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Just fed Cougar half her normal meal, she ate it & then went straight to the couch with the fan blowing against her. She is obviously satisfied, or else she would have stood at her bowl, waiting for me to put more into it. She has a bowl of dried dog food, but she's not interested. OH well, it's not as if she is fading away to a shadow. :laugh:

I know the dried food is ignored & only gets eaten when they are desperate. They get/got cold food for dinner, but still only eat a small portion.

Bugger, so it's just me & my dogs, damn.

He would have been safe in my house if I wasn't home when I had Kenny, because he would just be happy to have a human to play with. :laugh: BUT, if he came into my house at night while I was asleep, good luck to him. Kenny bailed up my Ex & knocked him to the ground, when he decided to visit late at night after being at the pub & jumped my back fence, Kenny wouldn't let him up until I told him to leave. He knew this man from the day he was born, so I hate to think what would happen to a stranger.

Are we twins separated at birth ?? Nope, we are triplets separated at birth.

Does your dog/dogs, lose their appetite on hot days? My Kenny ate a lot less on hot days & now my rescue dog Cougar is doing the same thing. She still eats her chicken frame in the morning & never knocks back a treaty, but she only eats the occasional dog biscuit & just eats a small part of her normal food for dinner. I'm guessing they maybe like us humans, because on hot days I don't feel like eating much. Or am I & my doggies strange? :laugh:

That is an excellent cheap solution to the problem, as long as the sock is washed first. :laugh:

It's too hard to post here after losing your heart dog. After my Kenny passed, i didn't post for two years. But we all come back once we get another doggy to love. Echo the sentiments that Omar is absolutely gorgeous, hope you have many years together.

Another question, how many people let their dogs clean their plates after they have finished eating? I do it all the time, though I never tell my visitors, because they might be grossed out. :laugh: My kids know about it, but they have grown up with it & now my daughter does the same with her dogs.

I know. I saw someone in a public toilet walk out without washing their hands the other day, yet most people are happy to shake hands with a stranger At least I KNOW where my dogs have been :laugh: I have a phobia about public toilets. I don't like shaking people's hands either and I dread it when someone holds out their hand to me. Personally, I can't see the difference between someone licking your face and kissing you. btw This is turning into a germaphobe thread but I'm happy to go with it :) I'm pretty sure I have OCD to some degree :laugh: I find that people are being turned into germaphobes these days. All the products being pushed, like anti-bacterial hand wash, we need to come in contact with germs, to help our bodies build up it's natural immunity. There was a study done years ago, that showed that children in affluent areas got sick more, than children in poorer areas & they concluded that it was because of the over cleanliness in affluent areas.

That's a much better article, thanks for that.

Gawd, when are they going to be brought to account for their disgusting actions? If only the volunteers ran the RSPCA, instead of the money hungry idiots at the top.

Agree. My boy was attacked by an of lead GSD, the owner just stood there screaming that my dog was killing her dog, because he knocked her dog down & held it, I was standing there making sure my dog didn't bite her dog, while I was asking her to put her dog on a lead, took her about 10 minutes to leash her dog, in the meantime, her dog tore into my leg, requiring me having to go to hospital & having over 20 stitches in my calf. She blamed my dog for the incident, because I had one of those vicious breeds. If the media had have been told of the incident, they too would have blamed my dog. When are people going to realise it's the owners, not the poor dogs.

I agree with you. It's amazing how some dogs instinctively know that if you're approaching a small dog, or child, that's the way to do it. People used to comment on how well I trained Kenny whenever he did it. They were astounded when I said I didn't teach him to do that, it's just something he did automatically.

Me too, on both your comments.

SO TRUE! The media would scream "pit bull" if this was a negative story, but there is NO mention of breed because its a positive story. Pathetic. Yes I noticed the breed identity missing, but at least they had the pic, so there aren't many people who wouldn't know what kind of dog it is.

Kenny used to do it when he met a small dog, or a child & then when he got close to them, he would roll on his back . Cougar only does it when she is lying on the couch & is too far away from me to put her head on my lap. Rather than stand up & walk, she just crawls up to me until she's close enough, I put it down to her being a lazy bugger. :laugh:

Yep & dogs need responsible owners, so how come so many idiots can't get that through their thickheads?

So glad Mum & baby are ok. What a wonderful dog, I hope they gave it steak for dinner. Also great to see a positive story on a Bull breed showing what their true nature is, if not owned by morons.

I think we are taking physical age, not mental age. Let's face it, some dogs still act like puppies when they are 10. :laugh:

WOW, that sounds perfect, I hope the OP takes you up on that.

Definitely depends on breed, a large dog at 6 is mature age.

Sorry Pebbles, but I grew up in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. What I said is true for where I grew up. The only people who were responsible dog owners, were my next door neighbours who had Danes that they showed & bred. I witnessed my first dog death by car when I was seven, it was my friends Cocker Spaniel, it traumatised for ages & it's when I decided that dogs should be on lead. I was bitten on the bum when I was 8 by a Lab who ran out of it's house & bit me for no reason, as I was walking past it's house with two friends. Yes, dogs were freer then & mostly things went OK, but there were still dog deaths, fights & attacks, just that no one went to the media, because it's just what happens sometimes. It's only since social media became popular, that every incident concerning dogs is plastered all over the news & beaten up to whip up hysteria to get ratings.

Regarding back in the day, I have a different memory. Sure dogs roamed the streets & most times there weren't problems, but I saw many dogs run over, attacking other dogs & people. The thing back then dogs were easily replaceable. Most people didn't pay for their dogs, just got a pup from the neighbours mongrel who had a litter, because most dogs weren't desexed back then. If you had a dog who didn't come home after a few days, there was no trying to find them, just get another pup from the latest litter from one of your neighbours. Another thing about back in the day, a lot of people drowned puppies at birth, because they didn't want the hassle of having to look after the pups, until they found homes. I agree the dogs had a lot more freedom then, but it wasn't doggy Utopia.

How dreadful, but I don't see what BSL has to do with this? Poor lady, and RIP little doggy It has everything to do with it. BSL is supposed to protect the community from dog attacks. Victoria has the strongest and most draconian BSL in the country, with hundreds of dogs being seized and killed because of their appearance within the state. Yet horrible, horrible attacks continue to occur. This is a perfect example of how BSL targets dogs that may never be an issue, and misses dogs that are. I've seen this logic before on DOL and it doesn't make any sense. Do you think we should abolish laws regarding murder and rape because it doesn't stop them occuring? Laws only exist to reduce crimes/violence, they don't prevent it altogether. Whether the laws have reduced dog attacks is another matter, but the fact that dog attacks still occur is not a perfect example of the uselessness of BSL. BSL is proven to not reduce the rate of dog attacks. Attacks still occur at the same (sometimes higher) frequency despite harsh BSL laws. This attack is an example of many. Way to miss the point.. It's not missing the point at all. You stated that laws are there to reduce attacks not eliminate them altogether. BSL has been proven all over the world to not reduce attacks. If aggressively enforced it may reduce attacks BY THAT PARTICULAR BREED but the overall attack rate does not go down (i.e, other breeds just start attacking more often as the same shitty owners go and get them instead). This attack is just an example of that happening. Exactly.