Loving my Oldies

We are all so alike under those incredibly different exteriors.

SASH (Small Animal Specialist Hospital) at North Ryde in Sydney has a large fake grass area where the hospitalised dogs are taken to toilet and the stench is just incredible. It must be such a breeding ground of disease and, although I have been there many times over the years and cannot speak highly enough of the vets and other staff, it beggars belief that an animal hospital would have such a stinking area just outside their entrance. I am very anti fake grass because yet another unnecessary product made of petroleum that will never degrade and just add to pollution.

Gorgeous little horses. The bub might give Bella a run for her money in terms of coat colour. Dad is just lovely.

Oh, very good. Getting to know friends.

Yes, that crossed my mind too. Apparently his wife has taken him back since this "incident". I wonder what his children will feel when they grow up to discover (and they will because of social media) that their father beat a tiny little dog almost to death just because he was angry? I hope DOCS is keeping an eye on him.

You and me both labadore - there is a beautiful girl over the road from me. Just left to her own devices, walked a few times a week just dragging the woman along. I've heard from other people in the neighbour that at one stage there were thinking of rehoming because she is "silly", "jumps up", etc etc. Total drongoes and shouldn't be within 100kms of a dog.

We are going well, Yonjuro. All dosed up this morning LOL. God it is sticky stuff

Yes. There would have been some difference in the horror I felt at his actions if the dog had been a 60kg Rottweiler or similar only because the dog would have been more able to defend itself and simply because there would be more of it to be able to cope with the attack. It doesn't in one iota alter my feelings of disgust for this dreadful man. The fact that he is a surgeon only makes his actions worse - he KNOWS first hand what can happen to a body, any body, when it is assaulted. I would like to see him investigated by the applicable Board. I would like to see his face on every street corner ensuring that he is ostracised.

I mixed a small teaspoon in water for Danny - a bit tentative at first, but then he scoffed it down. Bunter (aka The Hoover) no problem - his disappeared in a couple of seconds flat. Tamar (who isn't coughing but why should she miss out :laugh: ) licked a little bit off my finger. I knew that Jeune wouldn't lick it, so I just wiped some across her mouth/front teeth. She just stood there licking it off, so I'll keep up this regime to see if there is any improvement. Now that Jeune's prednisone course has finished she is coughing quite badly again, so we really need to get to the bottom of it, poor baby.

What I don't understand is why lawyers tender evidence of someone being under severe stress as mitigation. If they take their stress out on a small and slight dog like a Papillon, I would argue that that is even MORE reason for them to be severely treated under the law. It shows them to be bullies and cowards. I don't care how nice this fellow was towards "financially strained" patients, he should have been given the full sentence allowable.

Much the same scenario this morning LOL, except that Jeune played Hoover.

How sad. It would seem this dog is destined to have a pretty unhappy life unless someone with the time and energy to devote to him takes him on. Seren, considering you are still grieving for the loss of Lace, I would be inclined to not load yourself with difficulties and extra responsibilities. If you feel you could take on a dog with the behavioural problems (only because he has been failed by humans) as you have stated, well go for it. But you are still vulnerable and frankly leaping in at the deep end is fine in theory, but sometimes just too much in practice.

LOL That's a bit harsh RiverStar-Aura. I'll give them 15 to 20 minutes. If not eaten, it comes up and gets served up to them at the next feed. If it isn't eaten then, it goes doesn the toilet.

:laugh: :laugh: Well most news is enough to turn most people off food, but the bowls were on paper only because they were fed inside. Usually on deck and no paper.

Same with sharks, how many hunted down and cut open with someone is taken. I may feel differently if I'd known anyone, but I don't think so. And a lot of people who've had relatives taken by sharks don't want a cull.

You poor darling. The really awful thing for you, I think, is that your Lace didn't have time to grow up and grow old and her death was painful. As others have posted, dreams about our dogs are generally unhappy ones, ones where they are lost and we can't find them, or we drop the lead and there is traffic about, or (one recently), I all the dogs out walking and then I couldn't find one. I've had so many dogs over the past 20 years, and so many dreams that, thankfully for my sanity, I've forgotten most of them ---- the dreams that is, never the dogs. You are having a really bad time and, honestly, I think you could do with seeing a grief consellor. I can't recommend any but others maybe; I believe when we have guilt wrapped up in the grief, it can really do our heads in and sometimes a professional can just hit the right spot of sense and realisation for us. We all feel guilt to a certain degree even when our dogs die from old age related illnesses and letting them go is a blessing for them, but when a young dog dies, it can be very very hard.

Very good and funny --------- but please, ditch the American accent.

LOL - I don't I'd cope. I know I grumble, but my dogs are pretty good and don't "hound" me.

Tamar is a bit like that. She is getting better (after 10 years) but at one stage she wouldn't eat unless Jeune did. I have had Danny since 2002 and Jeune and Tamar from mid 2004 (Jeune a month before Tamar) all from pounds. LOL. And, yes, it has always been like this Myrtie was a bit like that. When I let Bunter out of his feeding station (the study) he would hurtle down the hallway, skidding around the corner, to get into the kitchen and lick the newspaper white !! Dory and Pie: yes I sometimes think there is too much in their bowls and at one stage I stopped giving them breakfast. But that didn't last long ...... I was the problem there :laugh: But they pretty much stay the same weight. Danny is losing weight, but he is 15 and definitely doesn't eat as much as he used too. If I were to feed him icecream and cat food that would be a different story. In fact, if they turn their noses up for more than two meals, I will mix a bit of cat food in with their or sprinkly a bit of parmesan on. Tonight, they were fed the same food they rejected this morning, heated up and on the deck. They wolfed it down LOL.

LOL, Yonjuro, was hoping you'd see this. I am pretty used to it now, but it is frustrating. I cannot help envying people who just shake a couple of cupfulls out of a packet. LOL.

That is my understanding, Yonjuro, but if I used tepid water as Westiemum suggests, that might work.

Here is photographic proof of how my dogs are easy to feed ..... NOT. Normally, Danny, Tamar and Jeune are fed on the deck but because it has been really windy with heavy rain over the past few days, I've been feeding them inside as the deck is soaked. These photos are from this morning. The bowls were down for about 20 minutes and I eventually picked them up because Bunter has to be shut away because he, like most dogs, would eat the lot in a few seconds flat: Danny looks as though his world has come to an end. Pretty suspicious: He deigned to eat about two mouthfuls and then spat them out: All the while, Jeune and Tamar won't even come near:

Happy Birthday, Canetoad. While it would be very nice if Jesse and Jonah spoilt you, in my experience it just doesn't happen :laugh: :laugh:

It isn't every dog who can still have presence in booties in the WA bush LOL.

And the latest wild creature pays the price for a man's stupidity. Tragic yes, horrific yes, but the man was a local, he should have known better and now Michael Jackson, the albino crocodile "had to die" according to the authorities. I cannot imagine how overwhelmingly horrific it would have to be to remember for the rest of your life that a loved one had been killed by a wild animal, but why the animal has to die is beyond me.