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i am not a big fan of chicken mince and rice with dogs i have found rice to give some dogs the runs and some of my dogs are not fussed on the chicken and i have a friend who has 2 rotties that can't have chicken at all they go into shock ... has your vet checked for hook worms ? have you had a lot of rain this brings worms out

Hi guy's i have a little problem with a rescue koolie that i have here. he and his sister are both 2 1/2 years old and have been on a chain since they where 8 weeks old very rarely let off and never taken off the farm never worked or any time spent on them both have lovely temperaments and are just dieing for some one to love them the sister is good now and no longer hunts for a way out of my yard and just melts into your arms when you pat her the boy also has stopped hunting for a way out but when you try to spend time with him he gets way to excited and starts to hump himself i have tried just walking off but he just follows still doing it the only thing that puts a stop to it is to growl at him and a light tap on the ribs but i don't want to have to do this to him .....i have just started to take him to pet manners and he did it there last night while training and as i did not want to give him the light tap he just kept on going.........any ideas anyone as to how to put a stop to his humping

some one by the name of amanda i was told she works at Bitsa

yes we now do have the marker one of the dogs that was tested by this lab was one of the 40 marker dogs his dna was sent in as a test because he is a pure koolie, the own of these koolies is taking action against bitsa in the new year

my friend sent bitsa the DNA of 4 koolies 2 that she bred herself and knows their history and breeding for the last 40 yrs and one of those 2 dogs was used to get the stamp for the koolie dna gene the other 2 dogs she knows the breeding and history behind them but did not breed them herself.....the results are guaranteed to be back with in 14 days which 3 did come back in that time but the 4th one was missing so she rang the company and asked about the last one she was told that there had been a mix up as the dna came out as pure kelpie so they were going to run it again.........my friend said ok and hung up and then sat down to read the ones that had come back, the first one was for a very small fine boned bitch 49cms tall and her dna said that she was mostly koolie great dane x bull mastiff the next dog she read said that it was koolie x great dane this is the dog with over 40 yrs of koolie breeding merle to merle all the way by my friend and only stands at 52cms tall the next was a dog that i owned for awhile and know her dam a koolie as my father owns her and my friend owns her sire the dog with 40 yrs of koolie koolie breeding behind it now this dna came back as poodle x koolie so what happened to the great dane that should have turned up and where the hell did poodle come from as i said i owned this dog my father owns her mother and she has no poodle in her i have never seen a merled short straight coat that malts like mad poodle before each of the 3 koolies came back with 54 breeds in there dna some of the breeds have only been in Australia for 10 or 20yrs now and no way could they be in these dogs blood lines ..... the 4th dna has never turned up and the Bitsa will not take any calls from my friend and refuse's to refund the money of the missing dna report, so breeders please be aware that if you use Bitsa your Boxer that you breed may come back as a shi tzu x and you could end up in a court case with the unhappy new owners of your pup

To me, traditional workings breeds, selected for working ability and breeding true to type for generations, are miles away from F1 hybrid designer dogs. so true Diva working dogs cross bred or pure are not and never be designer dogs they bred for work ability not looks or tpye I also thought the ANKC recognised the koolie as a working registry breed? I don't mean showable at ANKC shows, I know they don't have that kind of recognition, but I seem to recall some official acknowledgement of the working registry in some journal or other? and yes they are now allowed in agility, obedience flyball and herding and any other sporting events just no bench showing we are pleased to say

no one is going to flame you for asking lol and the answer to that is no we all breed koolie to koolie now days and there are some farmers that still breed best worker to best worker but they are crossing them with border collies or kelpies not cattle dogs (heelers) there are some very hard biting border collies out there i have seen some in action but those borders are working border collies short coated and bred to work cattle just like the koolies some have been bred to work only sheep and some cattle i have both types here

do you mind if i ask who your friend is i know most koolie breeds but not all, i have a litter of pups now and a couple of older pups from dance's last litter and i will not be breeding again until late next year

Australian Koolie is the correct name for them now here are a couple of my koolies Little Roc solid red Cruise Chocolate & white merle and Coopers chocolate merle bob tail yes they come with bob tails as well Connie Red merle Dance black merle Molly blue merle

well i can tell you now that he is a border collie cross kelpie no foxy and no heeler or dali in your boy he was bred to work cattle there are heaps of them out on the farms beautiful dogs and top workers P.S the spots are from the working border in him i had a pure bred working border papers and all that was all white with black dots and one black ear

good pup he was learning fast as for accidentally chases the sheep towards the owner that is what they have to do bring the stock to the person

thanks snaps that's great will use it on my web site thank you again soooooo much

sorry the girls in the first pic are bron blue colour Mirra in the middle and pepper, here are a couple more pics

no takers for my pic then thats ok i will see if i can find a better one that would be easier to do, shame my computer is to old and small to have ps on it i would love to give it a go myself

hi guys i am a bit late finding this post but all your work is just the best, and i love your new title signature gods lol i don't have PS and i don't think i would have the brains to do the stuff you guys are doing it is just ??? i am lost for the right words to use hows this bloody marvellous lol, could any of the signature gods have a go at playing with this pic for me

god i have the other problem if my dogs see a camera they all think they are going for a run and get very exited :D i never use a flash and take all my pic's out side while the dogs are doing what they do best and thats being themselves, here is a couple of pic's so you can see what i mean you can get some very nice pic's if you just wait, sit / stand around with the camera just have it turned on before you step out the door get rid of the stupid flash if you need to lighten your pic's just use picasa to fix them up, i always have the camra with me when i am doing things with the dogs

thank you sopheven sounds like i have been giving him to much then i have been feeding him 3 large scoops of dry thats about 4 1/2 cups and raw meat mixed in as he was raised on pigs meat nothing else so he does not like the dry food at all and i have to mix in raw he won't touch cooked meat as he has never had that so geting vegies into him will have to wait just a little while longer until he gets use to the change of diet. the pig farm that he came from has 3500 pigs so it was nothing for this bloke to kill one pig a week for his dogs, last night he had some roo meat mixed into his dry and before that i have been mixing in beef or goat so all this change has been playing up on his poor tummy just a little bit but not to much.

