Riddick

I am applauding your camments as it would have been hard to say this in an open forum such as this. But to take ownership of this is a rare thing these days. So to that you have to be call a more than responsible owner. My wife just back from walking our boy ans she said that these new neighbours have let their dogs get out since they have been here (2 Weeks) And the best they have said is that they are friendly. Still they are roaming the streets. Poles apart from you and the way you are doing things.

Still having the stitches makes no difference to telling his age as they do this to all dogs before rehousing them. Well they do here anyway. So to me this isn't telling us much more at all sorry. If we put our boys together there would be a big difference in their actuall body sizes.

The RSPCA picture it looks to me that he has got his adult teeth but it really is hard to see. Though I am thinking that they might only be that 1 month area, so I am thinking by this picture he might have been about the 6 to 8 month old area. But I could very well be wrong to.

He is most definightly Heeler but the mix could be the hard part to pick out. We had a Heeler/Koolie mix and as far as we knoew he took on the Koolie temperment. This was that he was happy just being with himself, no matter what we had done to get him to join us. He stands at about the 50cm mark now at 1 year old and his weight is around the 24 to 25 kilo mark. We think he is at his full height now but we also think he has got a little more filling out to go. Just done some checking and Murphy is at the height and weight for the standard. And he is 1 year old but is slow to really develop. He is always gettinginto trouble. but believe me when he is grown up you will notice. Thing will only have to be said once and he will do it right away. Our last heeler was so good that we forget this boy is still growing up. So don't push to hard let him have his puppyhoon to a degree that is.

It was taken on Xmas day with my new Macro lens. Just happened to walk by and seen him sitting there and snap I got it.

This is Murphy at about 9 month old.

Selective hearing is right on the mark here. Being destructive also in here. But not once has he had the fear factor. Thought I found this so informative and correct that it all made a lot of sense. Well put together from start to finish. Thank you.

We are in Sunraysia. Which works out to be about 4 hour out of Adelaide and 6 and a half hours out of Melbourne.

We have got a cat called Catty but it use to be Charlie. She was raised with our last Heeler and a Westie cross. So I have to say she was use to having dogs about. But she wasn't use to a dog that was a pup. I think Murphy only seen something to play with, but his play is miles too rough for her. This all turned into run and chase and we thought this isn't going to end. Then the cat actually decided not to run. And now it isn't perfect but it is a lot better. We have to tell him here and there to leave her alone and it near enough to them sleeping together soon. While our son has a Greman Shepard and a cat. He has had to go to the baby gates to keep them from one another.

Love to be able to get my lad to do this. I really liked what you have done with the clip. I think somewhere Melbourne way they have a school of sorts that do this training. As far as the memory goes I think it is a 3 day course and you have to stay where the training is held. Might have to have a look at it now seeing this.

Such a good story that does have a great ending. Lovely dogs a true credit to you and your family.

Not real sure how I will go about answering this one. But I tent to think more on the sode of the owner. To what brings me to this is this. I have done obedience training with our last 4 dogs. And in this time we have had 2 Black Labrodors in our class for about only 2 lesson each. Both of these were people and dog visious. I knew I didn't want my dog anywhere near these dogs at all. The instructor actually go me to do a few things with our class as she know I was up to the standard of our class. While she took this Black Lab on a one to one thing. It never worked out and I give credit to the people who owned them for trying to fix the problems. But as I said they only lasted 2 lesson's and never seen them again in both cases. Now I don't know if these owners had inherited these dogs or what. But we well most of us know what this breed in known for. So it sort of makes you point the finger to the owners or in these case maybe the previous owners.

Yer , thank you for that. We were so glad he came good.

Yer thats what we think it was just the rest that fixed him up. As I have said after this bout and we never even took him to training nights. And he came good so we just thought it was as the instructor had said. Maybe could be a knock to a leg or whatever. We have not had the same thing happen again. Weather this is why he got better is a lot of guess work. Not too long ago we bought one of those long tubes with a thing in the middle of it that lets you move your arm to get a lot of bubbles out of it. We done this for a little while and Murphy was jumping up at the bubbles and landing and all the stuff associated with this. And that day and after he has never shown any sign of anything.

