poochmad

Agree, DOL is the best forum I belong to. Love the story and the photo your pup - gorgeous.

Poor little mite. Hope he's somewhere warm and safe. Fingers crossed he's returned to you soon.

Great photos; I have enjoyed this thread immensely. If ever there was a hint of a doubt that my next breed won't be a FB, I think it has now disappeared.

So sorry for your loss. RIP Gus.

Nice photo of the Weasel, Weasels.

How terrible. Those poor innocent dogs and the owners.

I won't look as the story is bad enough. Poor baby. Those guys need to feel similar pain (perhaps electric shocks) to understand what they did to that poor innocent baby. I can't imagine what that poor dog went through.

What a terrible loss. Thinking of you and your family in this sad period. Maggie sounded like a wonderful dog. RIP Maggie.

So sorry for your loss.

Hence I never understood the thread where a soldier had to give up his dog when he was posted overseas. Oversea is entirely different from Interstate. Clearly you cannot take your dog O/S. If he had no family to take it sadly he probably would have to surrender it. I agree. Going overseas is a good reason to rehome a dog. I've seen some people ask for a home for two years and wonder how the dog will cope moving from home to home? I can understand though, giving up your beloved pet would not be easy.

With my Pointer it was raw chicken, from what I can remember. I never mixed proteins in one feeding but did try when he was puking the chicken. He eats lamb, goat, beef and roo with no issues. He also gets the runs from raw chicken, but not chicken natures gift wet. Yup poor Mason cant eat chicken in any form, he can have it as a once off but more than that he gets upset tummy. Have you tried cutting off the fat? Jindi would vomit pretty much everyday when given chicken. Someone at work queried a fat intolerance, so we switched her to low fat, added raw veggies and cut the fat off the chicken. It's now been two months without incident. Both dogs get a drumstick each everyday. It's a pain in the butt to cut it off, but it's saving our carpet at the same time.

Hi all. When looking into better dry food for my dogs, I came across this website that provides a review of dog food. It's very good and has helped me change my mind. It is American, but, since a lot of our products come from there, it's still handy. Dog Food Reviewed

Ah yes, we've tried pro plan sensitive as well. Might give holistic a try and see how he goes.

Which dried food do you feed, Huski? Henschke gets rashes is sensitive as well, and even though the food we feed seems to be ok, I wouldn't mind finding a better food if possible.

At my work we have classifieds where people post about giving away their dog for one reason or another. What really bugs me is when they try to manipulate people by saying...if you don't take the dog by such a such time, it will be going to the pound, or worse PTS.

Interesting facts on that link, especially the one down the bottom about the claim that commercial food is unhealthy...not. :D

OMG. That video is fantastic! Now that is clever!

Friends of ours use a trampoline bed with a mattress on top so it ends up quite high as the dog is tall. Seems to work quite well.

The decision to feed your dog raw or processed foods goes hand in hand with differing opinions, ideas, recommendations, suggestions etc on what type of collar you should use, what type of bed you should use, etc the list is endless. This discussion of raw verses the other has come up numerous times, with neither side changing their minds. For me, I am happy with what my dogs are being fed.

I thought when you said talking dog, I expected the dog to talk, not a person? I have seen dogs on you tube that 'talk'. A Siberian husky springs to mind.

And I'm sure people will say that the dogs are eating junk food. Show me the evidence and I may consider changing. But before you do, there are lots of dogs that are fed on what some consider 'junk food' and are not the worse for it. The only difference is, that they may be too scared to be honest here for fear of being knocked down. I say, whatever works for your dog continue with that.

I agree with this. We started off feeding that kibble that got banned (killed cats), changed to pro plan, then meat, veggies, pasta, egg, sardines mix. The male was actually losing condition, so we started to mix with kibble and now just feed kibble. Up until recently we were feeding supercoat but the male started to scratch a lot. Changed to another brand and hey presto, he eased up on the scratching that very night. Now they get a mix of beneful wet and dry and some wet supercoat. Both dogs are doing well on it. The female has the shiniest and healthiest coat we've ever had. I think whatever your dogs do well on, continue. When I think back to my childhood and dogs just got pal kibble and lived until they were 15 without going to the vets except when required, I wonder what happened to change the way people think. As time goes on, I have changed the way I think about dogs and how I train them, and that has worked well.

He's gorgeous. Love the colour.

If the first picture was cropped I'd pick that one as it seems more natural, as the second picture seems more posed. But they are both show his nice features.

Kind of cute. The music drove me nuts, LOL.