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Not a surprise at all if people are following the animal welfare aspects of Europe & people should be worried

Get a rehab specialist . Generally speaking swimming for injury recovery is warm water & with a set purpose in mind .

For xrays that price is good . As to a second opinion suggest if you have no confidence in your vet yes . I will always advocate for a second opinion but we are lucky that when we pick our chosen vet clinic we do so based on what they can offer as a complete package & skill of the staff . In your case if its a second opinion then it would be with a vet whois a specialist in ortho issues or regularly does the procdeure otherwise your just wasting money . It may not require surgery often a conservative approach can work but you wont know till an xray . If nothing shows up then consider a doggy chiro /bowen person some wont treat till after x rays but those golden hands & water exercise can do alot & management

Albino is not accepting in any breed or form . Some idiots do breed for albinos & bigger idiots buy them whinge when the health issues or cancer care is required in summer . No different to humans

Most in NZ use Massey but the greater majority use LABOKLIN VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY (UK) Cambridge Uni in the UK as well . We wont use orivet

! COLOUR Any colour or mixture of colours - but never merle (dapple) Extended Breed Standard of the Chihuahua - Page 13 Colour may be almost any colour or combination of colours, solid, tri-coloured, marked or splashed. There are fawns, golden fawns, red fawns, silver fawns, blue fawns, reds and creams, sables, chocolates, blues, blacks, whites, creams, etc. The only “colour” which is not permitted is merle (dapple). Colour should NEVER influence any judging decision, as all colours, except merle, are equally correct. As above cream can vary from pale to dark Technically a White Chi would simply be a pale cream so if the people your talking to on Facebook cant explain that then their knowledge is questionable . White -albino is a whole different thing & runfast

Ears change & especially during teething but simple reality shes a rescue not likely breed with keeping the breed feature ears . If the shape & set is wrong they wont ever fix compared to teething ears

In my own breeds the colours have different natures bigtime . In Labs Chocs often are more scatty ,obsessive even now . I handle a very bomb proof Choc but we board alot of fruit loop chocs. I find the blacks more vocal The yellows really good all rounders

If there a decent breeder they will likely have your number blocked . No way will you be getting this puppy back . I can guarantee if the money was refunded that quickly they felt red flags & addressed it quickly & smartly & did all the rights things for the pup. Simply put your relationship with this breeder is well & truly ended with no comeback

There is no right or wrong just what ends up the best fit for the dog . Any dog having seizures i would want a Thyroid test done

Just drop his dry food for 6 weeks and stick to what is working & see what happens . He may be the kind of dog that needs kids Gaviscon given for reflux

Colour i cant help as im not sure how simple it is in Staffies without knowing colours in pedigree & DNA colour testing . As to the COI it again is as simple as lower is better & hopefully no breeder goes by that theory alone . I do know in the UK many have that mindset yet within my breed dogs in a pedigree of hips scores up near the 30 OMGno BAER testing but brag about the COI being low has truly screwed over the concept on know your pedigree

Im presuming your using a repo vet so they would have clearly explained the best timing & timing may mean not in the morning but ready in the afternoon .Good repo vets tell you the whole package Are you using chilled.frozen . Days are irrelevant for AI numbers count even breed quirks can be considered . I know plenty of AI done around days 20/25 with good success

I gather most will be PTS because people think thats a better choice & apparently find that thought process easier to live with aslong as they cant run in circles. Funny part is for many many many years the biggest source of blood donors to save dogs lives are also Greyhounds so people dont have an issue when there dog needs blood transfusion to have it from a Grey but want the industry banned but dont really care what the future is for the dogs . Im gathering lure coursing or Sprintdog isnt an option with the NZKC dog sport events

Yes there are still show bred there & i certainly hope the NZKC fights hard for the show people because yes that NSW saga was not nice for the Greyhound show folk who got targeted & had to deal with the unknown fear for that period because no one uses there brains.

We always told price first as it was no fun for us to talk to someone on the phone for 30 plus minutes & then hear So sorry thats out of our price range . I will say though we didnt put the price in the ad nor every life detail . Our ads we simple if needed to be posted . Puppies available ,health tested, available from Please phone xyz to discuss further because we would never sell a pup based on the info in a post. The one then we clearly made important in our ads was the people should clearly have researched this breed & understand it needs professional grooming every 6/8 weeks & weekly brushing so this breed has life long expenses & owner commitment as that was more important to us than price . In 40 plus years we never did application forms & the questions most ask are nothing more than what you get talking . Talking to a human weeded out very easily the good,bad & not this breed people .

