Rebanne

I have never had a humper, male or female, and the only "marker" was a desexed female pound hound :laugh: My boys don't cock their legs

I have to agree, very sad but I can't imagine any good breeder giving you such a short deadline anyway. I would have only given 24 hrs to think about it. How long is a breeder supposed to knock back possible homes while waiting for someone to make up their mind?

Obviously you were told one thing by one person and not the other. Wonder whose litter it really was? As others have said you might have dodged a bullet there.

yep a greyhound could work

I had a heavy bias to females dogs just because I did. Had 5 GSD's females in a row with never a problem between them. Then I got my first male greyhound, as a foster, - oh boy was I in love. Since then I have a bias to male greyhounds, have owned 4 males to one female. I do now have another female greyhound and love her to bits but she was partly chosen to continue my breeding program. If I had just wanted a pet I would have chosen one of her brothers.

Ronin is super smart, mine just try and catch the low flying ones

Birds are fair game in my backyard. They are not natives so doesn't bother me.

Your best bet would be the UK Terriers sub forum. Just add your photos there.

a tattoo is still needed for a male, some are cryptorchids.

Not in SA but I had a neighbour say no and the council approached the other neighbour (who was a known troublemaker!) who has said yes and asked him if he was happy to right them a letter so he did and I got my permit.

Legally, in Victoria they are not allowed off lead even in a dog park, but there are a couple of groups that have fun days at local slipping tracks around Melbourne.

I would think whatever you wanted. I only ever fed plain porridge, sometimes with an egg added in. I did do some barley once or twice for my dogs but they didn't seem very fond of it, was a few years ago now. I think you can get dried vegies. Sometimes I buy the cheap brand of frozen mixed vegies and feed that to the dogs but I am not a big believer in vegies for dogs. When I fed raw 100% I followed the original Give Your Dog A Bone. I actually was only feeding them every 2nd day until I go the hang of the amounts of bone and meat they needed. Dogs were happy but I wasn't :D Now I just feed dry and add bits and pieces to that but never vegies and not every day. My dogs don't seem bored with getting the same thing twice a day every day. They do like the odd carrot to chew on, comes out as it goes in :laugh:

No need for parsley or garlic either but I don't see why you couldn't add some dried stuff to the oats and let it all soak.

I used to just soak the rolled oats overnight in some milk and then add hot water to it in the morning, dogs loved it in winter time! There have been some concerns about flax with breeding animals on a couple of repo groups I am a member of. Not a problem for you Juice but anyone intending to breed their animals should do some research.

I had an older grey with vestibular disease, he improved quite rapidly but sometimes symptoms last for weeks and sometimes forever - things like ending up with a permanent head tilt.

Grains are not needed, I'd feed rolled oats before flaxseed.

so sorry Pheebs. Run free Lucy, no more pain.

exciting!

Isn't this the place with an area at the back that is a bit dicey with it's fencing? You were worried the big dog would get in and hurt your little dogs or has that all been fixed up? Don't want to rain on your parade but people need to know.

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Yep, I'd be interested to know. Possibly because it's cheap? maybe but they also might have found the pups do well on it. I don't feed expensive puppy food to my greyhounds, grows them too fast.

ask your breeder why they choose to feed Uncle Albers.

Strange I would have thought you had seen it several times over the years.

agree. Why do so many dog owners think others will be useless? Never meant to imply anything of the sort. Everyone was a novice at point. Just pointing out that there are lots of abandoned lab and lab mixes because a lot of people believe the marketing. Certainly, they could be awesome owners. But dismissing the idea of a puppy class to ME as a lab owner, rings alarm bells. They were getting mini essay's from a friend of a friend, goodness only knows what else they discounted, or took notice of, all information is 3rd hand. I've never taken a puppy class in my life. I am currently mentoring a new dog owner who bought one of my pups, she is doing a great job, no puppy class there either, most wouldn't know what to do with a greyhound anyway. and I have seen young out of control dogs in the hundreds in pounds, I worked in one for 10 years.

A good breeder will help them and while a lot of labs are exuberant, not all are. I'd be trying to steer these people towards a good breeder.