Loving my Oldies

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.

I can foresee many happy years together.

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Thanks for the update. So good to know all is going well. Is mother convinced they are hers? :laugh: :laugh:

Nothing like a down to earth country person :laugh: :laugh:

Sincere condolences, Gillybob. Your dogs were woven into every second of your life and to have them gone must feel as though part of you has been cruelly ripped away. I remember when you adopted Molly too. Blessings to you and Gilly.

Those photos are really beautiful .... so special. Lucky everyone in that family.

I hope he is none the worse for his adventure, although no doubt his humans have aged 20 years.

LOL - mine starts and ends with finding toothbrush !!

My thoughts, too.

Hmm, trying to imagine Smelly Stan with nose piercings. Nup - I don't like them at the best of times. A flower behind his ear is much nicer. :laugh: :laugh:

Stan needs a new name: Magnet Fridgy Piggy Burster Smelly ( :D :D ) Can't think of anymore. Need a desperately.

That looks to be shaping up to be a great day. I hope everyone has the best time.