Your first post a few years back was about being at the point of rehoming a 6 month Sheltie as it was still pooing in your house . Infact at a dogshow a Sheltie lunged at me walking past & broke skin Any dog cross ,pure can be an issue with owners who shouldnt own anything more than a garden gnome

Dangerous ?? Please show the references to this breed being so dangerous . So you would want the breeds who do the same/similiar jobs to be banned too .

You can buy them in Oz . There called Happy hoods here and groomers often use them to lesser the noise for hair dryers & the likes but if a dog doesnt want to wear it they just push of easy peasy

So you sell your stuff from your bedroom?? Your happy for strangers to come into your room to ensure your legit?? Im going to safely assume you have a neutral room you sell stuff from & most likely CCTV to ensure your safety . I mean no sane person is going let let Joe Public just have free range through their house so they can confirm . I mean anyone telling me that sends Red flags up as im not going to just go into a randoms house if there selling stuff either ,could be a serial killer. I can safely tell you if wanting to snoop through a home is your thing you will get more no from breeders . Most breeders do outside ,neutral for meet n greets .Get to know each other & go from there . All aspects covered in a respectful & responsible manner . We ourselves did communication before pups where to be viewed & we where old fashioned & did phone calls only as we could learn alot by what was said not written,we never did questionaires as so easy to fudge answers & thats not a tool we base a pup for life to be sold by . We always ensured contracts,diets ,breed history etc where all covered before any commitment was made . As a side note a good Dobe breeder in the US was murdered after people came to his home to look at pups,they also stole the pups .

A dog that is raised solely in the home doesnt equate to better ( yes our pups where home raised ). A breeder to ensure a pup is well rounded exposes their dogs to all facets of life ,there is more to providing enrichment than being in a house . We crate train our puppies Why because so many owners fail this area when they need day stays at the vet or after care recovery in a crate or travel in a crate in the car etc etc. We feed our dogs in crates because varying age stages ,requirements & meds . Our pups where taught crate skills Each dog is feed in a manner that means we know exactly what is happening. Our puppies never saw kids & that was never an issue,we dont have other pets which most breeders dont . Visitors experience within reason ,people seem to think pups just get exposed to everything & anything & you do that with development . We dont rush to wean the mother & she wont be placed at stress for every Tom,Dick & Harry to visit . Our puppies went lead trained we start at 5 weeks,grooming table trained from 5 weeks, there play area for enrichment was better than what most parents provided for their own kids & they where where taught life skills like the door gets shut & go learn self independance . I wouldnt get hung up on one area because unless the whole package is balanced it means nothing. Health tests should be provided . As for people inspecting our home NO All our people visited the pups out the front in a well set up neutral area.Never ever was an issue with any of our puppy buyers bar 2 & those 2 never got to buy a pup of us as their obsession to want to walk through our house to tick the piece of paper was weird ,creepy & crossed the line of information they needed to see. My home is my private residence ,pups are raised for the first few weeks in my bedroom & then moved to family room. Depending on breed & litter size common sense will tell you pups need to move to a more suitable area . Your not going to have 10 GSD till 8 weeks in a small pen in the family room . So a person needs to think logically about hygenic,safe housing for a litter of puppies As for photos well no sane person is going to post pictures of dirty bedding etc etc so Yes pictures posted are staged . Also understand that breeders need to comply with their State laws on whelping & raising puppies irrespective of breeder,BYB

Working condition shouldnt equate to ribs so visual

We board alot of Huntaways never a skinny one . Looks like a working border or cross & that is skinny for a dog doing jobs . Certainly not a good visual for the public . Would be interesting to know if it has a medical issue

One who health tests ,breeds for correct breed temperament & ideally knows how to pick the pup that shows the best potential for the role is going to need to be trained for but also be the most suitable match for you to live with & be able to enrich its dog needs . Borders certainly are not for every person . As the dog will need to be accredited to be an assistance dog consider touching base with the people you have approached to get the dog through its official journey & what they deem important as part of the selection process to its job role

Debarking doesnt stop the noise it just potentially lessens the sound & infact the debark sound can be more annoying .I think its important you understand that if moving to a place with strict requirements & that you still need to address animal management . Given retirement villages are built so close together & often with shared walls you will need to be very on top of the behaviour