made her smile

Yep, so much for the call of the wild! Daisy lifted her head up and the other two didn't even wake up. I had a much better reaction to that little dog howling as it played the piano

You may be interested in this DOL topic started by BMAK, about the dog eating poo. I remembered someone suggested feeding pineapple so did a search http://www.dolforums.com.au/topic/214398-eating-dog-poo/page__st__10__p__5183960__hl__pineapple__fromsearch__1#entry5183960

Has he pooed it all out and feeling better today? have you give him a charcoal tablet? (they do help)...I just realised that sounds bossy, not meant to be..just askin'

I think the thought of dogs just eating meat is very primal....dogs have access to every food under the sun now... back in the day im not so sure they had ready access to carrots and pears :) meat would be the only thing running around.... I think this thread confirms that dogs like fruits and veggies a lot more then we do!! Dr.Ian Billinghurst, who wrote "Give Your Dog A Bone", says that wild dogs would consume the stomach contents of their kills, thus getting vegetables. As does Dr Bruce Syme of VAN. Yet there are also many wolf and canine experts that state that dogs/wolves leave the vegetation in their stomach and intestines alone. To each his own, but I would be inclined to believe the latter. I had a bitch who was an inveterate rabbit hunter & I can assure you that she ate the WHOLE rabbit, stomach contents & all My dogs (and cat) eat whole prey too, with my cat eating up to 70% whole prey these days. Usually the smaller prey animals will be eaten whole, like the mice, quail, chicks and rats my kitten gets. My dogs leave the stomach and intestines of whole prey for me to clear up. Sometimes they eat them, but they don't usually do. Rabbits will usually be eaten whole by wolves, unlike larger prey like cows and sheep. I agree that wolves and dogs in the past wouldn't have gotten such a variety of diet. That's precisely what the prey model is trying to replicate. Dogs are opportunistic hunters, so they will eat poop, someone else's garbage and gorge on grass until they vomit. Doesn't mean that they need poop in their diet do they. Perhaps try finding videos of wolves where they show them shaking out the vegetation before consuming the stomach. There are plenty. Because we all know dogs are foxes now. That's a new one. I Googled this...may be untrue as it is from Answers/Wikianswers http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_dogs_related_to_foxes and this link gives more info--> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080324161252AAkZ0OD

I forgot to add that Mac likes the tomatoes that have gone rotten but are still hanging on the vine like small water-filled balloons. He delicately picks one off, holds it in his mouth and bites down gently to release the stinkin' pulp. He closes his eyes with bliss as he does this.

Yep, good aye :D

I have just copied the stuff written in the bar (URL bar?)..(I was copying the image before) into the Testing Forum and the photo is larger...I'll try to put it in my siggy now.

Hi K9angel, I have replied to your message, this is what I wrote: I can copy the photo but it won't allow me to paste. I also tried to do it in the 'Testing Forum' but I can't paste in there either. The Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, words on the mouse right click are greyed out. If it is a line of text I have copied I can paste that, but not the image or even the image from Marion's email that I have saved to desktop or the image I have inserted in an 'Office' document.

I have emailed you k9angel as there is no way in this wide world that I can put that piccie in the PM me box...I don't know how ...I have asked if you can send me your email address so I can forward Marion's email to you

Marion 01 has made me a siggy but it needs to be longer and a little deeper. I had uploaded her picture (a big one and the final edited one) into Photobucket but even if I make the edited one bigger (it looses its clarity though) and save it, it will go back to the size you see in my siggy below. I did email Troy with the problem, had this answer.... Just checking that when you uploaded it (the edited version) to photobucket, you didn’t tick any option to reduce the size and when you are linking to it from photobucket, you are linking to the full sized image? I emailed back saying that I had used the edited photo and asked if I should have used the unedited/bigger sized photo, Troy answered...No the smaller one should be the correct one as long as when you upload it, photobucket doesn’t reduce it in size further. I am not sure if there is an option when you upload it to preserve the size/dimensions? Can anyone help? I can't believe it should be this hard, my brains are hurting :laugh:

I reckon :-D

ok, thank you heaps. it is pretty good Marion now the next big challenge/problem is getting it longer and deeper.

Penny taking it easy after rearranging the sofa cushions

Mine eat just about anything and I wish Mac would stop picking the ripe strawberries out of the garden

Yep, this is Grumpy's dinner-time choices