Loving my Oldies

Thanks, T. Will do.

As my walks take me past a council playground, I often have little children looking at the dogs and me half smiling half wistful. If I feel like stopping, I will ask them if they want to say hello to the dogs and if I don't feel like stopping, I'll just smile and keep walking. It isn't hard. But I don't like people to just charge up and start patting because I generally have 3 to 5 dogs, a couple of whom are somewhat timid and need to be able to approach people in their own time.

Hank looks a really lovely dog. And you sound a lovely owner as well .... all those trips to the beach. Just what a dog needs

Agree totally. Whether or not the owner's stayed with the dog while she was euthanised is beside the point. According to the owner's story, she was billed for the procedure. Aside from the fact that the dog wasn't euthanised, what astounded me in the vet's story was: "He said the dog was then treated by a new owner and later rehomed multiple times but transfer of ownership details were never completed, leaving Ms Wainwright as Sasha's registered owner." (My underlining.)

Oh, that deserves a write up and pix in the local rag.

What a great dog, Lhok. I met an Akita just this afternoon when he and his family were walking past my house. Naturally, I couldn't resist getting an introduction and a cuddle and a smooch and a sniff and a push with the head when I dared stop playing with his ears ......... Huge cream boy called Zeus and very very laid back.

I had to resurrect this thread because of an experience this afternoon. I met the biggest beautifulest cuddly friendly cream dog. His breed? Akita . A few weeks ago, I'd seen him from a distance and at first could really just make out the largest dog I'd seen in the neighbourhood, but on watching for a while, I was fairly certain he was an Akita. I was in the front yard this afternoon and he and his family were walking past; they stopped to talk and to give me cuddles - with the dog that is :D . OMG, he is so big and it made me realise that I'd not seen an Akita in the flesh and had no idea they were so big.

That's Bunter. I was so happy when the three of them started playing as Bunter has up until now been a bit of the odd man out.

[Only parts of posts quoted.] As capanash and Aussie 3 have said. So much depends on what happens after an event. Whether there is understanding, reconciliation, appreciation of future problems, etc etc. And as ness says, we don't often know if dogs/people have a history, so it is probably better to err on the side of caution.

Yes, they are generally a good little bunch. The most troublesome is only evident by her tail in Photo #3. She is highly reactive and despite being only 3.5kilos wants to take on every dog she sees You'd see more if I were a quarter the photographer you are, K.

Finally, Danny is letting Bunter in on the games. Tamar has been trying to play with him for a while, but Danny has always been the fun police. Only HE is allowed to play. I guess age catches up eventually. Tamar is the Maltest Shih Tzu cross, Danny is the Red Man and Bunter is Fluffy Fatso. I still love you, though, mum: But playing is more fun fun fun: I will not have anything to do with those silly dogs, says Jeune distainfully:

How exciting: I reckon you'll have to call her Daisy Ninja :laugh:

I had a series of photographs showing Tamar trying to get into a little bed with Jeune. Unfortunately, I did something to them and now just have black squares .

I think we should split it then :laugh: :laugh: Oh, that's a bummer. But Temple & Webster are quite kosher and have fabulous goodies. They feature lots of different "shops". I have been known to splurg .

Maddie, from all The Moochers and their mum

Why not? If the dogs and you enjoy it, then go for it. Sounds fun.

I'm glad it has been used to transport such beauties . Little Sparky ??

Love the cat pods. http://www.templeandwebster.com.au/temple-and-webster-presents-1/dog-days-pamper-your-pets-1.html

Gosh, apart from nights like last night when I was still awake at 4am , the dogs, the cat and I hardly move.

I'm glad to see that someone is as paranoid careful :D as I am ....... tiny little pups are so vulnerable even when they are Daisy Ninjas.

For the past week or so, there has been a crow around my place (whether it is the same one or not, who knows :laugh: ). It is huge! It baths a few times a day in my bird bath and I regularly see it flying up to sit on a light pole to eat whatever it has caught. Typing this has made me realise I haven't seen any other birds around for a while .

"According to the death certificate issued by Greencross Vets, Sasha should have died on April 12." Interesting. I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the person whose signature is on that certificate. Either just signed what was put in front of him/her, or colluded.

I hope some steps in to represent them pro bono.

Oh that is so sad. I did wonder about smoke damage. Poor little tyke. Hopefully it could sense love and gentleness around him.

I think you have done well, but still don't believe you were at fault in any way :) . Can you tell me where in Sydney you are, please? PM if you like. I'm just curious because for the first time ever in my area, I saw a muzzled dog this morning while walking my dogs. I was just a few houses away from my place and I saw a dog rolling on the ground rubbing his face with the owner standing by - dog was on a lead of course. As I crossed the road to my place, I was able to see better and saw that the dog was muzzled and I think he had probably been rubbing just trying to get the muzzle off. I've no idea what breed the dog was except very solid like a taller, broader Stafford.