Loving my Oldies

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

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.