Loving my Oldies

Brian Newcastle - that was one of the most heartfelt posts I have ever read. Little Kirby. Your dad really loved you and you were a faithful companion to him.

A bit late

I've found the whole thing quite difficult to understand as well. The OP said in her first post that she wasn't one "to call the vet with every little question." I would think that whether or not a dog is pregnant or having a phantom pregnancy was hardly a "little question". The vet should be the first port of call.

I see. There is nothing like the personal contact. You have obviously been working very hard to get your name out there. More strength to you.

I'm curious as to how the owners of Ruby knew about Team Dog. Until this thread, I'd never heard of them, but then I am not exactly attuned to the radar :) . As with any problem someone may be having, there are groups and sometimes many groups who might be able to help, but it is actually knowing those groups exist for a start. There must be many people who find themselves in all sorts of problems not only the one which engulfed Ruby's family. Do they google? Do they just keep asking until someone knows someone knows someone?? Was is just sheer chance that led Ruby's family to Team Dog or what? Genuine question because it just seems so random and quite sickening to think of what would have happened had Ruby's family and Team Dog not connected.

Totally totally brilliant.

I have five now, have owned up to 6 with a couple of fosters/rescues in tow. Although I loved being surrounded by heaps of dogs with different personalities, I would not do it again. I agree that the overriding consideration must be whether the dogs are properly catered for in terms of veterinary treatment and attention to all their other needs, physical and psychological. Because she is the most needy in terms of wanting to walking, I'll sometimes be really really mean and sneaky and just grab Myrtie and take her for a walk on her own and I spend the whole time thinking how easy it is and if I just had her, she could have 1/2 dozen walks a day :laugh: :laugh: But when I return, there are four more wriggly, tail wagging bodies at the side gate greeting me as though I were the sun and moon. Priceless.

See "On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals" by Turid Rugaas. You'll love it.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/dog-walkers-find-us10m-worth-of-rare-gold-coins-20140226-hvdv3.html A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $US10 million ($11.09 million) in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana, which recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece. "I don't like to say once-in-a-lifetime for anything, but you don't get an opportunity to handle this kind of material, a treasure like this, ever," said veteran numismatist Don Kagin, who is representing the finders. "It's like they found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." $US10 million worth of coins were found by a couple walking their dog. Photo: AP Kagin, whose family has been in the rare-coin business for 81 years, would say little about the couple other than that they are husband and wife, are middle-aged and have lived for several years on the rural property in California's Gold Country, where the coins were found. They have no idea who put them there, he said. Advertisement The pair are choosing to remain anonymous, Kagin said, in part to avoid a renewed gold rush to their property by modern-day prospectors armed with metal detectors. They also don't want to be treated any differently, said David McCarthy, chief numismatist for Kagin Inc of Tiburon. "Their concern was this would change the way everyone else would look at them, and they're pretty happy with the lifestyle they have today," he said. They plan to put most of the coins up for sale through Amazon while holding onto a few keepsakes. They'll use the money to pay off bills and quietly donate to local charities, Kagin said. Before they sell them, they are loaning some to the American Numismatic Association for its National Money Show, which opens on Thursday in Atlanta. What makes their find particularly valuable, McCarthy said, is that almost all of the coins are in near-perfect condition. That means that whoever put them into the ground likely socked them away as soon as they were put into circulation. Because paper money was illegal in California until the 1870s, he added, it's extremely rare to find any coins from before that of such high quality. "It wasn't really until the 1880s that you start seeing coins struck in California that were kept in real high grades of preservation," he said. The coins, in $5, $10 and $20 denominations, were stored more or less in chronological order in six cans, McCarthy said, with the 1840s and 1850s pieces going into one can until it was filed, then new coins going into the next one and the next one after that. The dates and the method indicated that whoever put them there was using the ground as their personal bank and that they weren't swooped up all at once in a robbery. Although most of the coins were minted in San Francisco, one $5 gold piece came from as far away as Georgia. Kagin and McCarthy would say little about the couple's property or its ownership history, other than it's located in Gold Country, a sprawling, picturesque and still lightly populated section of north-central California that extends east of Sacramento to the Nevada line, running through the hills and valleys of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill set off the California Gold Rush of 1848. The coins had been buried by a path the couple had walked for years. On the day they found them last spring, the woman had bent over to examine an old rusty can that erosion had caused to pop slightly out of the ground. "Don't be above bending over to check on a rusty can," Kagin said she told him. They were located on a section of the property the couple nicknamed Saddle Ridge, and Kagin is calling the find the Saddle Ridge Hoard. He believes it could be the largest such discovery in US history. One of the largest previous finds of gold coins was $1 million worth uncovered by construction workers in Jackson, Tenn., in 1985. More than 400,000 silver dollars were found in the home of a man who died in 1974 and were later sold intact for $7.3 million. Gold coins and ingots said to be worth as much as $130 million were recovered in the 1980s from the wreck of the SS Central America. But historians knew roughly where that gold was because the ship went down off the coast of North Carolina during a hurricane in 1857.

