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Ummmmm possibly - I can't remember the name of the shows :laugh:

Just heard that my import boy, who arrives in 6 sleeps , was Runner-Up in Group yesterday at his last show weekend in New Zealand.... Go Acey, can't wait to meet you!

Its just cost me $1,560.00 NZ to bring a dog (up to 20kg incl crate) from Invercargill to Melbourne with $110AUD to pay on pick up as well. ETA he already had a crate as he went to NZ from Sweden

I assume that was Hagen?

What is so horrible about that? Better than being shoved outside with no bed. Mine love their crates. Agree - mine love their crates!!! They hang out in the loungeroom with me whilst I'm working during the day but sleep happily in their crates. I have two giant crates that each sleep 3 dogs - they have room to cuddle up to each other if they want, or sleep alone if they want. They wake us at around 6.30am each day but we're morning people so its no drama. No seriously, mine all get on the bed at bedtime for cuddles and a snooze, then the youngest goes to his crate, Cooper goes to his bed on the floor and alternates between that and the chair in the lounge. Tully alternates between the bed and under the bed and Lacy alternates between the bed and her own bed on the floor. So generally we have one sometimes two on the bed. :D No offence but that looks like my idea of hell :laugh: . I struggle to share my bed with a human (get your feet on your side of the freaking bed!!!) - I'm getting anxious just looking at that lack of space . I can't stand to be touched when I sleep, be it human, canine or feline....

Mine sleep in crates... Fauves are destructa-mutts and I'm fond of my soft furnishings. When my bitches are pregnant or have pups they sleep in my room but, to be perfectly honest, I hate sharing my bed and couldn't imagine anything more likely to give me poor sleep than sharing my bed with them... Baby puppies sleep in my room, in crates, so that they can be crate trained & house trained.

Looking at Daisy I'm betting the white ones turn blue :laugh:

I would have, and have had, the same sympathy for people who have lost their children in this manner because I know how easily I've forgotten things before. I saw one story where normally the mum took the child to daycare but, for some out of the ordinary reason, dad had to take child to daycare (or vice versa). The parent who had the child started on their long, peak-hour drive to work, child was very quiet (presumably asleep). They completely forgot about daycare and simply went to work, parked the car, got out and went to walk just as they did every day. Child died. Devastatingly sad but I ALL I felt at the time was sympathy for those parents who would blame themselves for the rest of their lives for the death of their adored baby.

Yep and can I say, after knowing how integral your dogs are to your life, that if you can do it, anyone can! Yep We really do live in a society that can't accept responsibility can we? You're fat, it must be the junk food companies fault. Kids take all their illicit drugs in lines of festivals and OD, it must be because there's dog handlers there that frighten them. An idiot forgets a living being in a car in the heat, it must be because the car isn't air conditioned. We need to grow up. It's entirely that staff members fault, no one elses. Unless I've missed posts, no-one is saying that it wasn't the staff member's fault that poor Collette died, rather that we can see how it could happen to good people. In my experience people who forget things like this are busy, busy people with too much on their minds. They get in their car with one thing on their mind but, as some people do, they move from that thing to something else. I've driven 50km without my son in the car when I was supposed to be dropping him to someone's house. He was safe, I didn't just leave him somewhere by accident BUT I did forget that only 30 minutes earlier I'd arranged for him to have a sleepover. Good on you all if you only have one thing to worry about at a time.

If my dog was being attacked I would want the owner of the other dog to leave with his dog quickly. It would only be afterwards that I would be aware that he hadn't apologised etc. Think about the state the attacking dog would be in - how on earth is it helpful to have a dog reacting like that still around? I say this as someone whose dogs were attacked by a large off-leash dog years ago. The dog was seriously dog aggressive and we were, quite simpy, lucky that the dog's very young owner came running up quickly and got it on lead. All I wanted in the moment was that dog a LONG, LONG way from my dogs. It was only afterwards that I regretted not knowing where it lived so that I could report it. ETA - not excusing anything as it is an horrific situation but explaining why the man & his dog leaving may actually have been a good thing in the moment.

I had run an all breeds rescue for quite a while and we'd rescued a number of heavily pregnant bitches. I'd really enjoyed the process of whelping & raising the puppies and finding them the right homes so thought it might be something I'd like to do one day "properly". Found my breed of choice and bought my first bitch and started showing. Four & a half years later I had my first litter and have now just had a second. My dogs are my pets first and foremost - I quite enjoy showing but I couldn't do it every weekend and probably show, on average, 1-2 times a month. I also do obedience with my dogs and plan on trying some other dog sports over the next few years. I live on acreage and have room to have multiple dogs BUT don't want to ever have them kennelled so need to keep my numbers manageable. I choose dogs based on many, many reasons most of which are too complex to go into as I would no doubt leave something important out.

Sadly our first born little boy passed away overnight. :cry:

Our babies were born today, two healthy little boys and one little girl who didn't make it sadly... Off to join her Aunty Daphne. Of course, I was hoping for a bitch

Cosmolo's boy Dexter had a similar big chunky boy look as a baby though not quite so roachy a back. I can see pointer & bloodhound in that boy and probably a fair few other things that have all been added over the years. I suspect he is going to be a bigger boy.

Yep Jed that is along the lines I was thinking of.

A Folly of Fauves

Why not ring Albury Wodonga Animal Rescue and ask them? Or Wodonga Dog Rescue. Both are on-line.

I would go. I have kids and my responsibility to be there as their mum is more important than my animals. It would break my heart to leave them but my kids are young and need me. Our family has a number of different bushfire plans and what happens in them is based on how much time we have. In one where we have loads of time they all make it out. In the one where we don't have loads of time not everyone can get out. The plans had our whole family in tears whilst we were discussing it BUT its important that we have made a decision before panic sets in on what happens. If I've only got 10 minutes I CAN'T possibly get everyone out.

OMG AdoubleJ she is enormous!!!

Wow Larissa - they're awesome!

Here is a fauve pup with a LOT of white on it... This is a pedigreed pup and the photo was provided to me by an overseas breed expert. The other photo shows a fauve with black in its coat as a pup. This pup would have been born very, very dark and, apparently, all the black will go away. I've not breed a pup with this colouring BUT I have seen one here in Australia that went to a pet home - I've not seen it as an adult but would love to. It had less black in its coat than this pup.

General Specials is best in showing judging Becks.

Fauves generally speaking are any shade of Fawn to Red without white. Some white is allowed on the chest, and from photos I've seen, tends to exist more in the truly red Fauves. However as the colour doesn't impact on their working ability it is not uncommon for Fauves from hunt lines to have more white on them. They also can be born with a lot of black in their coat which *generally* will all fall out leaving a very deep red but doesn't always. There have also been instances of a Griffon Fauve sized dog being born in a Basset Fauve litter. My European contacts tell me that this happens as hunt kennels used to occasionally use a Griffon Fauve to increase drive (they are a harder dog) and if those lines are used together, even generations down the track, a pup can be born that will eventually end up the size of a Griffon Fauve.

I've personally not been non-awarded yet BUT I know a number of other Fauve exhibitors have for different reasons. Whilst I have not been non-awarded I've had a number of judges tell me with my young boy from my first litter that he was an excellent puppy BUT he didn't yet meet the breed standard. One even came up to me after the show to tell me that she had no doubt that he would be a top winner once he hit three but their standard calls for a mature dog. The top winning Fauve in the world at the moment is 6 - the vast majority of his winning has come in the last 3 years. I fully expect that at some point I will have a dog non-awarded.

Such a cutie!