LizT

In this day and age I think it's wonderful if someone says "anything" (not rude) to you. People don't talk enough to strangers and so often I say something..of a similar vein to someone...just small talk...like "You've got your hands full" to a mum busy with four kids under five...and get a pained smile back but seems pleased someone is noticing that she does in fact have her "hands full". :) Perhaps you were having an off day. Bad timing and such. Pity..poor man might think twice before he speaks to anyone again and this world, for all it's communications devices is loosing the true art of communication.

A dog can only be proved to be "inadequately contained" IF it actually gets out. When I did the cencus years ago I had a problem with two dogs in a front yard...A Rottie and a Ridgeback. I could barely drop the paperwork into the letterbox without these two jumping at my hand a barking and slavering..very, very scary. When working on that street during collection weeks later, these two dogs were out for a wander. The front gate was open, the owner was washing his car and they were walking up the footpath, they were the sweetest friendliest dogs you'd hope to see. Quite different from the two dogs who objected to me approaching their front fence and letterbox.

My husband delivers parcel for a living and has to contend with dogs "meet 'n greets" all the time. Fortunately dogs are a good judge of character and they seem to really love him, a comment he receives daily from people..."Oh Fido really loves you"..I'm sure it's because he smells of our pack! :laugh: The law does state that a person "with business" (deliveries, meter readers etc.) must have clear and unencumbered access to the front door of each home. This includes not tripping over hoses and kids bikes! This is why people have public liability insurance as part of their household insurance. If they have business at your home and your dog bites them on your property you are liable. I believe someone with more legal nouse than I has mentioned on a previous thread that dogs are not permitted to be left in front yards. My girls play in the front yard as it is a "tidier Cavalier friendly" yard than the back with simple access to our house, but we are on acreage and people walk on the road. Even so I never leave them out there unattended without being able to see them through my front door, just in case someone comes. As to just walking past homes where dogs take offence at your dogs going past, this is territorial and to be expected. They are telling you to "push off" and that this is their 'crib'. No one can walk past our home without our dogs barking at them...the GSD can 'seem' quite intimidating. It's all an act...but that is what he is paid the "Big Bucks" for. :) Incidently he is confined to the rear of the house. I have actually planted a low hedge just in front of our fence so people walking on the road wont see us and we wont see them soon. :)

Parents should receive councelling and do a Parenting Course. Unreal. So proud of the young GSD. Good looking dog too.

Police believe Dante had removed his nappy on a dirt road about 2km into the state forest before continuing. Sen-Constable Carol Rigby said she and Leading Sen-Constable Greg Lee were about to turn back when they heard a crying child. "The last time we saw footprints was some way back but we asked ourselves: what if we just go around the next corner?" Sen-Constable Rigby said. Dante Berry with his mum Bianca Chapman after being found safe about 3km from his home in Mildura. Picture: Attila Szilvasi She said Dasher then came bounding out and led them to the crying Dante, who was wearing just a long-sleeved top. I'd be a mess if my 12 months old GSD was missing overnight...let alone my baby. By the sounds of it they aren't on a property either but farmland and reserves are nearby. Some people are clueless. Thank you whoever watched over them.

Well maybe now they WON'T let him wander up to a kilometre...utterly irresposible. I would never even let a two year old in a closed up secure yard unsupervised. Geez I hope he's okay.

Please be safe little one. http://www.news.com.au/national/two-year-old-boy-missing-after-apparently-wandering-off-mildura-property-police-say/story-fndo4cq1-1226511902546

Same. Just listed the Show, points etc. Never sent in the Certificates, though none were missing and all were Metropolian Shows.

Really? I wouldn't be letting any potential puppy buyers near my pups before 7 weeks. Week old puppies are just too vunerable to disease etc.

In my own personal experience a Cavalier puppy we bought was kept outdoors in a stable where all the dogs were. She is always happy and relaxed around us but doesn't take to visitors easily and takes months to adjust to any new regular visitors who come here. Certainly not typical of a Cavalier. She is probablydefinitely the least friendly to strangers of all our dogs. I was worried her nervousness around others would be passed on to her pups but they are all happy well adjusted dogs due to the stimuli offered them as babies. I believe if a dog is to be kept outdoors due to large breed and litter size it is of utmost importance that the stimuli be brought to them.

I read somewhere years ago that anthropolgists believe that yawning is a signal that predates language as we know and understand it to mean. "This is where we stop and rest". "Days end" Tools down".

Mine too. Thy would have barked at every little noise the camera crew made outside the walls. Not too mention going apeshit on challenges and events like Halloween night with all the screaming and antics. Deliah was just like meh...this is how we roll in the BB house. :laugh: I was just saying to my daughter they should havea dog to look after when Deliah appeared. :)

Actually from what I've seen of the dog they (pre trainers and housemates)have done a great deal of training and work with her and she is a very laid back, easy going dog. Doesn't get her feathers ruffled when things get a bit exciting or silly. I think she will fit in another household without too many dramas, as too getting along with the other dogs..everyone who adpots a second or third dogs has to deal with this scenario and possible outcomes. I myself, had to send an adopted dog back to be re-home with a only dog situation due to him savagely attacking one of mine after he had gotten on well for nearly a month. It's like the "dog of the week" in newspapers and on TV. 100's call up and everyone wants it..but when you tell them it's got a home and ask if they'd like to come down and check out other dogs, they're not interested.

OH so happy with that news. The last time I went past there, they had Bull Arabs X Staffies for sale. Let's hope all the Pet Shops follow suit, that will seriously put a dent in the BYB's pockets. :D Just when you start feeling no ones listening or getting the message.

Just found out the same thing has happened where the Pets Paradise was as Eastland Ringwood. See my "happy dance" everyone?

Hurray Bump! It's reopened as a Pets Supply Store with an Adoption Program. Wooohoooo!!

As Sheridan stated "You cannot force people to be educated". No, you can't. But would some media saturation of a positie kind about education and pet training, socialisation, responisbility of Pet owners etc. on a Community type TV ad go a long way to helping to eduate the unwilling and unwitting? Why do we never see these types of "Community announcement adverts.

Not on dogs but my husband has had a few removed with liquid Nitrogen (dry ice). Also his father had some done years ago and now my daughter had a small one removed under her eye. Must run in their 'lines'. :laugh:

Indeed. I too would be quite interested to know. Personally I feel most canine Vegan foods are too grain oriented for a dogs digestion.

Dog Shows are a walk in th Park compared to some Playgroups I've been connected to. :laugh:

I believe their DNA is identical. That's the amazing part...whether it's my German Shepherd or my Cavaliers...all from teh same genus.

*looks at scars on hand and arm from being careless and getting in the way of a fight , with two dogs who went on to be guide dogs.* Exactly. Dogs being dogs.

Just saw on Nine News that someone shot a little Daschund in the stomach while it was in it's owners yard. Poor creature died from bleeding out of course. People are so dangerous. A second little dog is okay. Poor owner.

Or that only "monster" or poorly raised or abused dogs demonstrate it. Nice owners who carefully raise and train their pups can STILL have aggressive dogs and folk who don't believe that are completely underestimating the importance of genetics in dog temperament. Sometimes that scenario is the BIGGER problem. So many people could not imagine their nice friendly dogs could display any type of aggression under any circumstances. Comes as a serious shock when things go awry. Really, the bottom line is WE ALL should expect that they can and be prepared to intervene and prevent as appropriate with a FULL understanding of the consequences.