dancinbcs

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For a red to black carrying red mating, each puppy has a 50% chance of being red. The sire can contribute either a red or black gene and his contribution will determine the colour as the dam has only red.

Allowable colours are: Black, black and tan, red, red and tan, fawn, chocolate, and smoke blue. Which is really strange because chocolate is called red in the Kelpie. Fawn is dilute red/choc and blue is dilute black, so yes the dilutes are allowed.

Red is recessive to black so a black that carries red could produce some red offspring to your girl. Using a red dog would give you a full red litter because red cannot carry black. The best idea is to use the best dog and work with whatever colours you get. At the moment I would be wary of having red Kelpies for sale. I can see them being in huge demand by people who shouldn't own them, because of the movie.

Yes, I used to kennel a bitch when she was in season. She would always sound like she had been debarked for a week after she came home. She loved the kennel owner and would go off happily with her each time so it wasn't stress at being there. I think she just liked to bark with all the other dogs while she could.

You have two options. Complain to the practice owner that the idiot nurse put your puppy in danger, so you want a refund OR continue with the classes and do not let them do anything with your puppy that you don't want them too. Personally I think I would be leaving and demanding a refund. Pom babies are physically quite fragile and easily broken, apart from any lasting effects that encounter could have on her confidence. To put one at that sort of risk is simply unacceptable.

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Find another puppy pre-school. This vet nurse is an idiot and YOU should have screamed at her and taken your puppy back. How dare she put your puppy in danger and scare him like that. I hate puppy pre-schools that expect the puppies to all play together. Much better to teach the puppies to focus on the owners in the presence of the other puppies. I would never let a Border Collie baby play with a SBT puppy let alone a tiny Pom because the play style of the SBT is far too rough. It is very dangerous to let really little puppies play with much bigger and more boisterous ones. Your puppy is normal and sensible unlike the vet nurse running the puppy pre-school.

Use puppy pens or Bunnings compost panels to confine her to area where there is nothing to destroy but her own toys. Puppies don't get their last back molars until about 9 months so she is probably still teething, but some dogs are just chewers all thei lives. Basically it is a matter of not allowing them unsupervised access to anything of value until you are certain they will not chew it. Always praise when she chews her toys and reprimand as soon as she looks like chewing anything that is not her's. Put pepper sauce of Vick's Vapourub on anything she shows interest in that you don't want chewed. If you allow her access to chew your things she will learn it is acceptable and keep doing it.

Pregnancy is 63 days from ovulation, regardless of mating time, so day 63 will be Saturday, not Monday. If the first puppy is the dead one she is likely to struggle to get it out so a wise plan to do the caesar on Friday. Hope all goes well.

This is the most likely injury from this sort of accident. Dog's heads are very tough but they can injure their neck and spine if they run into something head first.

This pretty well sums it up for me too. Dogs with major phobias to me are as useless for breeding as aggressive dogs and I wish more breeders would consider this when breeding. I love having bomb proof dogs and can handle those that need a little work to boost confidence but any with irrational panicked fear over anything are out for me.

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This is the sort of dog I am talking about. The ones that are likely to damage themselves or their surroundings if not kept under constant supervision. I know of one show dog (not my breed) that managed to squeeze through a trailer window and jump a fence and was found days later many kms away. I have also heard of a BC dying from a heart attack during a storm when left at a boarding kennel many years ago. Some dogs like to be in a confined area like a crate or under the bed during a storm but are not panic stricken like the dogs I am talking about here. I don't think you could seriously consider breeding with a bitch like that just due to the possibility of a storm while heavily pregnant or with newborns. Using a dog would be a different matter and would depend on whether you felt such traits are passed on genetically. My jury is still out on that one. I mean does a chronic barker produce chronic barkers? Clearly many a storm fearing dog has had offspring with no such qualms. It would really depend on what superior qualities weighed out against storm phobia in the male dog. I don't use chronic barkers either or dogs that get carsick. I believe all these traits are strongly inherited especially barking in the two breeds I am involved with. Not every offspring will inherit the problems but a substantial number will. Staying clear of dogs with these problems means I have never had to worry about any of them. Interesting about the car sickness. I used to have a GSD (desexed so not a question of using him for breeding) that got car sick as a young dog but overcame it. I used to give him ginger and it settled his tummy, eventually I stopped giving it to him and found he didn't need it any longer as it turned out. So if you had a bitch that got car sick as a young dog but was over it by say three years of age would she be used for breeding or excluded? I've never had any dog get carsick after the first two rides as a baby at the absolute most but I would be wary of using a dog that needed treatment to overcome it, if the dog was taken out in the car regularly. The problem with assessing this is of course some dogs don't get taken out enough to get used to it so it can be hard to tell.

