MelissaS

Hope everything goes well with Juno's surgery. :)

Lupin is just absolutely beautiful

Hugs to Bruno :)

So very sorry for your terribly sad loss. R.I.P beautiful Tango xxx

Thanks for update. Got all paws and fingers crossed for you and Bruno xxx

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So sorry Good luck today. Hope it all goes well and Bruno has an easy and speedy recovery.

Great pic! :)

I am very sorry for your terrible loss. R.I.P gorgeous Smudge xxx

Gorgeous pics. She is absolutely beautiful Happy Birthday

Sorry I have no idea how I quoted myself like that??!

Thanks for that info, Mel. That article also said the dogs were found with the body. So they mustn't have challenged whoever did it. I wonder if the dogs knew him/them. Like an associate of the bloke. Also didn't seem to have a grudge against the dogs.... left them unharmed. I agree with Mrs RB ... may have been about something else entirely. One of the dogs was found alive but paralysed with his body such a strange and awful story all round. Very disturbing that an individual could be like this and the end result is awful too. It's very telling that an entire town won't talk. I really wonder whose dogs they were too and when and how that dog became paralysed

Thanks for that info, Mel. That article also said the dogs were found with the body. So they mustn't have challenged whoever did it. I wonder if the dogs knew him/them. Like an associate of the bloke. Also didn't seem to have a grudge against the dogs.... left them unharmed. I agree with Mrs RB ... may have been about something else entirely. One of the dogs was found alive but paralysed with his body such a strange and awful story all round.

This article and another I read said he was ordered to destroy the dogs and was banned from keeping a dog. Two dogs were found at his house with his body http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/17836511/murder-of-nsw-pit-bull-man-may-be-revenge/ MURDER OF NSW PIT BULL MAN MAY BE REVENGE By Vincent Morello, AAP Updated July 2, 2013, 5:21 pm tweet1 Email Print RELATED LINKS : Hammond 'had many enemies' A revenge attack may have led to the brutal bashing death of a man previously convicted for setting his pit bulls on people in three separate incidents. Police found the body of Scott Hammond, 48, about 5.30pm (AEST) on Monday in his Tahmoor home, south of Sydney, after a friend became concerned for his welfare. He was well known to police and understood to have many enemies. "It is consistent with being a brutal bashing," Acting Superintendent Danny Doherty said on Tuesday. The "targeted incident" may have been a retaliation attack on Mr Hammond. "We're looking at that line of inquiry," he said. The crime scene did not reveal evidence of a struggle, police said, and the incident was unusual for the semi-rural and close-knit community. "If you stayed on the right side of him he was a good bloke," one woman told reporters at the scene. "I know he had a lot of enemies." Mr Hammond's body was found in his living room and a pit bull, suffering paralysis, was also found at the property. "We don't know if that was connected to this incident," Act Supt Doherty said. He pleaded guilty 12 months ago to using his pit bull terriers, Chocka and Girlie, to attack and wound a teenage boy and three men in three separate incidents at Tahmoor. He was handed a seven-month suspended sentence, ordered to pay $14,336 and destroy both dogs. Hammond was also banned from owning a dog. He lived alone in the dilapidated home and did not appear to have any outlaw motorcycle gang connections. Detectives are trying to establish the events leading to Mr Hammond's death but they estimate he was murdered some time on Monday. Police are still searching for a murder weapon and are trying to determine if the killer broke in before the assault began. The wildlife rescue organisation WIRES had been called in to remove a number of other animals. "He had a bit of a variety of different wildlife," Act Supt Doherty said. The local council removed the injured dog and placed it in a pound. Detectives have yet to establish if the dog defended its owner, or if any forensic evidence, such as DNA, was transferred to the animal during the attack. Police have yet to identify any potential persons of interest but are investigating a number of lines of inquiry. "It's a concern that a person's been killed in this manner," Acting Supt Danny Doherty said. "We're hoping someone in the community would know who it is."

So sorry for your loss R.I.P Solo

This article from SMH says a paralysed Pit Bull was also found at the scene with another dog. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/revenge-killing-a-possibility-police-20130702-2p9m4.html Revenge killing a possibility: police Date July 2, 2013 Read later Emma Partridge Crime Reporter Police say there are many reasons why someone may have wanted Scott Hammond dead and are not ruling out a revenge killing after he used his pit bull terriers to attack and wound four people in 2011. Mr Hammond was found savagely beaten to death in his house on the outskirts of south-western Sydney along with a paralysed pit bull on Monday afternoon. Police said they found the 48-year-old on the lounge room floor of an Ibbotson Street house at Tahmoor after a friend called concerned for his welfare. Camden police Acting Superintendent Danny Doherty said homicide detectives were treating the death as a targeted attack and had many motives to sift through. ''It appears that the incident was a targeted attack and we have other motives that have to be looked at,'' Acting Superintendent Doherty said. ''There are a number of lines of inquiry including the man's history in relation to previous dog attacks.'' Mr Hammond pleaded guilty to using his pit bull terriers, Chocka and Girlie, to attack and wound four people in separate incidents at Tahmoor in 2011. He was given a seven-month suspended sentence, ordered to pay $14,336 and destroy both dogs. Several items were seized from the house but police would not comment on the suspected weapon used to inflict serious head injuries. Police were waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death. ''But it appears he has sustained significant injuries, substantial head injuries,'' Acting Superintendent Doherty said. Mr Hammond had been unemployed and living by himself. Police removed two dogs from the house and are checking to see if evidence, such as DNA, was transferred to them during the attack. Detectives are yet to establish whether the paralysed pit bull was injured before or during the attack. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/revenge-killing-a-possibility-police-20130702-2p9m4.html#ixzz2aGqVkMnA

So very sorry. R.I.P Cloud

Excellent news :) He is so gorgeous.

