Loving my Oldies

And since I posted, have found a few more. I've removed the barricades to the back yard and bugger the new cement - LOL. Actually, I've tested it and I doubt even if they do scratch, there will be marks. Poor Jeune wee'd like she was trying to emulate Niagra Falls.

It is just mind boggling that some people take little or no responsibility for the actions of their dogs. All I can suggest is that every incident, no matter how small, is reported to the council. My letter has been posted and I concluded by saying that Councils had to start doing what they were elected for and being paid for. If I get a response, it will be full of platitudinous self righteousness about all the actions they do take, etc etc etc etc. Oh, and how much better they are than any previously government. The only thing to do is to bombard them.

OMG! Remind me NEVER to enter into these sorts of threads. I JINXED MYSELF BIG TIME Yesterday, I had cement pathways laid through my garden and have to keep the dogs off them for a couple of days. Luckily (so I thought) I have a large undercover deck and although a couple of dogs would go out in the pouring rain rather than wee on the deck so thought I might have a bit of trouble, they are protesting at their confinement. About to go to bed, very late (past midnight) last night, when I noticed a wee on the bed. It had gone right through blankets, sheets, mattress protector and into the mattress. Bed stripped and then out with the paper towels and water/vinegar mix. I turned the mattress (slatted bed so will dry out) fresh bedding on the bed and then put a load of washing on. Going around the house turning off the lights, noticed puddle by the entrance carpet runner. Up with that and hang on the deck, clean the floor. This morning awoke sniffing!!! Big wet stain right where Tamar sleeps under the bedclothes. Luckily this time only through the fitted sheet and the mattress protector had prevented the mattress getting wet. Bed stripped again and put sheet in to soak in napisan. Came back from walking the dogs to find a flood in the laundry as I'd omitted to turn the tap off So here I was, although empathising with Westiemum's pain, being somewhat relieved that I wasn't experiencing it. Murphy's Law and all that. Is it too early for a drink?

This is outrageous! The council should have stepped in on three counts: 1. dogs being in eating areas (it doesn't worry me but it is illegal). 2. dogs being in public unrestrained. 3. dogs attacking This is it. The dogs NEED to go outside their front gates for, as the terminology is, environmental enrichment. Again. Council is not regulating and enforcing their laws. The parents should have all be admonished at the very least by council rangers. Tell you friend to report this to the rangers.

In fact, the title of this thread has been bothering me. Some dogs aren't more special than others. They are all special but some have greater needs physically and psychologically. This message was brought home to me many years ago when my first dog died of congestive heart failure very young. I said to someone, "But she was so special." The other person said, "They are all special, Cynthia." Lesson taken on board. :) :)

Malti take a powder :D You are obviously not reading posts in full. I did say that photographs can lie, and I was responding to another poster who categorically said, without any evidence, that the dog would have been given pain relief by the pound.

As I said, only two small children in the playground with the dogs. But over the years, I have seen plenty of nuf nuf parents in the playground with their dogs. They also nuf nufily tie their dogs up outside the playground, too. Guess where they tie them? Yep, near the water tap and near the bin, so anyone wanting to use these facilities can't get to them because dogs are going ballistic seeing "their" nuf nuf families playing in the playground and they are tied up outside.

I would have loved to have seen the faces on the other puppy owners when you and your baby arrived. :laugh: :laugh:

I, too, find it quite extraordinary that someone who has admitted they have become too frigtened to walk their dogs should be told to get over it. I'm still shaking from an experience this evening whereby a large dog rushed the fence of a children's playground while I walked past with my five little dogs. The dog was illegally in the playground (notices on all gates) and there were only two small children in the playground with the dog. A young boy had the dog by the collar trying to hold him (no lead of course) and the boy was being dragged along the ground by the dog. The boy was not harmed, was grinning his head off and obviously thought the whole thing a great lark. I was terrified that the gates might not be secure. I am in the process of writing to the council.

I'm pretty sure that would be illegal, but I can't blame her.

That is EXACTLY what I was saying. I don't know, and the only people who do know are the Blacktound Pound people who were involved in the dog's care. All else is supposition.

How awful. Your post illustrates what I have been saying in the thread about the elderly lady being attacked ... It is in In the news Forum. Dogs and people are leading unnatural lives, dogs and people are suffering. Instead of growing more concerned for each other and recognising other rights and adjusting or modifying our behaviours accordingly, we are becoming more like rats in a cage or inhabitants of the book Lord of the Flies. Can you find somewhere where dogs have to be kept on their leads (and such directive is adhered to!!) and walk your dogs there?

