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My oldest BC girl is a very independant, workaholic type. She is REALLY not into cuddles and will put up with being patted but will lean away and look very put upon while you do it. I don't like this in a dog at ALL, she is too aloof and we don't get along very well. She is a fantastic dog to work with though, I have done heaps of different sports with her and she is very good at everything she has tried. Sometimes I forget and cuddle her and offend her greatly

My next oldest BC is not a cuddler either. She likes attention/interaction and will follow me about and will nudge for pats, but doesn't do lap sitting etc. So when I talked to Gael's breeder originally I said I want a dog for agility and tracking but really above all I MUST have a cuddly dog. I got my cuddly dog, I adore her, she is very velcro, needy, in my face on my lap as often as she can be. She loves all her people friends too and feels they need many cuddles. She likes to sit on people's laps at agility shows and poke her nose down their tops and inhale noisily:("you smell so nice my lovely friend").

The Brittany is also a snuggler and a heat-seeking snuggler at that, and refuses to contemplate sitting by herself when there is a lap to sleep on. She is very affectionate but more with her family than like Gael with everyone. She is the sort of dog where you go outside to take the recycling out and she is overjoyed at your return as if you had been gone for hours. It is very cute and so I forgive her occasional naughtiness.

Cuddly is the MOST important thing to me

Obviously is a Border Collie owner thing because this could well have been written by my friend . She just can't fathom how I can stand to have my independent dogs with poor recall (a breed trait) and I find hers so boringly obedient and, when I visit, wish they would leave me the hell alone. :laugh: Isn't it fabulous that there are breeds to suit all our personalities?

Out of interest - how many here are the same with dogs as they are with people in terms of what they like? I also can't stand to have people in my space unless I invite it and, much to my husband's distress, really don't enjoy sitting and snuggling on the lounge - give me my space please!

I currently have two litters of Fauves - I had a reasonable waiting list before they arrived and have added a few more puppy homes to it since. My last litter I had no homes before I bred them but they were all in fabulous homes by 4 months of age. With a rare breed if you waited until you had enough homes you would NEVER breed :laugh: . You breed knowing that you may have to run pups on for a little while until the right home comes along. It is one of the many risks associated with breeding.

Is this what it looks like? This dog has been tested for all forms of mange (negative) and for thyroid issues (negative). He is with rescue at the moment in Wodonga.

I like the independent bitches, the ones they don't call "bitches' for no reason

Yep me too! I like it when I earn their affection. :laugh: My friend has Border Collies who just NEED soooooo much - I couldn't stand it. She couldn't stand my independent Fauves. :laugh:

Wow well done Sway!

I imported a dog from Sweden that I had never met from a breeder I had never met. I did it by recommendation from people I have had loads of discussion with BUT the cost of importing the dog was sufficient for our family's budget without also having to fly OS.

Sure are Brintey - you'll have to share some photos.

Will see what I"m doing that weekend and if I'm we may well enter! BUgger - my husband just reminded me that I have already entered a show for that weekend. Sorry

It is terribly hard, particularly as I work from home. I find myself pulling the camera out a lot :laugh:

This is Green from my first litter - what a cutie!

My first litter is now 5 weeks old and the second 3 1/2 weeks old. All are in the loungeroom with us distracting us enormously. :laugh:

Wow that is tough!!!

This is a difficult one Perry's Mum... Whilst I have my own concerns over the direction that the RSPCA have taken I do not feel at this point in time we should focus on kill rates in rescue.

I do agree with due process... but what is 'Due process'... I don't agree with BSL...

The issue is simply that there are too many dogs and the problem lies with people who just keep allowing them to breed for their own selfish reasons which include all Breeders, Back yard breeders and people who get a dog and do not have them desexed. And in my opinion... the worst offender "I just wanted my dog to have one litter, I love puppies'. I believe that if you don't understand and accept that your dog should be desexed or if you can't afford to desex then you should not have a dog.

I believe that anyone who truly loves dogs and immerses themselves in the dog over population issue... could not continue to create more dogs... Volunteer at your local rescue and you start to understand...

