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not much i think. that is another reason they should all go to the police. even if they dont get their money back he will get a harsher punishment if he has scammed more people. at the moment i read they think there is 30 people affected.

OHHHHHH YEAHHHHHH! Love it! Thank god he finally was caught out, lets just hope all involved get their share... lets hope all who were scammed report it to the police

they havent mention his name any where but i did find this: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2010/0...court-news.html COOMERA detectives have arrested a 41-year-old Pacific Pines man after an ongoing investigation into several complaints of fraud involving the alleged sale of pure breed British bulldogs. The man is facing a number of fraud offences and a possession of a dangerous drug charge. He is expected to appear at the Southport Magistrates Court on September 28. Anyone with any further information which could assist police should contact their local police station or Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au

could you tell your mum that rover has developed an allergy and that you both need to make sure he only eats what you control and not to let him eat from strangers as it is bad for him. a white lie that is good for rover

Hey guys,she is still here she posted a few ticks ago In Puppy Problems. i think you must have seen the thread she started. if you look at her profile she hasnt posted since 31/3

the other thing to do is google the phone number she gave you

I'm really sorry this has happened to you. Is the council going to do a dangerous dog declaration? Elfin, if you could afford a trip to a solicitor, I think it would be a good idea. With a name and phone number this person can be identified and served notice to respond to a claim for damages. Nothing like a court notice to open people's wallets. this ^^^^ a solicitor or lawyer or private investigator are allowed to get this information but members of the public cant. if you have a legal aid agency they could write up a letter for you. the council should be chasing this up as well. the fact that she gave you her phone number is enough to say she was there and she felt some responsibility for what occurred

sorry this happened elfin. if you get no responses here maybe go back to the beach and ask people if they saw anything maybe on the same day and at the same time as the attack

my dog sleeps in my bed and i know she is a dog so does she. if i want her to sleep in her crate she will do that without any fuss i think dogs can sleep wherever their owners want so i disagree with your stance.

maybe they are the red squirrels. i come from Scotland and we have both types there, the greys were introduced from the USA i think and the reds are native squirrels and are becoming extinct. red squirrel

i really am astounded..really really shocked. as a child i was told NEVER to touch or feed the grey squirrels (red squirrels are dying out unfortunately) and here is why: they bite are unlikely to be tamed and carry disease...from the AQIS site: Squirrels carry a range of disease threats from trichinosis (which can be fatal to humans) to plague and even rabies, as well as diseases and exotic parasites that could threaten Australia's vulnerable native mammals.

:D i come from a place that has squirrels and i dont think they should be here. is it legal or is this pet shop bending the rules? i am astounded...no one keeps squirrels as pets ets and they carry fleas and other nasties so what can be used on them...cat flea stuff, dog flea stuff, rabbit flea stuff?? so many questions eta it would be like keeping possums as pets....not good.

