kelpiecuddles

Sorry I will correct that to scent hounds

Some characteristics of breeds make them hard to live with in suburbia though, bassets have lots of wonderful characteristics but the tendency for scent hounds to bark is not something you really want in suburbia but which does serve them well in their original job.

I would say breed characteristics can be tempered with the right sort of training. I have a basset hound, they are known as being prone to barking so one of the first behaviours we focused on when she was a pup was not barking, same with my kelpie, a very high energy on the go breed so we made training an 'off switch' a priority.

I think by unfriendly Eddie means stand offish

fabulous :)

Jumping up on people is a training problem not a breed trait.

How important is the 'do as it's told' factor? Are you after a super obedience competition type dog or just general good house dog manners type stuff? If the latter a basset may suit you well, mine chills out in the sunshine most of the day and then gets up and goes bushwalking and swimming at the beach with us on the weekend. They are fairly smart but tend to just sort of doing things at their own pace, that said she knows the house rules and happily follows them and is a very easy dog to live with. Her favorite place to be is leaning against your leg. In terms of shedding they do shed but I don't find her shedding to be particularly bad, if I give her a brush with a deshedder once a week she hardly sheds at all.

He looks like an awesome dog Perse! If only I had the space for permanent random rescue dogs LOL

I would be thinking big black head type thing/ingrown hair. If it popped out and the spot it came from looks clean and healthy and the thing didn't look 'alive' I'd be happy that it was nothing serious.

So did it sort of 'pop' out? Wondering whether it could be some sort of hard mass from a follicle, equivalent of a big black head

I can absolutely promise you that you don't 'win' against someone behaving childishly by being just as childish yourself, you behave maturely and responsibly and you present your arguments in the proper way and to the proper people thereby shwing yourselves to be more grown up than them! P**sing off the people making the decisions will just make them push back harder.

They accept a stat dec if needed

Stress to them that the dog isn't having a change of ownership that your mum is just babysitting her

It's worth calling and speaking to the council, I had a similiar siuation but longer term as we were living between two houses, the local council area I was in(in Melbourne) actually said to me that they were OK with me not registering her at our address there as long as she had a valid registration at a current address in NSW, we simply listed our melbourne address as a secondary address on her registration

How about a pair of older dogs who are already used to this sort of lifestyle, plenty of dogs come through rescue that have come from families where people are out during the day and are already used to that sort of lifestyle. It's often hard to place pairs of dogs so it could work very well. Or an older dog and then add a puppy once the older dog has settled in maybe.

Over the years I've raised three dogs around children very successfully and in reality I would say they are mostly outdoors dogs in the sense that that is where they are allowed to play, etc. We have taught that indoors time is quiet time which they spend on their beds, usually sleeping, my dogs aren't allowed to wander wherever they like around the house. I guess to some it might seem like we would be excluding them but it couldn't be further from the truth, we took them bushwalking on Sunday as a family and spend a lot of time outdoors so although they are outside most of the day they aren't excluded because we are also outside most of the day. So I don't think having dogs that are mostly outdoors necessarily makes them 'yard ornaments' but some people do treat outdoors dogs that way so be sure that a dog is what you want, a dog isn't just for a half hour walk once a day.

They'd probably give him back after he started raiding their fridges anyway...

Here you go, basset hound feet, larger paw is the front foot, her nails are very long at the moment, getting them trimmed is a vet visit unfortunately. I thin I should get danger money for what she put me through to take these photos LOL

ok got some, just loading them for you :)

UM, I can try, does it need to be good quality or is an iphone pic ok?

I was reading an article recently about tibetan mastiffs in china being responsible for a lot of attacks on humans. Too many people paying massive amounts for a status symbol that they cant train or handle and paying the price for it.

Oh yes, thanks for pointing that out, unless you have someone who could maybe sit in a car and read a book with them when they aren't being used or something. It will be at the show ground so the cars will be parked just next to the oval so would probably be an option(or they could just sit in the car if it's a freezing day or you have a wire crate type door on the back of your boot area.) I have a very old soft crate there which will have to suffice.

Yes Lesley is organising it. Dates for others, it will be the weekend of 17/18th of May and there will be both beginners and advanced tracking available, more details to come.

Literally 5 minutes ago she hopped in the car for stage 2 of her journey :) My friend's absolutely gorgeous brothers have kindly taken her to Canberra tonight and she's going to bunk with them and Mary will meet them in Canberra in the morning fr her trip over to Temora. :D Interestingly she seems to have lost a little weight around her belly the last couple of days which has left me wondering whetehr she may have reabsorbed some or all of the pups, I've let Mary know so she can look in to it further.

Possibly although I had thought it might have been a it like a horse stud I stayed at where it was a mix of paddock work and AI. Either way it sounds like it was considered to be an injury due to a 'poor dismount' ;)