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I breed. Well one litter so far, but I intend more. I didn't just 'allow' my dog to breed. I tested her value to the breed in the show ring, undertook all recommended health tests, didn't make the final decision to go ahead until I had owners lined up, looked far and wide for a suitable stud, and eventually imported semen from the US for her.

I feel every responsibility for her puppies and always will.

I feel no responsibility at all for the dogs in the pound.

I am sorry for them, but my being a breeder has nothing to do with them being there. Some of us are very specific in the dogs we want to live with. We are not a home waiting for just any dog. Take away our options and you take away that home, it is not going to filled by anything else. I really don't get why my breed should cease to be bred in this country because there are irresponsible owners who treat their dogs like disposable commodities and who are never held account for it, and irresponsible breeders who cater to them - it is that call for no breeding at all that has seen me drop all my donations to rescue organisations, which used to be significant.

Back to the OP - I agree the RSPCA needs to be more accountable, and I will look at the petition in more depth, thank you for posting it.

Yep agree wholeheartedly AND I was very, very heavily involved with all breeds dog rescue for 6 years (establishing & running an all breeds rescue). As someone who has always "loved dogs" I learnt whilst doing rescue that I don't want to live with all dogs and that the specific traits I do want to live with are only found in certain breeds.

Definitely wash before use and, no, I just put it straight down over newspaper.

Or you could just call him Ray :laugh:

Alamar - Arabic and means coated in gold.

Bahru - Sanskrit for gold

Kingo - Japanese for "our gold"

Rezart - Albanian for golden ray

My favourite is Alamar.

Oh how cute!

Agree wholeheartedly!

I used Wayrod to bring one from Sweden to Australia with a 3-4 month stay in NZ - he was great.

Please don't recommend that people in NSW use electric fencing - it is a cruelty offence to use an electric fence to keep a dog in. I personally think it is a stupid cruelty offence, but it is an offence.

Not if they use it in conjunction with a 1.8 (?) metre fence.

Edit: Correction... 1.5m and it has to be a pingg string or similar device.

Schedule 3 Electrical devices

The device sold under the name Pingg String (including any similar device delivering an electric shock of no greater intensity or duration than a Pingg String)

Confining dogs or cats, but only if used inside a fence through which dogs or cats cannot pass and that is at least 1.5 metres high

From the NSW Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (POCTAA)

Very handy to know!!! Thank you.

Please don't recommend that people in NSW use electric fencing - it is a cruelty offence to use an electric fence to keep a dog in. I personally think it is a stupid cruelty offence, but it is an offence.

OK, talk to me about howling. It is really giving me the irrits.

It used to be that they would only howl when OH and I arrived home, and they would respond to voice commands to knock it off. These days they are breaking into song more often, and are less responsive to voice control. It's a large pack of 10 dogs, and I don't want to push the generosity of my neighbours.

They are not baying breeds - all sighthounds. I have a couple of whingers that I didn't have 3 years ago, and I'm wondering if the whinging is triggering the howling. I do have a bitch in season at the moment, but I'm of the school of thought that they should still behave around the ladies so I'm not too inclined to let them get away with it on that basis.

They don't nuisance bark, they are all really good about barking.

Anyway. Thoughts? I'm especially interested from anyone who has knocked it on the head in a pack of 5 or more.

I have this and it is always worse when I have a whinger in my pack. The whinger (in my current situation it is Mike) starts whinging due to FOMO and before you know it the rest go into pack drive and the ONLY way I can stop it is to actually get right up close to them to "snap" them out of it. Previously it was Daphne and once she went to a pet home the howling was reduced astronomically. I think you need to work out who is starting it up and work on that dog.

The Fauve standard actually says a lot but most of it is based on their working ability.

The Basset Fauve de Bretagne are impassioned hunters but are also excellent companions of man, sociable, affectionate and equable. They adapt themselves easily to all terrains, even the most difficult, and to all quarry. When hunting they reveal themselves to be courageous, wily, and obstinate, which makes them very successful.

Congratulations!!! Seal Iggies are the best!

No they're not related and one of them came to us only 12 months ago. They generally get along brilliantly but I'm a little anal :laugh:

Yes I can't imagine mine would share pups THOUGH I don't ever put them in a position where it is possible as I have heard too many horror stories of bitches killing other bitches' pups - not in this breed, just generally and that is enough to worry me.