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Jack Daniels quoll....manna from the doGs!

Weeellllllll.....drag her into New Norfolk to look at Antique Shops and the beautiful scenery around the area, including the wonderful Esplanade and OOOOOOOPS there just happens to be a dog show on and you MUST meet my new Tasmanian friends whilst you are here!!

The Rajacadoo clan are Royalling tomorrow and I'll be there on Saturday so you must all win a class in group!!!! Talk to Mrs Rajacadoo-doo-doo about the muffins! You are NOT allowed to miss Dogfest! You MUST bring your visitors too!!!!

No photos of some of the participants....but here is part of our Royal Repast and a piker who couldn't stand the pace! I will consider getting photographs of our merry gang on Sunday......and I expect liquid in black and white cans or I refuse to forgive Ms Quoll for telling tales on Mrs Rajacadoo-doo-doo and I!!!

Revenge is a dish best served QUOLLED!!!

Terrier Group - BIG Cairn RUBIG Bedlington I rocked in for a sticky beak and ended up handling an Aussie bitch to BOB!

Australian Kelpie Dog CC, BOB - Ch Tangarlee Bo Bendz TRulz (Garlick/Hudson) Bitch CC, RUBOB - Tangarlee Bush Calypos (Hudson/Ford) Was Kellie Kelpie's first show in Minor and she was LITERALLY a bee's penis away from beating her father. The judge gave her some pretty serious scrutiny!!!! Many thanks to Mr Rajacadoo for handling her for me today. I was struck low in the wee small hours with a chucky headache and coupled with my sore hand from a cat attack last week didn't feel up to going into the ring. Quoll has some brags too!

You decide what she is going to eat and don't muck around offering alternatives. She'll eat when she's hungry.

I wouldn't mind betting that there possibly ARE toilet spots inside that you probably haven't found yet.

Many gundog breeds are like this. They are very food driven. This can be both an advantage OR a disadvantage!!!! If you haven't already, read Marley and me or even at a pinch, watch the movie. CLASSIC story of inexperienced dog owners with a strong-willed dog. And the amazing thing was that even though I could understand the frustrations of the author, I personally didn't even think the dog was THAT badly behaved compared to some that I have owned or met!

May I just ask WHY an inexperienced dog owner would be looking at owning as many as 4 dogs straight up anyway? Honestly, you may just be better off considering one, two at a pinch initially to see how you go as dog "parents" before you bite off more than you can chew and get so many at one time! Some people find one dog a handful, without planning to get so many from the get-go. Just because you want to, or do, live on a country property doesn't mean that dog ownership will be any easier. Personally, I find that living on a country property after many years in suburbia is a lot harder when it comes to dog ownership and I consider myself a relatively experienced dog person. Personally, I'd be looking at a desexed of either to begin with, do your apprenticeship and then add others from there IF you really feel that you want to, need to and can cope with more dogs. Many will disagree but I HATE running entire bitches together. The word bitch didn't come from a nice place, believe me!!!

Yep! Koda Stafford really does not enjoy chicken frames or necks. You hand them to her and you can literally see her raising her lips so that they don't touch the raw bone and all of her body language is saying "yuck...if I absolutely MUST!" Then she watches everybody else eat and watches your hands, probably hoping that she'll be offered something not quite as disgusting! If nothing is forthcoming, she'll eat it v-e-r-r-r-r-r-y slowly with a really disgusted look on her face, staring at you the whole time!

Hey, not your turn Ellz :D It was post it now or wander off and completely forget!!

Minimising is one thing, I think most dog owners do subconciously do that. Trying to completely STOP a normal bodily function is another altogether. Sheesh, I know what I'd like to do to somebody who stops me from going to the lav when I need to. Mr Ellz has tried once and I threatened to take his head off and poo in the hole!! :D

I guess it is all in the definition. What some might class as bad behaviour, others might class as character or normal breed behaviour. For example, my Roger is probably my dream dog. I bred him and he has spent many, many hours with me in his short life. I don't see any major character flaws or anything other than a sense of humour, yet Mr Ellz says he's a bastard (to which I reply "takes one to know one!" :D).

Some dogs don't need them, some do well with them....each is an individual. I didn't need to use them with Roger, he just naturally places his feet where they belong. Until Flame went missing on the other hand, she was on them a couple of times per day or there was NO way she would stand still, let alone let put her feet in the right place! :D I've also found that putting them on the ground, no matter what the size of the dog on them, seems to make the dog feel more secure although many people seem to use them on tables. Harder on your back for the smaller breeds but I'd rather have a happy dog.

I'm laughing at you laughing!

I have used Coates Animal Transport, Jetpets and Dogtainers for international export. All are very good, Michelle from Coates does everything herself so there is a more personal touch involved. Her prices are excellent as well. Dogtainers ACT did the work when I sent Alice to Japan this year and were incredibly efficient as well. Jetpets were the most expensive of the lot and now I cannot really justify spending the extra for the same level of service that was provided by Coates and Dogtainers for a lesser amount of money. I believe DOLer wayrod also does exports as well and having used him within Australia on a couple of occasions now, I highly recommend him too.

Exactly. I've been known to fast track it down the road dragging a sniffing dog with a puckering bum so that he doesn't drop at an awkward or inappropriate place but that's about it. What's easily deposited is just as easily collected by a hooman hand in a plastic bag!

I actually find that a bit cruel. When you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Plastic bags were a truly wonderful invention really!

Blame the lousy photographer for that. I'm not saying they're good photos or good QUALITY photos....just showing the difference between saving as a PNG and saving as JPG. And as I said originally, I only posted so that the OP could see a range of different things that they could probably do a lot better than me with the same camera. I don't portray myself as a photographer, I don't aspire to such things and I CERTAINLY wouldn't want to even attempt to compete with any of you absolutely amazing photographers now would I? And editing to add: yet another part of the forum to stay out of. DOL is losing its appeal more and more every day.

The Olympus is negligible, depending upon your settings. Certainly a MAJOR difference from my Sony Cyber-Shot. I found it worse on my Olympus than my Lumix. Shutter lag is apparently one of the things they addressed in the SP600-UZ. It was only released in Feb this year, I got mine in June and I've found it very good so far. It has a burst setting which is very effective unlike many of the other P & S cameras. As I said, I'm going to be watching Trafford with interest when he has a play with it on Thursday....he was very keen on it after reading the specs.

And another. No cropping, just reduced by 50% JPG PNG

The Olympus is negligible, depending upon your settings. Certainly a MAJOR difference from my Sony Cyber-Shot.