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it seems minuscule, but when you start finding out your neighbours dogs are being diagnosed with heart-worm because they thought just that but mine are fine because i use ivermectin sheep drench shows its pretty busy out there although I live in the penrith nsw area so this place is riddled with heart worm obviously

I left Jodie in the house one day when I went shopping, came home to the tops of the two fish tanks caved in, the african violets and their soil all in the fish tanks, somehow the fish were still alive in all that mess, frantic catching and cleaning that took half a day.. one tank is six foot the other seven ,, so big tanks lots of water, but then there was lots of african violets... Jodie, glowing with pride at what a great view she discovered to be found on top of the tanks..sheesh had nightmares for months, at least the tops didn't break, just the movable lids fell in so she had not cuts anywhere. think she must have been part otter she was sopping wet and loving it, suppose she had tried catching the fish but failed fortunately. Sold the frontosia for $2,500 rather that go through that again.. had ten of them worth $250 each..

Yes I put that under the rug beside her bed, works well

dont know if if would work with dogs, but I care for a 92 yr old and to keep her safe from catching a toe on the carpet runner we have put blue tack under the edges so it cant lift or slip.. has worked great for a year now.

Ragdolls are amazing, soon as I saw the pic, thought you won the lottery

my daugher spent not only her baby years but all her childhood surrounded by dogs, horses, ponies, chooks, cattle, cats and any wildlife in need of care. she was exposed to cat dander, dog dander, horse dander, cattle dander, chook dander and anything else the wildlife had. I am allergic to every single animal dander on that list, despite the fact I too grew up with my dads dogs always around and in the case of blue, always beside me as for the cats? dozens of them until the vet explained to my puzzled mum that brothers have no aversion to putting their sisters in kitten so they all got the desexing chop, and there was nearly 100 by the time mum learned that life lesson. Asthma killed my dads father just before I was born, mums advice was dont marry anyone with asthma in their family as it sure in in your dads family. unkbeknown to me my mother in law was a massive asthmatic, just all the medications kept her going so not happy when i discovered that and sure enough my daughter gets asthma, my only consolation I sure made sure she was exposed to every possible contaminate from the day she come home from hospital, everywhere she crawled she had Debbie her very own ACD guarding and probably covering in her dog dander from day one. was pretty gobsmacked when the doc told me , "long as you avoid dogs, cats, horses, cattle and chook's you will be fine!" so still have all of the above but keep my puffers in my purse for emergencies.. it is hereditary as well is my guess.. the biggest surprise is the worst attacks are triggered by none of the above, drop the air tempretature below 4C....I start wheezing.. below minus C and without the puffers... curtains so early exposure isn't the guarantee the doc's would like us to think it is

our stray to moved in, green eyes was the best ratter i have ever seen, not even a rat on a bean 14 foot up the side of the barn was safe, she climbed to the top of a cupboard then lept the intervening 6 feet to grab it and didn't let go in the fall to the floor with her trophy. still miss her, nope feline not canine. when old age finally caught up with her, her successor was Yeti, another someone didnt want, although very pretty, (I thought she was a himalayan) was living skeleton until the vet figured out her health problems. hopeless mouser and ratter, sniffed a mouse and bitten the nose for her trouble, later discovered she was a rag doll. even the chihuahua green eyes had trained, tried to teach her to no avail. chi's make good mouser and ratters

having come home once to three dead dogs laying on their tummies looking at the pieces they had torn the snake into it was a bit late for them. it was in four pices. put together it was 3 inches short of 7 foot.. stuff of nighmares

I have dreamed of this as the answer to every dog owners nightmare. never seen it advertised or done though, would save countless lives all dogs, every dog, seems to be attracted to snakes like magnets? who would think something as cute and cuddly as a cavalier is actually hiding a vermin hunting terrier under that mild mannered image??? found this link https://www.snakeavoidance.com.au/

went through this with amigo, sorry I cant do better than commiserate. At least with Stringy he would eat the plateful as long as there some some chicken in it or at least the scent of chicken in or on it.

