blacklabrador

Actually you can get nice big food troughs from the horsey places - they would be able to be mounted on a wall or a fence too high for water play. Good idea SC!

My dogs do it to get cool in the summer. They dig in the bowl and splash the water up underneath themselves. No stopping them unless you get a bowl that is too small to do it in...even then they will probably tip it and lay on the wet floor.

RIP Loki... what a beautiful girl.

Some people actually spend a good portion of their day outside! So it doesn't affect the dog too much not to be able to come in.

I reckon you should start as you mean to go on. My dogs are crated or penned inside at night. Pups have been sleeping inside since 12 weeks (they can hold their bladder all night at that age). That way I know exactly where they are, that nobody is playing with toads or barking while I am asleep

Gees Guy might be surprised to learn that he is breeding GOLDEN labradors! I think Portia might be a yellow. Labsmum my labradors will escape at any chance they get. I fail to see how you can generalise that a breed doesn't like to jump fences when it all comes down to individual personality. Last time my labradors got out together they were found TWO KILOMETRES away across several main roads. That was four hours of hysterical searching on my part. Rachelle I wouldn't leave that girl unsupervised in your yard until you have the fences fixed. Maybe extend the height of it by putting star pickets and chickenwire around the top. Good luck!

An honest mistake? Just in time for Christmas... Wow what a coincidence. Sorry but I just don't swallow bullshit. Hope you've learned a lesson Shareen. Ensure that your pup is well socialised with other pups (not just your other dogs) because it's been taken away from it's litter mates so early that it is missing out on most of its lessons on how to interact with other pups. Make sure that she is vaccinated too.

I reckon you've got a good one there. He'll probably learn to bark in certain situations as required when he is older. Neither of my adult labs barked as pups and now they only bark when they feel someone is threatening their territory... they are GREAT watch dogs. I have a pup here who was developing a barking tendency at 8 weeks... I had to make sure it didn't develop as I will not tolerate barking dogs! He is now as quiet as a mouse

Gawd that is brilliant!! I just bathed my puppy kids this morning and they were trying to jump over the side of the booster bath!! It's a loooong way down for a little pup! They are off for a check with the animal chiropractor this morning so I wanted to make sure they were smelling nice They are in their crates staying clean now.

Hmm, no, I don't think so. I don't feel I was wrong to post as myself, I simply feel that too often it was against what Troy wants and that it made life difficult for myself. Hence to make my life easier and to keep my membership here, I changed how I post and what I choose to post about. I'm not asking for anyone to forgive me for whatever they feel I need to be forgiven for, I'm simply asking to be treated as I act. If I am nasty, treat me nasty. When I am not, don't. It's more asking to "live and let live" rather than forgive - an act which to be successful requires some form of repentance from the potentially forgiven. Aaahhhhh I see

I didn't mean me personally (what's the point in forgiving and forgetting when you can drag it on forever?) I mean that you seem to have turned around in your posting style and are asking to be treated in accordance with how you are now posting... does that mean you were wrong in how you were posting and that you are asking forgiveness from the general DOL public?

ML are you saying that you were wrong and now you're asking for forgiveness? who's FL?

RIP my two black babies.... Buster and Tinkerbelle. Picture of Tinkerbelle a few hours before she died (green collar). You can see by the way she is lying that something is wrong with her. Empty little tummy too. My bitch never gave up on this girl until she died.. she kept trying to keep her warm right up until the end ETA Hugs to the other breeders too... some of you guys have had it really tough this year. Hugs to everyone who's pets have gone to the Rainbow Bridge.

You found it necessary to correct my spelling/grammar when I was spelling 'conformation' with an "i". Not only did you correct me but you made fun of it. I didn't ask you to comment on it, nor to correct me. Was that childish of you?

Puppy school is held inside on a surface that has been disinfected. The risk of taking them to parks or anywhere public (even the footpath outside your own home) is that a dog in the past that's carried parvo may have crapped there. The virus is extremely hardy and lives in the soil for a long long time. I have 11 week old pups here who have never been anywhere but puppy school, one other backyard that belongs to a trusted breeder and friend and my own back yard. They had their 2nd vaccinations today so I am happy for them to start socialising more when the ten days is up.

You can't expect an 8 week old pup to hold his bladder all night. Set your alarm so you get up after four hours and wake him up to take him out. Be firm and put him back and go back to bed. Otherwise you are just setting him up for toilet training failure. I dont' know about little dogs but labradors have enough bladder capacity to hold on 7 hours overnight by the time they are 12 weeks old. Good luck - he is veerrrry cute! Yep it is draining but they improve so quickly.

Hope all is okay DB. Thinking of you.

A nail should be able to be done under the equivalent of a "digital block" where the entire toe is blocked. I am guessing that it may be up the the behaviour of the dog and the tolerance of the vet. Once the block is done the dog will feel nothing, the problem is having them stay still for the local infiltration. Might be easier to hold a BC still than a Mastiff

If it's been a messy type wound from an injury (rather than a straight incision) it might be better to get someone else to take them out. If you do take them out get her to the vet in a few days time to make sure you got them all. Taking out sutures isn't difficult, but sometimes recognising embedded sutures in messy wounds can be.

So sorry to hear that Feher. I think time will heal the relationship between you and your dogs. *hugs* to you.

I don't know what the modern advice for tick removal is.. but I thought that applying a poison to them irritated them and made them pump out more poison? Could be the difference between life and death if the tick is the paralysis type. I thought the solution was to get tweezers and remove them.

I have a litter of 5 day old pups here doing exactly that in their sleep. Newborn babies do it to. It's very cute

I've been to Woolies, Coles and Bi Lo and the best I can come up with is the flavoured stuff.

I dunno what it tastes like.... had it been called something else I might be able to bring myself to eat it It just sounds so.... blearghhhh. It's for the Poptart to help her produce milk.

Anyone know? I am able to get the flavoured ones but can't find plain.