Loving my Oldies

Your post, blonde, and this one reduced me to tears. I also echo what Persephone has said re feeding him things to keep his weight up. If you have to go out, maybe put him in a smaller room or an enclosure of some description where, if he does have difficulty getting up, he has something firm and gripable under his feet and doesn't struggle to get up so he can go walkabout? Have a look at two websites I've been recommended lately with regard to natural goodies and supplements for dogs with or without health problems: BM Animals in Melbourne Loyalty Pets in Brisbane

WOW!! My order from Loyalty Pets arrived today. The dogs have had only the Roo Chews so far and loved them. I have Roo Ribs and Munch Crunch Pure Tripe (freeze dried strips) to try yet. Bit concerned about opening the packet of tripe :laugh: :laugh: Might do that on the deck.

Brilliant news :thumbsup: So happy for you. Have a wonderful time away.

Your little dogs are obviously terrified of that great big beastie. Is that your back garden, CC? It's fabulous.

Yes, same here

Yeah well you can take the girl outta Gosford but you can't take the Gosford outta the girl :laugh: Ha ha ha ;) If you've got it !!! flaunt it!!! Ain't nothin' like a Gosford gal.

Well Maddie obviously failed the June Dally Watkins School for young ladies.

LOL - leaping sideways. Naturally, I had to take another look at that beautiful photo of Arkie. You know, I think that his ears are at different semaphore points LOL just add to its magic, really.

What we do for them. It must be love. :laugh:

There must be something wrong with my nose LOL. I can't smell it until the jar is opened, although I have yet to try the freeze dried. But then, I've always wondered what people are on about with the smell of expressed anal glands. For sure I wouldn't wear it as a perfume :laugh: :laugh: , but it wasn't bad enough to have me gagging. :o

You've just cost me $60, Sheena. I had to check out Loyalty's website ........ and the rest, to be very original, is history. A whole kilo . I would decant small amounts into an airtight jar and keep the main bag wrapped in a few layers of plastics bags.

:laugh: :laugh: Just keep it in a tightly sealed jar. I use those Moccona Coffee jars because they have airtight seals.

I follow a farm sanctuary in Tasmania (Brightside Farm Sanctuary) on FB. They also rescue dogs and a lot of greyhounds. The woman who runs the sanctuary has been doing a few promotional activies in the past week to counter balance all the negative publicity. A couple of days ago, she posted photographs of one of her greys with a sweet little piglet. It just occurred to me while I was typing this and thinking about Brightside's photographs, that Greyhounds must be the breed with the most variety in colours of coats: pure white to pitch black and every colour and every combination in between.

This gave me a laugh. I have the air dried powdered green tripe which I add to the dogs' food. I keep it in its packet and then in a tightly sealed container. I started a new pack this evening. Each time I walked through the kitchen I was getting this awful smell and thought some might have fallen on the floor. Out with the mop and then I saw the old packet on the bench, Yes - it is very smelly. I get mine through BM Animals and you can order via their website. They also do lots of other air dried foods for treats.

If anything could change people's minds (and educate them),Yonjuro, it would be your pix of Ronin and Tigger playing. ETA: That little Spitz in the third photo looks a bit like my Danny

Thank you for that. I will take my magnifying glass so I can read the small print LOL.

Oh that would be great,CavsRcute. I did start googling earlier, but got sidetracked.

That is fantastic news, Stitch and I hope the rumbles continue to stay away. I have a dog who is really suffering from non specific gastritis and have tried just about everything too. I did introduce all my dogs to Manuka Honey but without success. Where could I buy raw honey and know that it really was the real deal?

Get a good lawyer who can argue that you have a physical version of Tourette Syndrome and were unable to stop your arms and legs and teeth flailing around the thumpee.

Yes, Sandgrubber, it would be associated with Danny's gastro problems, poor darling. It makes very interesting and informative reading, thank you. Danny only does this very occasionally and when he does it can go on for quite some time. He can be quite frenetic about it as well and it is impossible to stop him.

I was in the latter category :)

It is amazing how much wrong you can find with a dog who has been rescued. Then it depends on how far the rescue group is prepared to go. I know any dog I rescued/fostered deserved the same sort of treatment I would give my own. Very easy for a dog who has [forgotten name - similar to parvo] to rack up a bill of a few thousand dollars.

Oh dear. Sounds more than not good. Sounds dodgy. However, rescuing can be very very expensive. $8,000 could be expended easily and quickly depending on what the group finds wrong with dogs they rescue. But to delete you and block you would suggest that they are not being honest or, at the very least, being quite immature in not understanding and accepting that people who donate have every right to (and probably should) ask questions as to whether the donations go.

She was interviewed on ABC TV this morning ---- and, as usual, was brilliant.

I know, Mita. What I am saying is that people at all levels would have known about all these horrible practises and it would have been a deliberate decision to do nothing. Welfare is secondary to making money.