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well ive been trying to stop worrying by watching all creatures great n small on utube. heres the link if anyones interested. found it on another forum but yay its a hoot of a series isnt it. apparently this first episode was made in 1978 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrGKbHw6Rc enjoy

exactly, one poor woman in lithgow's vet operated on her 10 months old cavi girl and told her to send me the bill. my vet hit the roof. but what can u do once they have carved up a perfectly healthy pup before even bothering to tell u his verdict is "any vet who prescribes such an op on such a young pup has payments due on their car" come to think of it when he worked out the date of the op and the birth date of the pup she was barely 9 months old other fortunatley rang me first, n after being examined again by my vet left a much relieved camper

Skruffy,what is this you are talking about......mouse rat catches?? Is so we want to know It is D day today,so thinking the worse ...hoping for the best hey these bizzos --- i hope that link works! pretty cheap [if it really does work] but i can't find a manufacturer's website so i can do some deep research --- if you locate the one depicted centrally in your home, it apparently vibrates the buggars out and away from your home i am sooooo hoping that julz is enjoying some happy news... isnt that how the so called snake repellers work?? i remember when these first came out n asking, what about our pet rats to be told. dont worry it wont affect pets.. like what the hows a pet rat supposed to know the difference?

Imagine how the poor owner is feeling, feeling like she has made poor decisions etc. Poor woman, I bet she is beside herself. exactly and this vet is doing her no favors.... so worry for her and them

Nope, I'd say the best protection you've got is a very clear understanding with the buyer that a "show quality pup" is a prospect, not a certainty. That and making no assumptions that previous experience in the show ring guarantees a decent buyer. well it was exactly a supposedly "clear" understanding. that is until the "gallery " at the shows told her, main register is a guarantee of being good enough to make Champion. even those who had examined the puppys at the time of selection and were witness to her being told not only by me but the ones who examined the puppies that no guarantees could be made as to how an 8 week puppy would mature, she also said in front of witnesses, she "had shown for years and knew how much a puppy can change," that she "wanted it as a pet first, and also just wanted the fun of showing again" yet these same people told me for my own reputation to take the dog back. if that isnt backing up the "gallery" opinion that MR now means money back guarantee an 8 week can mature to make 100 challenge points, then what is? seems like just another minefield gathering to me anyway. considering i now supplied a dog so crap i had to take it back, dont see how it saved any so called "reputation" ummm well except now have a reputation for selling a crap dog on MR? at least the great news is, now much loved n adored in its new home.

ummm another question? do you mean what i said. or the other poster who said that one hundred people had signed a petition? I know when i read that weird letter i received from dogs nsw and began phoning around to ask what on earth is this about and from the replies i had already been told, before i spotted this thread on dogzonline, that the whole thing had been started by just one person, and thats all it takes to have started this in motion, how weird? then read that??? like what the? not what ive been told and not just from one source either.

your problem being, if you do not vote then by obstaining you are by default letting the one who started this one less to prevent them gaining their aim soooo difficult decision is it not

ummmm poor chap me turning up and saying anything is probably the kiss of death for him. apologies if ive done him a major disservice feel a bit like a pirah (yep no idea how to spell it)

ummmmm n do i suspect now the rsca have been called , the "where there's smoke there's fire" is now being spread????????????????????????? n why should that be? well make anyone thinking of standing up for him to have second thoughts. fraid to be seen to have anything to do with anyone with smoke near em in case it sticks to them? sort of shave the hunted off from the herd so its isolated n easier to attack? or am i just of the suspicious kind? surely not ;) come to think of it wasnt i not that long ago described as "raving" when trying to warn about the rspca, n yes suspect being branded as raving was calculated to influence anyone into ignoring what i said. once burnt your a "raving luni" if you try to warn the other chickens n it is interesting to note now many once "friends" cant see u anymore....now your scent has been changed by exposure to "smoke" ;)