Unless I can take a toilet with me, leaving the house to go anywhere is not an option. Ive been off work all week with this bloody gastro bug, its really nasty. Don't you think I would have loved to be able to take the dogs for a run everyday? Im climbing the walls here. Telling me I need to exercise her every day and imagine how the dog must feel jsut makes me want to slap you. YOU try being this friggin sick and living in your loo and then see if you could walk your dogs every day. To others who have made suggestions thank you. She may need more exercise than shes getting. I will up the exercise when Ive recovered and see if it helps. She spends the day while Im at work in a concreted run which is roughly 5m x 12m plus it includes half the back verandah, my kelpie X and staghound X are also in the run with her. However if she needs to go out at night i just let her out the back and I stand near the back door and watch her. The problem last night was that I felt too crappy to stand and watch her in the freezing cold wind so i went and lay on the couch. I must have dozed off cos i woke up with a start and raced to the back door - and it was too late shed already been digging. I am so tired of throwing so much money at fixing the lawn. I cant jsut leave her to dig and live with the mess, ive tried that. She kept digging up my water pipes! That meant 24hrs - 48hrs with no water plus several hundred dollars each time to the plumber. She also digs straight down about 3 feet then will start to dig sideways - like a mine shaft. Hence my fear of the hole collapsing on top of her. She was actually underground and almost completely out of sight more than once when I found her. If 3ft of dirt collapsed on her I'm pretty sure it would kill her, can you imagine how much that would weigh? Strangely enough her sandpit doesnt interest her at all these days? I have to admit dog boots and vicks has never crossed my mind. WHat if she got it i her eyes? that would be my fear. I guess its possible there may be some anxiety in it, but I cant believe shes digging cos shes anxious about being in the back yard. This is a happy confident dog (unless there is a storm). Not sure how i would test to see if its anxiety related? any ideas? I think digging is like her heroin.. she adores it.. gets some kind of endrorphine rush from it or something. I used to have weldmesh laid over most of the lawn so she couldn't dig it. But I worried about my iggie's feet on it, they avoided the weldmesh and stayed on the back verandah and on the pavers. The yard is the only place the iggie's can run free as there's no fenced dog park here. Being sighthounds you jsut cant risk letting them off lead. So i removed the weldmesh so they could run around again. I have seriously considered laying fake lawn but fear she would dig holes in it trying to get to the dirt beneath. The only solution -when I can afford it - that ive come up with is to have a deck built over the larger stretch of lawn. A deck wouldnt heat the place up and the iggies can still run on it. But im a long way off being able to afford that, plus it still leaves me with the problem of the smaller strip of lawn. To give you an idea of size, smaller strip is around 11m x 3m. larger strip is around 16m x 5m. Anyone have any ideas what i can do with the smaller strip of lawn? It needs to be dig proof, not too hard on the iggie's feet, not terribly ugly, and not something that will heat up too much in summer and be too hot to walk on. We get 40deg+ for weeks at a time here in summer. Ok i just got back out of bed. i forgot to press the Add Reply button lol. Ok i LOVE the idea of the open concrete pavers.. someone PLEASE show me these I will walk over hot coals to buy some!! Umm the alpha roll think sounds exactly like the what the dickheads who run the local dog obedience would do. Brute force isnt my thing sorry! I cant imagine how the dog would react. Either be absolutly terrified or think it was the best game ever. If that what it takes to get 'respect' from my dog (will she still respect me in the morning? hehe) then I will stick with disrespect. I appreciate that you think this alpha thing is the way to go. Those who us who aren't obedience gurus and who actually want to teach our dogs to learn - not just get the desired behaviour through fear.. are not into that kind of thing. Ive seen how the local dickhead "Im the Head coach" treats dogs. Two weeks ago a dog he was handling growled at another dog he swung the dog off the ground and held it in the air while it was wearing a check chain!! He swore at the dog and threatened it for maybe 10 seconds .. when the dog finally got its feet back on the ground it was cringing and terrified. Did it growl at another dog? No. But that to me is NOT training. Thats cruel and abusive. This is the head trainer mind you. I spoke up against what he did and omg they went for me. I told them it was abusive.. he got very verbally aggressive to me then LOL. Stupid prick. So I have ZERO faith in anyone who thinks they know how to train a dog just because they are an obedience instructor. Sorry. I have no need to have a power trip over my dog. I will diligently exercise her o the point of exhaustion but $100 says she will still dig the moment my back is turned. Anyone wanna take a bet? i am more convinced you have lawn beetles and this is what is driving her nuts...here is some info AFRICAN BLACK BEETLE Heteronchus arator (Click on picture for larger image) INTRODUCTION The Black Beetle attacks lawns and are frequently referred to as the Black Lawn Beetle. This beetle was first recorded in Australia during the 1920s and originates from Southern Africa where it is a major pest of the maize plant. IDENTIFICATION The adult African Black Beetle is shiny black and 10-13 cm long. The female lays her eggs in spring and take three weeks to hatch. The larvae (grub) grow up to 2.5 cm long and 6 mm wide. They have a white or cream coloured body with a hard brown head. They are often called 'curl grubs' because when they are resting they are C shaped. They have three pairs of legs on the thorax, a prominent brown head with black jaws. The abdomen is swollen; baggy and grey/blue-green, due to the food and soil they have eaten. (See photo above). The larvae, when fully grown, enters a short-lived pupal stage. It is when the beetle is in its larval stage that it does most of its damage, feeding on the roots of the lawn and emerging to the lawn surface and then burrowing down again leaving dirt mounds which cause surface irregularities in the lawn. The larvae are active from mid spring until late autumn, preferring soils that are well drained. Only one generation of African black beetle are produced each year. During the winter months they are very active feeding as they are non reproductive adult beetles. During spring the adults mate, lay eggs and increase in the moving activity of the beetles takes place. These adults die by the end of early summer. The eggs incubate into grubs during late spring and summer and the adults and young lavae keep together. The beetle larvae feed on organic matter in the soil during the early stages and plant roots as they develop. The larval stage is present from mid spring to late summer and then they change into pupae. A new generation of adults start to emerge from mid summer to early autumn. Adults feed wherever they are but more in summer months as the young adults emergence. Adults may undertake mass flights on warm sultry nights in late summer/autumn. Their light activity also occurs in spring, but numbers of beetles involved is much less. CONTROL October can be a critical month for lawns when an infestation of grubs, beetles etc, begin to hatch. Use Lawn Beetle Blitz or a safe product such as Lawn Grub Killer to control these pests and this product will also kill ants, African Black Beetle, Earwigs, Millipedes, Slaters and many more. A very easy way of checking if grubs are eating your lawn, is if the dead grass comes away easy as you try and pull it up. This is usually a good indication that something is chewing away below the ground. Additionally, if birds are flocking to your lawn, it is also an indication that something is happening below the lawn turf at the root level.

