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Someone I know had a dog with this and he looked identical to this dog with the same symptoms (only he looked even worse). It's a very distinct 'look' and I would be very surprised given the other symptoms too if it wasn't this. I'm sorry to say that he had to be euthanased, but his case was very severe, and from my readings most dogs recover.

Can we all stop generalising an entire breed as if every dog in that breed's behaviour is exactly the same? One poster says: Dachshunds are like THIS Other poster says: No, Dachshunds are like THIS. How about, there is hugely varied behaviour within the breed and while there can be some common traits within a purebred dog and another purebred dog of the same breed the differences have been shown to be just as vast as the differences between breeds. You'd both be right and I'm sure you've both experienced Dachshunds on either end of the spectrum. How can you generalise an entire breed as never human aggressive? FYI I've investigated about four attacks from Dachshunds on humans. Does that make them an aggressive breed? No. It means that those individual dogs had issues and were managed badly by their owners.

In my experience people have a pair of dogs like this for one reason and that's intimidation factor which usually comes with allowing the flexing of some muscle being signs in the dog they appreciate, then one day sadly this happens. It's not a breed bash I am speaking, it's a genetic configuration in dogs like this that people throw together to create a tough factor not unlike they did years ago with GSD's and Doberman and the breeders of these type of dogs are responsible for the tightening and targeting of Bull breeds within the BSL structure as too many are purposely bred for aggression where the aggression is in the wrong place in the dog's character for usability and stability necessary in a family pet. Aha. Knew from the first post you were M-Sass. Confirmed. Very sad story. Hope the little boy recovers well.

My housemate gave my dog a watermelon skin the other day and said she absolutely loved it!

Great outcome!!

SDCH don't put a time limit on the animals in their care, do extensive vetwork and operations on pets that need it as well as long term behavioral retraining. You can be very certain that any money brought in goes to the animals (someone said were concerned about that).

A brief look at their stats would disprove their claim pretty quickly. People lying about being no kill doesn't mean that No Kill doesn't work or isn't a real thing.

Then they weren't no kill. Pounds can empty their shelters if they market their pets well, forge great relationships with rescue groups, and have staff and a director unwilling to use killing as the answer. Pretty much all the major pounds in Sydney (Blacktown, Hawkesbury, Sutherland, Renbury, Sydney Dogs and Cats Home) have managed to achieve it. If a shelter has bins overflowing with dead rehomable animals, then the blame for that lays squarely on the shelter doing a crappy job at saving lives.

Beautiful...

Yes, the no kill movement defines euthanasia as freeing an animal from suffering (whether that be untreatable physical or mental/behavioural suffering). Killing is putting to sleep any animal that is either healthy & rehomable or treatable & rehomable. So they will euthanase, but not kill. Treatable is a key word though - if the dog or cat can be treated medically or behaviourally, then it's not euthanasia.

Why not? You're preventing those pets from entering the pound system in the first place. I say go for it if you find the right dog

I just want to say that the majority of this post is completely incorrect for the majority of dogs in rescue.

I'm not a pedigree breeder but I agree totally. It seems crazy that this information isn't easily accessible and the best way for that to happen would be for it to be displayed on the pedigree!

Just popping in to comment on the bold above that there is nothing unique about Pit Bull's teeth, jaw structure or anything else :) All dogs have sharp, big teeth, and there certainly wouldn't be any clear difference between the teeth of a Pit and an Amstaff, which are genetically one and the same (although bred along different lines for quite some time now) :)

Good timing for this thread to crop up again... mine killed a ringtail possum the other night. Felt awful

No brainer! Vebo are just super cheap!

Vebo crates all the way for me. Super cheap for what good quality they are. www.vebopet.com.au

You need to be aware that NSW uses a completely different (government run) microchip registry, which your dog will not be listed on. When you decide on where you're living contact the local Council with your dog's microchip number and they will be able to give you the necessary forms to get him listed on the NSW registry.

Oh my, heartbreaking.

I've seen these for sale at $2 shops and the like. Is this it?

This. I've taken stray dogs to the vets and haven't had a problem. Mind you, I also said that if an owner couldn't be found, the dogs were not to be shipped off to the pound but sent to an appropriate rescue or returned to me. Perhaps fortunately for my marriage, all were safely returned to their humans. Your profile says you're in NSW and if that's the case the vets would be breaking the law to do that. If they're an authorised premises they may keep the pet up to 72 hours to find it's owner but after that it becomes property of the local Council and MUST go to the Council's impounding facility.

Correlating head shape with behaviour? Idiotic. There are 20,000 genes that create a dog. Six of that 20,000 govern the shape of the dog's head. None of those six also govern behaviour. This is just the same old BSL junk science trotted out again, except against small dogs. This research fails to take in to account the OWNER'S behaviour and how they interact with the dog. As many people have said, lots of small dog owners don't bother with training/socialisation because the dog is much easier to handle if it has issues.

Hi BellaCody, Just wanted to commend you for all you are doing for this little girl. Good on you. When you say she is aggressive to other dogs, what exactly does she do? The reason I'm asking is a lot of dogs may be all show but can live quite happily with other dogs if their owner manages them. I'm wondering if you're able to get a crate at your place and crate/rotate her and your dog initially - to at least bide her more time while you try and find somewhere for her to go. I find Vebo to be the cheapest for high quality crates: Vebo Pet A crate could also be very helpful for working with her separation anxiety too if she is properly crate trained. Just something to consider as a management strategy to buy you and her more time. You may find after some time crating and rotating she warms to your dog - if she is reactive out of fear (which is possible seeing as she has been attacked in the past) she may improve once she's spent enough time with your dog safely. A behaviourist would of course be ideal as they can actually come and see her behaviour and give more tailored advice but just a few things that are popping in to my mind reading the thread.

We walk past a cemetary and she hasn't reacted at all, but dogs sense of smell for these sorts of things are pretty amazing. Check out Migaloo the archaeology dog: Migaloo - Memory or residue? The answer:

We're on the home stretch now.