Sad really, this is a purebred dog forum and increasingly it has to become a x breed advice forum now because thanks to all the pressure on members of the ankc's not to breed, the only place people will be able to find their puppy is buying from backyards and x breeds anyway. If you doubt me, the board of dogs nsw sends out the inspector to anyone who breeds ten or more litters in any one year now. regardless of how many actual puppies were in that "litter" small breeds could mean only ten to 15 pups gets you labled a puppy farmer now. I think powerlegs advice might help. The pup will be feeling dreadfully lost in an empty backyard all alone. I tell my new puppy owner to put a clock under their bed as the ticking mimic's the heartbeat of mum and litter mates and a snuggly toy to curl up, and treat ball to fiddle with helps too. If you doubt my belief Ankc members are not the problem. I will add this link for your learning curve. http://ankc.org.au/media/6598/a-forensic-view-of-puppy-breeding-in-australiav4.pdf Two years ago I worked out the ankc's have ten years before they will no longer be financial or sufficient gene pool left. Well It finally seems recognition has finally began to settle on those in Dogs NSW, no idea if the other states are learning? Of the parlous state of the continuation of the purebred dog. How many intend attending the AGM tomorrow night to vote? https://www.dogsnsw.org.au/media/1717/agm_agenda-2018.pdf 8.3 K Hedberg BVSc to move by Special Resolution THAT the following Clause be added to the RNSWCC Articles of Association as a new Clause numbered 91:- Protocols for DNA Parentage Testing 91. Except in the situation where there is a question as to parentage and a complaint has been made to the Board of Directors, or if the Member Body so requests, there shall be no mandatory DNA Parentage Testing in New South Wales. RATIONALE: At the June 2018 ANKC Ltd Special Board meeting, it was resolved to amend ANKC Ltd Regulations Part 6-The Register & Registration by adding a new Clause 6.12, which reads:- 6.12 Parentage Proven for Registration 6.12.1 All puppies whelped after 01 January 2020 and being registered on the ANKC Ltd database as Main Registered are to be Parentage Proven by DNA. All results are to use the International Society for Animal Genetic (ISAG) marker and are to be submitted to the member body prior to registration. 6.12.2 Where a breeder makes application to upgrade a dog to the Main Register then the dog is to be Parentage Proven as per 6.12.1 prior to being upgraded. 6.12.3 Collection and testing of the DNA sample is to be conducted pursuant to protocols at Section 2 of these Regulations. 6.12.4 All dogs, frozen semen and Fertilised Ova imported into Australia from 01 January 2020 are to be Parentage Proven in accordance with this section. 6.12.5 All Frozen semen registered after 01 January 2020 is to be Parentage Proven in accordance with this section. (……….continued over) Agenda for the RNSWCC Ltd Annual General Meeting 7 November 2018 DOGS NSW Board of Directors firmly believes that mandatory DNA parentage testing is not required at this time and would deliver a negative impact for the following reasons:  Will add considerable cost to every puppy registered on the Main Register.  Will have the added effect of significantly increasing the number of puppies placed on the Limited Register.  DOGS NSW is currently experiencing, dwindling membership and shrinking income, this further impost will drive many to either stop breeding or resign their membership and move to other emerging registration bodies.  Leaving the requirements for DNA parentage testing limited to those cases where there is a clear doubt on parentage as currently occurs, is sufficient to safeguard the database.  The instigation of Australia wide testing would require a framework that currently does not exist.  DOGS NSW does not believe that it was the intention of the ANKC Ltd National Canine Health & Wellbeing Committee to endorse such a recommendation. DOGS NSW does not support this amendment to the Regulations. 9. MEETING CLOSED The page title is a good one on both counts. The purebred dog needs help to survive ... Pandering to the AR mob was never going to work, their agenda is the elimination of domestic animals. including the oodles and x breeds, the ankc's are just the beginning of the elimination process because they are easiest to target.. A friend moved to the country recently, to discover her new local council will not let her keep her two purebred, fully life registered bitches entire unless she builds a $45,000 sound proof, air conditioned kennel for them. otherwise they must be desexed? No mention of how they would stay alive in that "air conditioned shed" when the power fails as it often does even in the city? This is what AR has achieved across much of this country. She MUST build a puppy farm or she cannot keep them entire. You fell for the "we have to get rid of puppy farms," when all along this has been infiltrating councils across this land, Now unless you can build a puppy farm you cant keep your dogs for breeding anyway, tricked haven't you. What is there to be confused about? thanks to the "we have to get rid of puppy farms' the ankc members HAVE agtreed to place so many restrictions on members and how many can be bred the number of members and puppy's available has plummeted and failing a miracle and the return to serving the dogs and the members instead of AR. this forum will be serving to help the majority, which is now the x bred designers buyers who have no such restrictions....