that is all i need to do to my dog, seriously, i give her the evil eye and she stops what she is doing...and whilst she is "softish" she isnt scared, she is confident but if i used harsh punishments on her i would see myself as abusing her

i have a softish dog and if i did this i think not only would she think i was crazy but i suspect she would never trust me the same way again. i think something in her would break. in all the research i did on her breed the one thing they all said was this breed was sensitive to the tone of the person and i have found that to be true. IMO it is vital that any training be matched to the temperment of the dog and if i was unsure of what to do i would get in a trainer/behaviouralist to help

meat in compost bins also attract european wasps

its not just chi's. sometimes the breeder wants to run some of the puppies on to see how they are before they sell them. i have had puppies who were 14 weeks old when they came to me good breeders will socialise the puppies thoughout this period and i have never had a problem with older puppies because of this

lawn beetles are in just about every lawn. i had a dog that would dig the lawn like crazy to eat them. try treating your lawn and see if it reduces the digging

I havent ferretted since I was a kid but back then if you had a ferret which killed in the burrow you could actualy muzzle it,the main reason being that they tended to take a nap after a feed and you had to dig them out. I didn't know it was now illegal, when did this come about? the only thing I knew was you can't keep them in some states. That's been my experience with ferretting also, the ferret was used to chase the rabbits out of the warren, usually into nets placed over the holes, rather than to kill the rabbits. Edit: I should say, my 'limited' experience with ferretting . My best friend's father used to do it but it's been many years. yep mine too. ferrets never killed the rabbits the rabbits ran from the ferrets into the nets

thats what i am hoping

it took me a long time to decide on a small dog because of what i had seen in other dogs. now i know its the training not the breeding. also, any dog is happier if they dont make the decisions

call the council and report the dog is roaming and they should pick it up

absolutely correct, it makes the meat spoil much quicker

i agree 100%. i think that once you have killed an animal to eat you have more respect for them and yes i have done that. i actually believe every meat eater should kill and eat at least one animal so they know what happens...meat doesnt just arrive on a styrofoam plate covered in plastic. some children today have no idea that meat comes from animals. ets we always had pets and food animals and my kids always understood the difference