Sandra777

I would query the belief that "most" dogs are lactose intolerant. I don't wean on to milk but my pups get cheese, yoghurt and will get the odd splash of milk if there's some going. In 34 years I have had one lactose intolerant puppy - "interestingly" he turned out to have a range of food issues including an intolerance to beef. My understanding is that although cows milk is obviously not a natural dog food if they are fed some dairy products throughout their weaning and growth period they frequently/usually/often (reports vary :laugh: ) retain the ability to digest cows milk/dairy products. I wonder if the increase in lactose intolerance has tracked the increase in lactose free puppy milk, weaning formulas etc... back in the olden days dogs were raised on milk, oat porridge and meat, somehow I doubt this would have become "the norm" if "most" dogs had major issues with the milk which would result in the owners having to do a lot of clean up work!

I wouldn't send a male pup without two fully descended testicles and I would have a vet certificate before the pup left to that effect. Pup at 12 weeks with no testicles would have no part of my breeding programme. DOES the breeder have a vet certificate of entirety? Like the UK system - they can't get the export clearance without 2 testicles :)

Plenty of room when we camped there over Easter a couple of years ago - 3 x 6m gazebo, car & trailer and still plenty of room - parked the car & trailer behind the gazebo then moved it up beside when the neighbour left room. Don't panic - there's a HUGE area for camping, plenty of room :D

There's a very old story of a Stafford in the UK just after WWII. Belonged to a military chap who's friend worked with army dogs. The boys thought it would be clever to see if they could train the Stafford for bite work. Dog learned to target the sleeve, was quite happy to play tug with the sleeve until the cows came home. One of the trainers put the sleeve on, started the whole drama with yelling and waving a stick, Stafford rushed up, bit the guy on the ankle, returned to his owner and had no more interest in that game. Why go for a sleeve when there's a perfectly good ankle much closer to my height? :laugh:

Only dog that has ever bitten me on purpose was a guide dog and by doG did we used to have some brawls in the kennels so yep - they're dogs. Still no excuse for having an uncontrolled dog!

Had a bitch who had her first heat very young (just over 6 months), went 6 months for a couple of heats then had a silent heat at about 5 months then started cycling at 3 month intervals. She had a litter young (before the seasons went odd) and conceived on her silent heat and one later heat and had what I would consider normal fertility. Her daughter (from her first litter) only ever conceived 2 pups per litter which is very strange for her family. I would seriously consider not breeding from a bitch like this at all now because hormonal issues are one thing that are beginning to show up all over the place - are they genetic, environmental or do we just hear about them more???

Wot she said :)

There's probably an American Bulldog Club in Australia. They may well keep a register. The ANKC isn't the only stud book in Australia.

Might be slightly over 30 minutes (probably not in an emergency!)- Lena & the team at Marburg Vets are goddesses

In addition to all the above, if you do find someone who wants to use an unregistered, unknown male over their bitch you have no way of knowing if the bitch is your dog's sister or some other very close relation. Neuter your dog and buy a second puppy - it will work out cheaper! :D

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Return her to her breeder. After only two days they should give you a full refund if they care even slightly about the future of their pup.

Right up there with the woman who walked her ferret around on a leash at a dog show.... around the terrier ring. Some people are too stupid to remember to breathe. My dogs would definitely take on pet rats, guinea pigs, rabbits. Simple solution is we don't have these small animals in our house and if I was friends with someone who had them my dogs would not go there. Plenty of media stories about small pets being killed by dogs - usually accompanied by pictures of ripped open cages and crying children. No different to me than the story of the dog going on to someone else's property and killing the Pomeranian - your pets should always be safe on your own property a) because your fences should be good enough to keep them safe and b) because other people's pets shouldn't be roaming around - that includes dogs AND cats!

