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Have you asked your vet about the benefits of using fortekor to aid kidney function?

I'm very sorry about the babies and they are in my thoughts. But I just have to say, well done for seeing you have high risk pups and being proactive about isolation and vet treatment.

She does look like a Hairy MacLary !!

I'd email Julie at the MDBA (DOL 'Steve'), she's usually got the latest on non profit org insurance. :)

All natives are protected unless a permit to cull is issued AFAIK. Swan deaths happened near here in a large park with reclaimed natural areas, specifically so the wildlife would return. However there were witnesses to a man encouraging his dogs to attack. If the council rangers and police aren't interested (which just sounds lazy IMHO) you're going to have to take it to the Parks & Wildlife dept, and local media to get community momentum.

Fangks Ari.g

I don't do FB, can someone post or PM the Sydney details pls?

I know her, she is tiny and his best friend. They always sit there (pitt st). A pox on the jerk who kicked her

Kiki's is in Sydney, but still wonderful. :)

Word is really spreading. Mr Powerlegs brought one of your flyers home from work!

I'm so sorry for everyone who tried to help. RIP little babies.

That's the stupid part. The article is so damaging but so flimsy, it says absolutely nothing about the extent of the injuries, the post op treatment or who was the animal's surgeon. Then it presumes to say the cat was overdosed where I can't see one sentence where anyone investigated to prove the cause of death.

seriously?

Or it could just be an old or 'close enough' photo the newspaper put there because they didn't have one. :)

If that's an actual photo of the rabbit.... it would be next to impossible to hold on to a live wild rabbit while you hang it by the tips of it's ears and expect it to stay there like that. I just can't see how that would work.

It's a bit of a gappy story. Not enough information. It doesn't explain who actually did the surgery and why a post-op mauled cat wasn't already on painkillers. No mention of antibiotics either, infection or sepsis can kill a cat the same way - IMHO a necropsy should have been done before calling the press. RIP kitty.

If the cat was post-op shouldn't the owner have been given prescribed pain relief to take home anyway?? This is very confusing. I thought that vet had retired. She's been there forever.

Yep, scam. Same ad, same photos and wording is being run in Germany.

Right, so from those posts he won't be 'official' but he isn't going to stop going on about it.

Personal dig? I was only responding because you answered my question. Please put me on ignore if you're taking everything personally. OP, question answered. That advertiser has been removed from the site, I'm sure she'll pop up again selling british bulldog litters or yorkies. :laugh:

Yes it is. I'm not here to argue.

:laugh: Ok.

I don't know enough about the breed to know why they were banned. In any case, these ones don't exist. :) Scammers sh!t me to tears.

If someone makes false and inflammatory claims, such as that 'there is a major problem with bull breeds in this country', then someone else is going to pull up the information that shows that their claim is incorrect. Simple as that. There is no dog bite epidemic (ALL dogs included) and the likelihood of being bitten by a dog is incredibly low, for ALL breeds. No one said all bull breeds are angels and are never at fault so I don't know where you're getting that from. The point was simply made that the overwhelming majority of ALL DOGS are not involved in any sort of incident at all, and that Bull Breeds are just dogs, like all the others. Yes, they're strong and a med-large size so there is an extra level of responsibility there than say, a poodle, but there is a list as long as my arm of breeds that would go into that same category. They aren't some magical beast that are unlike other dogs, resulting in there being a 'major problem' with them. To see 'dog people' perpetuating the myth of dog bite epidemics and that there is a 'dog problem' in this country is quite sad. 'Trotting out the stats' actually has people reconsider what they may inherently believe as true. False and inflammatory in your opinion, possibly many many others. And proven or disproven with incomplete statistical data. Data which in the long run doesn't matter either way because if it did, breed specific laws would have ended with the greyhound. You may think I'm arguing with you, I'm not. I'm talking about free discussion being inhibited because of the way these threads deteriorate and members being singled out for using the wrong word or having a contrasting opinion than the ones people prefer to hear. Your opinion is listened to, it's polite to acknowledge others'. Shouting people down doesn't change their minds.

Maybe she is just genuinely concerned that restricted breeds are being sold in Victoria online to any gronk that wants one. So ok, better to have them sold, seized and PTS while the sellers pocket the money. You have to calm down about everyone wanting to see bull breeds persecuted.