Esky the husky

It's all down to you guys, he's got such wonderful doting owners :) Hope he blesses you with many more birthdays. :D Happy Birthday Charlie :D

Me too

Congrats :) So glad you finally have your baby. I bet you're over the moon :D

Marion Animal Hospital 827 Marion Road Mitchell Park SA 5043 (08) 8277 3733 I saw them recommended here on DOL and they've been great. Happy to help me out with my certificates for weightpull as well, which has been a blessing ! And they have very convenient opening hours Mon-Friday 7:30am - 8:00pm Sat-Sun-Public Holidays 8:30am - 5:00pm Closed Christmas Day

Does anyone know anything about the murray valley et ? Where abouts is it actually held

Esky normally starts in the middle of the bed *eyeroll* then off on the floor if she gets too hot

Weightpull is exactly as thename suggests, the dog is harnessed and attached to a cart. They have to pull the cart 5 metres in under a minute, easy at first but the weight is gradually increased until there is only one left. The alaskan malamute club in your state runs events. Most clubs are really good to help you get started and can lend you gear so you can give it a go without paying for a custom made harness

Can you do something to stimulate her mind? Training tricks helps tire out the brain, zaps them for longer than just physical excercise. You could try a dog sport, if she loves pulling you around perhaps you could harness that and try weightpull :)

I would love to see this I bet sighthound zoomies are spectacular :)

Right now parts of my backyard are looking a bit worn, thanks to Esky and what I like to call her 'Zoomies Zones' Whenever she gets a case of the zoomies she always runs on the same path. A triangle between big shady tree #1 and #2 and the back door. She'll run flat out as fast as she can in a straight line do a very sharp burn out turn, and then run as fast as she can on the next flat and repeat. I've fenced off one of the trees now to try and get the grass to grow back. Poor Esky :p When we've lived on bigger fully fenced properties, zoomies was laps and laps of the house, like a greyhound track. But since we've been suburban it's always weird angular zoomies. Other dogs do that too right?

The exagerrated features of breeds are usually the first to go, not really surprising that Zeke doesn't have a boxerish face. One of my idiot inlaws had an accidental litter with her boxer bitch and her dads mutt None of the pups had anything resemling boxer faces, although some had more of the boxer style body.

A sled of siberians :laugh: A heap of huskies

I like dog names that end with a vowel sound I really like the name Ardi :D

Come on you cant make this post without pics ;) congrats

Oh and I just use a collar with the walky dog, as she's a racing sled dog and when in harness I want her pulling like crazy out in front :)

They walky dog has a low rider attachment which can be attached to the centre of th wheel too, if you require the dog to run further behind you. I'm not a fan o the springer because of it's quick release. To me that is far too risky to have to recover from a crash and chase down a free running dog. Ive only ever had one low speed wrap around a small pole. Never happened again.

Stick with the supercoat while your pup settles in. If you can afford it I'd be switching to a more premium food. You end up feeding less volume, and get less coming out the other end onto your lawn. The cheaper foods have a lot of fillers, which pass through the gut quickly. I normally feed a raw diet, but one of the perks of competing in sports is the dry food prizes that come with it. I am very fussy with what I feed and my girl has done extremely well with all the "Earthborn Hollistic" products we've tried. I find it a very economical feed too, but that varies a lot and my breed is known for having an extremely good metabolism.

Some people end up waiting quite a while for papers. I had to badger a little bit for mine, but in my case the owner who was supposed to take the papers for her puppy accidentally got mine, so they had to get sent back to the breeder and forwarded on to me.

Awww he's seriously adorable

I see what you mean - poultry can be other than chicken/turkey/duck I guess? Exactly, I wasn't saying there was no meat, but they aren't very specific about any of the mea in the food

Just for comparison this is the 4800 by royal canin Ingredients COMPOSITION: dehydrated poultry meat, animal fats, rice, vegetable protein isolate*, hydrolysed animal proteins, beet pulp, fish oil, minerals, vegetable fibres, copra oil, soya oil, psyllium husks and seeds, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), hydrolysed crustaceans (source of glucosamine), marigold extract (source of lutein), hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin). ADDITIVES (per kg): Nutritional additives: Vitamin A: 17800 IU, Vitamin D3: 1000 IU, E1 (Iron): 48 mg, E2 (Iodine): 3.7 mg, E4 (Copper): 9 mg, E5 (Manganese): 62 mg, E6 (Zinc): 204 mg, E8 (Selenium): 0.09 mg - Preservatives - Antioxidants. ANALYTICAL CONSTITUENTS: Protein: 32% - Fat content: 30% - Crude ash: 7.8% - Crude fibres: 1.8% - Per kg: Calcium: 15 g - Phosphorus: 10 g. *L.I.P.: protein selected for its very high assimilation. Never fed it, but it's interesting to note that there aren't meat sources named , that is it's poultry meal not chicken or turkey, animal fats, and fish oil... :/

Happy birthday. What a gorgeous girl

Thanks, I'll probably wait a while until it's published. I assume I'll also have to join dogs SA, which is what put my off last year

You could always buy some more interactive toys before you go out and get a new puppy :)

Sorry but it concerns me adding another dog when the sibe is so young. It's about to hit the really challenging stage of adolesence