MolassesLass

Here is another example - Older but same dog Website

Yup, red is recessive and will "mask" any colour, so without those genes the dog could have been black, chocolate, blue, merle, tri etc. These are all red BCs just different shades. Most reds will orange as they age so a light dog may end up much darker at 9 than they were at 4.

It may yet prove to be a pale (Australian) red but will be cute either way. ;)

The bitten child could very well have been doing nothing visible. If he was down at the dogs height and stared into the dogs eyes and held it's gaze as it approached, this is dog language for a challange/threat. Poor kids, poor dog.

I just put the rug brush out on the head - sweep and vacuum at once.

Noosa council definition of dog no-go areas is here There are numeous documents about food but this here has the specific law:

Terrible for the poor child. Not the vets fault at all though - parents 100%, frickken idiots who need to be sterilised.

Except then dog food should be "feed" since most are mostly grain. :)

Difference between stock and pets? (even if horses are kinda both these days) Stock feed, pet food.

The white on my BCs goes a pinkish colour if it's an area that doesn't dry well - like between the pads on their feet. Could be the cause for the pits. The underside of the neck could be from salivia dribbling down or from laying on well chewed toys.

What a shame you're not in Qld, here non-members can exhibit in open shows.

I'd guess that he doesn't see the toys as prey (which is totally understandable - they aren't). Did you get him as a pup? Did you attempt to teach him to fetch as a pup?

Herding is modified prey drive rather than something separate. And you know that you going to fetch the item and then throwing it again is simply the dog training you to do it's bidding, right? It's not that the dog is in capable or thinks it "beneath her" to do it. I agree, sounds like she has you well trained GayleK Which is fine if it's fine with the owner of course.

I certinaly don't think every dog that goes missing (or is truly stolen) is used as a bait dog but I'm sure it does happen. I believe they are used to start fighting dogs off. Send the aggressive but green dog in with a non-aggressive dog and the fighter is going to win with as little injury as possible.

Herding is modified prey drive rather than something separate. And you know that you going to fetch the item and then throwing it again is simply the dog training you to do it's bidding, right? It's not that the dog is in capable or thinks it "beneath her" to do it. My BCs are all fetch mad. But then, this was the only game I really knew when I first got dogs. So I trained it into the first one who encouraged the others to play this way and I was into Canine Disc so I trained very specifically for this behaviour. I think it's such an easy reward fix for many dogs because owners expect it and it invovles little effort on their part. My Bullmastiff is not so keen though. He will chase the frisbee once or twice but I think he does it because he sees the others having fun and he stops because he soon remembers that he doesn't actually care. He's not interested in tug either, won't even shut his mouth over something. He likes to chase and barge into people for his games.

In real life I'd respond in a way that would have me warned/banned on DOL. Different game, different rules, different behaviour. ETA: Plus in real life you generally only have contact with people you get on with - you aren't stuck in the same space constantly with people who dislike you or you dislike.

Nope, it's just too high on my priority list to forget such a thing. I may forget to get their proper dinner out to defrost in time but I remember when it's food time and find them something.

Yup, used it heaps and will continue to use it. I report signatures that breach the rules, advertising, other rule breaches and any post directed at me that I feel is against the rules. I see posts about others that I would report if it was about me, but I don't report them as I feel it's up to the people involved to do so. I don't see how anyone can whinge that posters here are nasty while not informing Troy so that something could actually be done about it.

My dogs clean their teeth by eating meat off bone - ribs are great for this.

Logan council in Qld: 1 year -------------- Entire dog: $88.00 Neutered (desexed) dog: $39.00 Pensioner* - Entire dog: $41.00 Pensioner* - Neutered (desexed) dog: $19.00 Canine Control Council: $54.00 Greyhound Racing Authority: $54.00 Guide Dogs: $0.00 Hearing Dogs: $0.00 3 years -------------- Entire dog: n/a Neutered (desexed) dog: $90.00 Pensioner* - Entire dog: 91.00 Pensioner* - Neutered (desexed) dog: $43.00 Canine Control Council: n/a Greyhound Racing Authority: n/a Guide Dogs: n/a Hearing Dogs: n/a

If you are specifically after a fabric flying toy there are these in Australia: Tuffy Flyers Chuckit Flying Squirrel This one

It's great you've found Cody a home but I think further action is required. The council needs to know about the puppy so it gets registered and they can't try the stray crap again when they're bored it.

Thanks heaps. Helps that I have no spelling mistake this time too.

So like this would make it harder? ETA: And thanks for the nice comment on it.

I thought it was low quality - saved at JPG 80% - do I need to go lower? I don't understand what you mean by "more complex" though I suspected a single colour might be easy to remove (something about layers?). What else can I do?