dancinbcs

I think I had neard mention that Quakers Hill do frozen semen but don't know if they do TCI. Where is the semen you are using stored?

I am very reluctant to do that, especially as the only thing it is going to show is Cancer. He was really knocked around by the needle biopsy and anesthetic on Friday and I dont want to put him through a full anesthetic and surgery if I can avoid it. I know it would get us an answer, but it seems we are putting him through a lot, just for our own piece of mind. If it is cancer, and that biopsy confirms that...its untreatable, and doesnt really gain anything for Jake, other then trauma. Hopefully that makes sense...I would prefer to be able to treat him on other conditions, assuming its not cancer and not put Jake through anything more then he has been. Even surgery sometimes doesn't give an answer, except to rule out some things. My mystery girl had bled profusely when she whelped and had been an indifferent mother. Afterwards I realised she had in fact been ill after the whelping but not enough to pick it up. After her next season she got really ill the vets first thought it was pyo. She didn't respond to that treatment and a full blood count was all over the place indicating possibly something to do with the liver but nothing definite. A needle biopsy of the liver by a specialist failed to find the liver so we attempted a second one at the Uni, under ultrasound. They found the liver but couldn't reach it either but said she had pyo. Back to my vets and with 4 vets attending they opened her up from one end to the other to find scar tissue on her lymph nodes, a shrunken, friable liver, possible leakage of the pancreas onto the liver and NOTHING ELSE. They took biopsies of everything and the results revealed NOTHING. After 6 weeks on deaths door, she suddenly recovered after the surgery with just antibiotics. Following that, over the next couple of years, she developed bladder crystals, and alternating ear and bladder infections. It was after this I consulted Ann Neville and finally got her body in balance again. When she was spayed 4 years after the initial illness, due to cystic ovaries, I got the vet to have a look around to see if things had changed. Her liver had grown back and the scar tissie on the lymph nodes has disappeared. She was 7 at the time and lived until she was nearly 15.

No, it doesn't. If Bailey has TNS, then each of his siblings have a 25% chance of also having it, a 50% chance of being a carrier, and a 25% chance of being clear. In the litter that we had with TNS, 2 pups were affected, 2 were carriers (and are both happy, healthy 6 year old dogs). But you're right, the parents should never be bred together again. At least the person who bred Bailey is trying to do something to help you out- I guess it's up to you whether you want to go with one of their pups, or wait a while before looking for a breeder who is aware of and tests for this sort of thing. This is correct so I wouldn't be taking a litter mate without it first being tested. You also need to consider that the the parents have not been DNA screened for CL or CEA and have not been hip and elbow scored, so still lots of potential problems could emerge from one of their puppies. CL is rarer than TNS but is also 100% fatal and doesn't show up until at least 16 months, so you definitely don't want a puppy from parents not tested for that either. Carriers of any of the 3 conditions make perfectly healthy pets and can even be bred from safely, provided they are never put to a partner that carries the same condition. If it does turn out that Bailey has TNS then I think a refund of the purchase price and all the medical expenses is the least they should offer given that this could have been completely avoided. If they "breeders" don't understand about health testing they shouldn't be breeding anything aver again. If any of the litter mates do have TNS it will most likely show up after the next vaccination if they don't pick up any infections in the mean time. Vaccinations tend to send TNS puppies into meltdown but sometimes it isn't the first one that does it. Most TNS puppies don't make 6 months, the very odd one makes about 12 months and I did hear of a vet overseas who owned a TNS dog that was a few years old but he had been treated for constant infections all his life. They found out it was TNS when the test first became available.

I was so hoping he would stay well until you got the test result and it is frustrating that this is happening in the middle of the testing being moved. Hopefully you will get a result soon so you know where you are at. Sadly the re-occurence is again so typical of TNS. I emailed the University and hopefully the results will be available by the end of the week. The 1st stage of testing is complete and they are working through the 2nd stage now. In reality though, it isn't going to change much, we are just going to know that his days are numbered. At the moment he seems to be rather miserable, and it is sooo hard to see him like this. If he hasn't improved by tomorrow, we will have to look at having him PTS. A wise decision I think, even if it is a heartbreaking one but it would be easier to make that decision if you had a definitive answer. Whatever is wrong, it is clearly something very serious and no puppy owner should be put through a nightmare like this at a time that should be so happy.

I was so hoping he would stay well until you got the test result and it is frustrating that this is happening in the middle of the testing being moved. Hopefully you will get a result soon so you know where you are at. Sadly the re-occurence is again so typical of TNS.

I have no idea if the other states, apart from Vic, even have an act. The Vic one is ridiculously unworkable and far too restrictive for decent breeders compared the much more common sense one in NSW. The Vic one however allows puppy farms to flourish where the NSW one saw a puppy farms raided and closed when the act came in. I don't agree with everything in the NSW act but overall it is quite workable and the lifetime registration makes so much more sense. In the other states the councils seem to make up their own rules and most seem to have a stupid 2 dog rule is suburbia for no apparent reason.

No, councils have no say unless someone lodges a complaint. The state law is that numbers are not restricted.

Sometimes there is no definite diagnosis when the whole body is involved but sometimes treating the whole body will balance it again. I suggest you consult Dr Ann Neville in East Bentleigh, Vic. She is a vet who also does Traditional Chinese Medicine with some amazing results. She successfully treated my cancer dog without even seeing him, but by doing hair analysis and working with my vets in Sydney. Then I took my "mystery illness" dog to see her and again her treatments worked after a very bizarre unsolved illness and years of seemingly unrelated problems.

Yes, they can have a split season with the first one usually not being fertile and then they wait a few weeks or months and come in again. It is not common but not really uncommon either.

