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Just wanted to add :love: :heart: oldie german shepherds

It's a work of genius don't you know. Just like the news article.

I posted the study link above RiverStar :)

Found it. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0080529#s2

Like I said Mita, I'm poking fun at this 'study'. With a little attention grabbing (slow news day) article and no web link to the results and snippets of interpretive quotes from a professor. Study might be a great piece of science but who knows? I feel slightly stupider after reading that faff.

Jesus, dogs are dogs! :laugh: They all have their moments, and owners who overindulge & under-train aren't limited to little breeds. Lets go further... do research on Big Dog Syndrome. Balance out the results by testing for: counter-surfing, full stretch bed hogging, ability to clear a coffee table with a single wag, the lean in for a hug by nearly pushing you over, presentation of the soaked tennis ball in the middle of your lap or dinner plate, the room-emptying silent farts, their notion that they are in fact lapdogs and their artistic side: Pollock inspired snot and slobber paintings on the inside of the car. Yes I'm making fun of the study and can't be bothered looking up exactly which the 36 undesirable behaviours were included.

If he didn't have a microchip I'd say it's more likely he didn't get his puppy vaccinations. Fingers crossed.

edit re the pitfalls of buying power. Sorry Anne, missed your post above. Like PP. The franchisees could only buy from the one company, this company with it's promised buying power was also owned by their franchisor. He held their contracts, told them the rules and got his profit at both ends. Then it all fell over.

We're on that list! :D AND we have puppies, they are on the website as 'Sabrina's Story'. edited because I'm a nitwit and have updated the page now too Sabrina and Puppies Home page Inner West Sydney NSW

What exactly do you need Erny? :) (sorry for being a bit thick today)

God I hate fleas. Had the same thing one year and switched flea treatments around until I found one they weren't resistant to. This year it's advantage. Next year it will be something different I'm sure. I've got wooden floorboards so mopped with eucalyptus or lavender instead of bombing (Takes about 2 weeks for the bomb to interfere with their breeding cycle so if you only did it recently don't stress). Last thing was to clear them from the back yard. Get food grade diatomaceous earth from a produce store and dust the whole yard (natural but terribly messy!) because I didn't want to use Coopex but you could try that first (water soluble version) if you don't want the yard to look like a weird snowstorm and have dust tracked in. :)

Just a question (I don't know much about the case), are the horses ever rehomed or do they just live there forever? I heard the number 200, surely that can't be right

You have a new permanent family member I think :laugh: Merry Christmas Bonnie

And again. Our e-news is for adopters and supporters not your moles. Piss off. btw none of this is directed at muttrus who started this thread ages ago. I refer directly to someone who reads DOL avidly in case her name is mentioned. I'm talking about one specific "rescuer" (in the broadest sense of the word) who cannot move on with her life. Fact is, if this crazy with a busted moral compass has refused to let go it's her own issue. But it wastes my time and it's clearly a sickness. She needs to get help.

$1000 buys a lot of parvac for a rescue and it's volunteers to work with council on an incoming dogs vaccine trial.

Yep, it can work when everyone is on the same page. And I'd have to state the obvious: when a rescuer spends two days navigating a long distance rescue and making room before they commit: then find the dog has been taken in a wholesale grabathon by someone who refuses to work with others, frankly after a few wasted attempts you just get fed up and go elsewhere. Kenreb, I'd like to believe that you are just mislead instead of deliberately accepting the dogs in your pound be collateral damage in your agenda. If you'd been around longer than 5 minutes and had a little humility you'd be able to see what a disaster you've created. And now we have a pound who has effectively fallen off the map because you wanted monopoly. Parvo apparently rife in the community and pound... so no ethical rescue will put dogs on private transport without quarantine. If you aren't offering local help so how do you propose anyone get dogs out? Don't blame others for dead dogs, from the outside.....this has been %100 your own doing. But maybe they aren't supposed to get out, that would certainly give you leverage as the one and only griffith rescue.

If you can't find a surrogate I second natural lambswool, there's something about the smell and warmth. You're helping her toilet yes? Poor little orphan. I wish you luck.

:laugh: Well done Pern.

Could you be any more defensive and nasty? More insulting? To those who ask questions or have seen rescue groups destroy relationships with pounds by going to the press and FB. Groups who can, do take their share of these 'big and ugly' dogs and as you have found, they don't get adopted as fast as they come in. Which is why you are full. And why other groups are full or god forbid, taking dogs from their own local pounds. You also seem to have a huge chip on your shoulder about not being able to empty your pound every week, as if everyone else is fine with dogs PTS and everyone else is sitting around doing nothing. BTW Fluffies get parvo the same as large dogs. But yeh, you're right, they're all so much easier to rehome after you deal with their foul teeth, patellas, hernias, moldy skin from matts, they're a goldmine and so easy. How about you put your name on all of them then.

I can't look after losing one after the other for 18months. It was hard to catch my breath in between their passing.

Yep T. x2 Is this a paraphrase kenreb? What about all the other rescues who were quietly working with Griffith for years and years.......

With the help of a geneticist? OMG sure. Sounds as dodgy as the Allerca 'hypoallergenic' cats. & You're absolutely right Ams, I just couldn't help having a laugh.

Jane can you email me what you have? [email protected]

Reads like you revenge reported to the RSPCA over a personal disagreement.

Yep! I had an old girl who absolutely refused things like pumpkin. The tasteless invisible variety of metamucil was the only thing you could sneak into her food.