MissMonaro

why not put her in both names and then when she passes the tests just sign her over to the new owner. You'll have time, even if you are in the USA to post paperwork backwards and forwards if need be before she is mated.

Our old bull terrier x cattle dog used to do this......and it was pretty funny to watch him. He would walk under the plants, slowly putting his feet down, and in a bit of a trance....totally absorbed in his own little world. No way would I say it was a threatening type of behaviour at all. It was definately like he enjoyed the sensation of the fronds or leaves gently rubbing / tickling his back. If you called him, he would snap out of it, look at you with a goofy grin and come wagging his tail.

I'm pretty sure its 20 points. From memory, you get 1 point for best dog / best bitch of breed, 1 point for BOB, 1 point for age class in group or BIG, and another 1 for age class in show and 1 for BIS - up to a maximum of 5 points per show. I know its in an old copy of Dog World magazine.....but not sure which one. I tried to look up their web page and couldn't find anything on it either.

Not sure if Lakeview is still operating as such as the original owner is no longer there.

that was so cute and incredibly funny thought the guy on the couch was going to have an accident he was laughing so much.

Because you cannot always get the full story as written by reporters.... I happen to know that the after hours "emergency" vet costs to stabilise the dog were $1500. The operation was actually done during the day, and the choice was given to return dog to normal vet - but as they had seen the dog the day before and again the same day (an hour before she was rushed to emergency) and sent her home with a "take a pill and call me in the morning" type of attitude - there was no way she was going to be operated on by them. The actual operation itself and the care and monitoring of the dog for the following few days whilst in vet care - $2900.

Just goes to show how easily a reporter can get things wrong.......I think she was confused by the other lab having an emergency c-section, but I can guarantee that the labrador in question did have an operation to retrieve a rope toy that had become lodged in her lower intestine. The emergency vets saved her life - and for that I am sure Brooke is grateful.

I'm another who has sold 2 labrador siblings to the same family. They are very well behaved and a credit to the training and effort the new owners put in to them. Would I do it again........yes.......but only if the right home came along. I've raised 2 pups of the same age. One I bred and one from another breeder. I wouldnt even say they bonded to each other either......one has eyes only for my daughter, whereas the other adores my OH. But it can be a lot of hard work and not something I would recommend to just anyone. Everyones situation is different.

I just had my litter done at just over 6 1/2 weeks old. I didnt have the new owners details with me, so I rang the vet back, they filled out the form and posted me copies out for each of the new owners of the pups. All they basically wanted was name, address, phone, mobile, email etc....and a 2nd contact number. I gave mine as 2nd contact, and they said the new owner will be able to change the details over the internet. Note: I did ring some vets who were adamant that they would not chip a pup under 8 weeks of age....but found out that vets can do it now and that some vets need to perhaps acquaint themselves with the new updates and changes to the microchipping laws. (also prices some of them wanted were a bit )

You could try the breeder pages here on Dogzonline - heaps of lab puppies available there

No and No. I dont think that anybody should "deliberately" breed crossbred dogs at all. There are way tooo many crossbred dogs being PTS in pounds now without people producing more of them. To those that say purebred dogs are too expensive and people just want a "pet".......then go to the pound and rescue one. And, as already said, there are plenty of breeds of purebred dogs around - so there is a breed out there to suit. Maybe if more ppl supported purebred dog breeders, that breeders would have more homes for the minority breeds and hence maybe look at breeding a little bit more often.

CONGRATULATIONS

CONGRATULATIONS

I agree.....12 ......WOW !! Congratulations and best wishes with them all.

She is gorgeous

Chocolate.....my favourite colour He is gorgeous !!!

How is the 12% labradors scored any better than the 12% scored by another breed? Comparing the two they look as bad as each other. The same percentage. The only difference is that labs are a popular breed, so there are many thousands of them having beeen diagnosed with HD. Is that really better than you thought it was? Well gees........wasnt quite the point I was trying to make, but I would think 12% is a lot better than 73% and considering that it is a requirement for Labradors to be x-rayed for HD - according to that list they come in at no. 79 - so there appears to be a lot more breeds that it should also be compulsory for, rather than the few breeds in Australia that have to be done.

Beautiful puppies.......I like snowflake They are all cute though...

Ohhh Norksgra - I am so sorry to hear that you lost the little one. RIP Ebony ;)

CONGRATULATIONS on the new arrivals OBS.....they are gorgeous

That was an interesting link. The results for the Labradors were better than I thought - considering they had over 200,000 dogs tested and only 12% were dysplastic. Compared to other breeds that had only 1000 dogs tested and they were also 12% for instance.

When I was a kid, our pet dog had a litter (yes, by accident) - the roaming neighborhood dogs broke our fence down and got to her in our own yard. She was left to whelp the pups herself, cos thats what dogs did....*shrug*. We did lose the tiny runt, we didnt interfere - we didnt know any better anyway. Those pups were raised on weetbix and cows milk to start with cos there was no fancy stuff like puppy formulas etc....well not that we knew of anyway. Fast forward many years onwards to our first labrador litter.....bitch whelped by herself....basically we didnt really have much of an idea. We just sat and watched....OH did pull the bag off their faces, but that was it. We built a box for her and the pups (as according to the mating, she was a week early, so we werent prepared) - had no idea about pig rails....and she was a shocker for sitting on them too....but they all made it. Next litter we were a bit wiser......but slowly the more we learnt, the more we seemed to stress about more things. We've had our fair share of c-sections....working on the 2 hour thing that quite a few vets are big on. However recently when I was telling one that we had a bitch go 5 hours between her 2 pups, the vet was shocked (and this is a repro specialist) ...and said we were just lucky. But then again since that incident, we wondered whether we had been too quick to make that "call" and interfere in the past. So yes Ellz, its a subject that I ponder on quite regularly to be honest.

OH MY.....love the photo of your pups LMWS with their surrogate mum.....they look nice and healthy. Love the torpedo heads too......very cute and also the little puglets ahhh all babies are cute Our remaining two babies have started on solids and are at the cute stage where they are playing with each other and their toys and trying to engage their mum in playtime as well.

Doesnt part of the money for show entries actually go to cover public liability at dog shows ?? Not sure about at home though, or otherwise..... maybe I should enquire with my house insurance.

I have never tube fed a litter either. To be honest, yes I felt very uneasy about it. After having hand fed birds and seeing one die in seconds of food going in the wrong place I guess has made the whole idea of it very nerve wracking. With this litter I have at the moment, I have spent quite a bit of reading about tube feeding on the net and also reasons for and against it. Last night I was given a crash lesson......all be it a little too late to save our pup - but I now have a tube on hand should the need ever arise. The 4 pups I have just lost.....some nursed on mum, some didnt nurse at all. We bottle fed the two that werent feeding - yet they would suck on a bottle, tried to put them back on mum, and nope. Then the other two also werent gaining weight despite appearing to be suckling. So we took over bottle feeding them too, and have now just lost them. Like Ellz said, the mother was toileting them and looking after them, so we thought they were viable. If the bitch pushes the pup away, then as hard as it is, I would need to not interfere (not that we have had that happen in a litter.....yet). However, in hindsight, I look at this and think - maybe there was something wrong with them - maybe me interfering was only prolonging the inevitable. They were premmie, but maybe they were actually more premature than we thought. :D