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If you can see your way to a bonded pair, there's Lucy Zoolander & best friend, Fluffy, very attractive Maltese mixes with good personalities with a Victorian Rescue. Owning a bonded pair can be a positive... they settle well & always have each other to ease the way. https://www.petrescue.com.au/listings/524864

What DDD said about Pet Rescue. I've found by googling PetRescue and a particular breed, it'll pull up profiles of full breeds and also those with that in the mix. Test with small breeds like Maltese, Shih Tzu etc. You might consider, too, looking at adults dogs that registered breeders want to retire to good pet homes. Go to Dogzonline Home, click on Find Older Dogs. Up will come list of breeds with numbers showing for those currently available. Click on what breeds interest you & you'll get profiles of the dogs available with descriptions & breeder contact details. https://www.dogzonline.com.au

The runaway now safe in her mum's arms.

My first thought too, DDD, little dogs & roads/freeways not good mix. Jaffa was found hiding in a carpark. Thank god she didn't run from the stranger who picked her up. My other fear with lost small dogs. They become so spooked that they keep running from people trying to help them.

UPDATE: Jaffa has been FOUND, safe & well. She was picked up by a passerby & her collar ID brought her home. She's back with her owner. Many thanks to the many people who shared her Lost notice & who went searching.

Similar thing happened when I tried to PM you! The message wouldn't send. To join the Tibbie Pet Owners, just email Sharon & tell her Marie's invited you on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1133317166742735/1135684049839380/?notif_t=like&notif_id=1467438099194357

There's a new Tibbie Pet Owners Australia Facebook page with a few hundred members...& growing fast. It's a closed group, if you're on Facebook & would like to join it, PM me. There's also a Tibetan Spaniel Rescue Australia, open Facebook page, where any tibbies from all around the country, needing adopting from shelters & rescue groups are profiled. https://www.facebook.com/tibbierescueaustralia/

I agree. Apparently this boy had a honey of a nature & the AWL made sure he went to a good home.

I agree about giving a call. With maybe first an email asking if there's a convenient time to call the breeder. And, in that email, give a brief summary of why you're looking for a Corgi and what kind of life you'd offer a Corgi. That'd mean the breeder would already know something about you, when you call.

UPDATE: REHOMED. Thanks. Probably because it linked to a closed group Facebook page. Try: Alfred is a 3.5 yr old tibbie for adoption from Warra AWL Qld shelter, 523 Telegraph Rd Bracken Ridge (north side of Brisbane). Phone 3631 6800

Rehomed. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155052930533211&set=gm.1475076649233450&type=3&theater Tibbies don't come up in rescue all that often. Handsome young Tibbie boy, named Alfred, for adoption from the AWL shelter at Warra, north side of Brisbane. Heard that he's a very nice lad. Photo & contact details on the link.

So good to see comprehensive information from a breeder about the fascinating Tibetan Mastiff. I was in a Petbarn store with my 2 Tibetan Spaniels (on leads) when we walked around a corner straight into a beautiful black Tibetan Mastiff with his owner. The 3 dogs just paused for a few seconds, then all together their tails began to wag. I couldn't help but wonder if they figured they spoke the same language!

Older 'puppies'. But I loved this little girl's trick for keeping her tibbies still & facing the camera when taking their pics. Their ball tucked under her chin. image001.jpg.pdf

Yes, it depends what you need. Our small tibetan spaniels proved to be super alert dogs. Home alone one night, with back door open as I went up & down to the laundry...a bloke was coming into the house. I was in a back room folding clothes, heard nothing... but the tibbies flew up the hallway making those deep-throat growls when a dog means business. Followed them...& found a discarded bag on back deck. Someone coming into the house had fled when he heard the dogs' growling. I had no idea where the person was... out in the dark. But the tibbies tracked him to where he was walking down the driveway next door, straight into the streetlight. Meant I was able to give a good description to the police. Officers said intruders hated dogs, any dogs big or small, making a noise & taking away the element of surprise. Couple I know say they have the perfect team for their needs. Husband is a builder & there's equipment on their property. His dog is a doberman & his wife's is a tibetan spaniel. The tibetan spaniel has great hearing for picking up a stranger in fenced- off area behind the house where equipment is kept.. The small dog gives the alert bark/growl.... & the doberman strolls out to take a look and is a formidable visual deterrent (except he's always been a sweet dog). But no stranger's hung around to test him in a situation where an intruder is attacking someone.

They'll be fine, SG. But I totally understand how you'd feel stressed. When my tibbie was flown to Brisbane from Canberra, I was so worried. The pet transport man phoned me from Brisbane Airport & told me to go into the back garden so I could see her Qantas flight descending to the airport. It was a strange feeling watching her plane come in. But I keep telling myself, my other tibbie, Annie, flew from Sweden, where she was born, to Sydney.

