Steph M

I agree rebanne. I should have mentioned she doesn't have one on all the time but it would be nice to have the option to leave it on if we need to. I do like her having a tag though, happy to stick with a crummy one for the yard but losing it when we are at the park or beach isn't ideal. I don't let her run and swim in her harness and if I need to grab her for any reason a collar would make life easier.

Howdy-doody DOL! Rosie has mastered the art of slipping off her collar and losing it. We’re going on 4 now. No biggie while she’s on lead as she wears a harness and we have a martingale on order for walking, the issue is during play/running they just come off her pinhead and go. She’s lost two of the cheap nylon belt-buckle style, one cheap clasp one of a nylon etc and another cheap one I’ve forgotten what it was. It happens a lot in play, Gus likes to hang on to her collar, and she just loses them when running, no matter how tight or high they are, we often find it in the yard, but I have a fear she will get out somehow, and being pretty skittish she needs a tag or something. She’s also a fairly lean breed, (despite being all muscle…people still tell me I’m cruel and don’t feed her right) and being timid and having a few scars from branches and the like on her thin whippy skin, I just know some dingus will pick her up and decide she’s a stray! So just looking for ideas for a fairly cheap collar that will stay on her pinhead through running and silly play and the like. I don’t want to spend a bomb, as that’s got me nowhere as such!

I like all of these things! Thanks ladies, look forward to ogling!

Howdy doody everybody! I’ve just started up my Instagram account again after a smartphone mishap and all my friends are boring these days, aside from the ones on epic jealousy inducing holidays… I’m looking for some cool stuff to follow, be forewarned my life is very very boring and a lot of my photos are of critters and everyday happenings. My username is wishicouldwait_ on there. I didn’t wanna start another thread yet in case it was just me with the lame Instagram friends. Heh heh heh.

Gus loves them too. Freak! Haha. Dr Oz tells me it's fabulous for you....

How incredibly disappointing they haven't even been recalled!

I'd hope its a case by case basis! I imagine there's no better judge of what each dog might need than the person who has raised or lived with them for years. As lovely as it would be for a magic formula to appear!

I should add we are also a multi dog house hold and the other (despite being born in a pound) has no sign of papiloma. Go figure!

That sounds so awful, though I have to say I have a dog with papiloma and it happens. He arrived with it but many dogs have them crop up later, sometimes even in their senior years. There's lots of suggestions as to why it comes up in puppies but out warty beast is quite happy, and easy to pick out of a crowd with no glasses on! Again though, that sounds truly horrific. You all must be having a hard time.

I still can't stop laughing about the soup Nazi meme... No dogs for anyone! Arguing a whole other set of issues here. And for what its worth florise, no one said the breeder caused squat, but a massive change in routine and circumstance occurred and it'd it would take a lot of adjusting. That's a fact, that's certainly what I garner from that thread. No one should be blaming owner nor breeder. That's all the fact I could glean. And good on the poster for asking for help. Sheesh.

Everyone makes valid points well worth considering and I certainly have plenty of food for thought on the matter but I think it still needs to be done. We would like to get to 12 months, that's ideall! I'm also finding it difficult to arrange day care or day minding for him if we have work done in the house. In the next few months we have a guy coming to repaint the decking, another to replace a door and a few other little appointments. If neither of us can stay home I tend to put them both in daycare etc rather than leave them inside as I wouldn't want the gate to be left open, and frankly I don't want the poor tradie surrounded by a pile of soggy toys and licked to death. I know its a training thing, but nonetheless. It doesn't make that any easier. There's also the great wart debarcle. Its 50% a consmetic issue (and I'm over people asking what it is!) And 50% that its a pain in the bum. Its pretty big and obtrusive and its come to the point where he knocks it in play and it will bleed a fair bit, to quite a lot which is fine for him, it causes no pain, but there's only so diligent you can be with the betadine really and coming home to smeared blood everywhere becuase it is truly amazing how he can spread a mess! So that would be coming off at the same time and I'd rather not have him under twice if it could be avoided. Another lesser reason is I'm noticing the change in other dogs reactions to him. The last few weeks we have had several dogs have a go at him out of nowhere down the beach and park. I thought he must be being a cocky twit the first time but after that one went into the water to have a go while he was swimming to get a stick, another while he was just trotting next to me watching Rosie and the dog came from behind and again when we were getting in the car and he was quietly sitting at the passenger door, again from behind. I know there's likely other reasons but it has come on fairly quickly and I can only think of one common denominator other than they've all been males. Dogs hardly ever bother him, and he just shrugs these off and still wants to chat with the next dog which is a total effing blessing but it can't go on like it is and if that's a possible cause then it needs to be explored. I don't think we are cut out to own entire animals, and thats OK. Not everyone is and the procedure is in place for a reason, so it does have to happen for us and we will certainly hold off until we are sure and for as long as we can but theres been some really good advise here so far. Go brains trust!

