RuralPug

The owner was in shock too. He had raised those dogs from puppies, but didn't for an instant consider that the type of barking (and more than likely fence chasing) that was happening when that poor soul tootled past every day or so was a danger signal that someone more experienced with dogs could probably have spotted. If he had realised it, he would have taken a great deal more care with containing them and hopefully, attempting to retrain them to not see the scooter as either prey or a threat. Again, we have an example of multiple dogs being owned by someone who has not been properly educated in their care and upbringing and creating damage and chaos in the community. I am leaning more and more to the view that people should not have a pet until they have proven that they have a basic knowledge of how to correctly raise, train and keep them.

You can buy a floater bowl that stops them drinking too fast or make your own by floating something inert (that they DON'T see as a toy ) in their water dish so that lapping is easy but gulping is not.

Sorry off topic a bit but I couldn't help noticing that all the recommended were ladies who had Christian names beginning with "K". So - is that a rule in Perth?

Which is exactly why good rescues organise a yard inspection before they adopt out.

Like to see that pic re enacted in a year's time! :) Lovely . LOL I thought the same thing!!

Oh thank you so much for fixing the pictures - puppy cuteness!!

Don't permit the pup to chew the mulch or plants. Some commercial mulches contain items toxic to dogs, and some plants are toxic - and anyway he needs to starts learning that he is not permitted to chew everything. Each time you see your puppy chewing on mulch or grass, gently remove him and offer him a toy or natural chew instead. That means not leaving him unsupervised in the yard until he has learned that . I agree with giving him his own special place to dig - his own small sandpit in a clamshell pool is ideal. If he has lots of things of his own (not all at the same time though, change them around a lot) he is more likely to leave your things alone. Good luck with him and I hope you find a very good puppy school or training class that teaches you how to help him be the best dog ever!

There is room for people who just love to exhibit as well as people who exhibit because they just love the breed. Some do stumble in - perhaps not so many these days though. As long as they are promoting the breed or breeds they are showing, whether they also breed or not is not an issue.

That is okay for initial training, but in the ring they need to be near the front of the table so that the judge can go over them without breaking his/her back. If they had chosen a Standard or Giant you wouldn't have the table problem!!

My gazettes are only neatly filed until 1992, after that they have been just chucked into storage tubs and I am not wading through all those terrifying "awaiting filing" piles. Sorry. If you can work out what month and year I might have a go though.

It is not legal in Vic to have a live animal as a prize in any sort of draw or raffle. I agree Mita, organisers are saying they will be vetting the winner to ensure the pup goes to an appropriate working home. Other prizes are sheep, I imagine they will be vetting those winners as well - but then it really isn't a random draw is it? So it shouldn't be called a raffle.

That product has been replaced by Blackmore's with this entirely new formula :Digesticare. I haven't tried it, I'm still quite happy with Protexin powder. Others have had good results from human probiotics - heaps of threads will pop up if you do a search.

I'm just wondering if the larger stronger bones worry you because your puppy broke a tooth on one? Most dogs are still losing their baby teeth and getting their adult teeth until they are five or six months old - are you quite sure that it was an adult tooth that broke?

I have foster dogs in all sizes here so when a roo tail comes my way I chop it into pieces suitable for the size of the dog - as long as they cannot gulp the vertebrae down whole and must chew, I have no problem. Some of them have never had bones before so I have to make sure that ALL vertebrae in their piece are wider in both directions than the back of their mouths. I always measure using the smallest end of the chopped piece as they get the meat off quite quickly. Usually that means the smalls and mediums will get bits of tail but the large and giants are very lucky if I can find a bit big enough for them - choking hazard as BC crazy mentioned. Sometimes the shooters manage to skin them down to quite dainty little tail ends and I just freeze those and deliver later to the local ferret rescue.

I can't see the pictures! Please fix so we can all see the uber cuteness! Sounds to me like you're doing everything right. With the training, since sessions are probably only a few minutes at a time right now, probably the sit stay or down stay for reward for Gypsy is exactly the right idea. When you start getting to 15 - 20 minute sessions a little later on, any chance you can give Gypsy a nice meaty bone to chomp, or a deer antler or something like that, while you have your little training sessions with the new baby? ^ I can just see that happening!

Press release from that city council decrying the media - how dare they report that the city was going to stop all adoptions! All the city asked them to report was that one adoption had resulted in the new owner needing to euthanize due to illness and that some dogs adopted out were rumoured to have been used in dog fighting! Council was quite miffed at not getting the spin it wanted! Full media release here but how does short excerpt from it strike you? ...we learned that euthanasia of animals seemed to be occurring only on non-adopted animals or obviously unhealthy animals. Nuisance animals such as opossums, skunks and other were being captured and released back... Horror of horrors - the animal control manager was helping animals. How could any full blooded redneck council possibly support such goings on.

