Loving my Oldies

Oh dear, Danois. In a previous life, I worked in a private equity company and the main point in the calculations was how much money they could make for themselves. :(

The point is that, in this situation, the owner didn’t seem prepared to make it work.

I’m pretty torn here. If the dog had been advertised online for a couple of weeks, it seems to me that they had plenty of time to absorb what they were doing. Of course, when they actually do that, the ramifications hit home. I would be worried about returning a dog to a home where the people were unable to (presuming here) discuss all sides of the case. When you collected the dog from the original owners, were any other family members there? Do you get any sort of sense of atmosphere as to whether the dog was happy, cared for, etc etc.

:thumbsup: Hopefully only care and happiness ahead for the doggies.

It doesn’t matter if the rescue group has one foster or one hundred, they have a duty of care to anyone who fosters for them and to the dogs they take on. If they have (as would appear) left you swinging in the breeze, name them so no one else gets caught up in the manner you seem to have been.

All these issues should be being handled by the group you originally dealt with. Or have they more or less washed their hands of the situation? Perhaps contact Denise at PAWS who "specialises" in small dogs and she would be able to,guide you through the paperwork and legalities and options. Does the owner have any relatives? The group who organised for you to look after the dogs while owner was in hospital should have all the necessary paperwork and should be looking after you and the dogs.

Stunning!! Brilliant costuming and as for the sets!! Definitely Oscar winning. (Aspiring to Opera as well.)

Totally OT, Westiemum, but I thought Adelaide was totally without power?

It is something that has never crossed my mind before, but I've recently seen ads on television stating that if someone has been on a course of anti-biotics, they may need some probiotics to even thing up. Not that I am a slave to ads - quite the opposite :laugh: but found it interesting.

What an extraordinary place. And just great to see photos of your beautiful girl having such a wonderful time.

Gorgeous little fellow. Any relation to Fern?

Beautiful photos of beautiful doggies. Go Tag :provoke:

Thanks for bringing up my thread, PK. I am now crushing up a tablet for Tamar in Nutrigel. Previously her med was Propalin which was via a syringe, but we changed that to Incurin which is a tiny tablet that I now crush up in Nutrigel and wipe into her mouth. Good luck, Brookstar.

He is, but he is covered, literally covered with bites. Horrific. And his wife!! The poor woman just started crying the moment she opened her mouth. Such trauma --- they will suffer to some degree or other for a long long long time. I’ve told this story before, but it happened again today. A woman who lives up the road from me has has her dogs attacked on several occasions. She is terrified now of large dogs. We were talking today at my front fence having met on the footpath walking our dogs. Because of past experience, the moment she said something about “I’m watching that big dog,” I ushered her into my yard and down to my side gate. People who comment about how angry they get because the breed of dog is mentioned or some such thing, need to think of the victims.

Well if that is “terrible sensationalised reporting”, I’m an extra terrestrial. It was restrained, calm and factual. I’d like to see how you’d be reacting if that was your body. That man must have been in agony and probably still is from some of those bites. What did you want? The tradie saying, yep, all my fault, I should not have been standing there talking to the owner, and yep stupid sensational wife for crying. Get real. :mad

Fingers crossed that this does the trick. Cortisone is magic, despite some minimal side affects. How about a photo? :thumbsup:

I hope you can get to the bottom of this distressing behaviour; you obviously love this little one very much. I would encourage a second opinion as even vets who we would just about put on a pedestal can sometime miss something. :) LOL at how he takes his food out the bowl and goes to eat it elsewhere ---- one of mine does this and I’ve had dogs in the past who have done this, particularly with treats.

Why? The police needed help to find the dogs and the owner. “Mixed breed” could cover every size, colour, breed from the size of the Chihuahua up to the size of a Great Dane and the dogs were seen for more than a couple of seconds by several people.

Wow to that brother. Poor little girl will probably be traumatised forever. I hope the Council prosecutes up to the hilt. That woman deserves prison: assault, not rendering assistance, leaving the scene .... any number of things.

Vale Fleming. Deepest sympathies for your loss, MadWoofter. :heart:

So sad to read this, MadWoofter. I don’t have any additional advice to that given, but you and Fleming are in my thoughts. Danny’s deterioration was fairly rapid, but over a few months, not weeks. He was 17 and a half and also had a variety of conditions all being managed very well until the last week. Hopefully you will have Fleming with you for a little while yet.

Ha ha - that is priceless. Gave me a good laugh. :laugh:

I had to google because memory was letting me down. I always thought that the wife of ex Pres Gorbachev of Russia had a very pretty name and they did seem to be very attached and fond of each other ...... Raisa.

:( How the hell am I going to get that out of my head now. One of my all time favourites. :laugh: :laugh:

Gosh - my heart is about to explode. Dogs are such exquisite creatures.