do you know anyone that has a puppy freindly dog, i have a pup here that was the same as your girl but i got a freind to bring over a her dog and let him loose in the back yard and then i let the pup out we just stayed close to the older dog and every time my pup tried to bite him or have a go at him we just stepped inbetween with a arrrrrrr leave it! after about half an hour my pup settled down and was playing with the older dog and when he started to get a little rough the older dog grab him by the muzzle for a second to tell him no then they would stat playing again now this fixed my pup and i can now take him out without any problems but it may not work with your girl.

I have a pup here that has a bad heart murmur, i was not told what grade it was but you can feel it whooshing and her little heart go's twice as fast as it should, so i don't expect this pup to live past 12mths old but while it's happy and full of life she can live with me because she is the most adorable little thing black and white with two blue eyes

he was desexed by his breeder most of the farmers out here do the male dogs themselves, i think they do them the same way as you would geld a horse but i am not sure on that so please don't quote me but i do know they don't take them to a vet to be done. the crate that i am useing for him to sleep in is to big to fit into my car

Ok first i got the spelling wrong sorry it is one of those big white fluffy dogs lol maremma ? second who in their right mind is going to try and pick up a dog that has not been handled just to stand on the scales when the dog is about the same size as me i did not make it to the 5 foot make. 3rd Barney thats that we have called him will not eat until we have moved away and have not been in sight of him for at least an hour then he will slowly eat, 4th this dog has never been inside a car before and my freind tied him up very short in the back of her ute inside a cage to bring him home for me, so i am not going o drive the 40kms to the closest vet to get he weighed until he knows me and starts to trust me more, but i have had a break through with him today he has been running away from me when i approch him or he stays at the far end of the chain and shakes. last night i put him away into the nigh yard with the sheep mind you i locked him up in a crate and he handled that very well and this morning i took him out to the paddock with the sheep put him onto his chain then i left and got a bucket of water for him and when i got back to him he came up to me to see what was in the bucket but he quicky move away again, i just let him go and told him he was a good boy and inbetween the rain i have been going out to the paddock were he can see and hear me and doing a little bit of work so that he gets use to me beening in the paddock with him and i have started to introduce him to some of my dogs slowly yesterday he got to see Spice then Rocco close but not close enought to touch.

hi guy's i have found a Marmara pup 7 mths old that has been living with goats so he already knows how to guard which is what i want him for to guard my sheep but this boy has just been living in the paddock with very little human contact and was only fed once a week on a whole pig leg, he is not under weight or anything but as this is not a good guide for me to know how much to feed him in the way of dry food, as i can't get a lot of raw meat for the dogs unless i buy tray's of steak, lamb chops or trays of chicken legs as i live in a rural area and most of the farmers out here just kill a steer if they need more meat for themselves or need some dog meat so the butcher does not sell a lot of pet mince or even dog bones so from now on he will only see raw meat when i can find it , OK how much to feed him is one of the problems now for the bigger one what is the best way to get him use to people as he has not had any needles that i know of so i would like to teach him how to lead and to like getting a pat but at the same time i don't want him to become a house pet but it would be nice if he did not try to run away to the end of his chain every time i go near him but once you get hold of him he will sit and take the pat and is just starting to show signs that he likes the pat, very small signs that is so any help with teaching him how to lead so that i can interduce him to my other dogs safely would be great thanks guys

yes there are herding workshops and trainning in S.A i don't know what breed of dog you have so just try gooling SA sheepdog Ass and it will come up but the kelpie and border clubs in other states will also have links for their SA clubs, i own koolies so i don't follow what these other clubs are up to with the herding side of things.

i have a pup that won't come when called at all she is about 13 weeks old now, i had to leave her at a friends house for two weeks but before i left her she was always at my feet wanting a pat and jumping on me and alway came when called my friend has a pup of the same breed and about two weeks older that does not come then called now did my pup learn this from the other pup because she is now a real pain, i was told to call her for tea and if she did not come and would not go into her pen for tea then leave her out and take her tea away and in the morning do the same again i was told by doing this by the next night she would be the first pup in the pen. at the moment i can't do this at all because every night my back yard is full of sheep as we have had wild dogs killing the sheep if left out in thier paddock, now i have tried sitting on the back steps giveing the other pups cuddles and treats for over an hour but she would still not come to me and i could not waste any more time trying to catch her nicely as a had to get the sheep up before dark so i had to conner her and carry her to the pens now none of the other pups stayed at my friends place and are all still fine to catch in fact i just open the pen gates and say 2 in and 2 pups go in then i repeat this for the next 2 pens and all go in as told apart from ruby (Ruby was away because she was sold but the sale was dropped the day before the transport was to pick her up) so would you have any more ideas on how to get her to come i have never had this problem before with a pup so young yes older male pups play deaf but she is not playing deaf she is just standing back watching me and if a take a step towards her she runs away and if i sit down she will not come any closer, she got very car sick going down to my friends place and then coming back again so maybe she blames me for that ???

i have found tuna in oil mixed in with their tea a great way to get dogs to eat as i have a small fluffy here that gets fussy from time to time if she does not eat her tea it's not there later because one of the other dogs will hoover it up as soon as she walks away raw eggs is also a good one as well but the tuna i find best as it smells like cat food you could also mix some yogurt in with the tuna just in case he does have a tummy problem this will help settle his tummy and put the good bugs back in