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Cardigan Corgi. From a good registered breeder, of course. Compact size, laid-back personality, sensible, highly adaptable to living a life as an inside pet along with outdoor activities. My family had a Cardigan Corgi when we were kids....Biddy. A versatile & sensible little dog. Loyal little housedog following my mother around the house, totally reliable playing with the kids in the yard... & would instantly switch to outdoor 'girl' whenever a walk, a ride in the car, a camping trip, or a couple of days out on the motor launch came up. Biddy was brilliant on my father's boat....she was a regular on his fishing trips around Moreton Bay. Charter boat skippers would yell out across the water, 'G'day, Biddy!' Not easily spooked or fazed, Biddy was a brilliant family pet, for the total lifestyle.

That's a great idea to have a breed playgroup! I've noticed (& so have other owners) that our tibbie breed 'recognize' each other, so a bunch of them love to get together to socialise. And good on you for extending the invitation to other small dogs of roughly the same size as a papillon. More great socialisation.

I read somewhere an opinion about why dogs can tend to eat poop....& why it's slightly more common in female dogs. In the wild the female dog would eat the poop in the area where she was raising puppies. This was to take way a scent which could attract predators.

I so much agree. It's a delight to be out & about and come across an example of a lovely p/b. Especially as someone else said, if it's one of the less common breeds. Or one that suffers from unfair stereotyping which this dog doesn't deserve. It's great starting a conversation with the owner.... where it soon becomes obvious why this is such a beautifully cared for and well managed example of its breed. Lovely to meet owners who take such pride in their purebreds. Tibetan Spaniels are less common. But every now & again, someone will come up to me & say, with great satsifaction, 'They're Tibetan Spaniels. My parents/aunt/cousin/boyfriend's sister (or whatever) owns a Tibbie. He/She is a fantastic little dog!'. They often add that they can hardly wait to tell him/her that they saw 'TWO Tibbies!' They're like bird-watchers, thrilled to sight a rare species!

Bump for final K-9 Capers for this year. At The Gap.

Go on, Clyde, live dangerously. But make your Will first.

I don't kick either but a good whack with the flat of your hand to the butt, puts them off balance and gets the message through. Yep, everyone has to figure out what works for them.....& what they're comfortable using with their dog. My preference is that my dog doesn't learn to fear my hands & feet. (Tho' I've found some pressure applied to a relevant body part, can help something along!) I've used, successfully, the loud noise with stomp, because it's fast & works when you're not close. Also the stomp sends physical vibrations... It has to be used only on rare occasions... like when some poor person's getting peed on. This way it keeps the 'startle and stopping' effect! And the dog gets less likely to do it again. Same as you do with children. If you shout & roar at children all the time, it goes right past them. But, if a shout is only used when there's a safety matter....a child gets startled into stopping & looking at the direction of the sound. I also think that Nekhbet's comment that desexing is not some instant cure for all problems, is right. The 2 male dogs that i've had in the past that have done this 'people marking', had long been desexed.

I find that simply making a loud noise along with a stomp.....that's only kept for 'instant stop' situations....brings the dog to a halt. I don't kick a dog 'up the butt'.

...or a rabbit! Those pics are gorgeous. It's a shame you're not grooming any more. Otherwise, I'd turn up with 2 tibbies on your doorstep. In the meantime, dogsrawsome, keep posting about all the new breeds you 'do'. Charlie Chow sure went well....

Tibbies can tend to lie like that. One of the puppy pre-school instructors used to call it the starfish pose.

You say you're on registered Chi breeders' waiting lists. Why wait? Presently there's 35 Chi puppy notices & 13 adult Chi notices on the Dogzonline p/b Chihuahua Community pages. http://www.dogzonline.com.au/breeds/community/chihuahua.asp But if you've already made up your mind about this little one.....what tdlerikx said makes sense. Be aware...

Reverse prejudice from me, about Cardigan Corgis. I think they're one of the gems of the dog world. My family had one called Biddy, when we were kids. She had the most adaptable, sensible temperament. Equally at home following my mother around the house, playing reliably with children in the garden, and sailing around Moreton Bay on my father's motor launch. A good p/b Cardigan is the best of compact-size family dogs.

The article says that car never went into production. We're going holden wagon, purely because the ford wagons aren't being made anymore, so it will get hard to buy parts. Which is why I added.....yet. As in, hoping it might be produced & available here in the future. I saw that Honda WOW, for the first time, in a BBC-produced book about unusual cars that have been made as 'samples' for particular purposes.. The WOW (among other 'dog' things) had a deep doggie crate built in where the glove-box normally goes. The dog in it, looked like a cocker spaniel, to give some idea of size. From the outside, it looked like a regular Honda. Unlike many of the other 'sample' cars. Like, there was a Citroen which looked a small version of a bus, but with nearly-floor length windows. And a single-person car (really a mobility vehicle) where the person looked like they were riding in a cello case!!!

