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Hope that helps poodlefan. Calm and people focussed. Hmmm Pity the hair issue might rule out a CKCS.

Inside or outside dog? Do they want a calm dog, an independent dog, a people focused dog? What sort of character are they looking for? Will the dog receive any formal training or be taken to dog parks? Is its ability to get on with other dogs important. Is control offlead important? Lots more factors to consider than size and coat type.

Invite a raptor or a consrictor to stay.

Im not commenting on whether a boarding kennel should or should not do one thing or another in order to get what is owing to them. Im saying read the contract and be bloody sure you know what you are signing. Im not talking about a situation where they hold your animal until you pay. That's what a traditional lien is. I fail to see why any right minded business would want to send the sheriffs in to seize a dog as payment for debt if there's a car in the driveway and a plasma TV in the lounge. Your average mutt isn't worth much. A lien that allows property to return to the owner and then be repossessed? It will be interesting to see what the courts make of it.

Steve, this isn't quite correct. A lien over property allows the person to whom the debt is owed to retain it until the debt is paid. The property can only be sold if the debt won't be repaid. Basically you don't get the dog back until you've paid. It doesn't give a right to seize a returned dog. I have to say I've never heard of it with regard to dog related businesses.

They do! Afghan Club of NSW run lure coursing once a month at Erky Park in the cooler months.

if they are wild caught, my guess would be selenium. Most food animals have their diets supplemented.

Sounds like a typical Whippet to me!

I'd read the health info on the Lab breed page here on DOL, ring the Lab Club of Qld if they have a puppy enquiry person and ask lots of questions in the Lab thread. There is also a Lab thread in the dog breeds 101 forum. With a breed average of 16, the bitch has a higher score than that. Personally I'd be looking elsewhere.

Dr Higgins is the chief media spokesperson for Dogs NSW. To the best of my knowledge he's a vet, not a trainer.

When is that Trish?

But what if we do mind?

So why not ban all cars? Oh that's right, people would object. He never asked for dogs to be banned. He asked for them to be restrained? Seems fair enough. Why not just ask for them to be controlled and penalise those whose dogs attack wildlife. The laws exist to do that now. That's what we do with cars.. speed limits and penalise the irresponsible. Every call for dogs to be kept on lead in all places is another nail in the coffin of responsible dog ownership.

So why not ban all cars? Oh that's right, people would object.

If the Stafford is dog aggressive, I'd not be wanting to have my dog meet her under any circumstances.

I have a couple of "favourite show weekends" that unless the judges are hideous I would always enter; Tumbarumba/Illabo Bairnsdale ( what can I say about a show that has someone with 22+ different flavours of fudge AND espresso coffee) Coolamon/Ganmain.. the trek in and out of Wagga each day is worth it.

1. Please stop shouting - all capital letters is hard on the reader. 2. What do you feed them? 3. Have you had them to the vet to check their ears, mouth, skin and anal glands? 4. What do you wash them in and how often to you groom and wash them? Toy breeds as outside dogs

You have to do an approved training program as posted.

Following from from Stolz Rotties comments about the Champion class as a suggestion to improve/maintain show numbers, I thought I'd start this thread up to figure out what makes some shows popular (and therefore what folk want at a show). I figure people will show if they find the whole experience pleasureable. Anyhoo here's what rocks my boat: * Show clusters. Being able to travel to two or more shows in the one venue is likely to attract my entries than a single. Want a classic example? Tumbarumba doubling up with Illabo at the Tumba show grounds has produced, IMO, one of the best country show weekends available. More on this one to follow * Adequate space ringside to set up. There's at least one show (*cough* Gundagai *cough*) that my show journal notes as a bitch to get anywhere to set up even if you are there at sparrow fart. I don't want to drive 2.5 hours to struggle to be able to find a postage stamp sized place to set up and not be able to see my ring. Pass. Short of Bo Bengston or someone of that ilk judging, I won't enter that one. * Not having to lug gear up hill and down dale from the car park. That's a big turnoff. Being able to show out of the back of your car sure beats having to wrestle gear over fences, past locked gates etc. If you have to transport it, making damn sure there's room to move gear through between the inconsiderate of our number helps. Roping areas off is a good idea. * Nearby accommodation or on show camping. It might be the best show in the world but if you can't find anywhere dog friendly to stay or camp, don't expect entries. Tumba's got this weighed off. Dog friendly cabins a stroll away or camp on the grounds. * Judges with a half way decent reputation for fairness/objectivity. I've seen a few show committees wonder why a show further away got a better entry and sometimes its who they chose to judge. I'm sure we can all name folk we wouldnt' enter under and some of those names crop up A LOT. Most people have notes or spreadsheets about judges these days. * Some sort of refreshments. Even a sausage sizzle and a cold can of softdrink beats having to drive off grounds to find anything to eat. In that regard, huge thanks to Wolumla this year for finding a soccer club? to fill the breach left by someone withdrawing their catering offer at the 11th hour. * Decent grounds. They don't have to look like the 18th hole at Atlanta with matching clubhouse but something you're not going to get bogged in or that your dog has to tip toe through to avoid the prickles is great. Big thumbs up to Bemboka for moving their venue to Nimmitabel due to prickles last year. * Dunnies close to the ring. They don't have to be flash but even the hire ones are appeciated when you dont' have to have a GPS and half an hour to find them. Was thinking of starting a flash hire out dunny/bathroom business but looks like there's aleady folk doing it. * Cash or useful prizes. Friend of mine got a box of envelopes once as a prize.. and they were so old as to be useless. That's just insulting. I'd rather have a nicer ribbon that receive stuff the Show Committee got for Christmas or won somewhere else. No offence but we've all got chairs - probably a lot better for our backs than the Golo ones and at least you can always use dog towels. Anyone else got thoughts???

As if that's a given these days. Hardly confined to the school ground. There are many avenues for children to make friends and involve themselves in social activities. These days home schooled kids even have an online network. Such as? Lets face it, not every child will excell in your average school environment. God forbid parents look outside the square, choose to their children's education as something to be personally involved in as opposed to leaving to the government to provide or decide that their child's safety or self esteem are best promoted by home schooling. Some of the most mature, well adjusted and downright nicest kids I know are homeschooled by tertiary educated parents who view raising a happy, well educated child as their priority in life. Horses for courses I say. The idea that teachers always know best has no more credibility now then when I was a school.

The question you have to ask yourself Corvus is how familiar your average DOLer is with the workings of the organisation. Other than rolling up for the Million Paws Walk every year, I imagine many folk don't know much about them - just a general idea that they run shelters and deal with cruelty cases. Seems to me that familiarity breeds contempt.

I don't have any particular issues with the local branch (ACT) However, nationally Diva is on the money. They court a public image as animal welfare benefactors (all creatures great and small) when the reality is far less objective. How any animal welfare organisation can remain largely silent on issues like the live sheep export trade and puppy farming while ruining the lives of individual Australians with witch hunts sits very poorly with me. They appear to be running more and more of an animal rights agenda and their campaigns do not run in the interests of purebred dogs. Money talks with the RSPCA.. and those without it are at the mercy of an organisation with little public accountability and the power to send you to the wall if they choose to.

That's a fair bit of dog to plonk in a backyard and ignore. If they arent' lucky enough to end up with families who exercise and train them right, I see fence jumping in their futures. PP are straying into the "false and/or misleading advertising" area with that Guide Dogs claim methinks.

I think the collars are bright green.

Damn.. thought it might have been a really comfortable chair a dog could lounge on. Oh hang on.. I have plenty of those IN the loungeroom.