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I suppose the problem is she is small enough to hide atm

I had an incident years ago, resulting in the ranger waiting for me the next day I was at the offlead park with my Dally and BT, most days a lady with 2 BC's would walk through the park, its unfenced, to the oval next to it, where there are big signs saying ' no dogs", to then 'work" her dogs on it. I was always polite ,never let my dogs near hers. One day my two were playing ,running side by side and wrestling as they ran, they stopped right as she was walking through near her, so stopped to sniff her dogs, i called them immediatley, they came straight back and we carried on. The next morning the ranger was at the car park waiting for me , she watched me with the dogs for a while, then came over. Apparently the lady had reported me for having a dangerous dog, my BT. Luckily the ranger said she could see my dogs were under control, and that there was no problem. i was furoius, she was the one on the oval everyday, offlead. I also wanted to add, that these days you have to be so careful, a dog 'rushing" is such a hard one to argue when you know its friendly, i take no risks anymore with mine. I so wanted to say something the next time i saw her, but the ranger told me in confidence who it was, wasn't hard to work out, she was the only one there the day before.

Just like many dogs who look ' visious' to the uneducated. :D A check chain yanked hard is worse than a prong used properly.

What Lilli said Get the help of a behaviourist, vets treat health problems, this is to do with you and the dogwhich needs proffessional help, not a vet .

I had an interesting conversation last night with my brother while this show was on. He doesn't like dogs( scared), doesn't see the point of them. Anyway he was watching at home when he sends me a text saying "dog nazi's, why can't he breed his dogs". So i messaage him back about how many staffys die everyday in pounds, and is he going to be responsible for all the pups he breeds. His answer was " surely that was the buyers fault." I said no,he should be made to hold a healthy young dog while its killed. He said whats the difference ,you could buy one in a petshop. So it went on, me being the 'crazy dog lady", him with no clue. I mentioned health testing, paying a sh@tload of cash for a mongrel, saying you do more research when you buy a fridge than a dog etc etc. Afterwards i thought, is this the reality of what joe public thinks? why can't the guy breed and are we all nutters? I was exausted, and not sure he took any in.

wow, i think i would like to live near there! my fav colour whippy, brindle too

You need proffessional help, and not someone from the paper, someone who really knows what they are talking about. You need to spend money, most good trainers want the money upfront. Don't try and skimp on this problem, we are talking about kids and other dogs at risk, this will not go away on its own, in fact he will just up the anti each time. Its not worth the risk. If your cars brakes were failing, you would pay to fix them, not try and do them yourself to save some money.

You can always still put the martingale on and have a clip that attach's it to the harness, that way if he back out of it the martingale is backup. :)

In a way it would be a good idea, put all the people in one area so we don't have to deal with their over the top behavior when they see a dog in the street. I for one would love not to have people screaming and running away when i take my dogs for a walk. The downside would be it creeping into other suburbs and we get ousted out. Perhaps we could have a child free suburb too, and a Suburu free one aswell :laugh:

Wonderful news!!!!

In theory it would be great , but lots of breeds can't be tested, however i would like to see more emphasis on dogs who can move properly. I don't want to see a dog who looks stunning standing still, but looks like its going to fall over when it moves. The gap between working and show lines is too big, i would like to see a middle ground with a well rounded dog.

i do understand that many breeds shouldn't be done early,its a really hard one, but mature dogs, no reason really

Actually SG, what i am saying ( abeit badly :laugh: ), is that if someone is going to make money and breed from a dog they are just as likely to do it at any age, not just a mature dog. However ,yes i see more of a reason why a mature dog should be desexed before being rehomed. I suppose it could be because they don't fetch the money pups do so don't want to pay for the op too.

And how many breeders sell their pups at 8/10 weeks and keep in touch to see if they worth breeding from? Many are sold and are never seen again, for the owner to do as they please. will have to agree to disagree on this one.

I think it should have been too, i was just trying to point out it was no different than when him and his littermates were sold at the start. I have an ex breeders dog, and the condition i got her was she was desexed before i got her, which was fine with me.

This will start a huge debate which has been done to death. We all have different opinions, mine is that most breeds are fine to desex when they are sold. Rescue has done it for years, so why can't everyone else? The pro's outweigh the cons in my book.

Why sell any dog without desexing it? no different to a breeder selling a litter of pups as pets not desexed . I would prefer all breeders to desex dogs not suitable to be bred from, but thats never going to happen.

Is the pups condition likely to need vet care? perhaps contact all the vets you can in case it turns up.

is she a wanna be porn star, looking for a job? scary!!!!

I hadn't read all the threads about the "LDH" as it was like the people posting new the facts so just talked amongst them selves without actually giving all the details to others who weren't aware of their policies etc. Bit like the RSPCA i suppose in that i can't stand them either due to the same reasons.

No, was one at ' The lost dogs home". I enjoyed this one, i know its not supposed to be a great place? pens looked tiny,but havn't read threads on it so not sure why no one like them? I thought it did get the message over well about rescue, i loved King, my kinda dog, he was far calmer to work with anyway, the girl was given the harder ones. I would like to have seen more dogs going in for pts and not comming out to hammer it home more, and to watch people dumping them.

Yesterday was still really hot here at 6 ish when i saw him out, he was making the pup run up and down the soccer oval, poor thing.

I thought they were a guarding dog too, but when i asked him what they were like he said " like a St Bernard". I saw them again last night, but they were over the other side of the park, looks like we walk at the same time at night, so may get to see more of him.

None, they sleep outside, or on a dogbed downstairs. I love th smell of fresh sheets, not dog hair when i wake up :laugh:

Yeah, i thought they were alot of dog too. This one was black. I asked if he got on with the 2 staffys ok, and he said he played with the male one, but gave the female a wide birth. He is keeping him entire to show. He didn't seem that dog savvy, he said his staffys sometimes fight, he said the male always started it