minimax

If not using tick protection, applying a day before is next to useless, most product say two application at standards doses (ie: adventure is one dose, then other two weeks later before expected exposure )

If you're worried, report it to Dogs QLD and let them investigate.

Set up a recorder or something to make sure it's actually one of yours, first. Wouldn't be the first time someone has been accused of having a barking dog when it's actually coming from somewhere else.

Are you presuming everyone on gumtree who says they are a registered breeder means they are registered with a state canine body?

Probably because to him, the tinned food is tastier than the dry so he's eating the yummier stuff. If you want him to eat dry, might just have to feed dry so he learns it's that or nothing, there is nothing better on offer.

Not sure how cavs would feel about being downgraded from kings to princes, nevermind the additional breed

If the vet advises, and prescribes them, but not otherwise.

Boston would bark at it, then pee on it to teach it a lesson.

I didn't not ask, it just wasn't done

Wrong. Its a state rule. No tats in NSW My dogs have tats...in NSW Yes but it's not mandatory.

A "free range" environment like that would send me running very quickly in the opposite direction.

For boys, their lack of balls usually indicate they are desexed.

lol I don't think your reasoning is correct. My girl isn't tattooed, nor is she secretly being shown desexed :laugh:

They are all American brands.

Have you taught him to sit and do nothing?

Leash one of them to you at all times, either the baby or the puppy.

Can you treat the grass area outside?

Nek's Mal is Scooby so you might be right ;) especially if her husband had a frenchie attached to him :laugh:

It's been done several times. And it's never very friendly.

I've never met a Boston with low energy or exercise requirements.

Very sterile advice from them. Practical but entirely tactless. How awful for her. Agreed how hard it is to say sorry we can't !!!! Exactly. I really struggle to understand why people can't be sensitive and appreciative of a situation and nice, when it's so easy to do- why be harsh? Anyway to the purebred dog frustrations argument. What annoys me about the whole thing is people calling a spade a shovel, when it's clearly a spade. Or, why pretend/think/tell others/mistakenly believe that your '-oodle' is a purebred dog, when it isn't. Don't get me wrong I love bitsa's- I own one, my precious kelpie x, Mr Rexie- but he isn't anything other than a kelpie cross staffie! And no one could convince me he's a special kind of Kel-ord that should be left entire and then produce a new generation of unique, special Kel-ords (btw lol this was the best name combo I could think of quickly :) ) Same deal with 'oh this is my purebred Labrador (for eg)'. Me (usually) oh, who bred him? And you get the breeder's first name and where they're from, rather than a kennel name... Me: oh, that's nice. *general question re papers/breeder's prefix which results in a blank stare*. And then confusion about why my dog has 'papers' and theirs doesn't/can't have them. That's not really so annoying, as it's a result not of willful blindness, but ignorance and misinformation- it's the pretence that a dog is something it isn't that really irritates me. And people I know and like a lot, fall for it (Aussie bulldogs are another classic example along the Bull Arab line). My rant over now! :laugh: Unfortunately a lot of that comes from the "breeder" saying the dog is purebred etc I meet a lot of people in my dog park with "purebred pugs" and I've lost count of the number of times I've gotten myself into sticky situations as I see someone with a new black pug cross and go up (with my two black pugs) and say "awww she's adorable, what's she crossed with?" and I get insulted looks while they tell me she's purebred (the nose clearly says otherwise). Then someone said the other day to me "your dogs are amazing, they could be show dogs" and I was like, well no his head isn't quite right etc and their eyes glazed over, but their point was ... my pugs look like pugs and that is apparently rare

Looks hotspot'ish. Best off shaving the area, cleaning it well with an anti-bacterial and then curash'ing it regularly.

I have a feeling one of my sensitive/precious pugs would be scared of a pigs head and would just bark at it until I took it away

The rest need to be cleaned anyway. He had breath that could kill, so that is the main reason he went in today. I would rather take action now than have problems for him further down the track. That shows the RMB's aren't cleaning their teeth effectively.

Is he crate trained?