why do i keep getting the BAD feeling this vet is not giving enough vit K????? and fluids only when she is so dyhydrated? surely they arent the only vet in your area????? change vets is the feeling im getting LOUD AND CLEAR if they are not doing a PCV then they are NOT DOING THEIR JOB just because they have BvSc after their name doesnt mean they automatically know what theya are doing. remember i had one kill every pup in the litter let alone the bitch,, n all u get is... ho sorry about that. another every kitten in a litter of 8 were either dead or unconsious the next day after vaccination. what did i get from the vet.... ho they must have had something wrong before they were vaccinated. not in 12 months did he call me and tell me he had been notified the vaccine was contaminated and 600 died before that batch was recalled? only found that out when a friend got a job at the lab concerned. dont trust blindly u still get the bill though some of em are hopeless

our first never bothered, our second, would try to herd the sparrows, the starlings, the doves, n WHEN WE LET THE CHOOKS OUT! he was in heaven. herded em from one end of the place to the other. the chooks had to go where he decided not them. occasionaly led to arguments n the hens would squark in protest. well until the rooster decided it wasnt on and took to him. soo if he made one of the hens protest, into the dog would fly the rooster to "drive" him off. the game would last for hours. he was bred by Ninda Kennels... such a long time ago now. sigh stunning dog

for decades i thought as a breeder and member of the cc your brief was not only to work to maintain the standard but welcome newbies to also maintain the breed? all LR puppies mean the breed stops with the breeder. and just read the lists of for sale puppies. the majority do not sell MR puppies. after my last fiasco with what was supposed to be a long time showie who wanted a show quality PET, but wanted to get back into the ring for fun, said to me anyway they knew even if it had seemingly perfect as a pup no breeder i know can guarantee the teeth will come in perfect and said so at the time of purchase. the pup they purchased ended up ill and the vet had them sign it over , so since it had a full brother that at the time of purchase neither the buyer or her judge friends were sure which was the better, i gave her the brother. interestingly a week later received a phone call asking if it would be safe to use the flea stuff the vet had put on his brother, as had just noticed the packet said the dose was for a 10 kg dog. the suddenly ill pup had weighed 1 kg at the time of the dosage and immume system began crashing 3 days later and took nearly 3 months to recover after many blood transfusion to save him. anyway so no his brother didnt get the dose and thrived. except his teeth unlike is brother didnt come in correctly. so i was contacted and asked for a refund and return as the gallery at the shows had assured her, that main register is a guarantee of show quality. as well she now wanted a pup that could make CH and the gallery had assured her MR means its good enough to make CH. so, considering how many of us run on what seemed perfect dentition pups to find roughly 50 percent of pups dont mature the same dentition as adults they had as pups, n as for conformation, so much can change from the darling baby to the adult. in this new age i see no reason to risk main registering a pup again. because according the this new rule as advised by her fellow show companions MR is a guarantee of the dog making CH. as i said in an earlier post, one lady advised me, that she never sells on MR and will not cease telling anyone foolish enough to get a puppy from me that i am a puppy farmer and my dogs are papered crossbreds unless i promise to never in future sell any on MR. apparently she protectes herself by running on all pups until adult teeth are in and deciding which to keep, n sell. those that are sold on MR already have their adult teeth before evaluation. since most people want a puppy not an adolescent? the only way to protect yourself though it seems. suppose at least in that case some are permitted to contribute to the future of the breed so not a total loss to the gene pool. is this the only safe way to go now?

If that were the case there's no way that you should or be expected to take her out of the ring.......congratulations on the achievements - I'm still gunning for my first BIG I'm a total newbie - I think most people are happy when I turn up with mine because they usually know they're going to win - LOL. I have a lovely, lovely girl who unfortunately has an incorrect bite - it's a real shame because she loves the ring, thinks she's all that, free-stacks for me and moves like a little champ. It doesn't matter to her or me that we don't win because she has a ball so I keep entering her. A comment from a friend when we went to a show up north last weekend "I think that judge really liked her until she opened the mouth......." LOL. I guess this comes back to what I was saying about getting enough points to gain a CH title and the standard of the exhibits aren't very closely related. Sure if I pick and choose the right shows, I'll probably eventually get enough challenge points for a title but I don't pick and choose shows or shy away from them because there may or may not be other dogs entered there and I don't really enter for the points but I'm going to bl00dy celebrate long and hard if we get them - hahaha. Edit to add - I totally agree with the more stringent requirements on the GR CH but let us rank amateuers have our small wins with our 100 point CH. It's not my fault for entering enough shows to get them - if the judges think my dog is cr@p, they don't have to award them. interesting, i had to take back and refund a buyer who said they knew teeth could go out as the adult teeth came in, had perfect puppy teeth but the adult teeth came in wrong, and on the advice of the ringside gallery was told take it back youve been robbed, if it cant make champion then your entitled to your money back. i gather now if you main register a pup according to the gallery thats a guarantee it can make CH? anyway, hes rehomed now and his delighted owner rang me to say thanks to him he was alerted a burgler was trying to break into his home. soo demoted from show dog to pet, n hes saved his owner from being burgled. luckyhe didnt know he shouldnt bark if he dont have perfect teeth eh?

