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RIP Chance I'm so sorry for your loss

RIP Kyra! What a gorgeous creature. I was lucky the day I caught my cocker playing with one, he like a lot of dogs and cats are resistant to the poison. My heart goes out to you

Very cool! I would love to get my cocker into agility at some point. He chases my BC around the yard all day, mr speedy!

Depends what council you are in. I know my council offered the collars available for hire for a week by week basis. I ended up trialling it on my dog first as its a lot of money to fork over if its not going to work!!! Re: The council complaint just don't let it get to you, I ended up ringing council and it turns out the person who complained had also complained about every other dog that opened its mouth in the street, they take those people with a grain of salt!

I too have had similar trouble to you. My cocker barks when he hears noises (we live at the end of a street with only one neighbour). I know a lot of his barking problem resulted from the kids next door throwing rocks at him. Hes very wary of kids screaming and foreign noises etc. My BC barks when he gets over-excited "herding" birds that fly overhead. I have a citronella collar that I use on my BC as my Cocker will stop barking after a few mins. Last year I received complaints about my BC barking when I was out of the house so I ended up getting the collar. I moved this year for uni and took the dogs with me, no complaints from anyone here, its a far more relaxed suburb! However I had to take the dogs home this past weekend as I had to go to work and my housemates were away so I was left with no other option. I arrive home from work to an angry phone call from a mystery neighbour that phoned no joke 5 mins after I left for work saying my dog was barking constantly! I found the problem was a dead battery in the collar and have since got a new one. I got bark busters out for my cocker and they worked fairly well, but I'm guessing he will always have issues with children near "his" property. He is fairly responsive to the BAH command and I did a lot of pretending to leave while training him out of his constant barking. Good luck with your dog, don't let the neighbours get you down, theres just people out there who just arent dog people!!!

I see so many dogs (especially oodles and malt x's) at my work that just come in to the kennel in a matted mess. It takes a good 30mins each dog to get all knots out so it at least looks presentable to go home. One owner was in complete denial that his dog was matted so bad, I couldn't get a brush through his fur poor guy. Hopefully he will take my advice and get it clipped and take better care of him. It amazes me how many people don't understand that you actually have to brush long haired dogs!!! My cocker gets brushed weekly (hes got a really short coat for a cocker though, illness as a pup) and so does my BC. I get my BC clipped in summer due to the heat, last summer I got rejected from so many groomers as they refused to do a BC. My cocker doesn't get clipped, hes got a short enough coat.