Loving my Oldies

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.

The ones of Jonah are great. Jesse is a fluff ball, isn't she. Jonah is such a handsome and impressive dog.

Grrr .... Jealous. Just about every trip to the vet contains the words, "but that's not unusual," when asked about whether they've eaten LOL. Nope. Jeune looked at me as though I was insulting her and moved away LOL. Maybe yoghurt or icecream. I'll try those tomorrow.

Yonjuro, of all the dogs I've owned over the years, there has been only one who would eat any amount, any time, any where and that is Bunter. All the rest just eat to stay alive. It is nothing for my dogs to miss a meal or two and sometimes three. Admittedly they are all toy breed mixes, but even so, it is frustrating. The vet can hardly believe it when they turn their heads away from offered liver treats.

Big FAIL. Bunter liked it, but Bunter likes anything that is food. Danny wouldn't touch it, Jeune walked away in disgust and took up her usual position on the couch and Tamar acted in her usual manner towards anything different: OMG that dreadful woman is trying to poison us again!

Manuka Honey on the kitchen bench. What do I do now? Put a little bit in a bowl, dilute it, syringe it? I haven't heard Jeune cough today at all and in the past couple of days, the bouts have been decreasing in incidence and severity to just a little huh huh when she drinks, and no throwing up. Actually she hasn't thrown up for days. Even so I was out shopping and thought I would get the Manuka Honey just to have it at the ready.

It is a very big commitment, so go with a Rescue group with experience, good reputation, paperwork all ready for potentials foster carers to sign (by that I mean not just quickly whipping something up). And remember, it is a partnership: you have to be committed to them and they have to be committed to you. And you both have to be committed to the dogs :)

What a glorious dog. I hope she and her new family have many years of love and fun.

It may resolve itself in time, Canetoad. I hope so, otherwise it is such a stressful thing to manage. My latest dog was a worry when they all had bones, because even if the other dogs simply walked past him, he'd fly at them, so I used to have to pick up all the bones if I was going out. That is now a thing of the past. Hopefully, once Jesse knows that the supply of bones won't dry up, she won't be so "resourceful".

I believe it is arrogance and belief that we are top of the animal kingdom as it were. Our detachment from other creatures leads to ignorance, a case of not knowing (or caring) what we don't know.

When my itches were are their worst, I used the slicker brush to scratch my arms. Not recommended unless desperate.

So sad. Animals need to be protected from humans.