n no ive never met the man under attack although until now, had never heard anything but how dedicated n ethical he is to the dog world, so a guess the shock of whats happening now will be a suprise to him

from what i can find out, its ONE PETITIONER n thats legal. seems hes pissed someone off or they think he has. dangerous thing to do in the dog fraternity as i can vouch for., as i and my dog learned to our cost $1,100 all up to retstor string back to health from seizure by the rspca, bill for their testing then to my vet to save from the pnemonia acquired at rspca n torn trachea before finally comming home from his vets care. wouldnt wish that on anyone. ummm save maybe a few "ethical's" that think sending the dogs of war is acceptable against anyone u dont like

Ta, I better start reading all those backed up digests. i too was pretty confused by the letter. i discovered today that if anyone is sending them in, they are NOT TO FILL OUT the bit at the top, ie. Part (A) if you intend it as your vote you fill out the part under the word "OR" then fill in part (B) with how you wish to vote. if youve filled in part (A) and then part (B) its invalid. (soo if you actually want your vote to count then you have to get another copy and do it right.. have fun folks) and will not be counted. from my enquiries it was 1 person who made the complaint not one hundred. interesting eh? even more interesting, the dogs of war have been unleashed. ie the rspca sent by the usual "annonamous" party.... sweet eh, to see that the practice among elements of the membership is still using the rspca to "get" anyone they decide they dont like... such a lovely bunch of backbiters there are among our ho so sweet bunch of self proclaimed "ethicals" so busily self preening pity they are too stupid to realise the fox doesnt care which or how many it kills, all of em will be the end result of sucking up to the govt and giving more and more power to abuse, isnt it weird how so few think they are under threat? judy guard has found out the hard way, n despite all the pleadings for needing more power, as its been stated before, the power to seize and destroy by any inpsector who "forms the opinion" this needs to be done has been in force for over 20 years. they just dont use it very often because they dont want the chickens to twig how much 'power' they already have while begging for more, adding 'exhibiting' as a crime they must have been rubbing their hands together on that one. ha the dog world, sometimes i wonder whos the more savage, the canine variety or the sapien, at least the canine does its own biting, the sapiens seem to prefer to send others to do the attack work

warrens are self contained units, even along a massive fenceline there will be separations between clusters of holes so they can't get too far. The ferrets are so driven by the smell of the rabbit they stay down the hole and keep running about until the smell subsides (ie their own scent and urine covers it, they scent mark as they run about) and then when it's over they womble out of the holes and snuffle around. They do get a prey reward, when they come when called I offer them a dead rabbit to latch onto. We do a lot of the recall work at home, you call them and when they come back you give them a big scrub-a-dub and some some raw food, same goes when you feed them, condition them to the noise. Pretty much the same as training a really high driven working line dog. Except when it's over they're happy to just shut down until the next scent patch gets them going. Plus the great thing .... ferrets eye sight is pretty bad, they're short sighted creatures so they want to follow their nose down the hole more then spotting something halfway across the paddock and bounding after it As long as you have some fresh food or at least some blood stain on your shoe you can lure them hey... ive found if mine are no where in sight and i want em quick, scrunch some cellophane paper or scrunchy noisy plastic they come flying should i admit! kids ev let em out by forgeting to lock the doors? so discover cages empty n not a ferret in sight? only lost one using the crinkle call. n he was i discovered too far away to hear it...yes we did find him eventually 600 mtrs down the paddock curled up asleep.

