Loving my Oldies

I couldn't look at my cat when he killed 6 day-old chickens. I'm not as fond of him as I was and I don't trust him at all. I despise the GSD who visits next door and killed one of my chooks. Its even easier to hate foxes. Yes, I totally understand and would feel the same, but do you think your cat is evil or the GSD evil?

Best wishes for Sally and thank goodness your vet finally got to the cause and knew how to treat. I perspire very very heavily and when I was doing bootcamp last year, asked the instructor as to whether or not I should take any electrolytic drinks. I am not in favour of so called replacement drinks. He suggested just some pure sea salt, a pinch in a litre of water. I've found the link, but it is PDF document. Anyone know how to load, please?

I think you've done your best, Cleveland. Perhaps bring the food closer and closer to the house and you may find they are quite approachable. The problem is, of course, whether or not they've been desexed. The woman who abandoned them doesn't seem like the person to have taken that into consideration. Try not to stress too much.

Look after yourself. And def take dogs where they are well loved.

Lucky Jaz - doted on and much loved by a special family. Happy Birthday

LOL. I'd love to have that Chutzpah, HugL.

Is it a Pug thing? I watched Best In Show recently and reading this thread brought to mind the humping pug in the final minutes of that movie - LOL.

That is such an awful look and if a dog needs that done to it to stand still, in my opinion the owner and judges need to have further training .

I haven't read the whole thread, but I was so pleased to see these posts because I was quite shocked and was hoping I wasn't the only one. I thought some of the photographs were simply awful and in some the dogs looked almost deformed !! When I saw the Whippet, my immediate thought was that Kirislin's dogs would beat that one hands down. Same for some of the other breeds I've seen represented on DOL. Juice, I thought the while Bully looked "not so good", but really liked Yum Yum the coloured one - LOL. The photo of the GSD made me just feel sad. ETA: I watched a video of Best In Show a couple of days ago - LOL.

A very unhappy day for you RiverStar and I am so sorry the transfer has fallen though. Commuting like that doesn't add up to a good lifestyle. Were you given any reasonable explanation? As for your dogs being called "evil", I agree with what Aidan2 says, frankly. Not that that is any help to you at the moment, sadly. I wonder if it might be worth your while (and when you are feeling more upbeat and positive) to pay a visit to those people and explain to them more of what was going and the dangers of teaching children that other creatures are evil? I do appreciate that this would be an extremely difficult and emotional task for you and if you decided along these lines, you'd have to be prepared for it to not turn out well. Sometimes things done with the best intentions turn around and bite us on the bum - Hard.

LOL, where's the fun in that? I'm joking of course. Dogs unrestrained in vehicle = potential trouble. I am guilty, too. Unfortunately, we are becoming more and more legalistic because people don't think and thoughtlessness can cause us all a lot a damage, financially and emotionally, in terms of the costs brought to bear by all sorts of accidents. When "things go wrong" people scream that the government "should do something" ...... and then of course scream again when the government puts up taxes to pay for more and more of what society as a whole won't take care of.

My first delivery from Swaggerbout arrived this morning and the dogs have been chewing on the roo jerky ever since. They will be trying some of the beef tonight. One good thing so far is that the roo jerky is in much smaller pieces than from my usual supplier and I don't have to break my hand and scissors trying to cut the pieces to suit little dogs.

I find it very difficult to understand when people described foxes as being sly, vicious, evil - whatever other words are used. Foxes are simply animals who have learned to kill in a certain way which equates to their size, the habitat in which the live, their particular metabolism, etc. They don't lie in the beds, thinking about how best to kill another creature in a way that gives the greatest pain or the greatest sorrow to a human who has their chooks or rabbits or other pets killed by foxes. An animal kills to eat. However, humankind plots to kill for the "fun" of it. These types of descriptions are very anthropomorphic and delivered by people who would probably scorn those who call their dogs their children or dress them up in fancy clothes or find out the food they love the most so they can treat them. (Which reminds me of a friend who went outside her house one day - luckily when her child was at school - to find pieces of their pet rabbit all over the back yard courtesy of a Golden Retriever. Who would call the GR evil? And another who came home to find her cat dead courtesy of her dogs. Who would call them evil?) How many of the people who think the only good fox is a dead one own cats, I wonder contained or otherwise. Cats are incredibly destructive to all sorts of wildlife and have probably done more damage to wildlife and, if we want to be totally honest, consider the way a cat will "play" with its victim, sometime for hours. I am desperately sorry and sad for those who have lost any of their own chooks and loved pets to foxes. I can understand the hatred. To come home and find a much loved pet killed is a horror to live with and one I have experienced. That said, foxes don't belong in Australia, our native wildlife is too susceptible and unable to compete and I certainly don't believe they should be deliberately bred and kept as pets. For sure if kittens are found they should be humanely destroyed or kept as pets only by people who are experienced, committed and knowledgable as to their needs and willing to keep them safely confinded.

The poster has stated that she cannot take the cats as much as she would like to. Ergo: Inform Council or RSPCA which she is doing.

Great news. Keetamouse

I guess I've been lucky then in terms of having non barkers for the sake of barking. My dogs bark - I check it out. That said, I believe a wee bit on senility is creeping up on Danny (approx 13-14) because he occasionally starts barking at something and has to be brought out of the "zone" to stop him. He then looks as if to say, "What's the matter with you? Why have you given me a prod?" :laugh: :laugh:

This was my post and the first to respond. No anger, no judgement, no jumping up and down and quoting the law, no trying to put others in the wrong, etc, etc etc.

Well said, Kirty

How is the lovely Hazel?

I agree, redangel, but you are tilting at the moon :) . It is a rare discussion that goes beyond the subjective and emotional. Good or bad, I don't really know, because if subjectivism and emotion weren't involved, there would not be much discussion. What needs to be guarded against, but goes on here all the time, is that people push their own particular barrows in methods that denigrate others. Argument for argument's sake is all very well and it is highly desirable that we engage our intellectual capacities. But to the extent that the person doing the arguing wants one thing and one thing only and that is their self aggrandisement and the denigration of others, relegates a debate to the insubstantial.

That was brilliant. Gorgeous dog and obviously a wonderful foster parent. The photos of Peanut are beautiful, Kirislin.

Does the Cat Protection Society operate in SA? Hire traps from your Council and take them to the pound. Poor things.

Where is that big open stretch of land, Katdogs?

High calorie rubbish. He's gorgeous, Rascal, but old before his time by the look of him. I took on a toy poodle some years ago, turned out to be nearly 17 and he looked younger than Grayson . He will be a noo poo in no time in your expert and loving hands

Hmmmm - my pom crosses (owned, fostered, recued) have never been yappers. These sorts of across the boards statements don't do anything to help anyone except to perpetuate myths and feed people's already ingrained prejudices.