Loving my Oldies

Agree totally.

Thanks for that link, ness Erm Uh, it was not a great success . Bunter enjoyed it, but the others wouldn't touch it - though that is not unusual. It remained soft despite being in the oven on, obviously, a very very low temp and for many hours.

Oh dear, that did give a laugh :laugh: :laugh: . You need to come here and train me.

Actually, I have considered it - even so far as doing the rounds of appliance stores checking them out. But it is just one more thing to find room for in the kitchen and I believe the smell from liver is pretty unpleasant. Plus the fact, I'm a vegetarian and the thought of cutting up liver is a job too far even for the loves of my life I have done sweet potatoe in the oven :laugh:

My initial impression, too. But I wonder how stressed out he was actually? He did have good recall, but that's not to say he should have been allowed into the dog park. I wonder if the council knows and just doesn't care? I think the dog owners were just as irresponsible, too, but probably don't have much understanding of the damage a hard headed animal can do. No way I'd be allowing my dogs to harass a goat, leash free area or otherwise.

A considered and reasoned approach, Hankdog - well done.

I had a little dog like that a long time ago and it was suggested I do the same. It lasted one night ....... poor little Flora started crying and it was more than I could bear. :D She was so good in all other respects, so what the heck :laugh: ( Mita has deleted her post to which this referred.) Michelleva, I think you need to stop giving yourself a hard time . Without any qualifications at all, you did what you and your rescue group thought was right by your family, Georgia and Bonnie. Bonnie has been given a big fright if only by being separated from you just at the time she was happy, relaxed and confident. Bonnie will be back to the Bonnie you knew.

Oh, that sounds impossible and so stressful for both of you. Until I had to try to medicate Tamar, I would never have believed that you couldn't give a tablet to a dog . But giving (or trying to is more to the point) tablets to Tamar is a virtual impossibility. She is terrified. You can't put it down her throat because she bites and you can't give it to her in treats because she spits it out or leaves it. She is not food oriented so you can't hide it in her food. So the only thing I can give her is the Propaline.

You deserve to be. You obviously put so much work and so much love into Jonah.

You should not be the one apologising, toy_poodle . If you've read even a few of the dog attack threads on DOL, you will quickly learn that to some people the victims (human and animal) are the last thing of interest. The most important thing is whether the attacking dog has been properly identified and pity help anyone who suggests that the dog could have been a staffy or a pitbull or crosses thereof. Poor you, and your poor little dog. What a horrible and terrifying thing to have happened. I hope you both heal very quickly.

I am hoping against hope that this will be the case with Tamar. She hates it, but it has stopped the bed wetting (only at night on my bed and very rarely on the couch ) as I would hate to think she'd be on it for the rest of her life and twice a day at that. It is only a drop for a dog of Tamar's size, but if she can be weaned off it after a while, I will be very happy.

There seem to be so many side effects . Tamar (female Shi Tzu x Maltese of 10 years) has been on it for a couple of months and I haven't noticed any changes in her. When she first started taking it, however, after a couple of days, she did seem a little strange (sitting on her own and staring at me seemed to be the most obvious), but when the bed wetting started again, I recommenced the Propaline and since then, all has been well. Might be different in male dogs. I'm sorry about the fight - it is so upsetting and scary - and hopefully you can get it sorted.

Don't tell me she is a regular. How awful.

I've never been a one for buying my dogs treats, but have always liked to give them strips of roo jerky as a change and something to really gnaw on. I used to get it from a supplier who dried his own, but, sadly, he went out of business. I bought some online, but it was pretty chunky and the little dogs found it hard to get started. Bunter was no problem as I could feed him a whole roo and he wouldn't have a problem. The product I used to buy was fairly thin and the strips were long, so easy to cut into decent sized and easy to manage pieces for the other dogs. I've been looking on eBay and, although it is difficult to tell from the photos, the product available seems to be chunky pieces. Does anyone know where I can buy long thin strips of roo jerky at a reasonable price, please? Prices in pet shops tend to be horrendous.

Couldn't agree more :laugh:

Well she was on radio LOL. So true and sad, Diva, about people being shocked when a dog is a dog. You see so many people pulling their dogs away when they sniff other dogs' bottoms. I wonder if they drag their dogs along the footpath when they want to stop and sniff where another dog has done a wee? They don't seem to get that that is what dogs do for many and necessary reasons. Although I know it isn't the same, but in an attempt to gently educate, I always say that it is like people shaking hands. People just get so out of touch with animals and their behaviours and in the end the animals suffer.

LOL, Steve. Marketers will use any ploy they think will work. I think you should tell us who that vet is so we can all write in protest. For a vet to say something like that ...... well it beggars belief really. It just goes to show so little undertstanding of what dog ownership (and I know there are people who object to that terminology as well :) :) ) entails and will add to even more problems with integrating dogs as dogs into a community.

I don't particularly like "mutt" or "pooch" either.

What a heap of beautiful animals you have, Chris. I love your mice . I can relate to the Fatty Boom Boom girls :laugh: :laugh:

Years ago before this ever growing use of dogs in advertisements, St George used to have a Dalmatian in their print ads and on their posters inside the banks. I wrote to the manager suggesting that, seeing they used a dog to gain more business, they might like to consider contributing to rescue groups who were trying to save dogs from being killed in pounds. Naturally, I didn't put it as bluntly as that :D , but I am sad to say that his response was less than pleasing. He "appreciated my initiative" but didn't think their marketing dollar would tend in that direction. He actually found it quite funny.

Totally unacceptable I'm reporting her.

My five dogs and one cat all sleep on the bed with me and when I switch off the light, I say, "Goodnight my babies." Or, "Goodnight my loved ones." :laugh: :laugh: If anthropomorphising my relationship with my dogs means that I give them what is necessary to them as dogs, then I am more than happy to be called anthropomorphic :D :D - which I know isn't the topic in this thread but it was raised by another.

This is such an important point and one that can easily lost in the noise about what is perceived as wrong or right with regard to terminology. Yukk! I couldn't agree with you more. It's a term I'd not experienced until this forum and it actually makes me feel queasy.

:laugh: Well said I think that is really sweet and shows her love. I don't like the term fur kids or fur babies, but then I hate the word kid unless we are talking about goats

I think you have the right idea, RuralPug. I looked at a couple of the other videos about Mouse and one of his "siblings", Bender, also had a go in the carriage.