found this link it doesnt mention a b or c but it has a box down the bottom with the explainations anyway http://www.optigen.com/opt9_test_prcd_pra.html

pra A no gene for pra present. pra B one gene for pra present. i suspect pra C.. two genes present. the dog will develop blindness? guessing im afraid. but anyway however its labled if they have two for it they will get it. a friends bitch had it although in those days there were no tests for it. her son went blind at 8. not that it seemed to slow him down much. he knew his way round the yard so well n he made it to 16, although they couldnt put something new in the yard or he would run into it. as for his mum, she eventually went blind herself at nearly 15 but as she died 4 weeks later it wasnt really a issue. im talking over 20 years ago. but an a or b pup no problems

the other question that immediately sprang to mind is your vet prescribing sufficient dosage of the vit K for the past patients? to lose em all is a worry to me having lost a friend to warfarin, (many people are on it) trouble is they have to be sooo careful) in his case he had a fall and cut himself, by the time he got back to the house to call for help it was too late.

and the saddest thing i ever heard? A judge boasting that he could "take a camel and make it a champion" what is he saying about the intregrety and/or inteligance of those who would put up his "camel" ? I know he meant it that he was such a good showman he could title anything on the end of his lead. but he seemed totaly unaware of what he was saying about his fellow judges. n since ive seen "camels" shown and win. the boast wasnt an idle one the biggest trouble of couse is said "camels" become studs or broods, not to mention the soo many on the sidelines either thinking this is what the breed standard is, n never knowing better... or those who think,,, ive had this and walk....or those who think well if this is the standard got to go with the flow or miss out. in every instance the breed and the breed standard is the loser.

n from what ive seen it cuts both ways. stick to your guns and breed what you believe knowing full well its a waste of your time to show as you are not following the flavour of the day, month or year. or breed and show whats wanted NOW. since it seems the majority of show breeders feel they have to follow fashion or they dont get awarded soooo... its not just the breeder to blame. if they want the coveted ribbon they feel they have to deliver what the judges are awarding. n so true about judges not worrying about that it takes to breed. some of the worst pups ive run on were under the advice of judges who said what they thought were the best pup in the litter... the same pups 9 months on? uuuuggghh but then they were "judging them on the day" goes to show "on the day" doesnt mean its going to mature into what you want as an adult. did make me wonder a little how many litters the judges i asked had actually raised from weaning to adult so knew what looked like this usually maturees into, that?

we had a litter of feral kittens/cats, too old to be called kittens really moved in. i had rat bait out and nxt thing i know all the baits gone, shed full of green cat poops and two months on all the kittens are still heale and hearty, then to add insult to injury our daughters pony opened the door somehow and finished off the bucket of the stuff, stomped it and popped the lid off. panic stations, n the vet laughed??? she too is ok a year down the track but i so know how bad u feel lucky ponies are soooo big compared to the target species

sad isnt it. the rscpa are begging for more power so they can "rescue" but didnt give a rats here. n you of course have no place to lodge an appeal or complaint the rspca are not showing their so called duty of care are they? n no where you can lodge a complaint about them not doing their job. let alone those who like ruth downey can appeal when they go over the top above and beyond in her case nuff said eh

Heights for Australian Cattle Dogs Height: Dogs 46-51 cms (approx. 18-20 ins) at withers Bitches 43-48 cms (approx. 17-19 ins) at withers asal they not meant to be a tall dog. lol they wernt meant to be the height of a corgi either . n what i saw in 1974 was couldnt believe it when they showed me their papers and were australian champions to boot apparently it was the fashion at the time she said judges were wanting them small and nuggety. n i looked and wondered now they are back to the dogs i grew up with, thank goodness remember in the 80's think it was 89? penrith show, a couple there were so wide between the ears when i put a hand on ones head. neither side of my hand was touching an ear. when i commented to my vet his reply then was they are so going for the wider and wider heads, im now getting more cattle bitches in for ceaser than chihuahua's now. so much for improving em,,, straight to the ceaser table they never had heads that wide in the 60's n i notice in 2010 they arent as wide as i saw at that penrith show, nice to see the wide drive has slowed or hopefully stopped?.