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I know 5 hunting dogs that would LOVE to give the kitties a home!

Didles.....

All our litters whelp in a whelping box located in the lounge-room. Our pups are right beside the TV and learn very young to deal with all the sounds and noise a family with 4 young kids can dish out. Depending on the weather, they normally move outside at about 4 weeks but sleep inside if nights are too cool. Outside they are in a purpose-built shed on organic straw with a grassed, fenced pen off the shed.

Sunday the 11th sounds great.

Umm, THIS Sunday IS the 4th! ???????????

Aye! I'll bring a couple of the old girls up!

Hmmmmmm. Seems you old chooks are getting clucky!

I've just come home to find the dogs (read: Vitasz) has gotten into our stored X-Mas box in the garage and removed (read: destroyed) everything in it!!! Our Tree, Lights, Decorations, Tinsel, Stockings, the LOT!!! Little Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaaaaw! Theys starting to look like little Cavs! Glad they are still thriving.

This one didn't work, Barb. Great clip of Mawson working though! :D

Nope.

Actually I really shouldn't joke about it - I bet they stung like hell! ;) AND it was Mawsons fault entirely, for deliberately sending you into the clutches of the angry swarm!!!

Sometimes, they just LOOK friendly.......

Glad to hear Randy is working out so well. We all had a lovely time tracking this morning, especially Barb who found Track A was a lot of fun, but found track BEE was a real buzz!

Hope I CAN make it tomorrow.... Chantel is out at a party and rang to tell me the car is playing up. It's only the central locking but may flatten the battery. Time will tell..... *sigh*

Tully!!! Yep, ready to go here, although I AM just going for a sticky-beak! How long does it take to get there? I figured about 30-40 minutes?

No one here sells Artemis. Maybe they have a "breeders club" or similar you could join and have it sent to you? I am in the Eukanuba Club for this reason.

I will ONLY feed premium these days, have heard very good things about the EP. Can I ask how much it costs? or at least compared to some of the other mainstream premium foods? I feed Eukanuba but is costly at $115 p/bag and the bag is only 15 kilo as opposed to many brands which are 20 kilos. But I too find it works out pretty similar as I feed a LOT less Eukanuba than say Bonnie, which I have tried in the past when I couldn't get Eukanuba. Problem is that Euk has a lot of maize in it as a filler so I feel like I'm getting ripped-off, but my dogs seem to do really well on it so I'm reluctant to change. I had a re-home here a few months ago who had eaten nothing but Advance, and she looked awful - skinny, dull coat, yuck skin, etc and switched her to Eukanuba and within a week she looked like a different dog! Then again I've heard breeders say they would NEVER feed Euk again! Whatever suits your own dogs I guess.

What dry are you feeding out, tlc?

Jess I know what you mean re; the Meat Barn. I buy 2 boxes of chicken necks a week (12 kilo per box) to feed my lot and a couple of weeks ago they told me they don't sell it buy the box any more and how many kilos would I like. I grabbed 7 kilos which was all they had at the time, and they were shit! Twice in a row I got awful necks so I quizzed them about it as I was going to take my business elsewhere, and they told me they are now growing and boning their own chickens and that's why they don't get boxes of necks in anymore. The necks were huge, but tough as leather, full of very large and sharp bones which were very exposed as the necks were all split down one side! WTF??? Must be a different technique cleaning them or something. Anyway I told them they can jam their chicken necks and went to leave, and they said they would special-order 2 boxes of necks a week for me, so maybe they would do the same for you? They DID put the price up though the buggers, now I'm paying $30.00 per box instead of $24.00, so it costs me an extra $12.00 a week. They are GREAT chicken necks though.... just don't buy them in there unless you special-order a box!!!!! tlc - Isn't the butchers at Gateway also a La Famiglia store? ETA - Yep I just looked it up. Gateway is also a La Famiglia store. I wouldn't feed their meat to my family but thats some darn cheap chook frames! :cool:

Wasn't Buzz the dog who went BISS? :D

With 4 litters, we have done 3 matings over 3 days but one bitch wouldn't mate on the third. Pup numbers have been 10, 10, 5 & 6.

;) What's an "Old Chook" going to do with a young Rooster? :p