kimzy

I would love to have another Chessie one day. The girl i had was perfect and when she died at 14 she broke my heart. I havent been able to bring myself to get another but one day......

We also use Redgum and have had no problems.

We had a toy poodle, the littlest Princess, she live to 19yrs 10m. When we sent her to the bridge, she still had her teeth, she was a great little girl who had a a fairly trouble free life.

A few years ago our Big fella (lab ridgie cross) was attacked by a Staffy. It grabbed him by the chest and he just stood there screaming. I guess I am very wary and will avoid any staffy that I dont know. With that being said, I also do know a couple of lovely Staffy dogs. When our toy poodle was alive and younger, she used to play with Pete the Pitbull at the beach on a regular basis with no problems. The worst dog I know is a pet shop puchased swf that lives in our neighborhood. She gets out and goes house to house barking at everyone she see's. She gets every dog in the neighborhood barking.

Kimzy / we are safe

swim free little bill

Big hugs to everyone going through this. We had to go through this last Christmas with our toy poodle. It is so hard.

We used to have a dog wire fence and we had a problem with a 4 neighborhood foxies ( they roamed) that used to come in our yard and attack our chooks. We didnt complain to council but we did call and inquire about the rules of fencing and dogs coming in. Our council told us that our fence only had to keep our dogs in, it did not need to keep other dogs out. We did work it out with the neighbors without any drama, we brought them a dozen eggs and explained the problem. We all ended up being good friends.

a few years ago we had a family next door who's kids liked to kick a basketball high into the air and watch it lad on our roof. They were about 14 years old and a basketball could have killed our toy poodle. I asked them and their parents nicely a couple of times but it didnt stop so the next time it happened i took the basketball down to the managment company that had the rental they were in and had them pick up the basketball from there. It never happened again. In your situation i really like the idea of buying the cheap tennis balls for them good luck

I agree... probably depends on the dog. Ours dont mind the chooks at all. Our chooks run loose in the yard all day with the dogs and there has never been any problem. Well........... Bubba Bundy did lift his leg on one so I guess that one is his.

that poor dog that is really upsetting

So sorry for your loss rest in peace Sophie

Great news

Prayer said for chase hope he's ok

She has such a sweet face

ok.....Bloods came back good The only concern was that her glucose was in the very lowest of the normal range. Other then that everything was good. Angel is a very fit girl. The vet would like to keep her for a day of observation after fasting her for 12 hours later in the week or early next week. We will work that out but other then that Angel seems fine.

Im sorry.. Hugs to you.. I dont know if the tears ever stop. Its been almost a year since we lost the littlest princess and I still cry when i see things that remind me of her, like paper towels in the grocery store. rip Matey

The littlest Princess had her teeth cleaned at 14, we did the bloodwork and everything was fine. She lived to be 19.

Back from vet and everything seemed fine, she spent a really long time with Angel. We are now waiting for the blood tests to come back so hopefully that will tell us more.

The Bay Islands, we are in between the Gold Coast and Brisbane. We call them Qlds best kept secret. There are Macleay, with the most services, Karagarra which is the smallest, lamb and Russell. They are about 15 min from the mainland by ferry or 40 min by car barge. Its a great place to live if you are not a big shopper and can live without going to Mcdonalds everyday. But we have all the main services like most small towns, police, post office, grocery store, doctors ect...

i hope Cody is feeling a bit better this morning.

She is acting her normal happy self and has had no more dizzy/ wobbly spells that i have seen and she has been with me pretty much all the time. We have an appointment on Monday with the vet on the mainland and i will have her checked out with blood tests or whatever it takes to make sure she is ok. Our favorite vet and the one we usually see is here on the island tuesdays so im not sure if we should wait for him but i already have the Monday appt. I tried to get her in on Sat. but couldnt. I do have the pet ambulance (water taxi) number handy that goes to the 24 vet just in case and the vet nurse is on the Island. I love living out here but in these situations its just hard to know what the right thing to do is sometimes.

Thank you for your replys. :p We are definetly going to the vet. She seems recovered but your right, if its her heart then we cant take that chance. Im going to feed her a medium light dinner tonight and keep her quiet. Play dates are very new to her, she was very worked up and excited as well as puffed from chasing the ball. She has always been afraid of other dogs but we have worked on that and she now has her first real doggy friend. (besides our Bundy boy)

We had a doggy play date and everything was fine. Angel was chasing a ball and was puffing pretty hard and she was very excited but then got really wobbly and looked dizzy. We checked her for ticks although she is tick treated, nothing was found and she is resting now although she still wants to play ball. I am really not sure what to do, she seems fine but.......... she is my special girl. I live on an Island and we dont have a vet today although i could take her across to the mainland or should i wait for the vet tomarrow.

well... My sister got me a giant coffee mug that says "dog fur.....dont leave home without it" I consider it a trophy