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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.

here 'tis Nic :) Inquiry lifts lid on NSW greyhound deaths 3:30pm November 15, 2013 The boss of greyhound racing in NSW says animal welfare in the industry should improve, revealing about 3000 unwanted dogs are euthanised each year. NSW Greyhound Racing chief executive Brent Hogan on Friday fronted a parliamentary committee looking into claims greyhounds are given performance-enhancing drugs and are killed in their thousands every year. The inquiry, at Penrith in western Sydney, was also charged with examining the financial relationship between Greyhound Racing NSW and the TAB. Giving evidence, Mr Hogan conceded about 3000 dogs were euthanised each year in NSW. He said about 8000 dogs were whelped each year in NSW, but only 70 per cent made it to the racetrack. Asked by Greens MP John Kaye what happened to the other 30 per cent, Mr Hogan said "there are a variety of pathways that many could follow". Some dogs left the state, while others found homes as pets. A submission to the inquiry from a group called Greyhound Rescue says the drowning of unwanted greyhound puppies is common. The group says it rarely receives pups, and few are surrendered to pounds. Pressed by Mr Kaye, Mr Hogan said 52 greyhounds were adopted as pets in 2012 through a NSW Greyhound Racing initiative. He rejected the claim doping was widespread. "We have zero tolerance for participants who do not meet our animal welfare standards," he said. In its submission, Greyhound Rescue says the euthanasia rate is "horrifying". "Veterinary nurses are horrified by the high euthanasia rate of their clinics," the group's submission states. It says dogs that arrive at pounds are often in very poor health, and need emergency surgery. A dog had been blinded in one eye after its trainer hit it in the eye with a belt buckle, and females were often in poor health due to overbreeding, it says. The Animal Welfare League has urged the government to set up two independent committees to monitor welfare standards. It called for less litters bred each year to help reduce euthanasia rates. Earlier on Friday, the inquiry was told many NSW greyhound tracks under financial pressures could be forced to close within a decade. Mr Hogan called on the government to help the industry get a bigger slice of TAB wagering revenue split between three racing codes. He said the greyhound industry was effectively subsidising harness and thoroughbred racing by about $15 million a year. The inquiry will resume in February.

Cool, I'll sort it asap. Will send you an email (again sorry). You're right about the pill cutters :laugh:

I'm still a fan of having some personal space and having my own home for me and mine, not as a viewing arena for potential adopters. Rescue runs my daily life enough as it is and I'm OK with keeping this space for family, friends and a long suffering hubby. I understand that not everyone chooses to work that way which is alright. You have to do what works for you. Though I have had people here incl other rescuers, there's nothing interesting. My post above was aimed directly at a person who is one of those nutter rescuers I wouldn't wish on anyone. I say to her now: You are a hypocrite, I know what you're doing, it's not clever and it's getting boring. ;-) Go away.

I might have to ask Mr Powerlegs to pick them up while he's at work in the city. I still need them, my old girl has gone up a dose. And silly as it sounds, I'm now wasting more tablets trying to cut those bloody chalky tablets down to quarters. :laugh:

And yet again Try it again, go on. You'll get a thread of your very own....oh that's right you've already had one deleted because it was too close to naming you. :laugh: You're a sick sad woman, a bully and a liar. Stop wasting my time.

My apologies to Anne with a mountain of stuff to do I didn't get to pick up the epilepsy meds. Sorry. xxx

There is no legal guidelines in rescue itself. No governing body and only the Companion Animal Act or POCTAA guidelines to follow. Home drafted contracts can be disputed. However to my limited knowledge a buyer of any item (and animals are considered 'property') has a right to get what they pay for and if known defects haven't been noted on paper they have more rights than the rescue aka seller, who has sold a faulty product without black & white disclosure. (ACL reference brochure) The rescue did the right thing if they took the dog back and refunded the money. That's all they can do. There's no guarantee of perfection in any living animal, it's just that known issues should be made clear and complaining about it after the rescue has settled the matter is pretty rough in my opinion. Now you have only one side of the story not both. Steve may be able to clarify. And a second opinion by another vet would be useful before re-listing the dog.

Glad the puppy trashed his house! He'll probably get less punishment than that for the actual theft.