I won't wait for them - 8-10 weeks is my limit. As for using the sire again (or the dam, same argument really) - it would depend on if they have produced it before. Having a very close look at pedigrees and if certain crosses keep producing it usually gives you clues as to what to do next. Wouldn't write off either dog or bitch for one monorchid but repeat offenders I would avoid. Interestingly - how many would be cautious about the brother or sister to a monorchid?

x2 Or use a play pen if you want him to have more space. Peeing is self-rewarding so every time he makes "mistake" it reinforces the behaviour. So he either toilets in the main bathroom or outside, no where else inside? Obvious but - shut the bathroom door? I would expect one of mine ot be virtually perfect at 18 weeks but different breeds house train at different rates. Time for a bit of tough love IMO - what do you do when he toilets inside?

It really makes no difference if the dog has a million titles or none - for a stud dog you need a dog with the virtues your bitch needs, the pedigree to back them up and (eventually) proof he throws his virtues. If he's "well bred" then advertise him and see what happens. Weed out the obvious idiots and if someone with a good bitch and the right intentions wants to use him then grab the opportunity.

Back in the guide dog training days we had a Lab that failed big time as a guide dog, turned out to be a fantastic drug dog. Blotted his reputation a fair bit by grabbing the briefcase off the aide to a very important international political figure. Nope, never found out what was actually in that briefcase :laugh:

The owner of the bitch is the breeder, so as owner of the dog you need to be a CCCQ member (Dogs Qld) but you don't need to have a registered prefix (sit the exam) and are not the breeder. Your dog won't be ANKC registered so no pups he sires can be, so no registered breeder is going to be interested in using him - firstly because he's not registered so his pups can't be and secondly because it's against the code of ethics to breed a registered dog or bitch to an unregistered bitch or dog. Maximum age for a dog can be anything up to 12-14 years depending on the breed, for a bitch much younger. My suggestion - spend the next two years finding a Beagle breeder you like and like their dogs and buy a pup.

Perhaps there's no actual difference.

Ummmmmmmmm -- quite a lot of puppy farmers with "rare" colours desex prior to sale, cuts down on the competition. Snap Rebanne :D

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How do you breed a lilac dog More money grubbing puppy farmers - no doubt there will be idiots who will pay these prices for something as insubstantial and foolish as an unacceptable colour

Going over won't be an issue (except for cost), vet certificate saying the dog is healthy is about it really. Coming back there will be quarantine but in three years you can only hope and assume the "10 day quarantine" has come in by then - but it takes a lot of precise timing because titre tests for rabies have to be done to a specific time frame. You cannot fly dogs out of Australia as excess baggage, however once you hit the West Coast of the US (or perhaps even Hawaii?) you should be able to clear them through whatever import requirements there are and take them on yourself as excess. Not sure about Australia but from NZ to the US it used to be that they could only travel as far as LA in one day, then they are required to have a 12 hour lay-over. This was 15 years ago so may have changed and was when the dog was being picked up in LA to be sent on to his new owner on the East Coast, so not the same AFAIK as when the owner collects the dog.

Just because someone says it's a pitty doesn't make it so! Irresponsible breeding is the problem.

I'm not sure it's really breed related how a dog will cope. If he's a very active, zoomy sort of dog then it could be a difficult transition, but most sight hounds I've known have been very keen on their bed (sofa). I have had a blind dog, she was 8 when her sight started to go and was PTS 2 months short of her 16th birthday when everything else just wore out and life was no longer good for her. Apart from the obvious such as not moving things around, the main thing we found with our girl was to give her extra time to find her bowl, her way outside, her bed before stepping in and guiding her - it was as if the more we "helped" the less she was prepared to do. She was a VERY smart, bold dog who seemed to want to do stuff for herself. Bit like a stubborn old woman I suppose LOL Only time she got totally confused and lost was when we took the baby gate down to move furniture - not really thinking that she was using it as a marker - find gate turn left if you're coming inside, turn right if you're going outside, turn hard right to find the kitchen. She went half way down the hallway which the gate blocked off & where she'd never been before, then just stopped and lay down. This was when she was about 15 so a little more easily confused than she was in earlier years. We moved homes 3 times with her while she was blind, each time to very different house designs and after a couple of days she adjusted to each one. Probably helped that she had other dogs around, including one bitch who was 4 years younger than her and who had always just been there - not sure how much they relied on each other but when the blind girl went the other one seemed unaffected.