Mairead

It may not have had anything to do with the injection, just happened around the same time. Did anyone mention haemorrhagic gastroenteritis? 5 -Minute Veterinary Consult: Breed Predilection "incidence is greater in small breed dogs. Breeds most represented include miniature Schnauzers, dachshunds, Yorkshire terriers and miniature poodles."

I hope they don't rehome the unsocialized dogs who will endure more stress every remaining day of their lives just so someone can pat themselves on the back because they "saved" them.

Not the dog's fault. See if you can catch the owner/s and get them spayed/neutered.

I took my sighthounds to a greyhound vet because regular vets tended not to know much about them. In the greyhound waiting room were well kept, well adjusted dogs. In the pet waiting room were usually overweight, poorly socialised and poorly controlled dogs. At a Million Paws walk one year (I stopped going - too many long flexileads and being run into by strollers) the vet students doing free checkups said the show dogs are in good condition and the pets look like coffee tables. In the Baird greyhound enquiry, didn't the RSPCA say they didn't get many greyhound cruelty cases?

The thing to ask is, am I keeping him alive for his benefit or for my benefit? Since having a dog in her teens with spinal arthritis put down, seeing how tension-free her face was after death, and realising I had left the decision too long, I have preferred to send them off early rather than late. You could try the poem The Last Battle. This poem was published in a commemorative dog show catalogue many years ago and I kept it because I thought I might need it one day.

Great Dane Australian registrations steady around 500 last few years then dipped a little for 2023, but many breed numbers have dipped due to homes being taken by ...(fill in your answer here).

Golden what? What breed do you mean? The purchase price is the smallest expense in owning a dog, so how much money can you afford for yearly expenses?

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Appalling but not surprising. Goes with the ad hoc nature of ranger training mentioned by tdierikx in the Coroner thread. With council elections approaching the episode on lobbying "Fighting for the Horses |D.C. Trips" (32 min) by Horse Plus Humane Society www.horseplushumanesociety.org a private operation based in Tennessee could be useful. They went in person to Washington D.C. to meet with as many people as they could. I found it very educational, though different in some areas than here. For example, here personal letters/emails carry more weight than petitions, whereas another group they were working with was presenting 'signature boards' with just signatures not even addresses of the people. They had booklets and posters to hand out, film clips and examples of the weights and chains used in the 'Big Lick' competitions for Tennessee Walking horses that they are trying to ban.

Puppy Chat has a question about littermate syndrome - 2 males in same household. Just bumping it up.

Are they both entire males, both neutered or some other variation of this? What is the main concern you have?

Or another person spruiking their blog.

I knew a boarding kennel owner who gave up trying to explain that the dog was now in better condition (having not been overfed and having a friend to play with) than when it arrived, because the owner's response was "she's a bag of bones". For overweight dogs of people I don't know well: "he's been living the good life". For people I know a bit more: "prepares his own meals does he?".

Hence the expression "as full as a Labrador's lunchbox".

"American XL Bullies" restricted breed in England and Wales since December 2023, and "believed responsible" for about half the serious attacks in '21 and '23. (Wikipedia "fatal dog attacks - UK") And the police are asking people not to share footage of the attack! Arrgh! Finnish band Nightwish has a song/video "Noise" about the addiction to the online world "... your mirror is black, only a copy stares back, to a slave of Brave New World ..."

Humans interfere with nature every time they have medical treatment for themselves.

I don't think it is necessary for the other dogs to see the dog die. That seems an odd and mostly human idea, like having a grave to visit. But in my experience it is better for the other dogs to be able to sniff the body so that they know the other dog hasn't just gone missing. And it is better done at home rather than making the clinic a place where distressing things have happened to all of you.

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@PowerlegsPerhaps it wasn't clear that the surrendered dogs no longer had issues once in the right home. Gwen kept Beau herself. Except for the last dog mentioned who lived the remainder of his life on a chain until he developed cancer. I was only told he was a dangerous dog after he bit me, after being OK with me for years. There are people who need to be needed and seem oblivious or not bothered that their dog has issues and is not living a happy life. The more broken it is the better. It happens with children too. I wonder what consumer law would make of the not fit for purpose dogs?

Gwen Bailey (Blue Cross, UK) told us stories of rehoming. Some easy ones, like the terrier surrendered for digging in the indoor water bowl. The aggressive English Bulldog first owned by an elderly couple who did not show any leadership. The dog blossomed with a young man who had experience with Bull Terriers. The dog easily gave up his self-imposed leadership role and became relaxed and playful. Not so easy her personal project Beau, who had already bitten several people. His rehabilitation took two years. I think his story is in her book Rescue Dog, but I've lent the book to people who took on a cattle dog from a pound a long way from where they live and only discovered it had been declared a dangerous dog when it jumped an inadequate fence, went for someone, and the ranger was called.

@coneye that breeder talks about importing dogs and semen - that soon uses up the $ so let her charge whatever she wants. That she has a waiting list is a very good sign - there are still some people who can pass the marshmallow test which is about delaying instant gratification. @Adrienne Which breeds need crossbreeding apart from the Dalmatian? Breeds may be rare in some countries and not in others (a Sealyham just won Best in Show at a Thanksgiving show and Flatcoat imports are often from Sweden). A look at the Breed Index dog profiles pedigrees often shows imports and AI in the less popular breeds.

Hmm. The "he's a nice dog he should be bred" myth. He might be the only, or one of only a few, nice dogs in his family. And then there's the breeding partner and their family. When people have said "he's a nice dog ..." to me, I explain it this way: The dog you know and love is but one hand of cards in a very big deck. His relatives will show you what other cards are in the pack but when you breed you are shuffling those cards and hoping you only get the good ones. I tell them to go back to the breeder of their dog if they want another one like him.

Yes, he has that older dog 'hard to keep the weight on' figure. I don't see much Bullmastiff there but that's not so important. There are teams of rock climbers in the UK who rescue usually sheep that are stuck on cliffs or isolated beaches where they haven't been shorn for some time. Notified by ramblers or people in boats. It was a group of farmers who rescued 'Fiona' from the beach. Gives you some hope, doesn't it?

I trialled with sighthounds and had to discard a lot of methods that wouldn't work with three very different dogs, all using their brains in ways that didn't always suit trial rules. But I would be asking - just how important is it that the dog gets those titles? The training may benefit the dog, but the titles only benefit the owner. Find something the dog enjoys and you are not so invested in.

A beautiful English whippet imported as an adult was so frightened by a storm while wearing a coat that she was fatally strangled by it.