seld

Hello everyone,

I am about to put in an application for my girl to become a Service dog and will have 12 months to get her up to scratch for her Public Access Test. Does anyone know of a superb trainer in Perth (preferably North) who would have any experience with this? Molly has basic obedience and is very non reactive but I have trouble motivating her.

Thanks,

Sally

Hi Seld!

Yes, Henley Brook is just down the road along Lord Street/West Swan Rd! :)

Cool, im happy to do a puppy playdate, im off for a week but will be back in town next wednesday.

Hi everyone

I'm new to DOL with a new BC pup coming home mid-October, but am an experienced BC owner, and BC fanatic! ;)

Looks like this thread is a bit quiet at the moment, but I'd love to see it pick up again soon!

I'm in Henley Brook and would like to find some people with vaccinated, healthy pooches to socialise my boy with!

Henley Brook? Thats near ellenbrook isnt it? Ive got a young english mastiff pup that could do with a play!

Fill 2 litre icecream containers with a few treats and blobs of mince, fill it with water and freeze it. Should take them a while and keep them cool. Its worthwhile freezing it bit by bit so the treats arent all at the bottom.

We had our old dog, a rescue, dna tested for fun by GT Labs. They send you out a kit with cheek swabs, you send it back and after a short wait they mail you back the results with with a fair bit of paperwork that made no sense to me (with one page that said what he was in plain English). A good friend who is a medical scientist that does something to do with childrens dna and inherited diseases went through it for me and said the results were quite thorough and vouched for Gt labs and their efficacy in human testing.

I cant vouch for the apbt testing etc, but the company that did my boys test was pretty good.

Hi all

I'm planning a second epic trip to Brisbane (Chuwar and Brookfield) this year. The first time around I felt a bit pinned by the dog, like I couldn't leave her locked in the car cos it was too hot (will be again), and didn't want to leave her loose at friends homes either. Some friends it's ok but others not so much. Not where there's cane toads and ticks etc.

So wondering if there are any nice doggy day care places around Sydney, maybe north side (near Frenchs forest or that side of the water), near ish Wyong or between Wyong and Sydney, and especially around Brisbane - somewhere not too far from Brookfield or reasonably easy to get to from there.

And Canberra. Anywhere. But ideally north of the lake. I'd be staying somewhere northside and commuting into town - where there is no longer any suitable parking at all for my car since they lowered all the public pay car parking height limits. Grr. But I'd like to visit the Art Gallery and maybe old parliament house and etc while I'm there. And I don't think they want to mind my dog in the cloak room. she'd probably do her best ear splitting howl for the first 20 minutes anyway. Strangely she doesn't do that when she's at dog events.

We stayed at a hotel in Canberra for a few days when we moved there for a year. It has a floor where you can stay with your dogs and it has a run at the back.. I am wracking my brain for the name of it. Olims? Or something like that.

Just to clarify, is this for access onto your bed? I'd personally put a stop to that now as a baby before she's 70-80kg+

My husband leaves for work really early so she comes up then. Its a king size and she snores and drools a lot less in her sleep than he does anyway. :D

Hello!

Has anyone made dog ramps? We have one for our car, but need to make an indoor one for our baby girl. We have been lifting her, but shes almost 30kilos now and Im waiting for a hernia to appear evertime I lift her! I was considering getting a carpenter to make her a nice set of wide stairs with a gradual incline (its just for the bed and other areas she has taken over), but I hate to think how much that will cost.

Here is pic of her just to brag how ridiculously beautiful she is..

The thing about asking the price is that it is a practicality you need to know as a buyer. Asking the price is necessary to know what you are in for and Id be more concerned that anyone who didn't ask could be going into it naively. Its not like the dogs we are talking about are easily slotted into most peoples weekly budgets, and a lot of people would need to know how much they would need to have aside well in advance.

I think it might be Mr Digbys jacket that makes him look scary!

Well just five minutes ago I was asked by a cyclist if my 60kg mutt was a Pit-bull.

Then a car pulled up and asked me what breed he was and when I answered 'he's a mutt' they got such looks of confusion on their faces that I had to explain what a mutt was.

However I also got a comment from a lady about how lovely and shiny he was which made me :D

ETA: not that these really class as frustrating though!

