Juddabug Whippets

We received our samples today. Smells so good, the dogs were fighting me to open the package! Can't wait to see what they think of it! A huge thank you to Sherel! Meagan

Wow it looks so different now the surface has changed! Grass never hurt the eyes....

Yeah I've got lovely photos just off my phone of them! Hence why having a better camera might just be ideal perfect environment to take precious photos!

Wow, you lucky thing :D Is Meo a male or female? Do you have a Snow Leopard breeding program there? Hey there, Sorry I mucked up the names... Leon is the snowie in the photo, he's the male. Meo is mum housed at opposite end of the big cat walk. And Sundah is their daughter who's housed between the puma and persian leopard. She is the first snowie born at Melb Zoo in 20yrs. They are all part of an international breeding program.

Wow awesome shots! And funnily enough of many of the animals I look after. Binjai the tiger, Leon the snow leopard, Honey the Syrian brown bear! What lens/es did you use?

Hi, I've been lurking for ages here but love the pic of Rani the tiger. What lens did you use as I know it's quite the distance from the bridge to where she's standing! Thanks. MnDM

Our dogs have great recall, we take them to unfenced dog parks with no drama, though the closest one is over 30mins drive away. This fenced park is the only off leash area in the surrounding suburbs for dogs. Hence being 5 mins walk up the road. Inside the park our dogs come as soon as they are called. So please don't insinuate that I have no control over my dogs and am in the same category as the owner I was referring to. Any sight hound on the scent of a rabbit, seeing one bound out of the bushes when off leash has the capability to move very quickly before you realise. There are a lot of rabbits in the estate. Yes we have a new addition who by being able to go into a large fenced area we can check her recall, and she's always sticking close to our dogs and comes straight away. I agree the solid agility course they've pit in made of concrete tunnels and metal pole jumps is an accident waiting to happen. Went back up to the park tonight. 3 groups of people there. The cockers were there and two staffies and our guys played ball at one side after introducing themselves. So a lot better experience for our dogs and us. MnDM

Sorry, I should have clarified it was a fully fenced off leash dog area with agility in a brand new housing estate! As we have whippets who run fast, and there are bunnies in the area from time to time, it is too dangerous to let them off in an unfenced area. With our newly adopted pup she wanted to run around and the fenced park provides that the safety barrier to do so (and they did run themselves ragged). We have always been very wary due to bad experiences, but I've never seen an owner with so little control before. We always look before we go in, and only go in if it's preferably empty or just has small dogs, or if we see other big dogs coming we leash up and get ready to leave. As for why didn't I just open the gates and let his dog out.... My three were not in the park and were being held about 20m away while I was helping retrieve the cockers. I would not have wanted it near my guys. Besides, that's irresponsible. Double gates are there for a reason. I have written to my local council and now have the rangers number. MnMD

Thanks SnT, I was thinking of calling someone and will put the local council ranger into my phone for in future. The issue here is it's brand new, the rules signs haven't gone up yet... So I couldn't even raise that with the owner. We've had many close calls in the past at the only other off leash dog park in our area, our lil guy has been attacked by huskies and a mastiff while he's chasing the ball, so we have avoided them for a long time! But with one now only 2 blocks from home it's a safe place for whippet zoomies. We are very particular about who's in the park and will avoid it if certain dogs are there, and yes I'm particularly concerned about our new pup. Wanting all experiences to be positive. They did get the park to themselves for a good run in the end. Just scary for the kids involved. MnDM

Hi there, I'm here to vent, also to find out if this is commonplace in new dog off leash only parks. I'll apologise now if it gets a bit long. We adopted our second whippet yesterday, she's still settling in and still a bit wary and shy. She's 13mths. So this afternoon my partner and I decided to go to a brand new off leash dog park that's just opened in our estate - just so we could observe pup and see if the dogs would interact. We got to the park and it's not massive, you can see right across it. Maybe 60m diameter, tis a circle. But we could hear all this yelling and screaming and yelping. So we get to the fence and see a woman holding a cocker spaniel up whilst a large mastiff/boxer x was jumping up at it. The owners were 40m just screaming the dogs name.... No response at all from the dog. The kid holding the cocker was scared. The mastiff x owner got within 15m told the dog to back off (after a few mins of snarling, jumping and snapping). The dog ran wide around his owner then chased the cocker and then the cycle was repeated for the next 10mins. The owner could not get close enough to his dog to touch it, let alone leash it. His partner was hysterically screaming for the mastiff x from the other side of the park. My partner and I repeatedly yelled out to the guy to grab the mastiff and leash it. He took no notice of us. We decided not to go in, as it was not a good situation and continued to walk around the parklands, hoping they'd be gone on the way back. On our way past 10mins later we saw a guy with three similar large mastiff x dogs (all male, all entire) walk up to the park and go in. The two blokes knew each other and stood at one end of the park and watched the 4 dogs in a pack round up the small dogs. Lots of screaming from their owners and NO recall at all on any of the dogs. I looked and saw the cocker owners trying to leave only to be run down by two of the dogs. The child holding the cocker had the dog ripped out of her arms while she was trying to open the gate. I left our dogs with my partner and raced over. We got that cocker to safety, kid and dog badly shaken. Two more of their dockers yelping in the park being attacked by the pack of 4. I raced into the park yelling at the mastiff owners to grab their effing dogs. Nothing! The just screamed for the dogs who weren't listening. I managed to get the three cockers into the double gated safety area where the owners were understandably shaken. I was so angry. The owner of the cockers said they were in the park for ages on their own and the people let the mastiff off at the gate and when it made a beeline for them, they just yelled 'watch out'. Just because the mastiff owners also had a JRT with them, does not mean it is ok with all little dogs! They had NO recall or control of their dog and just didn't seem to care. Fortunately 20mins later the park was empty and we got our run... But I couldn't help but think what if we were in the park and were subject to them! Sorry for the rant! But I was so angry at the complete lack of control they had over their large dog! And all 4 had NO recall so were like wrecking balls. It was just really scary pulling dogs off dogs! Does this happen everywhere? RULE NUMBER 1 at the park... You must have complete control over your dog and good recall. I know now we are constantly on the lookout for who's nearby coming in. If it's breeds our dogs don't like or do well with, we leash up and leave! Sigh! Still a lil shaken! MnDM