This is the sort of dog I am talking about. The ones that are likely to damage themselves or their surroundings if not kept under constant supervision. I know of one show dog (not my breed) that managed to squeeze through a trailer window and jump a fence and was found days later many kms away. I have also heard of a BC dying from a heart attack during a storm when left at a boarding kennel many years ago. Some dogs like to be in a confined area like a crate or under the bed during a storm but are not panic stricken like the dogs I am talking about here. I don't think you could seriously consider breeding with a bitch like that just due to the possibility of a storm while heavily pregnant or with newborns. Using a dog would be a different matter and would depend on whether you felt such traits are passed on genetically. My jury is still out on that one. I mean does a chronic barker produce chronic barkers? Clearly many a storm fearing dog has had offspring with no such qualms. It would really depend on what superior qualities weighed out against storm phobia in the male dog. I don't use chronic barkers either or dogs that get carsick. I believe all these traits are strongly inherited especially barking in the two breeds I am involved with. Not every offspring will inherit the problems but a substantial number will. Staying clear of dogs with these problems means I have never had to worry about any of them.

This is the sort of dog I am talking about. The ones that are likely to damage themselves or their surroundings if not kept under constant supervision. I know of one show dog (not my breed) that managed to squeeze through a trailer window and jump a fence and was found days later many kms away. I have also heard of a BC dying from a heart attack during a storm when left at a boarding kennel many years ago. Some dogs like to be in a confined area like a crate or under the bed during a storm but are not panic stricken like the dogs I am talking about here.

I am not surprised at a Kelpie X having a go at a skateboard but directing the frustration towards the other dog is way over the top so the help of a trainer would be a good idea. I have had several BCs that would lunge at a close skateboard or rollerblades but never worried about bikes or prams. It must be the sound of those particular wheels that stirs them up. Thankfully we rarely came across them because I don't tend to walk anywhere there are normally skaters. Quite frankly I would have given the teenage kid a blast for skating that close to dogs particularly from behind. That is just asking to be bitten.

As the title states. Do you still breed from dogs that have intense inborn phobias about storms and fireworks? I know it is possible for dogs to get a fright by something like being left out in a bad storm and then become phobic but most that become frantic with storms and fireworks are born like that. I am not referring to the many dogs that bark at thunder or try to catch it but will settle down if brought inside or penned. The dogs I am referring to are the true phobic quivering wrecks that are so terrified they are likely to harm themselves or damage property in an attempt to escape. I have never had a Border Collie that was really bothered by storms or fireworks and now my new Jap Spitz puppy is the same. Just slept through it all last night, yet on here it seems to be the norm for so many dogs to react badly. I believe it is a strongly inherited trait and will not breed from a dog with this problem. There are plenty of successful show dogs of all breeds out there that do react badly but I heard anyone else say they didn't breed from the dog for that reason. This is one of the hardest temperament problems for owners to deal with so why do other breeders not see it as important?