I get this with my old boy, people thinking he's a pitbull....He looks nothing like a pitbull!!

My pup so far, including shipping, vet bills etc is coming in at about 5k+ (until we get some back from insurance); however, she is priceless to me, especially while I'm sick on the couch with the flu and she's snuggled up under the blanket keeping me warm. Mastiff snuggles should be prescribed!

Referring to my 43kg 5month old Saint puppy:

"Holy crap did you know he was going to get so big?"

No actually, I had no idea. I thought I was buying a Pomeranian and now I am so very very disappointed

I am soo going to use that comeback!

Oh good one! Watch out that evil mastiff of yours doesn't kiss your child to death or squash him/her flat with a giant paw. :laugh:

Or slip on her drool stringers! :D

"You got a mastiff? But they are vicious and you have a child!"

Wow I've never seen a pied Mastiff before either!

She is the love of my life (my husband can't compete with her cuteness!).

I know that you want a fluffy giant, but I just want to say that we have an English Mastiff pup who is the most delightful creature we have ever known! She likes to sniff some chickens she met but is pretty uninterested and is wonderful with our six year old son, she likes to sit on the rug in his room while he reads to her. I would have a hundred Mastiffs if I had the space!

Fluffy Mastiffs exist but are considered a fault, as is our girl because she is pied, personally, I think they are all stunning, majestic and dignified dogs.

I think i have added a picture of her at 16weeks. Not sure if i have done it right.

My Mastiff was my heart dog. I've seen pics of long coated mastiffs, but never seen a pied...can you try again with the picture please, I would love to see her!

I'm tryjng, I can't work it out! Maybe this will work..

I know that you want a fluffy giant, but I just want to say that we have an English Mastiff pup who is the most delightful creature we have ever known! She likes to sniff some chickens she met but is pretty uninterested and is wonderful with our six year old son, she likes to sit on the rug in his room while he reads to her. I would have a hundred Mastiffs if I had the space!

Fluffy Mastiffs exist but are considered a fault, as is our girl because she is pied, personally, I think they are all stunning, majestic and dignified dogs.

I think i have added a picture of her at 16weeks. Not sure if i have done it right.

At the risk of sounding judgemental, the suburb this happened in, Koongamia, is populated by a fair bit of riff raff (thats polite prison officer talk). I grew up in a few suburbs down and would walk and play through that area as a kid, and have had plenty of dogs run out of poorly secured yards to have a go at us through there. NOthing as serious as this incident though.

The shire doesn't persue dog registration unless there is a complaint.

I agree Koongamia is a low socio-economic area however the article said the attack happened on Scott St which is a busy street where three suburbs (Koongamia and two higher socio-economic areas Boya and Helena Valley) intersect so not a street you would expect loose dogs. I have walked my dogs along Scott St many times without issues.

Very close to home and sad to read. I hope the lady is not someone I know from around the neighbourhood

Trus, I used to ride my horse down Scott street from the old bridle path that intersects it just south of Greenmount Library, and much of my family still live in Helena Valley. Its still such a small community despite the new estates. Isnt the old hospital now an elderly respite care centre? She may have been from there.

At the risk of sounding judgemental, the suburb this happened in, Koongamia, is populated by a fair bit of riff raff (thats polite prison officer talk). I grew up in a few suburbs down and would walk and play through that area as a kid, and have had plenty of dogs run out of poorly secured yards to have a go at us through there. NOthing as serious as this incident though.

The shire doesn't persue dog registration unless there is a complaint.

Hi dobiemum,

Im in Ellenbrook too. There isthe northern suburbs club in Carine and there is one in Midland. There is also the tracking club that meets in gnangara pines on saturday mornings.

Welcome to Ellenbrook! I assume you have discovered the dog park in Coolamon?

I highly recommend you look for oli collars, its a guy in canada and he sells them on etsy.com.... they are phenomenal!

Here is a link http://www.etsy.com/shop/OLICOLLARS

Getting my baby mastiff girl some! He does custom jobs too.

People driving with dogs on their laps

Its pretty sad. Ive never personally seen a puppy mill, but have bought seen a battery egg operation, I imagine its similar.

Anyone watching? Its a segment on puppy mills.