is a case of forewarned is fore armed. it does happen but you can have them get on perfect all their lives but gee if they blow up.. petrifying, only had it happen once with two of mine and had to move super fast . one girl almost had her foreleg bitten off in a matter of seconds her leg was saved because she missed the arteries. but over half the muscles both sides had to be restitched together. another friend had one of her girls kill three of her bitches before she discovered who was the killer. it can happen. as for males even desexed ones. can too. friend had a 12 yr old lab and her sons kelpie was 18 months, she had a bad migrine and took strong tablets, woke up to find the kelpie dead beside her bed and the lab sleeping beside him.

as someone said in the thread I found, whatever happened to the golden Labrador and retriever? they have been damped down to cream and almost white from the dogs we used to see? they were not the norm 30 and 40 years ago

Inbreeding did not create the HYPP gene in Impressive, he carried the first mutation.

Inbreeding is the favourite excuse for when something went wrong, even if it's parents are completely unrelated. Instead of the fact no matter how inbred the parents a faulty gene cannot be passed on if they don't carry it. Likewise outcrossing will still express a fault if both carry it to pass on regardless of there being no inbreeding . It's the favourite blame game word today. Hestia was the result of four half siblings, all had the same sire, Shahzada, some Arabians have 27 and more crosses to him. Hestia did not carry SCIDS nor any of the inbred to Shahzada horses. It took Sala, Razaz and later imports to introduce that lethal into Australia. Two SCIDS genes the baby has no immunity, it's the same gene "the boy in the plastic bubble" had. Only a bone marrow transplant can save them.

Wonder what they make of weimariners? The entire breed is blue with many both double blue AND double chocolate. Inbreeding is the crossing of close relatives not the breeding of two unrelated blues or chocolate. Yet I have never seen one with blue gene alopecia, why because to happen there has to be the faulty Elle present, the old breeders eliminated it without the aid of DNA testing

Kind of ignored the fact that cream is RECESSIVE to black? Recessive does not mean diseased. Blue eyes are Recessive to brown eyes, haven't heard of blue eyes being associated with disease yet , well so far. Had chocolate chihuahua's for decades many long outlived their black and gold littermates? Never had an obesity problem, (unless we're overfed) either. Applied to all colours, although pearl got fat looking at food, but she was copper gold?

Really nice lot of people in the Australian Cattle Dog Club just received coopers baby pics and his beach shot from last year. the one on the beach ended up in the ACD clubs Calender for 2018

my sister had a dog with anxiety issues, came to my place and with my dogs for company she was fine, there is no one solution they are like people all different. good luck

