Nadia

Exactly right!! I do not vaccinate my dogs for KC, with the exception of one who is jointly owned . Guess which one has had KC several times?? :rolleyes:

Dogs that wander onto other people property in rural areas are often shot. Build a pen or fence your house yard. There is at least one dog a week shot in my area for roaming.

I reccomend people adopt from Rescue as well, I simply don't understand why this has to always turn into a Rescue Vs Breeder bash everytime. I do not support early desexing of all animals. I do support desexing. I do Rescue, I don't hate X breeds. But I will not early desex MY puppies that I breed, my choice for my puppies. There are good Breeders, there are good Rescues and there are bad, in both. I'm sorry Trsicen that you have not had good experiences with Breeders, I could say the same about Rescues, but I still contiue with my work and support the ones who do it properly.

No failures in Rescue huh, no bouncing Rescue dogs huh, what a load of bunkum, Rescue dogs always go to permanent loving homes...... You always have to turn in into a RESCUE VS BREEDERS thing, get over it. Responsible breeders get bashed here as much as the BYBs, it is what some of the recue folk do best. I breed, I rescue, I desex, but I don't early desex...get over that too!

Nothing like decreasing the size of the gene pool.

The OP was about a BREEDER early desexing puppies. NOT Rescue. Now I am a BREEDER and I also RESCUE, and I do not agree with early desexing. I do not hate X Breeds, there have been many mutts in my life. I rescue mutts as well. I don't understand this question at all???? In fact I cannot see how it is at all relevent. I am not ANTI DESEXING, I am simply not in agreeance with early desexing from my BREEDER position. Rescues are a different story, I'm sorry if you do not see it that way, but they are. As a BREEDER I have to stand 100% behind the puppies I produce. I cannot in all honesty desex at 8 weeks and then hand over a puppy and state that I have done everything I can to produce a happy, healthy puppy when the act of desexing it at that age could create issues down the track for the dog and it's owners. When I hand over a puppy it is after I have done everything I can to give that puppy the very best start in life that I can. That puppy has been given every chance to grow and develop normally, that is my responsibility as a Breeder.

My Vet encourages ALL pet owners to desex their Pets, but not as baby puppies. There are many Vets with the same stand. Doesn't mean they care any less. And we do not have a higher rate of unwanted litters because of it. Despite what some would have you believe there actually owners with enough smarts to handle an entire animal. Being a RESPONSIBLE owner or Breeder means making eduacated choices and doing what is right for your animals.

Poor baby! I've seen the same in 2 large breed bitch puppies. I'm sure the breeder was doing what they considered to be the responsible thing, with their Vets support. I could never do it to such a young puppy though, my Vet refuses anyway. Breeders really are being put between a rock and a hard place.

How much per day Nadia? Large dogs I use 1000mg of Ester C tabs.

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I'd start him on Vit C, it tightens up the feet.

Exactly!!! have seen the same here, plus numerous dogs suddenly becoming "skin dogs" with all sorts of skin, ear problems. My Vet does not reccomend it at all. Personally I think we assault our pets immune systems with far too many drugs and it is the animals who pay the price.

I have been feeding minced chicken with bone in for over 10 years to all my dogs from 3 kg upwards without incident. Dogs choke and die eating kibble, things like this can happen, there is risk with everything.

I add different vegies,fruit and extras with every batch of mix that I do. As haven has just said you do not need to have nutritional balance in every meal. My mix includes minced carcasses etc so has ground bone, but I also feed the carcasses, wings, necks and lamb and beef bones as well. Feeding shouldn't and doesn't have to be complicated. No vegies for a week, no worries. All varied meaty bones one week, no worries. Balance is achieved over time.

The Product was taken off the market in the USA after a high rate of reactions to the drug, including deaths. In Canada the product is labeled "to be used only when there is no alternative " Here in Australia the drug company are now trying to push it onto 12 week old puppys. And give them 2 doses in their first year. Go Figure!!

Nope,not a chance.

Whippets really prefer to be WITH their people, and a crate in your room would be the best option. Mine actually prefer to be in their peoples beds. The laundry is probably a cold room, sighthounds with very little body fat and such fine skin and coats really feel the cold, a cold puppy is a very unhappy noisy puppy. A crate in your room covered with a blanket and nice cozy polar fleece blankie to snuggle up with should make for quieter nights and a warmer happier puppy.

You have to wonder about our country don't you. We live in a nation where local authorities quite happily spread 1080 to control dingoes and foxes, but we are asked to anaesthatise toads before humanely dispatching them FFS!! All toads that hop into view here are dispatched, by whatever means available at the time.

:D Lucky it didn't come with smell a vision !! Truly gross. :shakehead:

Yep, those ones are good Don't forget that you then have to clean all the crud out of your blades as well. Poor Little buggers, they go home with a red raw ass and you get some idiot owner accuse you of giving the dog clipper burn. Last dog I had like that was a Peke. I got the Vet to look at dog before I started trying to get it off so I had back up if anything was said, we were both dry retching it was so bad. Yesterday I had a poodle with ears so bad I almost lost my lunch plucking the crud out of them, I swear what I plucked from one side was being pulled through from the other, I saved the huge stinking brown wads in clipseal bag and gave them to the owner at pickup. Dreadlocks in the ears with brown goo, and they wonder why the dog stinks :D

Flyblown..........flys lay eggs in disgusting filthy hair sometimes with untreated wounds etc, and the maggots hatch on the the dog and eat the crap and the infected flesh. Flyblown dog means Groomer either doesn't eat lunch that day or vomits what she did eat. Owners like these should be shot.

Phenol kills the toads. As does, bleach, dettol, pine oil disinfectant. We kill them here too, but never ever totally get rid of them. You will rarely find them during the day when you look for them, they burrow into mulch, soft soil into potting mix in pots etc. Dead dry toads turn up all the time here too, like anything they do die for whatever reason and the dogs sniff out the corpses and bring them in for a chew, like dead birds, lizards and month old bones.

I have found the majority of the popular XX's have weird coats, the textures and combinations can be hard to deal with. Nothing easy care about any of them that I have experienced. I clip a std poodle x great dane, who is the result of a true accident. She actually has a quite decent coat to deal with, very poodle like but not a huge coat, she is kept clipped off and just has a scissored scrufy face and a shortish top knot that sort of parts and sits pretty flat, and a huge tail that we try to keep under control to trim , it is lethal I tell you. She is a BIG girl.

Nope, no measuring, but no weight issues either?? What foods my dogs get fed varies from day to day, they do not get the same food day in and day out. Would be a task to measure out proportions of everything. They all look great.

TRUE My "nastiest" little scruff is now coming weekly because it needs bathing for a skin condition , aren't I just the lucky one. It bites them!!