I was guilty of outright breed prejudice. I'd not liked small dogs, believing they didn't have the intelligence & presence of the bigger dogs. And were flighty. Then I came across a bunch of small dogs at the Brisbane Royal Show, which looked at me, coolly, confidently & calmly. Turned out they were tibetan spaniels. Now I'm hooked on that small breed. I'd also believed that the small, white fluffy dogs were especially twitchy & all over the place. Then I came across a p/b maltese whose elderly owner needed to rehome him. I put her on to the poodle rescue person (who'll take in other small fluffy breeds). Up until then, that person had told me her favourite breed she'd fostered were tibetan spaniels. But, after she'd had this maltese boy, she said he was the nicest dog she'd ever had. In fact, he was adopted by a semi-retired lady who worked in a retirement facility. The maltese boy was so sensible, loving and with great 'manners' that he was easily given permission to go to work with her. Lesson I've learned.....small breeds can be as fine as any other dog. Also, that small white fluffies, like the maltese boy, can be brilliant.

Followed the link....what a gorgeous boy. Great information supplied about him, too.

There was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald motor news, about the Honda WOW which has been specifically designed for dog lovers. I don't think it's available in Australia...yet. But the article goes on to talk about other cars that are here & which they say are good for carrying dogs. http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/bark-n-ride-20110324-1c72f.html

I'm glad someone else says 'Excuse me', too. But I say 'Thank you' to the tibbies with a smile. They're very smiley dogs & respond by smiling back as if to say, 'You're welcome!'

A fair point, sandgrubber. It seems that the OP's university has Occupational Health & Safety rules that contractors must not bring in pets as they're not allowed on campus. But the OP couldn't see any signs at the entrance. So in that case there was no motivation to publicly inform people about any ban. I love your examiner's quote. It's like what an acquaintance of ours says, 'I always go to places twice. The second time to apologise!'

Sounds great! Good on DogsNSW for putting on this event that brings the word of purebred dogs to the public.

UTS was one of the universities that I googled. UTS has a Contractors On Site manual in which it says they can't bring pets onto UTS property (excepting guide dogs). I wonder if this links with a general OH & S regulation for all, students & staff, too. [PDF] CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR'S SITE EHS MANUAL File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View 23 Oct 2010 ... UTS is currently implementing its City Campus Master Plan, a massive overhaul of the campus involving ... Bring pets onto UTS property (unless guide dogs). .... Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001; ... www.fmu.uts.edu.au/.../OHS.M.4.1_Construction_Contractors_Site_EHS_ Manual.pdf

Seems that the DOLer who said it'd be an issue relating to Workplace Health & Safety is right. I quickly googled using that term & found at least 2 universities' list of WH & S rules which specifically say that no dogs are allowed on campus. Exception being the service dogs used by people with disabilities (the words of one uni).

I'm wondering if the legislation which allows access to guide dogs, would cover the puppies in training as well? Just out of interest, I looked up the Brisbane uni where I'd see the 'No Dogs' sign. To my surprise, they have a course for people to become a guide dog instructor. Masters of Human Services (Orientation and Mobility). But then, maybe any presence of dogs for that, would also be covered by that same legislation.

It'd depend on the individual university I guess. My university has a vet faculty & vet hospital on site, so it was a common sight to see students walking a bunch of dogs around the campus. I used to take our pets to work....& take them over to the vet hospital for appointments. Naturally, there were no signs saying 'No dogs'. But when I was going over to another Brisbane university to do some guest work, I'd pass a sign at the entrance which explicitly said, 'No dogs allowed'. It was just such a sign that you looked for, before taking your pup in. And didn't find one. Interesting to see if the security bloke takes it up with his superior & if anything comes of it.

No, the problem in the reporting, is over-generalisation. And you've added another. 'Everyone thinks you are talking about someone else and not them.' To misquote Groucho Marx, 'Send out & get me an Everyone!' Mita you took that out of context and you have used it out of context. Sandgrubber said that she did not want to be judged by what some folks in the KC were doing, extremes for example and that she did not think she wanted to defend those breeders, she said it is not a case of all hanging together for her. My statement nor Sandgrubbers had nothing to do with PDE. This thread is about PDE and people are giving responses to it. From all angles. Including those who think there's substance in some of the reporting, & who don't support the 'wrongs' in the breeding. As with that KC example. My comment stands. The evidence is, that not one position tells the full truth. Yet the program under discussion, suggested otherwise. What was wanted by most discerning people in the world of purebred dog breeding, is a balanced view, admitting of the 'wrongs' but conscious of the many 'rights'.

Brockie, the Tibbie boy next door was a strategic, single-minded burier. His dad was strict with him, that he must not chase their cat, Honey. So Brockie figured out how to starve the cat out. He'd pick up Honey's dinner dish in his mouth, trot up the yard with it & bury it behind the garden shed. We got used to the sight of Brockie trotting up the yard carrying a cat's bowl. Visitors used to be gobsmacked. They were used to seeing dogs burying bones....but a dish of cat food????