Wise move, westie. I saw the GAP Qld processes of both assessment & matching for rehoming, when our tibbie girl was a small dog 'tester'.

It was a couple of years back in a north-western suburb of Brisbane. That case of the pug puppy being stolen was posted on our tibbie pet owners list. Horrible.

Good point about the attractions for dog-napping & resale. Local police issued a warning not to leave small, attractive breeds (didn't specify p/b or mixed...just attractive) visible & accessible to passing people. A gang was going around stealing small dogs like this for resale. Microchipping can help, as the original owner might be sourced later. AWL Qld gave a good tip. They said if your dog goes missing....lost or suspected stolen...you can ask for MISSING to be added to its chip data base. They gave an example of a tibbie, CJMalone, who got out the gate blown open by winds. Owners tried everything to find him, but no luck. Then 8 months later a tibbie was dropped in to AWL shelter by a person who said they were doing it for someone who didn't want the dog any more. During the vet check, his microchip was scanned.... up came MISSING. It was CJMalone. So AWL knew his family was looking for him & phoned. Family rushed to Shelter & CJ flew into their arms. Seems someone found CJ when he went missing, & kept him until the novelty wore off.

I'm on an international tibbie list, where there's lots of European owners. I specially love seeing the range of baskets for dogs, designed to go on their bicycles. They use their bicycles for out & about, like we use our cars. And their tibbies ride along in their baskets.... often the basket fits 2 quite comfortably. Here's just the most recent, from the Netherlands. So many other variations, too. Sometimes there's a wire cover that straps over the basket.

I experience something similar. I've had tibetan spaniels for some years. All have been show dogs, retired from good registered breeders who believe once they've got their Aus Ch & had a litter of puppies, they deserve to be placed in a loving pet home. Strangers often admire them. And they remark they must've cost a fortune. Truth is, we've often had to force the breeder to take any money. Their 'payment' they'll sometimes say, is that the tibbie is in a good home, with great care. First breeder said, 'What you can afford.' But we thought all the work she'd put in to her little Aus Ch, deserves recognition and we paid her exactly the same as for our sheltie from a top breeder. Other breeders were adamant... 'No money, it's the care for life that's important!'. But they got money given to them, anyway!'. And a decent amount of money, at that! I've noticed an increase in numbers of people adopting p/b tibbies & becoming tibbie tragics! Best thing of all, is that many are open to taking a rescue tibbie or a tibbie cross. All equally loved in the pet community.

You think that's funny? I was carrying Shelley up the stairs one day...her nickname was 'horse' because of her size. I slipped but managed to still hold on to Shelley, while I tried to figure how to get up. She noticed we were going nowhere... & hollered 'Steps!'. On cue, our neighbour yelled, 'Shelley wants to go up the stairs!'

DDD, I've love a ramp like that... even tho' I know there'd be 'ramp politics' here, too. Like only going up but not down, or the other way round, or point blank not at all. I've learned there's no arguing with the grandpa & grandma dogs. Also the back steps go down into a covered area where one car is parked. So it's back to flunkey work.... lift up & down. Our elderly sheltie used to stand at the bottom of those steps & bark for a flunkey, 'Steps!' If no one inside the house heard her, our good neighbour used to call, 'Shelley wants to go up the steps!'. Another flunkey.

Great news! Sure is a handsome dog.

Absolutely my experience with the oldies. Another on board with this. 16 3/4 yr old tibbie, Nina Zena, has a big park-like back garden to trot around in... & she works up a pace like a youngster. Not one thing wrong with her agility. Her eyesight's a bit dodgy for getting up the 5 steps onto the deck. She has a family of flunkeys who lift her up, as it's dangerous if she slips & falls thro'. At her last vet check few months back, she got top pass for general health & suppleness. Our little dog, Tessa, rescued thrown from a car as a puppy, got to 13 yrs. Looked like a cross between a poodle & a tibbie. We thought she was old & called her 'Gran'. She lived the same life as above & died when she was 22 years. She wouldn't have known what a walk was, in those senior years. Loved car travel, tho'. Never had any medical problem, until some dental work at 19 years.

Choosing the 'time' is the hardest thing to do. A good vet, who was enormously soft-hearted, said to me he'd never regretted he'd put to sleep one of his beloved pets too soon.... but one that was too late haunted him. I agreed with him that the saying, 'Put a pet out of its misery' is a sure sign it's too late (unless of course it's sudden trauma). I try to pick a point just before the pet's life could be described as misery. And, when there's no treatment that will reverse... or the treatment is too harsh for that particular pet. I want to save my pet, as much as possible, from sliding down into an inevitable misery. Another vet said the question he asks himself about his pet & delaying any decision... is, 'Am I making this decision for my own needs only...or for the pet's'. Even with what I think are the best questions I can ask myself, it still doesn't make it easy. But it's the pet I want to make it easiest on...not me.