Hmm, thinking back to when I was first given Propalin for Tamar, my vet didn't tell me anything about side effects either, I just read up on it. I hope all continues to be well with Mac, Westiemum.

I've been associated only with two dog clubs: each had an annual subscription of $20 or $30 dollars and a grounds fee of $2 each time you went. Both run by volunteers.

You're doing good. Mighty, mighty good. It's fantastic to see committed dog lovers and those committed to getting better deals for dogs in all sorts of situations working so hard. More strength and energy to you all. Congratulations.

Beautiful Michelleva. Does Bonnie know she has a HUGE fan club ?

Calendar on Outlook on my computer. I also have filed every piece of paper ever generated by vets. Also normal paper calendars: one in study and one in kitchen .. the places I spend most of the time. Rain hail or shine, I am on my computer at some stage throughout each day, so that is the best place - I put all reminders in Calendar on Outlook and the thing is recurring events can be scheduled for years ahead and not deleted until done.

DD and Westiemum for Joint Presidents and dogs like Ruby will not be discriminated upon. I've seen enough of Wednesday's post to know Ruby is a Dogue cross :laugh:

There was a thread about this recently, hence the description under my name. If that is the only thing someone can find to recommend him, I'd suggest saving the $10 :) :). :)

F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C. Congratulations to Ruby's family for not bowing down in the face of stupid stupid bureaucracy. Hopefully you are on the home stretch to total resolution of these farcical rules.

I have had personal knowledge of what he has advised. That is a relative consulted with him, he charged exorbitant fees (so much so that she was too embarrassed to tell me) and what he told her to do was a crock of shite.

Up to 6,418 signatories. The only thing that worries me about these sorts of petitions is that someone with a false sense of his/her own importance will say: I'll show them who's boss Hopefully Ruby will be back with her family in quick smart time.

Bloody Councils . The sooner they abolished the better. Too many of them have too many people who have too much power and too little intelligence let alone ability to make any sort of decision or take decisive action. You might gather from that, that I've had a few dealings of late with councils and, frankly, it is not a very comforting experience when faced with people who, almost to a person, say whatever it is you are enquiring about is someone else's responsibility. Petition signed.

You mean apart from heaps of money or an unrestricted credit card ?? Good luck - I hope you and your dog have a great time

Go Penny :laugh:. Maybe they were cut too thinly ?

. That, sadly, is the truth and why stopping these dreadful attacks will be almost an impossibility. Thing of you, too, toy Poodle.

LOL - I meant I need you to come and train me. :laugh:

It will need to be in the oven for several hours. I'll be interested to see how you go. I think I just googled to try to get some instructions. ETA: http://www.17apart.com/2012/02/how-to-make-sweet-potato-dog-chew.html