As with Rascal, I feel your pain . It is years since I've had any wees of any consequence in the house. Every few months or less, I may find one in the hallway - not sure why and have never seen the perpetrator. BUT! The deck is a different matter when it rains. A couple of the dogs will always go downstairs, but once one does it on the deck, a couple of the others will follow suit and if the rain goes on for any length of time, I am close to impounding the lot of them Your description "Came home to multiple small wees in the kitchen" does not sound like doing a wee because he/she needed to. Sounds more like the sort of weeing they do to make a point. It always intrigues me when we are out walking that a dog can do just a couple of drops and then turn the tap off. I hope you get to the bottom of it, because I know in the past, I was nearly going crazy too. I was fostering and rescuing and transporting, and the dogs never knew from one day to the next who was going to be around and I think it just had them in a constant state of uncertainty. Maybe all of this is a hangover from your fostering? When Rover was an old man, he had to be belly banded at night time, but not through the day, so I have a "wardrobe" of belly bands as well :laugh:.

Sounds as though it was a lot of fun and very heartwarming.

Photographs can lie - but there didn't seem to be bedding for him. I didn't say anything about whether he received pain relief or not because I don't know and neither do you unless you have contacted them and spoken to someone who would know. I didn't say anything about Rocky's K9 as it is years since I've had anything to do with Merna. Who knows? She may have changed. I wasn't having a go at you Katdogs; I was just genuinely surprised that you'd never seen the page devoted to Norma on Rocky's K9's website. There was quite a lot posted about it at one stage.

Great work Aphra and BCE. Barney looks as though he has found his love match. The bit I've quoted and highlighted from your post is the scarey bit, though, isn't it. So many dogs just don't show their true personalities in the pound. Luckily, there are increasing numbers of experienced rescue people and pounds who work with them to be able to see past the unnatural environment and surroundings. Have fun, Barney

No cutting anyone any slack who doesn't even give the dog a soft bed to lie on. OK? Oh yes. This story sure is worth a good laugh. So you have contacted them personally and had it confirmed ? Have you seriously just noticed this? It has been there since shortly after Norma died.

The problem is, Rosetta, that I believe there is another and perhaps greater problem than that you have expressed. So many people who have dogs simply have no idea and they don't know that they have no idea. What can be difficult about owning a dog? You take it for a walk a couple of times a week, give it a can of food, check every few days that it has water. That's all there is to it isn't it? Oh, and if someone leaves the gate open - well the dog is stupid to go outside, isn't it. And the proliferation of those retractable leads is going to add to the problem as the dogs, if and when they are walked, are allowed to ramble, run, jump, go anywhere and they are never corrected except by a jerk on the lead as the lead is either retracted or braked. God help us all and the poor poor dogs. I am still tossing up whether or not to speak to the owners of a dog who was being walked by a friend. His idea of training a dog? You have to be cruel to be kind. Yeah - so right.

I reckon this is the case, too. The way we live our lives (and consequently those of the creatures we bring into our lives) is unnatural. Dogs aren't meant to spend all their time outside the house on a lead and being pulled away from other dogs simply because they want to investigate other dogs. People aren't meant to spend up to four hours a day sitting on a train or in a car commuting. It is going to get worse.

OMG that is hilarious :laugh: . What's the story on Leo? He looks a stunner too.

Very exciting. I am sure everything will go swimmingly :D

The microchipping laws were brought in in NSW 14 years ago and still there are animals presenting to pounds unchipped. We don't need more legislation, just what we have enforced.

Please note that I haven't quoted Melza's full post :) . Whether attack numbers are on the decline or not, we have to force those responsible for managing dogs in the community to do their jobs. How many times on these forums have we heard posters say that they were unable to get a ranger or that the rangers wouldn't come out on weekends. (Yes, I know there are wonderful wonderful rangers out there - but they are in a minority.) There may not be a dog bit epidemic "as the media would have us believe", but I think if you look at stats from hospitals you would be aghast at the numbers. Those that are reported in the newspapers are only the horrific ones and just a small percentage of the actual bites and attacks. Anyone who has been involved in dog rescue and pounds and who out in the streets everyday with their dogs as I am, would be able to fill a book with stories the incredible lack of knowledge within the general public about what is on the end of the leash.

What a truly horrible horrible thing to have happened. I heard this on the car radio, but not in as much detail as has been posted here. I agree with Melza to a certain extent about evaluating the dogs, but I believe it should go further and that the way the dogs were kept, interacted with, the owner's perception of what dogs should and shouldn't do, be allowed to do, etc etc. Unless and until owners are made fully accountable for their dogs' actions, we aren't going to advance. To have reached the stage where toddlers can be killed in their own homes and people are attacked in the streets is just totally beyond the pale. These are not longer unusual and out of the ordinary events - they are happening just about every day. Councils have to step up to the mark, train the rangers, know the laws and carry them out. We don't need any more legislations; we need those we have acted upon. I am sure every decent person hearing the account of this attack would be sick to the stomach and filled with horror at what that elderly couple suffered and will continue to suffer.

What a relief and long may it continue. Well done.