Janba

Yea exactly! If you have a fear of dogs do not enter a dog beach and start screaming. There are dogs having fun and running around. I don't agree with dogs jumping all over people but if they are just having fun and NOT hassling anyone I see no problem. I actually thought that they weren't beaches specifically for dogs but public beaches on which dogs are allowed. If your dogs hassles someone who is frightened of dogs they can still report them and you may end up with your dog decl;ared as dangerous. To the OP my neice used to be terrified of all animals - dogs, goats chickens - when she was younger. There was no reason for it that anyone could see and she did grow out of it with help. It was a real fear and not something to be laughed at.

Does Vic have compulsory microchip laws and does DogsVic have microchipping as part of the CoC?

My entire BC does this - can't get the angle quite right. He has improved a bit since he has been used, especially when he is out as he seems to think he has to get that scent up as high as possible, but I am not recomending breeding as a cure. I just wash legs now as a matter of habit.

Apparently when I was a very young child I had a toy dalmatian thatb was my favourite toy. When I was an adult I bought myself a dalmatian and my mother reminded me of the toy -Dooby. I have now owned dalmatians for over 25 years.

My grandfather would talk about the ISDS sheepdogs he had when he was young in England and I always remembered his stories. It took me many years but I finally got one and he is the best dog I have ever owned.

From the breeders of 2 never - but they are not bad breeders. From the third regularly even though she is overseas.

When my pup arrived from NZ after 6 hrs in a crate he christened the freight terminal floor as soon as he was let out. He hadn't soiled the crate. Take a damp washer with you when you go to pick up your pup just incase he/she has had an accident.

The National Breed Councils have the power to recommend changes to their breeds standards at the national conferences in cases where it is not the FCI or country of origin standard that is adopted. I can't remember the full proceedure but know I have voted on proposed changes to the BC standard. If you want changes get involved in your breed club and do something.

I got all 3 of mine in different ways. One I got on the referal of a breeder whose dogs I liked and who owned her sire. One from a trading post add I rang out of curiosity and it was a kennel that I knew and liked their dogs but had thought had stopped breeding so hadn't contacted in my search for a pup. The 3rd from extensive online searching and talking to people overseas. I wanted a dual registered ISDS/ANKC dog and knew that to get one not under a desexing from Auscontract the then only breeder in Aus I would have to import one. I was luck enough to find a breeder in NZ who had bouight out 4 dogs from the UK. ETA It is up to you to research lines and kennels. Recommendations from other buyers of their pups can be good as well as can establishing a rapport with the breeder. One of my dogs comes from a breeder who is sometimes refered to as a puppy farmer but I have had more breeder support and ongoing and less issues with her dog than from the other 2 so gossip is not always true.

We had our first sheep trial for the yaer today and Coole got his first advanced A pass with 84 He stuffed up the cast and split his sheep (too much shedding practice :D) so lost 9 points there and 3 on the z shute because the sheep were reluctant to go to go in with the new black plastic but we lost 0 points on the centre line gates which is where we have been having problems. I am so pleased with my boy.

NSW i agree with you but i am sick of the news only reporting on pitbull attacks what happens to the other breeds? Owners need to be held responsible and if you have a dangerous dog then precautions need to be made to keep other people and animals safe. Owners know the temperment of their animals and should take the measures to keep everything safe. NSW has now made it mandatory for councils to report all attacks so figures will rise in the first bear of mandatory reporting then should level off.

I think can is the operative word here. There are plenty of us with working line dogs who have no behavioural issues with them whatsoever. Yes my point exactly. I am sure your working line dogs are properly socialised and stimulated, hence no issues... unlike my OH's 'mates'' -she's been socialised, just isn't stimulated enough, hence the nuttiness and cratered yard. That isn't neccessarily a "working line" problem but can be very much a problem with a lot of ANKC breeds who are put in that situation. The worst digger I have ever had is Moss who is showbred and he tried very hard to make it to China whan he was younger. OP I can't really add any more to the suggestions already made in this thread.

Update on the juvenile deliquent possum problem - it is not more. A short while ago I had a really bad reaction to a flu shot and interferon injection on the same day that made my MS worse so I had trouble walking. I prepared the dogs dinner and no dally in sight which for a dally is unheard of. I had visions of dally digging under the fence and roaming the neighbourhood when all I wanted was to go to bed and sleep. Went out into the back yard and said dally was up the back feasting on the juvenile deliquent possum It must have decided to take its teasing one step too far and come with in reach of the pirhauna (sp) jaws. I managed to stumble up the hill that is my backyard, falling several times but luckily missing then unpicked up dog poo and wrested the half eaten carcass from the jaws of death. It was garbage night so I decided that I had better put the garbage out with the evidence in it before it attracted the blowies and smelt the place out. Stumbled down the hill with the bin and fell again at the kurbside. While I was rolling around on the nature strip a car came up the road, slowed down, watched me then sped off probably thinking that a quiet mountain suburb had become den of eniquity full of drunks from the hotel down the road. The BC now spends his evenings watching in vain for a sight of the possum on the neighbours and the dally I think is just waitinbg for a new resident possum and another feast. I don't like my dogs killing possums but if they come within reach there is not much more I can do. I do hope the next resident piossum is a nice well behaved female.

I think you need to see a photot of the dog standing to see what his body shape is - squarer or longer- and to see what his coat is really. To me he looks looks a BC but I am a BC person.

I only knew because I have looked it up before

From the ANKC regulations http://www.ankc.org.au/Regulations-1.aspx The register and Registration section 10.

You can run it by me and tell me please if you are going to bring the dog out duel registered I love my ISDS dog.

I have a ping string wire around my entire fence line as I have diggers and one bad side fence it works very well. Mine is the model that works on mains power with a battery backup. Its a plain wire and costs about $400 for the basic kit wich does about 100m easily. You can bury the insulated wire to go under ground under the gate and join to the live wire either side. I got the ping string despite having other electric fencing equipment because of the RSPCA and what happened to Rozzie.

I like stock handling and doing real work. Cole is a much better working dog than he is a trial dog.

B course is fun. If you can get the pen your just about there. I find the best way to teach a long cast is to backward chain it. In B you want the dog to go deep in the cast so they can walk up on their sheep and lift them quietly (something we don't do as well as we should). If you teach the deep top first the extend the lenghth and breadth and you should get a nice wide deep cast. Once the cast is shaped the extra lenghth for intermediate and advanced just come easily. We trained shedding again today and managed to shed twice nicely admittedly using 7 sheep not 3 or 5. Shedding must be the hardest bthing I have ever tried to teach a dog.

300g is one decent poo or a big drink of water - not much.

I don't blame her either and you shouldn't have to put up with dogs trying to play with yours when it doesn't want to play which is why I am very careful which dogs I let mine interact with and don't go to off lead dog parks unless they are deserted.

My BCs stalk before they play, typical BC crouch and slow walk in with a lot of eye, then the charge followed by a game of chase etc. Different breeds do play differently and stalking play in a suburban herding dog is not usually anything to do with boredom any more than snappy nasty SWF are the norm for these dogs. My BCs prefer to play with other BCs or kelpies (and the odd dally) rather than other breeds because they understand the rules of BC play.

Particularly if they read a lot of the information that is available on the internet that comes from places like the US, where litters are registered not individuall puppies and also the UK where breeders aren't registered.

If you keep chasing people off instead of educating them to be registered breeders where are your registered dogs in 10 years time going to come from? ANKC membership and breeder numbers are falling as the old people retire and so are puppy registrations, but dog ownership isn't falling at the same rate.