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I have a friend who lives rurally here and her poodle (miniature poodle) has been bitten by a tiger snake 3 times in 12 months.. Two were within 3 months of each other.. Little dude made a full recovery, at huge expense to the owner.. Snake bite treatment is very expensive.

Staffy that is different as it is classed as theft. The OP has willingly given these people the pup for monetary exchange. The fact they have not paid the full amount makes it a civil matter not a criminal matter. Ah of course..

Our local police helped get our stafford back (quite a few years ago now), when another guy had him in a yard. We had to prove to the police that he was our dog (microchip, papers and photographs) - they came with us to the guys house and they knocked on the door (we had shown them the dog in the back yard).. They guy was happy to hand him back and said he had found him..

Thanks Ams, I thought that may be the case after thinking about it a bit more.. It is a great pic, I wasn't disputing that.. My first reaction was still, who would take photos of a dog disagreement/fight..

On other news in Vic - I believe Mylo had a VCAT directions hearing today to see if they can have another hearing.. This poor boy has been held for 22 months now.. So sad that they can keep these poor dogs locked up for so long.

I believe PBs were restricted in BCC at the time he was sold as a lab cross staffy.. They have been for quite a while. God help anything with a red nose..

It looks the same to me as well - I was just wondering, who thinks to pull out a camera and take a photo of fighting dogs? My first reaction would be to say get out of it and then possibly try to break it up (if the get out of it didn't work) - I wouldn't think to pull out a camera to take a pic of it.. However thinking about it a bit more - perhaps the photographer was just there taking other pics and this just happened (like most of the best pics do)..

Make the play pen or area you are going to use to keep her in a happy place. Give her a kong with frozen cream cheese and sardines or something really yummy stuffed into it.. So she has something good to associate the pen/room with.. I crate train all my foster dogs with a treat that they only get when they go into the crate.. Usually some form of food treat but if she prefers toys, then that can work as well.. But they only get that super reward in the crate (or pen/room in your case).. Good luck :)

Their dog was sold to them as a lab cross staffy - by the very council now holding him and saying he is a restricted breed.. The whole thing is totally ludicrous (not to mention a total waste of ratepayers money).

That is a awesome shot but who stops to take a photo of two dogs fighting? Wouldn't the first instinct be, to break it up?

Agree with others - there is no preparing for it.. Enjoy every minute you have with them, they're all precious.

Yeah Zig has the circle tattoo in his ear as well from when he was desexed. Yeah, I imagine the branding iron would hurt a lot more than a tattoo..

That was the reason I posted it - probably should have elaborated a bit, instead of just saying 'what an idiot'.. I imagine it would be sore for a few days.. I remember after having a tattoo on my ribcage, it felt like it was bruised for a few days - and then it got itchy.. Next they will be tattooing kids under GA because they can..

I did as well Huski, when I first started going - but I was going when the park was at its busiest time.. If you choose your times and the company you choose to keep - there is rarely an incident.. Every single time I have witnessed something bad happen, it has been at peak times. To me peak times (at a dog park) are before and after work/school times. I find going any time from 6am to 7.30am is fine and we have no problem at all. After following all the great training advice I got from Steve and you (and lots of the other wonderful trainers here), Zig no longer goes to the park to play with other dogs - he goes to have a good off lead run, with me, playing ball and just having fun. He greets dogs nicely if they come over but he shows no real interest in playing with them (unless it's a puppy, he is happy to play with pups).. We meet up with a group of a morning and mostly their dogs are all the same - they come to run their dogs off lead and play with their own dogs. All these dogs get along, if they are near each other but mostly, we all do our own thing.. It is a very different story if we go in peak times (which is very, very rare these days) - there are usually dogs all over the place and people not taking much notice of what their dogs are doing.. To me, this is where and when issues arise. We end up going for an on lead walk in the town park when the off lead park is busy - it just isn't worth his safety or my sanity to stay there in times like those.

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Poor little angel..

