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Doesn't upset me if people mix mine up,I have one of each,I do get mildly irritated when people who have asked repeatedly still mix them up,but only from the point of view that I feel like I am wasting my breath! Plus my two often wear their collars with their names stitched into them and since the boy is called Alfie I am not sure how they can think he is a girl? His named collar is purple with white stitching ,Issy's is black with white. They have matching leads and I too am a little bit addicted to collar and lead shopping.I get cranky because they need martingale collars for walks and nobody seems to make these in anything other than plain colours. OH thinks it a total waste of money and would just buy purely practical stuff and frequently sticks non matching gear on them,when we go out locally people sometimes remark "we know who dressed these two today" LOL. I am drooling over the Ruthless collars and think they may be next on the list.

Persephone, Hamlet is gorgeous! I love that carrying his "cup",brilliant.

Link for MBRC here,they have a list of all the local laws. MBRC -Animal Laws

Greytmate ,I don't equate the amount of room on my property with exercise needs or how lazy/active the dog is and agree it is none of the Council's business how much you exercise your dog. Having owned large breeds and now medium sized dogs it is my belief (and only my belief) that my bigger dogs were "better off" with more space day to day.Not sure how this is a myth. Other people may well have a different experience,I wasn't advocating anyone using my personal opinion as a basis for council assessments; and really wasn't suggesting that the council should have anymore power or different power,the council here is quite powerful enough when it comes to pet ownership. Apologies if it came across that way.

Two chihuahuas will make more noise than two wolfhounds. Why should the council discriminate on dog size? Hi Greytmate,I wasn't making a point about noise;only about the size of our block in relation to the number of dogs allowed as that seemed to be the issue for the council in regards to the number of dogs. I guess I was thinking about the whole issue in relation to the space for the dogs and their comfort hence the comment about the size of the dogs.Although the noise factor may well be the reason for the limit now that you have pointed that out , my two are not that quiet this week as we have just moved but they are settling everyday and we are lucky that the people on either side have dogs. I have always found the Council here good so far. I don't think the council should discriminate on dog size but was just wondering what they based their decision on when imho bigger dogs would be better off with more room unless they get out a lot. I only asked Hesapandabear about the debarking because I had not heard the term.

I live in Moreton Bay Regional Council Area and they are just in the process of changing some of the local by laws so that all the Councils that amalgamated will have the same by laws. It means we will have to get a special permit to keep two dogs in future if anything happens to one of ours.(if you already have more dogs than the permitted number registered at the property they will not apply the law retrospectively but you will have to apply if you want to register a new dog and your land is not the required size) The number of dogs you can keep depends on the property size to some extent. They have a list of the by laws that are changing on their website. The process for applying is pretty simple and there is a one off administration charge of about $130.00 if you want to keep dogs in "excess of permitted numbers per size of block" They were very helpful when I called to check for our two. Some neighbours have applied in the past to keep an additional dog and had no problems getting a permit granted. My only query was that there was no provision for the size of the dog in relation to the size of the property for example two Chihuahuas would be seen as the same as two Wolfhounds! My dogs are medium sized (Sharpei) and I think they have plenty of room as the house is not huge so they have front and back yards to play in,I think they will come out and check if they are in doubt but they just took our word over the phone. Hesapandabear what does debarked mean?

So pleased to hear Tess is home safe.

Issy seems to prefer dirty water to the nice clean ocean, sigh.

Don't know if this will work - having some gremlins,but just in case here are the Peindeer.