The running question I had to answer as fast as me. But the thing is I don't run but the other part is the wife walks him and he can only run as fast as she does. Though when on the ovla he runs that fast I think only a Greyhound would catch him. So this to me was a sort of question which could have had a few more ways to answer it.

It actually wasn't a question as it was more of what actually happened to him. he woke up being a little lame and we took him to the vets who said what I have put down. We then went to training where we were told of this Pano thing. So we rested him up and this has worked out to be just the thing that we had to do. We rested him up for a while and this meant we didn't over walk him it was just around a little block. Not obedience or running around, but this isn't to say when we were not hime he didn't do the running around though. So to us this has worked out to be Pano and not Hip Displaysia. This is all the post is about. Murphy is a Australian Cattle Dog aged now 1 year old. I hope this clears it up and sorry about it being hard to read.

I fully agree with the name and shame idea. This way if we are travelling in that area we can miss them like a barge pole. I know I would not want to stop there. If that is what they are like.

We are still giving our boy a morning and night fed. He is only getting a cup in his bowl at each meal, so I don't know if this is too much. But I feel it is about right for him, as he isn't fat or overweight now at all. We did have him in a crate for a while but he showed us he didn't want to spend his nights in there. But while in the crate we use to take him out at about 11 to midnight. then he was in the crate all night until about 7 to 8 am. And only once he had a misshap. It wasn't his fault as he had eaten some spoiled fruit and this played up with him. This was the only time while in the crate. So each night this would happen in the crate till early morning taken outside to relive himself and then fed. Outside once more then back in for a while then back out for a while to play. this worked for us, but it might not for others.

I had never heard of this until oneday last year after a obedience lesson. To put you all in the picture. I took Murphy to a friends place to have a play with his adult Border Collie, Murphy was 4 or 5 months old. The next day Murphy got up and he was not walking right, so off to the vets. The vet told us he needs to have an xray and this meant he would have to be knocked out ,as she tought it was the early signs of hip dysplaysia. So the money total was running up with each word from the vet. We came home and discust what we should do but we decided that we would book him in to be checked over the right way. That night we had obedience training and we told the head instructor what had happened and what we were told. She came up with that what we were told was nonsense. And she came up with the work Panosteitis. We came home and got on the computer and done some reading about it. And what we did read was to rest the dog/pup up for a term. And this is what we did for about 4 months. Then I took him back to my friend place for a play time and the next day he was fine. Next week I took him back again and still fine, so I was certain that it was this Pano that he had. To this day we have not seen anything that has slowed him up at all. What I have had to do it stop him from going to my friends place to play as now Murphy is too powerful for his dog. SO it parks for his running around, but I really have to find someone with a dog that can take his pushyness.

It wqas really good reading quite a lot of the posts here. I have owned a male and a female and a red and blue Heeler now. And what has been said in all these posts is all correct. Our lady was your typical I will sit back and watch what is going on. Hated other dogs in her face at Obedience training. But learnt so quickly, she was the athletic type as I call them. But she is gone now and this brings me to the next one. Our new boy is a Blue boy and is now a year old. He is a little slower to learn but still picks up things all but a little slower. He is a more in your face dog who will play with any dog that can keep up. As I have had to place him on the lead due to his stamina. His build is much more solid than our red girl. The biggest difference I have noticed is that he is I will go where no one else will go. In the 1st week we had him home he showed me something I have never seen a pup do. Fast asleep the door rattled and he woke up barking and made a bee line to where the noice was coming from. Most pups whould bark but it would be doing backwards steps. Not him he just went for the noise and not even bothering about his own safety. As I have said he is a little slower to pick up things. But i will tell you I love this boy as he has got heaps of character. I also forgot to say that Heelers are as far as I know the most destructive pups out. We have had other pups and they don't hold a candle to what a Heeler can get to. So get past this point and you will find that your judgment in picking this breed as your dog was oh so right. Their aim is to please you and to protect you no matter what.