This poor family. So awful http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/henrico-police-shoot-pet-as-they-notify-family-of-son/article_9e2c4d25-e4bc-51c7-ba1a-c03da22888f5.html Henrico police shoot pet as they notify family of homicide. BILL MCKELWAY/TIMES-DISPATCH A Henrico County police officer stood near a dog that family members said belonged to Ricky Ellerbe, who was found dead near Cool Lane. Posted: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:00 am | Updated: 5:28 pm, Thu Jan 17, 2013.Bill McKelway A bereft Henrico County family says its son died near Cool Lane, robbed of his life and $15. "He'd taken the bus up to my place to borrow the money last night; he just wanted a video or something," said Henry Hamiel. Hamiel's nephew, Ricky Ellerbe, 33, turned up shot to death hours later, about eight blocks from his home and just yards from the all-night convenience store on Mechanicsville Turnpike that had been his destination. "He probably had been out there dead all night," said Ellerbe's mother, Nannie, sitting on the stoop of her home in the 2900 block of Fairfield Avenue. "We called and called and called and no one answered," she said. Her cellphone and the few dollars Ricky Ellerbe carried may have been the only items taken from an apparent robbery, the family said. Henrico investigators swarmed the area with forensics technicians and tracking dogs, but no arrest had been reported Wednesday night. Ellerbe was one of five children; a brother, Gary, died in 2010 from a heart attack, three years after he'd been repeatedly stabbed. And in a horrific turn of events, a Henrico police officer shot and killed the Ellerbe family pitbull, Tiger, as it charged toward the officer off its leash. The unidentified officer and a detective had arrived at the home to notify family members that Ellerbe had been killed. His body was discovered shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday, face down near an alley. The pitbull ran from the backyard of the home toward at least one officer, who pulled his weapon and shot the dog in the home's front yard, according to Ellerbe's sister, Latoya. "They had told me my brother was dead and I'd come out back to cry on the porch and Tiger must have heard them. He ran into the front yard and the officer shot him," LaToya Ellerbe said. Police were not immediately available to comment Wednesday and had not publicly identified Ellerbe as the shooting victim. Family members said Ellerbe had walked from his home to the all-night 360 Express Mart on Mechanicsville Turnpike sometime after midnight and never returned. Nannie Ellerbe wiped away tears a few feet from where police hauled away the lifeless body of Tiger and eight blocks from where the medical examiner's office hauled away her son. "I can't bring myself to go over there and look," she said of the crime scene. Edited to remove Ad's.

Ohhh! So incredibly cute :)

Carter is absolutely beautiful!!!

Nice to see a good dog story and the positive side of FB and social media. http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2013/07/05/454096_gold-coast-news.html Stolen dogs home after social media storm Jessica Elder | 07:44am July 5, 2013 Clare Ackfield with her two staffies that were returned to her yard after being stolen nearly a week ago. Pic: Richard Gosling CLARE Ackfield feared she may never see her staffordshire terriers again after they were stolen from her Lower Beechmont home almost a week ago. But a massive social media campaign reaching more than 8000 people tugged on the thief's heartstrings and the dogs were dumped outside the family home early yesterday morning. The two staffordshire terriers were taken from Ms Ackfield's locked backyard while the family was out for just an hour-and-a-half on Saturday, June 29, and returned just as stealthily in the early hours of yesterday morning. The happy outcome was a miracle come true for the family, who had endured hard times in the past few years including open heart surgery for daughter Grace and a serious car crash. "Shima and Zuess are Grace's siblings," Ms Ackfield said. "She has been in Sydney with her grandmother and I hadn't told her they were missing. "I couldn't break her little heart -- I just knew I had to find them. "I was a mess and didn't know what to do, so I took to social media and spread the message as much as I could. "Next thing I knew the dogs were pretty much local celebrities and within six days there were returned to the front yard. . "They both look like they haven't had been fed much, so now we will just focus on getting them back to health." The dog-napping was the latest in a spate of suspected dog thefts for illegal dog fighting rings. The RSPCA said there was no concrete proof that a dog theft ring existed, but urged people with missing dogs to contact police.

Why? You have experience in large, powerful guarding breeds that are sharp as a knifes edge? You have experience in protection and dominant dogs? You have the power to choke off or slam down your own dog when it decides to have a go at you? No. Few people in Australia do. These romantic notions of nawwww I wanna breed the banned breeds BS sometimes makes me glad we DON'T have these dogs in the country. We're incapable of controlling the watered down stuff we have let alone strong breeds like this. BSL is crap yes, but 1) idiots keep breeding pound fodder and 2) people keep buying these dogs and then crying when they get seized. Yes it's the dog that suffers but we can't get the whole dog management thing through our thick heads in this country at all. We are miles behind a lot of western countries in training and management I think work on education before beating the same BSL is bad drum. .......good post Nekhbet. +1, excellent post + 1 totally agree

My Dad is about to turn 79 and his cat means everything to him. He lives alone, so every day he calls my mobile just for a few rings so I know he's OK.This way if I don't get the missed call on my phone I contact him. He is very worried what will happen to the cat if he dies and is lying there dead with nobody knowing.

So sorry All paws and fingers crossed that Zig gets well ASAP x