Rehoming and dumping at a shelter or pound are two very different scenarios. Responsible owners find the right home to place a dog in if they cannot keep it or return it to the breeder and breeders often run on several youngsters with the idea of rehoming all but one or two later. This gives them more choices to breed better dogs and means those that don't make the grade go to pet homes where they will get more one on one attention. Others will breed a litter or two from them before rehoming a dog that is sound but doesn't like to show. I have no problem with this if the dogs are relatively young, say 4 or 5 at the most. I have utter contempt though for anyone rehoming older dogs they no longer need, just to get them out of the way. Rehoming say an 8 year old bitch that has had 5 litters. or an old stud dog because they bought a young one, is disgusting. Surely they have earnt their retirement. I also know of one dog that was returned to his breeder 3 times because every time she rehomed him the owners divorced. He was well known in the breed as the "divorce dog". Another breeder bravely took him on as the 4th owner and her marriage out survived the dog. Sometimes life doesn't pan out and people genuinely are stuck due to illness or severe financial hardship and have to suddenly surrender dogs but the majority that surrender dogs to shelters and pounds just don't give a toss about anything. When I worked for a shelter taking in the surrenders the most common reasons were - moving house, going on holidays, having a baby and by far the most common reason - we don't want the dog any more. No more explanation than that. If I told them we were full and the dog would most likely be pts that day they would shrug their shoulders, pay the small surrender fee and walk out without a backwards glance. I often used to wonder if they would do the same with their kids if their where shelters that would take them, no questions asked. The most bizarre reason though has to be one that was brought into a vet I used to use to be pts. It was a gorgeous, healthy, friendly, well trained, 2 year old Rottie who had developed a few white spots in his coat where the pigement had faded. The idiot owners didn't want him anymore because he no longer looked like a Rottie. The vet pursuaded them to surrender him instead, then found him a home.

Then they just reject them all and you have to start again with a new list of 10. I know of breeders that had to submit 36 names before they got one and that was 40 years ago. I got my first choice but not many people do.

For all bites and punctures or wounds that do not need stitching use Ichthammol Ointment from the chemist. It will prevent or draw out infection so you don't need ABs. Our family has used it for well over 50 years and it always works. You can use it on humans, dogs, cats and horses. I don't know how anyone lives without it.

Really? My sister got a pup at 6 weeks we took it to the vet and the vet was totally against it! Not only is it illegal as pointed out (which is reason enough for your vet not to be fine with it, it is the law for a reason! ) they said they need the extra 2 weeks after vaccine with their litter and mum for pup to benefit vaccine better or something and the social aspects. I'm sorry but I just can't comprehend a registered breeder doing this and then a vet being fine with it. The OP has still not confirmed if the breeder is registered or what papers they got with the puppy. The vet is an idiot if they do not know the law and I am still not convinced that the feet are normal. Normal feet should not be able to spread like that. If it is the tiles causing it then it will continue to get worse as the dog grows if this is the surface it lives on. Threads like this make me really sad and angry. Irresponsible breeders selling bull breeds to owners who haven't got a clue about how to raise a puppy and vets compounding the problem. No wonder there are problem dogs around and pounds full of dumped dogs like this.

Just watched that video and don't get the point of it. It just looks like a normal puppy to me. Every Border Collie puppy I have had has been like that and my new Jap Spitz is as well. How do other puppies act?

Male Border babies are usually really quick to housetrain. My routine will all of mine has been for them to sleep in the laundry with a baby gate or a playpen with a bed at one end and newspaper at the other. They are fed 3-4 times a day and have access to water from the first thing in the morning until last thing at night, then it is taken up. I leave them with toys to chew overnight but not food type items because theose chews make them thirsty. Puppies need to pee as soon as they wake up whatever time of the day or night, straight after meals and at any time they get excited. They should poop first thing in the morning then after each meal. Mine are taken out to toilet at these times and given a command word (I use "hurry up) then praise when they go. Also stay out a little longer with them in case they go a second time in a few minutes. Then they are allowed in the house for a game, training and cuddle while under strict observation. If I cannot concentrate on them 100% they go back into their pen or outside with a baby gate for them to see in. I toilet them last thing before I go to bed and only get up to take them out if they cry. Most sleep through the night after a few days and may pee on the newspaper overnight for a week or so, but it is usually first thing when they wake before you get to them. After about a week they usually have the idea and toilet on command and hold on all night. You still need to watch them closely on carpet until they work out the difference between grass and carpet and that can take a few weeks. Putting the puppy in a large carton probably won't work. If it is high enough for him to not scramble out of, he will not be able to see out and will cry. He will also most likely eat a hole in it with a few hours. Borders need a steel crate or playpen that has an enclosed top or a sides too high to climb to confine them. I am always amazed to see litters of other breeds at the vets sitting in open top boxes. By the time you put a second Border in the first one would already be out. They never just sit still but have to be doing "something" unless they are asleep.

That sounds like a Border Collie.