Sorry your little guy was bitten - scary stuff for all concerned. Look, there is never going to be a dog park anywhere that you can go to (offlead) and be confident that 'nothing' will happen.. I feel for puppies at the off lead parks - most of the ones I see are so incredibly overwhelmed with all the attention from the big dogs (that owners don't recall out/away and let the pup in).. I go to the off lead park nearly every day - I choose my times carefully and I also choose who he interacts with. If I don't like the way a dog is playing or acting, we move on - to the other end of the park or leave. We usually go really early in the morning. There is a group that go at the same time (not everyone, everyday) and all our dogs get along fine. Every now and then a new person comes along, sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. I suggest if you want to attend off lead parks, then choose your times - go and see how many are there, what sort of dogs (and owners) are there. If all the owners are having a chat, not watching or playing with their dogs - leave.. Find a park that has a section for little ones and puppies (our park has two fenced areas - one for the big guys and one for the little ones and pups).. If you ever feel uncomfortable, just leave..

Ziggy - lone pup at the moment.. Day 11 - Looking down #fmsphotoaday by jamoore photos, on Flickr

SG, the pup in my post was never what I would call a 'normal' pup, based on what I saw and was told by those that lived with him.. Right from the start, he would circle the other dogs and curl his lip - his play always escalated very quickly to where the other dogs would pull out and not want to play with him.. He was always on guard, tense and looking around - it was almost like he couldn't relax.. As he got older the behaviour was the same but it escalated to the point where from about 9 months old he would walk past family members, tail stiff, eyeball them and curl his lip.. He was a scary dog..

She is lucky no one was hurt.. She was warned about him from almost as soon as they bought him home - he wasn't right..

As others have said - I would do a full vet check first.. I watched, and warned my sister, about a stafford pup she bought from a BYB years ago.. At around 12 weeks he was challenging her 5 year old female SBT. She would just swat him and he would circle her and growl.. It wasn't play.. He was always stiff/tense, his muscles always looked like he was ready to spring at you. By the time he was 9 months old, he had belted up the female dog and the other pei cross they had and he was running the show. He would walk past and eyeball you and growl.. He would circle the room, staring at you.. She had him desexed at 12 months but just a few months later, he bailed up my niece and my sister had to use a rake and put herself between the kid and the dog and back them inside the house with the other dogs.. She called the vet and he was PTS that afternoon.. He was never and affectionate pup, he didn't like a pat and would pull away if you tried to cuddle up to him.. I always thought there wasn't something right about him - the vet that put him to sleep suggested that perhaps he had a brain tumour because his behaviour really wasn't 'normal'.. He was one scary dog..

So happy to hear you will be back on deck Marianne.. I bet all your clients are happy as well.. Good luck in the new venue.

I was just contacted by Zippy's new family, to ask if I could help them find another addition to their family.. They want a male dog, about the same size as Zippy (who is an unpapered amstaff).. They would like a pup or young dog... Zippy is a super friendly girl who has never shown any aggressive behaviours. While here, she shared food from the same bowl as Zig, they shared toys with no issues as well.. She still goes to training and is doing really well and is a joy to own.. So if anyone knows of any male amstaff sized pups around 4-6 months of age in rescue, could you let me know please.. Edited to add they are in the ACT.. A photo of the lovely lass Day 11 February - Mistake (it was a mistake to let this foster girl go) by jamoore photos, on Flickr

We were always told to keep stitches as dry as possible. No bandage, no licking and no bathing until the stitches come out. Glad to hear he is home.

Chemo is the same - it doesn't cure them, it buys you time.. It will put them in remission and depending on the dog, the doses it has received and the spread and hold the MCT has.. Remissions can be short, medium or long term - with MCT it is so hard to tell.. We used a combination of conventional medicine, holistic medicine and finger crossing.. Ol had chemo for 6 months, was treated with improvements to diet and holistic supplements. High doses of Vitamin C, fish oil, a daily polarmine tablet and loads of what he wanted to do. He still wanted to go walking every day - so we did.. My oncologists don't think chemo will be useful in his case because he has multiple (frequent) MCT's, but they said they would consider trying a c-kit/tyrosinase inhibitor, like Masitinib or Palladia, which will turn off the c-kit oncogene temporarily (while he's taking the drug). This is because they suspect he has the c-kit oncogene. I can get them to do a DNA test to see. I'm doing pretty much the same as you in terms of treatment. There have been loads of changes since Ol was here and we were dealing with MCT (diganosed 2005 lost his battle in 2011). He had tumours all over him - we removed a few and then stopped because it was pointless. He had grade 2 tumours, with no clear margins on any removals. Our oncologist was adamant about the chemo - he said it was his only chance. Chemo bombs the whole system, so is much more successful in dogs with multiple tumours.. As opposed to radiation, which treats specific tumours. I hope you sort something out, it is so sad to see them unwell. MCT is a devastating disease.