Loving my Oldies

You are very severely handicapped being in Brisbane, LB. I think you'd have to fight off all the Sydney DOLers

That's interesting; I didn't realise they were as small as that. I'm pretty sure that Caramel was a pure bred German Spitz and having seen his new best friend, also a GS, I am convinced he is. I didn't weigh him before he left, but when I rescued him and he was pretty sick, he was 7.2kg. So I imagine by the time he was all healed, hale and hearty he would have been between 8 and 9kg. The more Kisho's hair grows and he gets better I am pretty sure he had GS in him as well, particularly from looking at the set of his tail. Charlie is still pretty small, isn't he, CW. So I guess there won't be a huge weight difference between them - a few kilos ??

I feel a bit like that too, deelee, but I don't have the energy. Gorgeous pix, B.B.

Sounds as though everything is going wonderfully well and very very happily.

Yes, it is extraordinary isn't it? They don't seem to have the mental capacity to put the two things together. His dogs would go being held and probably wagging their tails. The other poor little things went in fear, horror and pain. And that is what their owner, poor poor man , will be living with for the rest of his life.

What that man is going through I hate to think . Even if the dogs who killed the others were owned by someone who looked after them and had good fences and was to all intents and purposes a perfect owner, I would still want them pts. Until you have experienced having a beloved pet killed by another dog, I don't think you can truly comprehend the anguish - and the never ending "what ifs" you go through. To lose 5 in what must have been a truly shocking sight with the dogs absolutely terrified is unimaginable. The owner of the dogs who killed should be prosecuted and be barred from owning dogs for a long long time.

And so will we DOLers, K9A. Good luck Bailey and have a wonderful life with your new mum and girl friend. ETA: Can't even type one line without a typo these days

I know nothing about it, but lots of information on google http://www.eco-green-cleaning-products.com...cts-review.html

Yep. Make the punishment fit the crime

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/28/2885195.htm

Oh, wow, AMS. Now there's an idea. I can't help wondering what your "friend" is going to think of Emmy, CW . A pure white teacup Malamute maybe.

I came across an old issue of Urban Animal and wondered why I'd kept it. Flipped through and found out why. A fantastic article written by Pat Miller on Mythbusting. Some of the myths regularly come up on DOL and so I thought the article was be very useful for people. I have checked with Urban Animal and can post a link here to their magazine and the article, but can't post the article, so please no one break the copywrite regulations A copy of the email to me from Urban Animal just to reinforce my request to people not to copy any part of the article onto this forum. Thanks for your feedback. As a copyright issue you are welcome to put up the link to our site but not to copy onto a forum website. We're not the original owners of the article but paid Pat for the rights to reprint. http://www.urbananimal.net/pdf/issue17/16_mythbusting.pdf

I don't want to start an argument because I am far from knowledgable on the subject, but I was under the impression it wasn't the dog's hair that is the problem, but the flaking skin? Have you been able to look into this, italmum?

My goodness, what you have to do when you adopt a new puppy - LOL.

AND your ticker thingy . . . . . ;)

Well, I'm glad that's sorted. You get one each of the above, one for every member of the family.

Gosh, I wish I were perfect like some people on DOL - .

It is impossible to get through to some people, because they "are going to be different" and whatever else they can think of to justify. And some just don't care about statistics and the suffering of other dogs. Can only suggest you tell her you are taking her to lunch and divert to a pound on a "PTS" day.

That first photo of Badger and Ivy meeting is quite something .... should be on the wall

Agree 100% with what you have said Crisovar, particularly the emboldened part. People sometimes can be too ready to condemn and not be able to see the whole picture . . . . and often respond without reading properly what OPs have said.

OMG - Danny is like that. He is the Fun Police . However, in the last few days, he has started to play with Kisho and Tamar which is great to see. I honestly believe how well dogs get on has less to do with gender and more to do with individual personalities and the general ambience of the household - not quite the word I'm looking for, but can't think of the right one at the moment . I have no direct experience, but just from reading on DOL, it would appear that some breeds are more prone to same sex jealously and fighting. I had a male dog (4 years old and desexed) stay with me last Friday and the only one of my six dogs who proved a problem was ancient Mufti who was barking in visitor's face!! I had to remove Mufti from the scene a couple of times, naughty boy .

;) :p *faints from cute overload* what she said!!! Ya dags S W O O N

You forgive others, though. I never had a horse, but I've always wondered and thought how difficult it must be. . I would never ever not be there for any of my pets; I simply can't imagine not holding them. Calypso died in hospital, very suddenly, and 13 years later I still remember gasping down the phone when I was rung, "But I wasn't there."

You will have to keep up the updates with your gorgeous new bundle as well, b.b. Ha ha - this did make me laugh. However, I've always found it amazing that you can look at a dog covered in mud or at least with muddy legs and after a while it has dropped off to a degree.

But it is a stuffed toy. No real live puppy is as cute as that - That makes me very happy and you must be absolutely over the moon, CW. Very very happy for you all. What fun that we are going to see another little DOL puppy grow up. Well done, breeder and buyer