Loving my Oldies

Sorry folks, but "neutralising" sounds as though they have had a lobotomy :laugh:

Hey Jelly, sounds like you are starting to get it all: Roo and A MAN!!

Sounds perfect. I gather the dog runs are where the DOLers would stay :D

I know where you're coming from with that (my other half does that too) - problem is the message you're giving your dog there. Yes, this is a case where you are damned if you do and possibly damned if you don't. :) Sometimes you just can't cross the street if you are concerned about another dog (or your own dog for that matter). In the final analysis, you have to do what keeps your dog safe. Oh, thank goodness there is someone else out that who does that . My 3.5kg dog is very reactive and I am getting good at standing close to a parked car, ducking down a driveway and shovelling treats into 5 little dogs. 3 are controlled by just pulling their leads and telling them to stop, but Myrtie gets them all stirred up, so it is important to get her under control and the treats at the ready. It is working too and regularly now, a quiet but stern "Myrtie" does the trick. There is a dickhead around here like that. His dog is a gorgeous dog and very very well behaved, but he shouldn't risk its safety so he can show off. That's the bugger of it. Turns walks into a constant how-do-I-manage-the-unforeseen situation rather than a pleasant stroll around the neighbourhood.

I agree, it's annoying when the powers that be just find it easier to ban animals from places rather than actually learn and enforce good hygiene, they will run out of things to ban and still get people getting sick because they don't wash their grubby mitts. . Considering the constant reports of shockIng infection control in hospitals and nursing homes, they are probably taking the easy way out and blaming the pup. . Well that is something we won't get to hear about. It would be good if someone who had a relative there and approved of dogs in homes cared to keep track :D

Yes, I was confused. Something else must be going on.

When I'm older and dodderier (LOL ), Maggie is the sort of dog I will be looking for.

LOL - so true.

It is terribly sad. It has been discussed so many times here, but old dogs make such wonderful companions and some dogs that people think old are just as frisky and happy and playful as puppies. My youngest is 9 and I still think of her as "the puppy". Two of my most loving and adorable dogs, (Rover and Mufti) were geriatrics when I adopted them. However, it can be really really expensive business if you want to look after an elderly dog properly and how ever much we feel that we "would live in a tent", before giving up our dogs, reality is very different. Elderly people being forced or making the decision themselves to move out of their homes and into care facilities are often feeling very vulnerable and not in any position to argue the case for keeping their dogs and if they can't move in with family, family is hardly likely to want to take on the dogs - or may not be in any position to do so. Anyway, I hope all these beautiful creatures find the best homes possible.

LOL - what a wonderful time you have ahead of you, merikuri While it is very comforting to have a vet close by, the most important thing is to have a vet whom you trust implicitly and with whom you have a good rapport. Good luck and remember that we DOLers demand puppy photos :laugh:

Oh god, isn't it awful that we even joke about it . Actually reading this this morning made me realise I'd made a mistake and that my third dog. Flora, was from answering an ad in the paper - people needed to rehome their dog. That was in 1995 before I knew about the dreadful need of dogs in pound, long before I knew such a thing as "rescue" existed. I thought the only pound was the RSPCA and I knew that I wouldn't be able to cope with going there. Anyway, Stans Mum, when you were taking him back to Hawkesbury LOL you'd have to pass by the turnoff to my place, so you could drop him off here. I do have one vacuum cleaner, Hankdog, and that is Bunter. I put down Myrtie's bowl first, then take Bunter to the study and shut him away with his bowl and then back to put down the bowls of the deck three. I then go back to check on Bunter and he has finished ..... the deck three are still just staring at their bowls. LOL. Poor Bunter has to stay shut away for 10 to 15 minutes while the deck three decide whether to eat or not.

Isn't that the breed Trisven has ??

Ah, I was hoping you'd be across this Keetamouse

Lovely colouring. Thanks for keeping us updated

All my dogs are from various pounds, handkdog. :) And I have given up worrying if they don't eat, it just means they get it for dinner LOL. None of them is about to fade away :laugh: Apart from my first two dogs who were bought from breeders and one who was rehomed directly from a home where he was being neglected, all my dogs (10 in urns and 5 still with me) have been rescues. They are regularly threatened with being sent back to where they came from, but that means I'd have to look up their paperwork to check which pound.

Yes, agreed. I have always tried to educate people as to why it is better not to do that.

My dogs are not fussed over when it comes to food. Food is not left out through the day (that is something I will never understand - like feeding children a never ending supply of lollies and crisps ). They are offered food twice a day and if they don't it in a certain time frame, up it comes. Once or twice a fortnight, if not less, they will get pieces of dried roo tail which they will chew off and on for days. I never buy things like schmackos (rubbish). Their treats are the roo bones and roo jerky.

I am so happy for you and Kibah, Kirislin. And I hope with all my heart that people listen to your advice, particularly people who have their dogs operated on for "luxating patellas". The vast majority of these operations are totally unnecessary. It's the same when people panic because they find their elderly pet has a heart murmur- LOL. Hopefully we'll all live long enough to have heart murmurs. Sorry to go off on my soap box You must be so thrilled. Kisses to Kibah and Pagan.

You do have a house full -- should be interesting when the puppies are wobbling around. I think you'd better start stocking up on tissues for the day they go back to their human mum

Is there any creature worse than some humans? Truly sickening.

I do laugh at myself when I tell them to do something or, more often, not to do something. But then my excuse is that they are my live in companions - LOL.

Two mothers . What lucky babes, so spoilt for choice. How many dogs do you have? I wonder if a Fuzzy Whippet would grow up thinking he/she was a Fuzzy Whippet or whether, his mums were "Smooth Shepherds" :D

:laugh: :laugh: Oh, I shouldn't laugh Kiesha09, but your description is so spot on. I have posted in the past that you'd think I was putting a bowl of poison in front of them. Quite often, I will put out the food for the deck three, check on them and they are all standing at the glass sliding door looking in with such pathetic looks on their faces. The deck is covered by the way and about 4 metres wide - LOL - so not a scary, exposed to the elements place.

Yes, that probably was it as I usually tell them 15 LOL Water bowls at least can stay in the same position :laugh:

My dogs' frustrating eating foibles have been well documented over the years LOL, but I think today adds yet another chapter. . I recently stopped feeding them in the morning and although that worked for a while, they were desperately hungry and barking and jumping by about 5pm. Therefore, I started giving them roo jerky to chew on in the mornings. This seemed to give them diarrhoea, so I went back to giving them just a very small meal in the morning. Bunter would eat anything in gold medal wining time, to he is shut in one of the bedrooms for his meal. Myrtie eats very slowly and deposits her food all over the floor, so I put down newspaper in the kitchen for her. The other three are shut out on the deck with Tamar's bowl on her bed and the other two just on the floor a fair way apart. After a few minutes, I checked on the deck three only to see them just standing around with the food untouched. I knew they loved what I had given them (raw meat, mashed vegetables and tuna lightly warmed), so I was not amused. What to do? All I did was to putt all the bowls in different places and told them they had 5 minutes. I went back a few minutes later and the bowls were licked clean.