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This, I have to agree with it totally. I have met some wonderful people and made sone fantastic friends through showing. Yes I have met some bitches but I have met them in my work place, at my childrens school and various other places. I do have a reasonably thick skin and I can be a bit stubborn so it would take more than somebody being bitchy to turn me off having a fun day out with my dog and frineds. I also have a habit of being particularly nice to those who try to be nasty to me and that pisses them off more which in turn amuses me. I do especially if the have no idea who I am. I don't get to show often and one person really looked down their nose at me as a nobody and when I asked them a direct question pointedly turned their back and ignored me. Well I had a great time for the rest of the weekend. Not sure they did they seemed to be getting grumpier???!!!!! But as said showing is what you make it :)

I have two dogs and 2 cats on BH all are doing very well. Shiney, fit and well muscled. One does drink more than the other but does on any food, and the cat is great does smaler firm poos that don't stink out the laundry. Each to their own I guess. Not all foods will agree with all dogs.

woohoo it has cleared customs in Australia :D :D :D Now it will probably take 10 days to get from east to west!

I think I am a tracking addict........................

Oh Ness how awful, I hope the girls are okay after being attacked Poor Kenzie, I think of her often and was hopign things might be looking up. Hugs to all of you.

Mine says it hasn't left the New York international thingo it went in on the 20th

It wasn't THAT funny...................well maybe a little funny after I got over the shock of it!!!!!

Well Lewis has been a whinger and totally Rommi fixated. Not too much of an issue nothing very disruptive. What was slightly more disruptive was the wet dream he just had and the fact he just ejaculated over himself, the beanbag and me...... Sigh , he is lucky I love him!!!! Only another week and a half to go! I think I am going to take her to the kennels so he relaxes at home a bit ETA - my kennels not someone else's :)

Yep we would be stuck and a lot poorer if we didn't :) I am not mating my bitch this time - although Lewis won't believe me - but I still do it and it coreseponds nicely with what he and she are telling me and also showing me that she does the same thing pretty much every time :)

Oh I know it's true :) and yes I have done it myself and on my bitch, but I still giggle :)

Every single time you type that I do it :D Sorry not adding to the thread but it makes me laugh every time :)

Mine apparently has been shipped but since getting to international dispatch in the USA I have heard nothing?? So I am guessing it is actually on it's way??

Yep a few free t-shirts and maybe the odd bag to give out as samples and that was about it :)

FRom what I have heard they are good for treating testosterone induced prostate issues. Be interesting to see how long it takes for his to come back again. I did wonder if Lewis's were ever going to grow again!

Mine has been tracked to the international mail place in the US on the 20th then nothing since. So bloody typical of Australia, tracking once things hit here is crap!

Oh and Lewis's testicles were still tiny up until around 3 months ago, the were REALLY tiny then 12 months post implant seemed to get a bit bigger but then stopped again. I mated Rommi around February and they maybe were a little bigger but now they are ENORMOUS. they started suddenly getting bigger around probably 8 weeks ago? and rapidly got bigger to what they are now. HIs testicles were that small most people assumed he was desexed. Not now!

Yep I thought that Lewis behaviour on her last season showed he had testosterone back welllllll this time he is a much hornier no brains boy. Yester day he tried to hump the pet sheep, today the cat which he has NEVER done! He is also racing straight to the yard when he goes outside and clawing at the fence and whinging and running the boundries. Before he took an avid interest but nothing like this. I hope it means good things for the future though. He came froma litter of 10 and his mum and dad had another litter of wither 8 or 10 I think. His breeder said if he is anything liek his dad he will only have to walk past Rommi for her to fall pregnant!

Ahh good to see I am not alone, I have far more friends in here than I thought :) Are you going to collect him again later? I am not mating her this time as I will have 19 dogs in the kennels over christmas and a bitch due to whelp around the 27th!! Not to mention the really hot weather we can have. Her next season will mean she will whelp in August which is a much better time. Finegrs crossed his swimmers will be back to normal by then :) He was given it for medical reasons and at this stage there are no re-occuring issues. I hope it stays that way but I guess time will tell on that one.

Yes I think that would be very wise. Unfortunately that service is not available down here and I kind of needed to make a fairly quick decision. If I had to do it again in future I would do the 1500km round trip to have the semen stored first, especially since finding out the fact they actually have no data on the amount and quality of semen post implant, just testosterone levels. I hope you didn't think I was criticising you. If I hadn't followed your journey I wouldn't have thought of collecting first. No no not at all, I think it would be the best idea, just the situation at the time meant that I didn't and couldn't easily. But if you even thought you wanted to use that dog down the track I would definately recommend it as they just don't have data on what happens after. I guess to a degree I believed a little too much what I was told and didn't delve deep enough, not that I had heaps of time on my hands. I have also heard of it ebing used on an entire bitch for some issues and it ened up a mess. She got a huge cyst on her ovary. None of it was mentioned before her getting the implant, after it was found and removed and the bitch desexed the owner delved depper and Cysts are a potential side effect of the implant on entire bitches. I think there is not enough freely available information on this product. I found more info after stumbling across a european drug registration application than I got from vets or the company in Australia. I think it's registration has been revoked in some countrys, can't remeber if it is the UK or USA?????

Yep agree. I would only have her outside if you are with her. I would be worried about others getting in with her.

Okay this is what she wrote for a fellow Whippet owner Hope this helps you out :)

Yes I think that would be very wise. Unfortunately that service is not available down here and I kind of needed to make a fairly quick decision. If I had to do it again in future I would do the 1500km round trip to have the semen stored first, especially since finding out the fact they actually have no data on the amount and quality of semen post implant, just testosterone levels.

RIP Bison, running free. You were much loved it was easy to see that by what your dad wrote. Fly free young man.

Thanks for the update :) It will be interesting to see how she goes holding her weight from here on in. I found when I eventually got my Dobe bitch speyed at 5 she was so much easier to live with, her behaviour and moods were on a level so she was easier to train and not up and down. I really enjoyed her after she way desexed :)

OH lets us know how you go. It would be very interesting to see what his semen sample is like afterwards. The vet told me yesterday that very little research ahd been done regarding the long term effect of fertility. Their studies measured the amount of testosterone as opposed to actual sperm count, motility, morphology. Therefore they say they return to full fertility but that is only based on the fact their testosterone came back to the required levels not that they have normal result for the sperm. Why did I not find this when researching, why do I always find this out after the fact!!!