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There are some in Aust but they aren't ANKC registered because they aren't registered with the AKC either. The ANKC only allows them to be on the sporting register.

Also consider a retired show/breeding Pom girl from a show breeder that might be looking for a lifetime home after having a litter or two. Contact some your boy's breeder and other Pom breeders and put the word out that you might be looking for an older girl next year. That way you get a dog who is trained, socialised and used to living with other Poms. I know of several people who having bought a puppy, have then adopted their puppy's mum when she retired.

Whether you are going to keep them or not, if you bought them in NSW, please report the breeder to their local council for breaking State Laws that require all puppies to not be sold under 8 weeks of age. They must also be vaccinated and microchipped. Until buyers start lodging complaints and these idiots get fined, they will continue to sell underage, unsocialised puppies that will cause their owners untold grief. Unfotunately nothing will replace the extra two weeks they should have spent with their mother and litter mates to learn to be social dogs.

I was also thinking this :) Me too. My advice would be to return one to the breeder and just concentrate on raising one puppy. Raising littermates together is never a good idea, especially with a breed as demanding as Sibes.

Most of my BC owning friends have 6 to 12 with the odd one having up to about 14 at a time but most of them live on acres and a pack of BCs is quite easy to manage. My JS owning friends also tend to have at least 4 as well. Again an easy breed to run in a pack.

On a suburban block 5 BCs was one too many for me. I had 4 for many years and now find two dogs so easy but when I was down to one last year for a while, found that really difficult as I hadn't had just one dog alone for over 25 years. If I was on acres I would probably have about 6. I find the biggest hassle with larger numbers is needing a bigger vehicle or trailer for transport not to mention the vet bills.

The entire eastern coast has always had ticks, it just varies how far inland they go. The NSW south coast has always been notorious for them but used to be relatively safe in winter, until the last few years. In most areas south from Sydney, 20-30 km is far enough inland to be safe but but in some places they go more than double that distance depending on the terrain, rainfall and if it is a bandicoot habitat.

They have also apparently worked their way up from Kangaroo Valley / Fitzroy Falls into the Southern Highlands to Bowral and Moss Vale. It seems that anywhere around the Sydney Basin with pockets of rainforst in the surrounding bush has become a tick area, even much further inland than ever before. The only part of Sydney to not have ticks is the dryer south western suburbs. There isn't enough humidity here for ticks to survive and we don't get bandicoots. In the north western suburbs there are some weird areas like Middle Dural that don't seem to have any ticks but a couple of kms away at Galston, they do.

I always use the chiro first to pinpoint the exact sore spot and then if need be, I can tell the vet where it is. Unless they do a lot of greyhounds, most vets are not particularly good at diagnosing injuries, even if they are brilliant at everything else.

Why???? Yes, a JRT x at 10 years is hardly old. Those little terriers often make 16 or 17 with ease. I think a puppy would be fine if it is going to be of similar size and weight. I would get a BB due to their weight and strength.

If he isn't on any sort of tick prevention treat now with Frontline to kill any others that may be on him. This is what my vet advises if you find a tiny tick before symptoms set in. What area are you in or have travelled to in the last few days?

Most dogs do well on barley but I would be avoiding the lentils and split peas. So maybe some cooked barley with the roo mince.

Labrador Retreiver Club of NSW This is a good guide to buying a puppy. Contact the club as well about members with puppies avalailable. A lot of Lab breeders also run on several puppies and place those they decide not to keep, as young partly trained adults because a lot of repeat buyers want another Lab but don't want the puppy stage again. Have these peopel seen "Marley and Me"? That is a pretty typical Lab with clueless owners. They may have a problem getting anyone to sell them a baby puppy with kids that young. I wouldn't place a BC puppy in a home like that.

All puppies should be presented freshly bathed and groomed to the new owner but obviously this idiot BYB did not do that or bother to train the puppy to be groomed. I have never had a puppy worry about brushing but have had a few that have taken some time to come to terms with baths and especially the force dryer. It is just a matter of regularly grooming until they get used to it and making sure you don't physically hurt them. Depending on how bad the coat ends up he may need to clipped off in future. A Maltese/Poodle coat can be an absolute nightmare texture wise to groom, with curl from the poodle and the superfine hair of the Maltese.

I know of an old Border Collie that does it from a heart arrythmia. The heart misses some beats and she faints. Then it starts beating again and she recovers. There is nothing they can do to treat it. In a human they would install a pacemaker.

I would wait until about 7 months when the risk to growing joints is less. 4-7 months is the most critical time for joints to be inhured, resulting in OCD and ED.

I start the puppies on solids from 3 weeks and the bitches usually start to gradually restrict access to the milk bar from about 4-5 weeks and stop feeding altogether close to 8 weeks.

There has been extensive DNA research over many years to prove the purity of the Dingo breed and those preserving the breed use this information to ensure they are in fact breeding purbred Dingos, not crossbreds with some other breed lurking in the background. They can even identify the different strains of Dingos. Prof Alan Wilton who developed the DNA health tests for Border Collies did the Dingo research and was famous for it in the scientific world.

Yes, in registered dog circles they are referred to simply as "purebred" dogs, meaning "registered purebred".

There is definitely some other breed lurking in there to give that size, shape and especially colour but for that size he still looks to be at least 5-10 kg overweight. His whole rear end is very poorly contructed and that is probably why he has developed so much arthritis. Dogs are not meant to have straight back legs like that and it does take a toll on them as they age.

I always allowed them to run together supervised until the dog showed interest then seperated them and allowed supervised matings with them allowed together for a couple of hours after a mating until the dog had recovered, then seperated until another mating the next day. You need to know exactly when they have mated, especially if you don't progesterone test, so leaving them unsupervised is not a good idea. The declaration on service certificate states that you witnessed the mating so you do need to see it happen. When the girl is ready to attack the boy for looking at her, she had gone out of season and it is safe to allow them back together again.

I don't think the type of harness matters so long as it is comfortable and walking steadily up a slight incline helps with the dog just pulling enough to make the rear work and not for long enough to make them sore. I probably wouldn't tackle steep hills either, just enough that you are aware it is uphill.

That makes him Bernese Mountain dog size and would explain why he has aged so badly. A 40kg dog will age a lot faster than a 20kg dog. We are still showing and winning with 11 year old BCs and don't consider them old.

I know the decision is hard to make but you are not keeping the dog alive for his sake. If he was mine I would have already made the decision. I have always managed to let my dogs have their wings before they were really suffering except last year when in hindsight I know I was a week too late and should not have let my girl suffer through that last week. She is the only one I have any regrets about letting go and that is because I did it too late.

A pedigree is a family tree that can be proven so breeds in development can still have a pedigree even if they are made up of different breeds but it doesn't make themm purebred for quite a long time. A purebred dog refers to a registered purebred with legal registration papers to prove it is in fact from the parents it it supposed to be and they and all ancestors in turn are themselves registered purebred dogs of the same breed. A dog may appear to be a particular breed and it fact have a grandparent, for example that is a different breed. Sometimes it is impossible to tell just be looking at the dog, especially with puppies. The bottom line is that without papers it is just a mutt no matter what it looks like and you have no legal comeback if the puppy you bought doesn't turn out to be what it was supposed to be.