Rebanne

I think it's good you are testing but what happens if any come back as a carrier? Cause if they turn out excellent workers someone is sure to want to breed from them.

take the dog to the pound.

just whose dog is this? as you seem very involved. personally the dog has proven it is dangerous therefore it must live by those laws. And if the "owner' can find $1500 for boot camp then they can find the money for a professional assesment. Might be best if the "owner" just abides by the conditions imposed on the dog, at least that way other dogs will be safe.

so the best diet for my dogs is one that keeps them looking good ie coat, firm poo, maintains weight, doesn't give them any allergic reactions and for me, easy to obtain.

My greys aren't ex race dogs, they are house dogs, but I have never bothered to trial them in a kennel. If they have needed to go in to kennels they go. End of story. Longest has been for a week. They survived and so did I.

Well that's why people need to vote! Only 1 of the 9 candidates up for election is a returning committee member. Georgina Beach Tania Kirkland Emma Duff Frank Valastro Sheryl Pretty Jan Robinson David Veless Gwenda Carr Stephen Sapsead 2 of these candidates work in the VCA Office. I'm not sure that is a good combination. And they are?

I've left my dogs tied up outside the local milkbar while I nicked in for the paper. Usually around 6 am. If I was still walking the dogs at that time, and if the milkbar was still there :D , I most likely would still be doing it.

hope they send out some info regarding themselves, some I have never heard of.

I know, so annoying :D

One of mine does that, starts as a play bow facing the other dog, then a complete 360 in the air but low to the ground, so she is back in exactly the same spot. It is so quick ! Yeah I've had greys do that :-)

this thread has gone so far off topic it's not funny. The guide dog worker should be sacked. He was negligent in his duties and as a result of this caused the death of a dog. Fault lays firmly at his feet and I for one could care less how much he beats himself up over it.

Why would a person complain about someone else doing it, if they think it's okay? Nope, I meant the opposite. There is no way I would ever tie my dogs up outside a supermarket. I think it's far too risky. But whether other people choose to take that risk is their business. As long as their dogs are not a problem for other people, and not suffering from heat etc, it's not for me to be a little dictator about it. agree

Agree, poor dog and poor puppy raising family

and this isn't just a problem with Vizslas....can also happen to GSP, Weis, etc even Pointers who have always had a full length tail.......I have had a bitch that broke her tail (last 3 joints) very badly, doing the same thing Of course it's not, I know of a Dalmatian who had to have part of it's tail amputated for the same reason happens to greyhounds as well

what a lot of psycho babble

The club is suppossed to keep all the paperwork from a show for 7 years I think. And why does the VCA not have a marked catalogue? All clubs have to send them in and again I would have thought they should keep them for at least 7 years.

Surely there must be stewards' sheets or something? all of which have to be kept

for the little girl and boy hope the remaining boy is ok

Ever seen a greyhound with high drive? They're just as capable of the same thing and it's certainly not abnormal. Some dogs have higher prey drive than others and sometimes in breeds you wouldn't expect. In this case, if it was an amstaff, I would consider some amount of prey drive to be pretty normal. Get a dog with higher drive, allow it to self-reward that drive by letting it hurt other animals and you have the makings for a situation just like this. A dog with drive like that certainly shouldn't be out unmuzzled and offlead (I have a high drive dog myself and we have to be very careful) but high prey drive does not mean the dog is aggressive or abnormal- just that it needs to be managed more carefully. Edit, typo I've yet to own or foster a greyhound that would rip out the insides of another dog. A cat or bird yes, but a dog, no.

And now you make me see RED, here you go suggesting the small dog was to blame. Read the article again. The black dog was offleash. It was a much bigger dog. This was an unprovoked attack - it sounds like it was so sudden that noone had time to do much, they didn't see it coming! It RIPPED THE INNARDS out of the smaller dog. What does it take to make you and people like you realise that this is abnormal? It is completely unacceptable and this owner should go to jail and pay an enormous fine, his dog should be euthanased. The owner did nothing at all to prevent this attack and I'd like to know how many other dogs and animals have been killed already by this large dog - you can put money on it that it's done it before. wow, so many posters suggesting i'm excusing an unprovoked attack. Read what i actually said and try again. I did not place blame on either dog, I simply stated I'd really like to know the full story, not just what the media has told us. Did this occur in an offleash dog area? Did the larger dog approach the smaller dog and the larger dog ended up reacting to the smaller dog acting aggressively? Was the small dog really on leash? Lots of questions which we probably will never know the answer to. What does it take to make people like me reaslie that this is abnormal? What does it take to make morons who own little yappy fluffballs to realise that it's not ok for their dog to aggressively approach other dogs? I didn't intend for my comment to suggest that a dog getting barked at was reason enough for the other dog to react in such a manner, however anyone who lives in the real world will see stupid owners of all sized dogs allow their uncontrolled dogs to act dominant or aggressively toward other dogs, the majority of those are little fluffy yap yaps. It doesn't take much for a large dog to rip a small dog apart! BTW, I'm absolutely sick of stupid owners(mostly owning little fluffball yap yaps) who allow their dogs to charge and carry on toward my dog. It may well be the case that this little dog was completely innocent and the larger dog(well it's owner at least) was completely at fault but I'd like to know the full story, not just what we're told by the media! what a jerk you are mymatejack

there is a post saying they were found

There's theraputic and then there's snipping a bit of the dog's tail off to get a better set in the show ring, which is what the motion is about. that is not what the motion is about. It is about restricting what a person can do with a dog legally purchased and imported from another country. It is not illegal to own a docked dog in this country.