Yes, just becuase they "used to" club them on the head and throw them in a ditch doesn't mean that practise is still acceptable. Who said anything about clubbing anything on the head I was talking about lethal injections being used by approved staff who were trained by the visiting vets. I don't see any reason that a council officer couldn't be trained the same way.

These days mating at 16 months is considered pretty young except in toy breeds. How many seasons has she had? Some bitches take a while to settle into a routine. A lot are not on a 6 month cycle. It could be signs of a phantom pregnancy you are seeing or it could be that the last season wasn't fertile and she is coming in again.

It is quite likely she will do it every season from now on like my girls did. You just get used to it.

They don't even need a qualified vet to do a humane euthanasia. When I worked for a major shelter in Sydney some years ago, some of the regular staff were trained by the vets to do the daily euthanasias. The vets only came in one or two days a week to do all the desexings. Every afternoon the incoming animals from that day were assessed and any that were not being kept for re-homing were pts by the trained staff in the vet surgery room. I have no problem with animals being shot in an emergency to save them further suffering but this is a different situation.

He does respond well to training. When we're home he usually wants to be around us, but every now and then he will take himself outside. Once he gets into fence pacing mode it's hard to get his attention. If I've got food he is easy to persuade though and he will do ANYTHING for food. In that case I would build him a run, preferably square, not long so he can be in there when you aren't home and has nowhere to pace. He may grow out of it as an adult if he settles down a bit. Let him have the run of the yard when you are home and use something to distract him if he is fence pacing, like throwing a chain against the fence, then calling him and rewarding him if he comes. He will catch on to the sound of chain and come when he hears it. I had one like this and it got to a point where I only needed to clink one link of the chain and she would come from anywhere.

Fence panels intermittantly at right angles to the fence might help to interupt the path or a stategiacally placed electric fence so he keeps away from that area. Otherwise, if he has access to that fence he will continue to fence pace. It only takes a few days for something to become an ingrained habit and Borders can be obsessive in their behaviour once it develops. Lots more obedience and mind work might help but more exercise just seems to make them fitter and more likely to do it. Does he respond well to training and wanting to be with you as most Borders would prefer to be with their owners than out in the yard most of the time? If he is the type of dog that ignores you to constantly fence pace then you might have one with an obsessive need to work and sometimes they never fit into a home. I have known a few of these and they have made great drug detection dogs for Corrective Services to where they were donated by their frustrated owners. They are not very common in the breed but the few that are, are not much good for anything other than a job where they are constantly working.

I have never heard of it abbreviated to CHP but assume it must be Choroidal Hypoplasia, the basic form of CEA that they must have genetically, for any form of CEA to affect them. The DNA test is specifically for Choroidal Hypoplasia but dogs with Colobomas and Retinal Detachment also test positive for it. The test can't tell though if the modifying or extra genes for Coloboma or Detached Retina are present.

I love Curly Coated Retrievers a breed sometimes overlooked,they are on my short list.Good luck with your searching. Curly Coats are wonderful dogs and well worth considering as a suitable compromise. Of the others I would be less worried about a Rottie than either an Akita or an Amstaff as far as them showing aggression that family members might be frightened of. Both Akitas and Amstaffs can be aggressive to other dogs and smaller animals too. Rotties used to be but have mellowed a lot over the years. In nearly 3 decades at dog shows I cannot recall an really aggressive Rottie but have certainly seen Akitas and Amstaffs launch very nasty attacks other dogs. They are two of a handful of breeds I give a wide birth to when walking a dog around a dog show.

Also missing is the original Australian Kelpie 1983 movie Dusty.

There can also be a cleft in the soft palate and most vets don't know to look for it because it is so hard to see in a live puppy. Hopefully it is just a very weak puppy but lack of sucking reflex is not a good sign. Did you have the other two puppies autopsied to find out why you lost them?

An old trick, I believe, for those that were truly desperate and had a steel clothes lines with steel wires, was to attach a low voltage electric fence charger to it and hang wet towels on for them to grab. It won't work though if the lines are synthetic as most are these days. An ordinary electric fence around the line could also be an option.

Yes they do it here and will pull it out of the popper scooper.

Yes, by all means.

I wouldn't let a mere cleaner boss you around. He's most likely the type that has a dog in his back yard who he hardly ever sees and never walks They did have signs up saying no dogs, no golf etc but it was never a problem before. Now all the gates to the oval are locked after 4:00. It's not worth an argument so I just train somewhere else now, pity cause the school is so handy and has heaps of smells for distraction. Don't know about other states but dogs have never allowed on school grounds in NSW or anywhere near children's playground equipment in parks.

The price is based on the dog's weight so it will vary depending on size. I used it years ago on an oldie and it worked wonders but the vet I was using at the time said it worked on most but not all dogs.

And the truth is a statutory defence to a defamation case, so if a vet (qualified opinion) tells the owner that their pup has health defect, publishing the breeders name of the defective pup is not defamation unless the breeder didn't supply the pup or the pup isn't defective :) Actually the breeder can still take the buyer to court. It is then up to the buyer to prove that it is true. The breeder can also take Troy to court. IF the buyer had the papers and had transferred them into their name, there is nothing to stop them printing that "my dog Prefix xxxxxxx xxxxxx, has been diagnosed with generalised demodex". That is a statement of fact about a dog they own outright, it isn't slander or defamation, so long as they make no personal comments about the breeder. The problem here is that the dog is still in the breeder's name until those papers are supplied and transferred. They technically don't even own the dog outright yet, so can say nothing public about it. And you are happy to pay for legal representation for Troy and the OP if there is a problem? No because the buyer can't make any statement if they don't own the dog outright. When I first suggested name and shame I was assuming the dog was registered in their name but it isn't, so that isn't an option.