BJean

Can anyone recommend an Eastern European based transport company (preferable) or a European based transport company that can handle transport logistics Belarus to Bulgaria. (Onwards from Bulgaria to Australia would be great but is not necessary at this time.) Thankyou

Doesn't work that way in Queensland. You can only show in this state for three months and after that the dog must be either transferred to a member or the owner must be come a member of Dogs Queensland. If the rule has changes please advise......... anyone. How do DogsQLD know who is showing in their state and who isn't? Is that three months consecutive? Or three months in total? Or literally three months of show days, so you cannot attend more than say 91 shows in QLD before you have to be a member?

No I dont think it should happen Oakway. I dont know about the legalities of this though. I cant remember DogsQld asking the breeders if they would like this to happen. They just said it would. I cant remember DogsQld asking us about the Accredited Breeder system and letting us put forward submissions. They have just done it to appease the know it alls out there. Heyyy DogsQLD should ask breeders to fill out a survey on puppy buyers. Could come up with lots of useful questions. Maybe eventually an ulitmate database of the good apples and the bad apples. And if a puppy buyers stuffs up once, then they ain't never going to get a puppy from another breeder in that state again. uh-huh.

Why dont you just tell Dogs QLD to bugger off - and join another State CC and/or the MDBA Registry? Dracdog - you can identify the breeder from the survey.

I think it matters what type of frozen semen ie local or imported and then from which country the semen is imported from. Import frozen semen success rate is around 30-40%. Also some breeds respond better to AI than others. really though it doesn't matter what other breeders, dogs, bitches experience are or how sucessful/unsuccesful their AI breeding was as there are so many variables and ulitmately its up to your indivual bitch and the frozen semen you are going to use.

Try canastan cream. If it doesn't clear the (most likely) fungal infection in your dogs ears then it wont do them any harm ether.

Don't tell them and have the car professionally cleaned inside before you return it.

Central Asian and Anatolian are out Now that you have explained your setup better :D I don't think what you're asking for should be too hard to fulfil. Good luck!

Cheers thankyou, Bay is doing well now :D Jed: Bay is in Kazak, I am here. I will be in Kazak in March

50 acres is a good slab of land but it's not that much and most dogs could traverse its boundaries on a whim. If you were on a few hunder acres, then having a guard dog with no perimeter fencing could work but 50 acres is not enough land for this option. Also there's a big difference between a guard dog and a dog that will alert you very loudly to strangers - referring to livestock guardian dogs in particular: the more reactive breeds would need some barrier between where visitors arrive / front door driveway and where the dog roams. Otherwise visitors will get bitten/attacked and your set up won't last long. That said, invest in a fence around your house and you will find that a well bred Central Asian or Anatolian wont let any unwelcome visitors in when you are not there and they won't be the type of dog to accept food from strangers and be drugged either. There's also a lot of other things CAO/ASDs will do and not do, that may or may not suit what you are looking for, ready for, need or want. Instincts to guard don't exist in a vacuum, so whatever type of dog you get, you need to look at the total dog and whether its charcteristics will fit in with your current household.

The dog had a long night, vomitted a few times and is okay for now. Hopefully his kidneys are not too damaged. If not, he will live

very far. dog is in kazakhstan

THANKYOU

no vet. no emergency clinic dog is in kazak

no bvet. no emergency clinic

how much? think it is old fashion rat poison - strychnine - seems to eb lack of blood (blue)n rather than heamo - or thinning blood from warfarin. there is blood in vomit and dog has diarrhea - so I think the posion has already gone through the dogs system

! will see if there is a fish tank around

Does anyone know how often or in what amount to give home made antidote for strychnine / rat poison (??? assumed it is this). Activated charcoal is not available, so using egg white, milk vegetable oil. Vets are not available. Dog: vomit with blood, diarrhea, difficulty breathing, turned blue. Is not epilepsy.

Greytdog Can you please tell me if there is a preferred deck to load the car on if your dogs are inside? I need to go to Tas soon and will leave 1 or 2 dogs in the car. Thankyou

I do not think so. Lots of dog fighting throughout Turkey and you cannot make such a summation that the participants are evil and/or sociopathic. It's a way of life for many, and very multi-faceted; it's a cultural thing also. I dont agree with it, but it's there.

That is absolutely ridiculous. You know what, when sows aren't kept in ridiculously small areas they DON'T crush their young! Sow stalls are a necessary evil because of what we have created. I find it pretty ironic that people would be so against puppy farming and defend factory farming (yes, intensive farming). I guess because they are just pigs and chickens who gives a shit, yeah? ETA: the problem with live exports is not the way they are transported. It's the fact that they are exported to countries with next to no animal welfare laws, that do NOT adhere to our Australian standards. Once thy are off the boat we have no way to control how they are treated or slaughtered. They are commonly put in car boots and strapped to roof racks and each other. Seems you are the one who needs to underhand what goes on. I have my facts straight and first hand. I don't just read of a website and pretend to know. I am a primary producer, we live export, and I am happy with the way it it undertaken. What happens to the sheep on the other side of the world is not my concern, nor do I have any right to dictate to people in another country, of another religion or custom, how to treat their food. And what proof do you have of sows not crushing their piglets when not in stalls? What website have you googled to get that snippet of info? Yep so many instant internet experrrrrrrrrrrrts. well said.

In general I think if people get treated better, animals will get treated better. Want to stop animal dumpage? Maybe we should stop grandparent dumpage, kid dumpage kicking people out of their homes ... you want peeople to value the life of a dog while human lives are not valued. So its always the same ... resort to more laws there isn't enough innate sensibility amongst the population it woudl seem ... Not a remotely helpful response from me, but I find it hard to expect that anything 'to help' will not result in more laws because most of those that care [sic] have a big stick in their hand and they want everyone to see the world from their enlightened point of view So yep my solution if I want to keep dogs and not be told what to do by a martyr activist whose owned oh maybe 1 dog and 40 foster dogs with a combined brain capacity the size of a pea: move my dogs offshore. omg and that's not even the topic! sorry steve, hope you get some good solutions PS: fwiw dumpage rates correlate with the economic climate. see RSPCA's stats for the 1990s recession. there's also less dogs being dumped now than before anyway.

For me this is the character summation of the CAO [Tobet is the CAO breed in kazakhstan]: "Tobet by its nature, cannot be frightened by wolf. As soon as Tobet gives a voice, the protection to the herd is guaranteed." Danyar's photo gallery and history page will help you see the CAO better - http://www.tobet.kz/eng/photogallery_eng.html

Just a side note on confrontation and injury - the pain threshold and nervous / immune sysyem of CAO from external injury is higher and more resilient than other LGD - their morphology and pysche is also different so they very rarely receive injury - nothing significant from what most feral dogs in aust have to offer. Also their technique / confrontational style ie how they contend is better suited. That said CAO are not as social as pyr or maremma and though they will love your children, they may not love your children's friends or your friends - as far as learning curves go I think there is more room for the owner to make 'rearing mistakes' with other LGDs than the CAO. Often with CAO, owners don't know what they have until the dog reacts - whatever the indiviual CAO's reactivity threshold is, it will ultimately act like a CAO ie: active defence most in Australia are not used to this and even some owners of CAO when they see this in their CAO for the first time, think of it as an abnormality rather than normality. If seeing aggression in a dog is not something you are comfortable with then the CAO is not for you :D