MolassesLass

I don't see any reason not to desex and would prefer if most people did. I support the higher registration costs for entire dogs and think it's even better what my council has implemented (cheaper pound release fees for desexed dogs and dogs that are desexed to be released). I'm an ANKC breeder but 3/4 of my dogs are desexed and the 4th if just waiting for me to allocate the money. One had 2 litters and I didn't have anything to go on with so I felt that was her chance. I have two of her pups from the second litter, had the bitch desexed as soon as I decided not to breed from her, male is waiting. I also have a male of another breed who was shown for a while but then I retired him and he was desexed when he needed a GA for something else. I particularly don't understand why anyone would keep a bitch entire with no intention of breeding her!!

Very plain example from DogsQld

Cr Andrew Antoniolli has posted previously, maybe he will again. 16Paws - yes still the law. Dogs under 8kg must have 1m+ fences and over is 1.8m+

Seems to be whatever the council thinks. From Local Law No.7 Maybe even though the attacks occured within the yard, the fencing wasn't adequate. ETA: Perhaps the dogs were declared menacing or dangerous and the existing fencing doesn't meet the laws required for those type of dogs. Whatever it is, it's scary to think you've got to be responsible for keeping other animals and people out rather than just keeping your dogs in.

The care-taker lives on the grounds at Durack and it was advised that items left would be confiscated. So you either own up and get in trouble or lose your gazebo until you go claim it (and then get in trouble). The notice from the April Dog World.

My choc BCs have red reflections but the Bullmastiff has green.

I can't believe he didn't get jail time - steering locks are huge and heavy, hitting someone in the head with one should be a major offence.

I guess the food figure must be based on either a really expensive dry or a really cheap one that you need to feed heaps of. It costs me around $2000 a year for food for 4 dogs, one of which weighs 75kg! My vet bill for last year was way over average though - damn tumours.

The ANKC doesn't tend to say much at all, it leaves that to the state bodies. And the Qld body most certainly is putting up the argument to save it's own, along with now having a Government and Agency Liaison Officer to push the pedigree cause. ETA: Whoops, sorry RottnBullies, derailing your thread. I'm quiet now.

I think it is in this country.

I found this that sounds kind of like what you're after.

That's nothing! Non-dog people just don't get it.

Or the "boiling a frog" effect.* I look at it from a perspective of going from nothing to imagining things as bad as the could possibly be (I've only seen seizures in dogs or cats that have been poisoned and had my mum explain the horror she had with having them in her teens). Whereas you probably started with a seizure here and there, then started some meds and then progressed and so forth to the stage you're at. Things don't seem as bad or are as emotionally testing in increments. * Put a frog in boiling water and it jumps out. Put it in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling and it will just sit there.

Why though? I was hoping someone would say that, because I don't understand why people say and do precisely that. Seizures aren't painful to the dog, only to the humans who watch... except it isn't pain that we feel watching it but more like sympathy and stress. Probably because of anthro.... humanising the dog, in that I'd hate to live that way. Secondly the stress of constantly worrying is the dog seizing and something really bad is happening when I'm not with it. Because seizures look painful, because the drugs to control it have so many possible side effects and because there are so many healthy dogs out there to have and lastly as a breeder it wouldn't be a dog I could breed from nor would I feel ok rehoming. It all just adds up to a situation where I think it would be better to PTS. Maybe only better for me but as I don't see a humane death as a negative thing for the dog, I see no harm in that being the reason. I may be far too attached should it ever happen to an adult dog of mine, to be able to make that decision but that's how I feel now.

Impossible to say until you've been there personally but I feel that if the dog was having physical seizures (do dogs even get the staring type?) often then I'd probably PTS.

I'd see this as snooping unless it was stated you were interested in one of my pups in the future. Unfortunately this is mostly the fault of other breeders who like to snoop so they can put you down to others, change their price etc. Time wasting is hard to see until it happens. Enquiring about a dog you have no intentions of getting is time wasting, calling to find out if the breeder is cheaper than the breeder you just purchased from is time wasting etc.

This is ex-fiance, me (right) and my little brother (left) meeting Molly for the first time at about 5 weeks old. I had 3 to choose from, one was too quiet, one didn't stop barking the whole time and then there was my heart dog. And here's Duke the day I chose him from his litter at 6 weeks. He was my second choice because the one I liked the best, the stud owner was keeping. He had the darkest red colouring and was big. He stayed this size for all of 3 weeks. ;) The others I've bred so I met them pretty early on.

Don't be concerned, chances are you'll be with a very capable trainer and you'll learn heaps. There may be a couple of not so good ones out there, but there are also many wonderful Delta trainers, and at the end of the day, you're not going to "ruin" your dog by using their methods, even if you do find yourself with a not so good trainer. Their methods are kind and gentle and will help build a better relationship with your dog I'd rather take my pup to a Delta puppy preschool than some place where the instructor wanted me to alpha roll it for any "dominance" displayed. Just don't panic if your pup barks madly in excitement, jumps all over the other pups and squashes them. It may not necessarily be "aggressive". And indicative that the 12 week old puppy needed to be PTS as one "qualified" trainer told a puppy owner of mine. (Delta aligned)

Think you want to edit this to read Bulldog - the Bull Terrier is even more modern than the Bullmastiff... Crap! Yes Sandra - I meant Bulldog.

The Bullmastiff was developed as a breed in the late 19th century whereas the Staffy in the 17th. Both breeds have Bull Terrier Bulldog in their history but this is nothing like what you've suggested jackij. Do you have a source for your statement? How did the Staffordshier Bull Terrier become a smaller breed than the Pitbull if it was developed by crossing the Pitbull with much larger breeds (such as the Bullmastiff or Rottweiler)?

Just checked out Alex's profile on the DOL main pages - what a hunny!!! Partner says he'd have one of his pups in a heartbeat (which is saying something as he is very attached to our boy and has never admitted another could be as good).

My dogs seem to understand my reflection is just a reflection (will turn around when i start waving) but their own is often a strange dog who needs to be barked at (hackles and all)

Yup this is me too. Nothing to do with hygiene, just a matter of wanting to be able to not be subjected to others dogs. Seeing eye dogs are a totally different matter; they are not pets, they do not act like pets and I have no problem with them.

Depending on which country he's in, it may not be called red also. In the US "red" is for what we call "chocolate" and they call it yellow or "Australian Red" or "ee Red" online (denoting the genetics that cause it).