All good! Plates, cups, cutlery and napkins! Check!

Everyone is super welcoming. Last month we had no trouble at all, we had chi's and pugs and my knobhead retriever and Bronson who is pretty big (I've forgotten what he was!!!) and we had no dramas, there's plenty of room to do your thang. PS- A BOERBELL! JEALOUS!! Looking so forward to cuddles!

I honestly didn’t even know that was a thing. I assumed they did just shrink away! I don’t think we’ll opt for that if it’s offered. Sounds more cosmetic than anything on a big dog and we don’t mind if he looks a little daggy in the groin region. Will add fluids to the list. Not that I doubt he will bounce back in typical knob-dog fashion but definitely something to add on. We’re also pretty keen to get the wart of doom removed. Haha.

Your make a good point! It would be worth the extra just to tick all the boxes and if there is something lurking we might have a chance of knowing before he's sick. He is pretty fit, but I gather as you say you wouldn't have known otherwise, that Odie was pretty well at the time too. Was that just a general blood test or a specific test out of curiousity. Did they have suspicions she wasn't well or just routine testing?

Yup. And they look ridiculous. Haha. He is wearing them like a badge of honour laying around on his back in this heat. Sounds good to me. Gotta cover all bases! The last dog we got who wasn’t already desexed was about 15 years ago and I was ten, so not terribly involved in it all.

So you're saying I should get the bitch next door done instead or shout them a damn gate? Haha. In an ideal world I would wait but I feel like we’ve come as long as possible in the situation we are in and it might be the best thing to do at this point.

We do get a bit of that too. I have nothing there either, unfortunately. He just doesn't get in until he goes and does something else. What do you do when he does it? Do you tell him off? Give in? Carry on as you were?

Hi all! I’m looking to get Gus the chop before too long. He’s almost 10 months now and after the hell that has been this week as next door has an american bulldog x thing that went into season and somehow managed to defeat the plywood/bin combination they use for a fence between house and garage ( ) and she was at our gate whining pitifully all night at one point, and the lust was reciprocated so Gus spent the week inside because I’m pretty sure no one needs flat coat x misc bull breed puppies out there. I know I sure don’t! Anyway, I have no desire at all to go through that again so it’s becoming time. We would like to get to 12 months but I’d also like to get him before he starts marking too. Just wondering, and I’ve probably missed this info somewhere. What should I be asking for when I book him in, I know there’s a few tests like the scratch test that should be done first, but I don’t know a lot about it all to be honest. Any help would be muchos appreciated.

Team Long Lost Twin strikes again! Lisa had a good post a few pages back as hey presto, captain shithead is doing the same thing! It's so hard because you can't very well ignore at times it as you instinctively would, it's just inappropriate and they look so smug doing it!/ We have had some success with giving him nothing, if he's barking and pulling to talk to another dog he does not get that. We leash him and go the other way and I don't talk to him, look at him or move. We go stand elsewhere and be a tree. Of course that's all well and good when you're at a park or something but juat barking for fun in the yard is a whole other thing. I'm no help there! I forgot to say as well, he is looking so so handsome!

Nooooooooooooooooooo!

http://kepala.com.au/contact.asp That's about the best directions! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Wow. What a life that dog has lived!

Rosie will be so upset!

She said due to privacy reasons she cannot divulge any info and I did offer for her to give out my email address but she also said she could not do that either I would love to see what the rest of the litter look like And quite rightly, no breeder should divulge any other puppy buyers' details. My apologies for not explaining myself fully. Occasionally, even quite often in our breed puppy buyers end up meeting one another whilst puppies are babies, on a breeders FB page, during the take over period and then again later on at club training etc. With permission from individual new owners, swapping details via the breeder would be perfectly acceptable and even encouraged if it is something both parties wanted to do. If the breeder does not wish to forward your details onto others that might be happy to have contact with you, that is absolutely her prerogative, but it would be a case of her not wishing to, not that she couldn't. The breeder of Gus has a lovely facebook page for puppy buyers and to keep us all posted on her dogs, some of Gus’s littermates are owned by people I would call very good friends. There’s also a flatcoats Australia facebook, which is obviously less of a task than a Golden Retriever one, that would certainly be busier! But I’ve met some really firm friends on there too. It’s a lovely resource and makes contact and updates very easy!