Loving my Oldies

So comfy together. It makes me cry because my cat is so timid.

It must happen a lot - LOL. Great to know how well Luki is doing. Gosh it is going to be such a wrench when he goes. Hopefully you'll find another doggy family with a few boys and huskies for him to play with.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

5 dogs Stitch. I'm impoverished as it is - LOL.

I think you might be right . I just made a big sign on a cork board (not a good idea with all the rain, but all I had :D ) saying: CCTV now installed to catch the owner who lets his/her dog crap in my garden. Giggling to myself and feeling as though I should audition for "Grumpy Old Women" I took it out to prop against the fence and the poop IS GONE. Not a vestige of it left. I checked my car tyres to see if I'd collected it that way, but nothing!! So maybe the person WAS caught short of plastic bags. Who knows

Thanks, GT. It takes only a few seconds and I know it means so much to Jed.

My pet food supplier of several years has CLOSED !!! I am devastated and as much concerned for him too, actually. He is not well and has foot problems which no doctors seem to be able to resolve. Although he would always be smiling, you could see the pain in his eyes and the strain on his face. Anyway, now to find a good raw food supplier. My dogs won't eat chicken necks, wings, dry food of any discription and although they would from time to time turn their noses up at the food I purchased from Tom, they would generally eat it. I have bought raw food at other places and frankly, some of it I wouldn't feed it to a starving dog. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I sure wouldn't recommend it. Can anyone tell me anything about that 'Knackyers Yard" off Windsor Road at Box Hill/Rouse Hill? I hate the prospect of going there, but have to find somewhere where the food is as unadulterated as possible.

OMG!!! That's so wrong. Have you told your neighbour? I'd be reporting him. That is disgusting.

And say with a great big smile, "Oooops. Wrong s**tter"

The candles are slowly going out and although I don't post much I still think of Jed daily and I am sure many many of us do. She has said many times that the DOL community has helped her so much by the thoughts, cards and candles.

Short of doing dna tests on every dog in the neighbourhood, I don't think I will have any success. I think people just don't give a damn about other people and their property frankly. It beats me

I hope you are successful CW EW and you can damn well charge them with unlawful entry and fouling your property. I am cross beyond measure at the disgusting lack of care people have for others.

Taking advantage of a brief break in the continual rain my part of Sydney has been experiencing for weeks (another cause for vent ;) ), I hooked all the dogs up and set off for a walk. Almost to the top of my driveway, when my eyes nearly fell out of my head. Someone had allowed their dog to come right inside my property and crap . It is half on the concrete of the driveway and half on very short grass so there is no chance of missing it and very easy to collect. (I have a low fence, but no main gate.) If the dog had been off the lead, well that's illegal, and if the dog had been on a lead, it would have had to have been a very long lead for the owner not to have seen that the dog was crapping. If they had been walking at night poor light can't be an excuse either, as I have a light which shines down my driveway, there is a very bright street light across the road and there is almost a full moon at the moment. Have I covered all the excuses a person could make? If they have a bad back they shouldn't be walking the dog unless it is in a nappy . I'm going to ring the rangers and write to local paper :D . And put a sign at my driveway.

Make a will and put it all in writing, together with funds from your estate to go to the people who will be taking the dogs, cats, birds, etc. How many times have we read in the Rescue forum over the years that when someone has died, no one in the family wants the responsibility of any pets that the deceased may have left. People talk a lot, but when it comes to the crunch, they can fail to step up.

Sadly, I think this is more to the point dogmad. Plenty of people I would imagine. I can't imagine the sorts of people who post these ads would ever even consider a veterinary intervention might be necessary. It's natural isn't it. Dogs just lie down and pop the puppies out.

And will Pets Parahell have a stall selling BYB pups and kitties?

This has to be one of the most extraordinary assumptions ever . How on earth can you say something like that when you have absolutely no idea. The lady who has the dog now didn't "make a reasonable assessment".

Pretty rude Aussielover. Danielle has totally told the truth as she has been told by the owner of the dog. x2 x3. Odd how posters are criticised for jumping to assumptions and then those making the criticisms jump to assumptions of their own. Ho hum.....

Too true. I think too, that a lot depends of the mind set and personality of the person owning the dog. Some people go to pieces if a dog so much as growls and others will go to the ends of the earth to try to find a solution and rehabilitate the dog. Any situation needs to be looked at in its entirety. However, thanks to Danielle's honesty and care in posting, it would appear that the options are starting to appear.

Thanks Monah. It still haunts me, particularly if I am trawling through photographs and see her looking as though she is just a normal, happy, much loved little dogs Yes, I was hoping someone could step up to the plate for an assessment and it looks like Herding Dogs has I agree. Some people are born bad and probably in every species capable of interaction, some are born bad as well.

Lovely offer, Juice, but I almost fell gasping for breath at the prospect of velvet curtains in Queensland - LOL.

Not so much of a joke: my brother and his wife have just come back from a trip in far north WA and some of the cabins they stayed in were recycled shipping containers. They said they worked beautifully.

Sadly, this is what "rescue" is becoming also. But that's a whole new topic.

Having recently been through the ghastly experience of having to PTS a HA and DA little dog, I am loath to enter into any discussion, as it was one of the worst experiences of my dog life. I cannot believe that the woman is proposing to give this poor little pup to someone else. However, if it comes to PTS, I just hopes the woman stays with him and gives him some comfort and love at the end.

Apart from - um - illuminating , it must be extremely frustrating. As you say: thank dog for family and your obviously wonderful friends. Perhaps you could design something on wheels that might help you fit your things in most easily and be more accessible than suitcases.