I have bred and registered five different breeds over the decades since purchasing my first purebred, the toy Poodle Bel Ami Piccolo. regardless of the breed I and I believer the majority to breed, select to produce the best possible. have always had the breed of dog of my dad, who guarded me in my pram as a baby and toddler. Australia's best kept secret, the ACD was just sent these photos of one of my pups, I think his owner has an amazing talent for photography so thought I should share. His name is Cooper

dont guilt trip Rebanne. I was at a school sports day and there also watching was a lady with a litter of absolutely beautiful cavalier puppies. Their new owners were comming to pick them up that day but she didnt want to miss watching her daughter's sports day so combined both. as the puppies played and were rolling in the grass, I noticed they all had stitches recently removed. knowing the high incidence of hernias in some lines I expressed my sympathy how disappointed she must feel that the whole litter had to need surgery to fix them. to my surprise she blushed and stammered, "no they didn't have hernia's. I've desexed them, All the new owners insisted that although they didnt want to breed with their pup, but wanted it as a pet, but wanted main registration, so I simply desexed them all. that way I dont have to worry about them lying and they cant complain down the track when the dog wont breed because I have it on their contract they wanted a pet and didn't intend to breed." So? I asked, you haven't told them you have desexed them? she said many of her friends are doing the same thing to people who insist they want main registration. not long after I leased back one of my girls to her breeder who had lost her line due to misfortune to breed a replacement puppy. I was supposed to get second pick in return. When the puppies were born she told me there were three she couldn't decide between so I had fourth pick. The lease included the option of a second litter if she felt none of the first were up to the standard she was looking for, which seemed reasonable to me at the time when we wrote up the lease. She had seven in the first litter all female. After I picked my puppy up she called a week later to tell me she had decided to go for the second litter option, so I asked her for the girl in the litter I had really wanted but she said was one of the ones she was deciding on. To learn she had already sold all three. all on limit with desexing contracts. second litter she had 8 to choose from but sold every one . so out of 15 puppies she kept none. but my bitch returned her $35,000 none of the second litter went on main register either. which now meant I could not use her myself for well over a year. There are some strange people out there, me included Editing to add, There was no service fee payable as she owned the sire, the bitch had absolutely no problems delivering and raising both litters , the only vet expenses incurred was their vaccinations, plus the cost of feeding mum and her puppies. Which can and does happen.

A friend lost two of her puppies after being given bravecto, began with inco-ordination then degenerated so badly had to be put down. Her vet said it had never happened before so no compensation

actually it really is a dyslectic situation. people who want a puppy are continuously told they need to ensure the person with the puppies is not a puppy farmer, (terrible people who don't care for the parents let alone the puppies) must inspect, not only the owner but the parents (to ensure they aren't starving flea bags) and where they are kept to make sure they aren't puppy farmers, in which case if they suspect this is the case report them to every agency, rspca, animal welfare and local council. My favorite was the father who told his family, "get in the car, we are leaving NOW!" When the wife and kids objected, his reply was "anyone who doesn't keep their dogs in the house are puppy farmers." my hubby helped create the curricula and taught "Animal Care" at Tafe for decades. He would never allow me to raise a litter in the house from the day we married on the grounds it is not hygienic or acceptable in the home, due to the quantities of poo and smell associated with the process of raising a litter. then we have the "ethical" breeder, vet the prospect to ensure they actually do want a pet. (are not puppy farmers in disguise, ready to take their carefully raised baby and mercilessly breed him/her to death) If they dare ask for a main register puppy then they must be. lost count of the number of people who have rung me still crying from the grilling and guilt trip imposed by the previous breeder/s they had called and asked the dreaded word. Yes I am old and raised in the days newbies were encouraged and in the old days breeders were proud to main register their best puppies even when it was going to a pet home just in case later the new owner may decide to join and continue that line. no wonder there is so many problems, neither side is exactly looking at the other without acute suspicion first up anymore. Today being a dead end breeder is for some strange reason something to be proud of? Do you really think puppy farmers care a hoot about papers? To a Pet person its a source of pride their baby is good enough to be main register and could be shown or bred if they wanted to. having been a registered breeder for some 40 years my experience is 99percent of puppy buyers never breed even one litter from their puppy, let alone decide to show. But that 1% that do is what makes up the membership of that rapidly decreasing list of ankc members that so far are keeping the sinking numbers of the ankc afloat

ok absolutely nothing to do about dogs. but forget the incredible semi's apparently they are real not computer generated? Cant imagine Japan would have roads long enough or wide enough to take these, but that song, love it anyone Chinese? whats it about and its name?