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Are dogs evolving????

I have found Advocate for noth dogs and cats inside and out to be effective. But if they are coming from other neighboring animals they will still get a bite. Keeping dogs out of the dust is a great idea like under the house we blocked out under house off from all animals. The cats when out tend to "explore" and do at time bring home unwelcome guests.

This is an invasion of privacy in the least!!! To be aired on national TV. A bit like haning out the dirty laundry isn't it!

The BIGGEST problem is people making impulse and uninformed choices, choosing the wrong animal for their circumstances. Be it exercise, training, or grooming requirements you have to choose the dog that fits the bill for your abilities, and circumstances, choose a high maintenance breed when you would be suited better to an easy care low activity breed and you are inviting either heartache or simply dissatisfaction. All too hard, dog ends up in the pound or shelter. People also need to realise that not everyone including themselves will be a suitable and succesful dog owner so they may need to forget the cute puppy in the yard vision. Well here's 6 of them http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?showtopic=211031 and this infuriates me i cannot believe any ethical rescue would allow bitches to whelp This is a hard one for people to get into their heads. I personally desex any rescue bitch known to be or suspected to be in whelp. But I have in the past, whilst still learning about rescue allowed bitches to whelp. I lost some puppies as their mums were in poor condition some were ok etc but I can't now let unwanted unplanned puppies that never asked to exist come into the world nor put that pressure on the mums who may either be a puppy herself or have had countless litters. To me the rescue is the rescue of the female dog she is the most important one to consider. I have desexed in ALL stages of pregnancy even a few days prior to whelping all with success. To add we do not know the genetic health of either parent nor the potential of the puppies or that of their temperament and suitability as a pet. All rescue unknown heritage puppies can be cute but they do grow into adult dogs of varying temperaments and types. If however they have been born into the pound or similar I will save them as they are on earth now, if I can of course. If other choose to allow the dog to whelp that is their decision. Whether it is right or not I do not know but I know what I feel I can live with.

So true although I fly fosters of all ages to new homes and all cope very well if well prepared healthy socialized etc!

Apparently it is new and I have not been informed formally either. I will try and find out from RSPCA what is going on

It will be interesting to see what teh RSPCA say when I or others ask them!

I was stunned apparently Dogtainers will inform me, (this is the company I use), but AAE told me at Griffith Airport today!

I was informed today whilst placing a 4 month old rescue puppy onto a plane that RSPCA has new guidelines and that a dog must have vet certificates indicating proof of vaccination and worming and age which must be no less than 12 weeks. Whilst all my rescues leave with chip, wormed, flea treated, vaccinated C3, and desexed and paperwork goes with them. I agree a vaccination and worming and health certificate should be produced but waiting until a puppy is 12 weeks of age is rather extreme isn't it? I always fly usually from 10 weeks and occasionally have at 8 weeks but never younger as per regulations and all have arrived safe and well. Can anyone clarify this? In another thread in rescue it was suggested I contact RSPCA so I shall but wonder what the effects of this could be.

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news...og/1946483.aspx

Any dogs I have found have been sent to the council pound or at least the pound has been notified. Some times they were full tehy asked me to hold it if I was prepared. IF I now find something I take it to the vet and they look for a cip and contact the owners, only becuase travelling through I usually cannot contact the council and am usually on the run to do something, if they cannot find a chip or owners they then contact the pound. No one has the right to hold an animal in their care without informing council it is the law. If my animals were found I would want them to be handed to the council or vet to be returned to me as well. Not that I would like to see my pets in any pound!

One can also relate that to children

Camping with dogs is great and I would love to do it more as well. One thing that I have heard of and observed is the risk of poisining. Most people take a soft muzzle so that their dog cannot ingest anything dangerouse, cooked discarded bones baits as there are a lot of 1080 foxbaiting and other nasties about. So when camping and not supervised closely I would apply a soft muzzle to protect your dog making himself sick or worse. Lots of great bush campsites along the Murrumbidgee

In the country areas from about August through to spring it is usually about but it can pop up any time after it rains. I have seen it year round!

+1 - I define a puppy farmer as someone who breeds with no thought/plan for the dogs their puppies wil become - the puppy itself is the end product I would have thought the profit margin would be the end product! What about breeders that breed for a particular thing in a breed and not the breed as a whole, eg for colour particularly a colour that is not accepted in the breed standar, (Although I personally feel no good dog should be a bad colour. But that is only my opinion there) A person that cant get their puppies out fast enough and panic if they have not left the premises before they turn 8 weeks of age. I know of breeders that transport puppies dead on 6 weeks even overseas! Also a breeder that does not breed to better the breed but to try and get what they already still have.

Problem is nto only this issue but the fact that there are way too many dogs in the hands of too many people who don't bother to and or cannot afford to vaccinate. As the vet once told me "people get given a pup it dies, get another it dies and they keep doing this and then one pup doesn't die so they think see no need to vaccinate" Also they don't care that htey may be walking and carting about a dog that has an infection and spreading the disease. I too am glad I left and now live in a parvo free area and hope to keep it that way! Griffith just isnt a dog area, I have a nearly 9yo JRT who got no socialisation until I moved away because there is no training schools in the area, there is no dog park (well, not in the area that people feel safe going to anyway) there is no bins to use to dispose of your dogs business and heaven forbid you use the wheeley bin that was left on the curb. I agree that too many people who shouldnt have dogs just keep replacing the ones that bite the dust, council needs to implement a permit scheme for multiple dog ownership and offer some sort of encouragement to desex dogs who arent worthy of breeding IMHO, they also need to come down hard on people who have unregistered dogs Totally aree but in the decision making areas of council there are people that have well differing cultural views on pet ownership and it is very behind in these areas. It is like if you have a dog fine but keep it out of sight. There are some of us that have tried to suggest things to council but it is all thrown into the too hard basket. Fummily if you have a look at the area that the council controls it is not too large to be more proactive. It would also help if Public housing were more restrictive on pet ownership in their rental properties, like as in private rentals. It had been put to council to have the showgrounds developed into a dog friendly park as most people use it illegally as a god park anyway. It is a far more suitable area than their current one that I would not set a foot on. It is in between two terrible areas that have no facilities is undeveloped ful of rubbish and is frequesnted by straying dogs that would carry disease. It is a joke but sadly until the general public stand up and make a bigger noise nothing will be done. It is not the only country town to have inadequate dog socialisation areas though! At Carrathool you have to use the garbage tip as a leash free area

Bahahaha how so very very true, we get more transmission of disease from our human counterparts mostly due to bad hygeine practices than anywhere else.

Problem is nto only this issue but the fact that there are way too many dogs in the hands of too many people who don't bother to and or cannot afford to vaccinate. As the vet once told me "people get given a pup it dies, get another it dies and they keep doing this and then one pup doesn't die so they think see no need to vaccinate" Also they don't care that htey may be walking and carting about a dog that has an infection and spreading the disease. I too am glad I left and now live in a parvo free area and hope to keep it that way!

There was a small family of Dingoes in an area South West of Dubbo that frequented a property we lived on. They were left alone by all neighboring farmers until a small domestic dog was found running with them and they were caught chasing sheep. We were witness to this but it was NEVER made public. I am not sure if they were all wiped out of if the offending dog was removed as we left the area.

http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news...nd/1847094.aspx This is referring to Griffith but talking to Vets across the region it is widespread in the Riverina Area particularly since the recent rain and cooler weather. A yimesly warning for all to vaccinate their pets particularly the young.

There is a boxer breeder in the Narrandera area that may have helped particularly with the whelping!

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Anyone?

Need to ask about a puppy that was picked up on the side of the road out there