Katdogs

I'm looking forward to your feedback on this, especially the quality of the roo. The factory place at Girraween is fantastic too - also they donate regularly to Special Olympics for functions and sports tournament bbqs It was VERY crowded there on a Saturday morning last time I went, though (early December).

Well he/she won't, if the dog isn't listed on the Hawkesbury Pound 'dogs available' list, or the Friends of HP FB site which is what the DOL HP Urgent thread links to! She's on PR FB as 'PCC33 "SKY" KELPIE X BORDER COLLIE FEMALE 9 MONTHS... What a pretty girl she is'. Nice looking pup.

Yeah, I know. I guess I was just asking the rhetorical/venting type question. IMO it looks dishonest... but there are probably worse.

Just wondering. If a dog (e.g. PCC33) at Hawkesbury isn't on Hawkesbury's dogs available site, and isn't listed on DOL as 'at risk', why would PR be saying 'only young and on a kill list, please share her to save her, she only has until tomorrow to find a home'? Why distract from those who really are at risk? (She's a lovely looking 9mo BC x Kelpie by the way, if anyone's looking!)

Good boy Buddy. You did a good job.

Someone very enterprising should set up a cruise for dog people just along the coast of Oz, with extra barriers around the sides of the ship and poo bags and bins around the decks! Just think - choice of pools, as much liver as you could eat, puppycino and mocktails - Stevie would LOVE it!

Thanks Hun, who is Troy Bateman? I have no idea :laugh: Been to busy with other stuff, so not up to speed. Sorry, he's one of the faceless people supporting PR and anti-DOL. I'm trying not to watch any more.

Nic, Tbroils is the same person as Troy Bateman - not worth getting fussed about (though it all makes me very sad and angry).

Sammy had a BIG DAY OUT on Saturday! First a trip to the local pet food place to be gushed over, and we tried out a new walking collar. Then off to the husband's tennis club where we walked around the cricket oval and block. Poor boy thought everyone we met was his new best friend, so by the end of the walk he was starting to go goggle eyed - who'd have thought there were so many people in the world! He also met young children, old blokes and learnt to sit on a bar stool (bad husband, but he at least had a hand on him the whole time so he couldn't fall). When he sees something he's never seen before, like covers being pulled off the picket fence at the oval and run towards the pitch, he just sits and watches, with the cutest head tilt ever. Just that 3/4 hour wander around and he slept like the dead for a couple of hours, then wanted to go home to his girls. He cried in the car on the way home then when we got out of the car he ran up the driveway as quickly as I'd let him so that he could make sure Stevie and Jodie were ok! On a little walk last night he found a baby's shoe discarded on the side of the road that he carried for several hundred metres. He dropped it eventually but turned back to get it so I carried it home for him It's now shredded and I expect some bits of pink to come out in his poo (and Stevie's) tonight but it was the first time he wanted to carry something instead of just running away with it. Oh, and I said his tail grew two inches the other day. Well, yesterday it was his back/spine. He got a bit of a Dachy look going for a while! Hopefully today it will have been his legs and head so he evens out a bit :)

So my very mild question about 'Venna's' reason for being rescue or rehome only was deleted. It's possible she was adopted straight from the pound anyway, after all that. Anyway, they've moved on, there are so many more doggly wogglys to be saved :AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED ROLLY EYE MAN:

I saw more dead birds today on a short walk with Stevie than I'd normally see in six months Two corella, a sulphur-crested cocky, an Indian mynah, a young maggie and a small black-and-white that may have been a baby wagtail. We have a fair bit of beak and feather disease here and of course birds die but normally the cats and other predators clean up carcasses early. There must have been so much death yesterday. I always stop and think about the cockies. If they've lived their full span, what an amazing world they've dealt with since 1900 ish!

So very sorry Nic. Devastating. Good Annie did her job, now it's time for her to rest too. Damn ticks.

I know, Jo, I trust you won't miss a trick :) Just not sure whether some of the other things on FB and then maybe here are getting grey around the edges, don't want Troy (the real Troy) to have any more issues than he needs to... ETA Sorry Poochmad, we posted at the same time. I know it's obvious to you but I'm not sure about newer people reading/getting involved in this PR thing. I'm off to see if I've had a response to my post this morning - don't they watch their own FB site through the day, if they're asking for responses and donations etc?

Just remember that DOL is a public forum too. I'm sure you all know, but anyway...

PS I think you and your sister did exactly the right thing. And you're lovely people for showing sympathy rather than putting your head down and ignoring the poor girl. Even if I don't want a hug or to talk, I still would rather have my grief acknowledged than ignored, whether I was six or 106. She's learning early about the hardest part of having a beloved pet, but has obviously enjoyed the good parts as well. Lucky girl even if sad.

But Mish you have Poodles in your siggie - surely you don't get fur issues

Poor hubby, left the bar to try to come home, has spent the last hour travelling between Wynyard and St James so he's given up and got a cab - tres expensif without cabcharge from work

T's is an asbestos-fibro box. Ours used to be, but was given a gorgeous makeover with pretend brick (more like emery board) in the 70s :) The storm you had is probably just the precursor we had a few hours ago. We're now getting the proper change - down to 26 degrees, very little rain but very rough wind.

I agree with this if anything good has come from this dreadful thing you have ensured that its something that I will always remember and its alerted me to something Id never considered might be something I should be aware of. I agree too. Just like Jed's terrible tragedy, and the dreadful collar strangling incident a few years ago (and I'm so sorry I've forgotten the DOLer's name), my dogs are better protected against awfulness by brave people sharing. Thank you.

He is getting big! In chunks! I swear his tail grew two inches in the last few days, but his head hasn't caught up yet :laugh:

Sammy met Harper and it's LOVE! Rough love, but they seemed to enjoy themselves :) He also met a 10yo 'boxer cross' (maybe Springer x Greyhound?) boy and treated him with proper respect. Please excuse the commentary. Three crazy dog ladies... We went for our first proper walk the other evening around the corner and Sammy has been introduced to a nice (non-Lab) show steward/judge. She was just in the mood for Lab puppy cuddles! She admired his lovely strong and straight front legs, back line and back legs :) He has a beautiful gait. She picked a few faults for showing but that's not why we have him, she's fallen in love with his temperament as well! She couldn't believe he'd never seen buses or trucks by the way he just sat and watched the traffic!

Not much air con around here. It took many years to convince hubby but there are some days when it's worth the expense. I'd have brought TD's dogs in but her four (with two that can't be together) and my three would have been just too many The kids next door spent most of the day at a shopping centre or at a park with water, and now they're playing hoses and sprinklers. The neighbours on the other side have a double brick house so it stays pretty cool anyway - the rest of us are in little fibro ovens. ETA Hubby has given the trains a miss for a couple of hours so he's hanging out at a bar in the city...

Aircon, all day, except for the five minutes checking on TD's dogs. I'll accept Sammy's decision to wee inside because the doors were all shut and it would have burnt his feet to go out

So BAHF should pts the poor dog! It's no place for any dog to live for months on end!

They have a 16D and their own kennels. They've taken dogs themselves before. Why isn't BP releasing Venna? Why is she 'rescue only'? (Yes Anne, I'd like to ring the pound to find out, just thought someone here might have already done so)