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I must say I'm pretty gobsmacked at that price and variation as well. What's the breakdown of costs out of curiosity? All the best for your little pup.

Yeah so what about the Border Collie and the JRT? They werent recognised in the country of origin before the rest of the world took up the Australian Standard. Border collie standard is different in different countries. In FCI they us the UK. (though I did hear tell that Australian tried to get them to change the country of origin of the border collie to Australia (have no idea if that is true). NZ had their own but close to the UK. US AKC has their own but also much like UK. Actaully the OZ standard stands out as very different to all the rest in many ways and the least used standard for border collie in the world. Also remember that by far, and we are talking 100, 000's of thosands of dogs, by far and away most border collie are not registered in the show registries. They are in the working regisitries in their country or ISDS which is the founding registiry long before ANKC (1906 for ISDS mid 1950's for ANKC). Even some of the European kennel clubs and Canada have the main registry as working and a much smaller appendix withint the working registry for show dogs. So if we want to be true to the country of origin then we would be using the UK standard for show bred dogs and ISDS or it's offshoots for working bred dogs (and they have no physical standard). When the truth is stranger then fantasy LOL Absolutely no truth to this whatsover. Just thought I'd point that out Yes I havent heard that either.

Yeah so what about the Border Collie and the JRT? They werent recognised in the country of origin before the rest of the world took up the Australian Standard.

But it's not recognised by the AKC so what is to stop her standardising the breed here? It's certainly happened before - BC and JRT come to mind. 2 breeds developed in Australia without the consent of the country of origin.

It does. How is that, Poodie? Dogs get recognised as breeds without the say so from the country of origin. Disclaimer - is this woman even going for ANKC recognition - I didnt read the whole article

Dont worry about it. Interesting thread though.

urmmm there are Australian developed breeds that were not recognised in country of origin. That's why Australian breeders developed the standard. Is that really such a problem?

I showed my husband this thread and he took one look at your comment and burst out laughing.

That's put a squeeeee in my morning. Gorgeous!

Thank god you said exactly what I was thinking, but too lazy to type Every single dog attack thread gets ambushed with BSL crap. Why can't we just discuss the actual incident? Because that would be too sensible, minxy. Good on you Steve. Hopefully they take up your offer

What a grub! Such a great photo. Are there anymore?

Isnt Ingrid dead yet? She claimed she was a waste of space so I thought someone would sort of take the opportunity to knock the old bitch off her perch and turn her skin into a lampshade or whatever the hell the bat wanted done with her remains

It seems you may need reiki

Yes, welcome, d22. Welcome from me as well. That other poster was like a bolt out of the super extreme full moon

Little tearies. Say no more.

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Bloody hell talk about slapping the OP around when she'd already been through a bad enough experience. Jimmay did you speak to the animal control officer at your council? And how's your mum - she must have been pretty shaken up as well

Thanks. I was so bloody angry I didnt even think to check.

Exactly, Shek. You'd think in a shelter atleast they'd have a bit of frigging respect instead of being laughing buffoons making jokes about a noose around the poor things neck. Bastards! How absolutely bloody uncivilised.

No No you didnt make me angry, Dogperson. I should have worded it better - I lost my temper. The video and the antics of those cretins made me angry, not you. I'm still really angry about it, though. That could be anyone's little pet and to think they made a joke AND a video about it. Just beyond words. dognurse, dont look at it. It's pretty disgraceful.

Awesome! What disgusting bloody bastards. eta where is the frigging UK rspca now? Shit I knew I shouldnt have looked in here. That's really upset me. Assholes. Sorry - I'm really bloody angry

That was great. Good to see a guy doing it, too.

“I know this is against the clearly posted forum rules, but is it OK if I…” No. I just choked on my coffee

she exhausted him yesterday with zoomies then absorbed his brain cells with her eyes