Double post -

One to break your heart... City Manager Stops Adoptions Aransas Pass Animal Control has upset more than just the locals of the Texas town after the city's manager announced a new policy to euthanize all animals that stay in the shelter longer than three days. In a letter to the residents of Aransas Pass on the city's Facebook page, the city states that the number one responsibility of Animal Control is to control the stray animal population. The letter pointed out that Animal Control is not intended to be an adoption facility. The temporary new policy, adopted by city manager Sylvia Carrillo, was implemented June 20, according to Action 10 News, who only discovered and reported on it this week. The Aransas Pass city manager admitted that the new euthanasia policy may violate a city ordinance which calls for the adoption of stray animals when possible, but she feels that the policy is more critical than any ordinance. "I would say the entire health population overall is important which is the intent of that and any ordinance is the overall public health as the overall protection of the community," Carrillo told Action 10 News. Problems within the Aransas Pass Animal Control were cited by Carrillo as lack of funds, insufficient veterinary care, improper paperwork, and loose adoption polices. The City of Aransas Pass posted a job opening for a new Animal Control Officer last month which calls for the "euthanasia of animals on a daily, weekly, monthly basis." According to Aransas Pass Progress, one officer, Carol Crockett, was suspended without pay recently. The suspended animal control officer ended up resigning from the position. Aransas Pass's city manager said: "We have, in the last five years…steered away from our mission. Our mission is animal control, and that is controlling the animal population. Which means our primary goal should be euthanization. We have not planned accordingly or budgeted accordingly. Without the assistance of our local (veterinarians), which nobody has really stepped up, we have to go back to euthanization." The city's manager said that Aransas Pass strayed from their mission. She pointed out that the city needlessly relocated opossums and skunks. Crockett, the animal control officer who quit her position, according to the city manager, should have just killed those animals instead of relocating them. Crockett said, "I can't do that every day. I can't go home and live with myself." The city manager argued that, while euthanizing healthy animals every day would be difficult, it's just part of the job. The City of Aransas Pass had not properly budgeted for adequate veterinary services and claims the animal control facility was never set up for adoptions. The city manager explained that a recently adopted animal ended up dying of parvo. She says that without proper veterinary care that could happen again and urges the community to think about how the possibility of future disease would be "pulling at the heart strings of a child who just had an animal adopted." Cheryl Schneider from Georgetown, Texas said: "As an open admission shelter director that adopts out 60% of the 7500 animals that come to the shelter yearly and has a save rate that exceeds 90% for 3.5 years, I have to say this is a tragedy. The city manager is SO misinformed and uncaring, it is sickening. It doesn't take a bigger budget, it takes volunteers and programs that don't cost a thing and your donations will pour in to cover those medical expenses. This is so barbaric. How is the public health protected and the number one reason for animal control is to protect the public against rabies. Way to go for getting it all wrong. No way will I ever spend a dime in this town again. Who is going to walk those healthy, adoptable dogs and cats to the kill room? What if the family is on vacation and their dog gets out. Way to serve the public." Aransas Pass is conducting a survey of its residents to see if they'd be willing to pay a $5 surcharge on utility bills to cover animal care services, but on the city's Facebook page, residents want to know if their $5 will be for a 100 percent euthanasia-based facility before committing any extra funds to animal services. Animal Control falls within the Public Works division of Aransas Pass' governmental structure. Crockett was the Aransas Pass' only animal control officer certified to perform euthanasia. Until certification is granted to another officer, Dr. Neal Floerke, a veterinarian from the neighboring City of Taft, will be performing Aransas Pass' animal euthanasia. Dr. Floerke is a board member for the San Patricio County SPCA, which practices TNR, but still has no facility. The city manager stressed the importance of spaying and neutering, but neglected to mention successful Trap-Neuter-Return(TNR) programs that have controlled feral communities in other areas around the nation. Aransas Pass' city manager hopes that the SPCA's animal shelter, once built, will provide the housing and adoption services for the area's strays.

No idea how this got posted twice. Apologies.

Also people who would say back to back breeding is cruel even if bitch are puppies are given best care and in good health because they feel it is a drudgery on the bitch have obviously never watched a litter being reared by a good mum. If a bitch doesn't like and enjoy rearing puppies, it is pointless to breed from her again (ever) because you are creating a hell of a lot of extra work for yourself to rear those puppies as well as a good mum could. All of my non-maiden bitches wanted to be with and help care for the babies of other bitches (not that I usually allowed this) because they loved and enjoyed it. And that is not an uncommon scenario in many breeds. So it is not intrinsically evil to back to back breed, or even to breed every heat until the bitch passes middle age. But too many people have done this in ways that have damaged the bitch, so it is forbidden.

... bitches with these conditions can be bred and sadly are bred but these conditions are not ordinarily caused by over breeding. ... Which is the whole point. Back to back breeding is NOT automatically harmful to a bitch if all care is taken and the bitch is kept in the peak of health at all times. It is forbidden because too many are careless and uninformed and do NOT keep their dogs in the peak of health.

I could name breeders that are doing this - but I won't because I might miss some that are doing it that I don't know that would not be fair. Better to tell the puppy buying public the things they should be looking for in the adults already produced by that breeder and in their current broodstock. The Pugs with a little more nose can fare quite well in the show ring with a nice nose roll covering it. Please don't confuse a little more nose with a little more muzzle - Pugs/Pekes with a bit of muzzle tend to have jaw and teeth problems that can be devastating. Japanese Chins are examples of a flat faced breed with no nose roll concealing the nose - if you google pics you will soon notice that some have ludicrously short noses and others do have a bit of nose. That extra length of nose plus decent nares allow for a better internal construction which really increases the amount of air intake.

Yay a place... Now waiting to hear from one of you wonderful girls if this little Pom is actually still available - which will no doubt depend on the advertiser actually replying to your contact. Which might be instantly or tomorrow or next week. I'm really not very good at waiting LOL

OOPS it's Animal Eye Care and they do regular visiting clinics in other surgeries - Click here for their website. Belle is very lucky girl to have you for an owner, Bianca!

Not real sure exactly where Moorabbin is in relation to Malvern but the Animal Eye Clinic in Malvern is one of the best in Australia...I think they have another branch - I'll check.