Loving my Oldies

Riiiiiiiiiight, get it . Poodles get up to all sorts of mischief :-

Lovely pix and Sophie sure is beautiful. I have wanted to ask you many times but didn't want to hijack a thread, but now I can. WHAT is that in the middle of your signature photo, please.

Now that would have been very scary . Good to know it was short term.

Thanks for the good wishes. I've spoken to the hospital (but not the vet, yet) and he has been a good boy getting lots of cuddles and has been taken out for a little constitutional . No sign of pancreatitis, thank god (I know it is very managable, I just didn't want him to have it). I have to check in again this afternoon to see if he can come home, but frankly, I'd rather him be there if that's where he needs to be. Anyway, will find out more this afternoon.

Yes, he is my little red man . He is between 11 and 12 (adopted from a pound in 2002). Yes, off to bed soon and on the phone at 9.30am.

He has some sort of gastro problem. I took him to the vet this afternoon, but he is still throwing up and so I took him to the emergency centre. Very sensibly, he had a splash of very smelly diarrhoea and threw up the lectade I've been giving him since afternoon vet visit so the vet there was able to see what was going on. Temp is okay, tummy not sore anymore as it was at the first vet visit and no indications of any blockages. He has lost a bit of weight in the past few weeks. They have put him on a drip for hydration and will be doing full blood profile and everything necessary to try to establish the reason. My little man is not well

This is what is so frightening; the intense heat and the speed at which fire can start to engulf a house. Yes, it is amazing how quickly we can get "motoring". I always thought I'd be pretty hopeless in an emergency; I was awoken one night at about 2-3am by the sound of someone trying my front door (I lived in a unit at the time). To my surprise, I flew out of bed and challenged the person on the other side of the door. Turned out to be the chap from upstairs who'd had too much to drink . Even so, when I went back to bed my heart was just about leaping out of my chest. Are you just starting to put all the pieces together Jed, or have you pretty well remembered everything from the start?

Hi Jules, yes, this is why I never EVER watch animal movies!! I'm a cot case. I'm still badly scarred from Ring of Bright Water and Born Free from the 60s! Just thinking of them makes me cry. Although I read the book and saw the movie of Ring of Bright Water there is still only one scene I remember Thanks Monah (This thread has been resurrected via the latest Hachi thread - LOL.)

My thoughts exactly. Unfortunately I can't imagine there would be too many people wandering around in short sleeves in the Cotswolds in October. Hopefully, it will get very infected and he will have to see a doctor.

Don't tell Deshonko Kennels. Me too

Expertise is spending huge sums of money chasing the wrong rabbits down the wrong burrows. :D Oh yeah. Pet shops are full of under agers buying pets. FFS, they are in shoe shops, dress shops, games palours and at the beach.

It shocks me. It may work for some dogs, but I can imagine some dogs would be absolutely traumatised. Jeune imagines the hounds of hell are on her tail if I ask her very softly, politely and calmly to sit :D :D .

I used to subscribe to her online newsletter. I find that my dogs are in heaven when I employ the circular movement, is it with thumb and first two fingers?? I'll have to subscribe again. I've just gone and ordered the book (2 copies) and also the one for cats. Next time they have bones, I'll try "Pick it up, Out!"

Lovely, Noisy. My dogs sometimes push the barriers and bring raw bones inside. I just point and say sternly, "Out!" and out they go ..... mostly with the bone, but sometimes without :D :D That's for sure Doesn't it break your heart ? More info please.

Yes, I think so too. Very funny and great photos.

Oh, poor little Tonka, being made to have his photograph taken when he wants to snaffle down his yummy dinner . That is a seriously gorgeous lil fella.

Hmm, I think I'd be telling the breeder that she's done a runner. So sorry and all that, but these Aussies, want to visit the wide open spaces. . . . . what can you do. Do you think she'd fall for it

I find that I am quite paranoid now, my experience following so closely after yours, that the slightest little flicker or a waft of steam from the kettle has my heart jumping. So I can't begin to imagine how jumpy you must be. To think I used to get everything going (dishwasher, dryer, washing machine) and then go off to walk dogs, or a little bit of shopping. I don't leave the house with anything on anymore. It is amazing how people think that can put a bit of wire here and a bit of wire there and she'll be right mate Oh, forgot to add: yes my dogs are very particular about how the rice is cooked - always in homemade chicken stock :)

I don't think I've mentioned my very very insignificant fire in this thread. But a couple of days after your fire, Jed, and all of us being filled with the horror of what you had experienced and devastated by the loss of your precious animal companions, I had my own fire. It was the most frightening 1/4 hour of my life, I think, but at least I knew if the house imploded the dogs were all at the door and would be out in a second. http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?show...=195996&hl= I believe that my post, and without doubt yours, made quite a few people review their preparations in case of fire. Another one which follows on from my thread above. See post #79 : http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?showtopic=197035

Sure did . So funny, with Dylan going under the bed all the time. He is nearly as tall as Pepper.

Ooooooh, exciting. Me too.

I am not talking about you; I am talking about your constant criticism of Yellowgirl's rehoming of Banshee.

Had Shepherds for a number of years and my youngest daughter wanted a Cavalier. so....the rest is, as they say, history! Clancy is 5 years old next months. We got him when my older Shephered was 14 but he was PTS when Clancy was 7 months old (colapsing sacrum) My eldest Cav is now 3 years. Crystal (pictured with Clancy) is two in December, puppies 6 weeks old. Well, they are all beautiful and look in the most wonderful condition.

I state again, that had you read Banshee's story you would (or at least most people would) recognise that YG did EVERYTHING possible, she didn't hold back on all and any of Banshee's problems, she made the people go away and come back several times, she had the people have Banshee for overnight stays which apparently were wonderful. It is ridiculous that any criticism should be levelled here, only commiserations and and a lurking snigger (a good one ) that Banshee knows when she is onto a good thing . As for stressing the "sold", "for sale" side of it, well you are just trying to get one under the belt.

How did you end up having Cavaliers and a German Shepherd ? I'd love a big dog one day but the dog would have to be older and quite happy with a slow amble around the block once or twice a day.