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Plastic or real duckies or bunnies? (Soz just j/k). thinking this is going to be a neat backyard. Been thinking of a trip to WA. Could bring Horrible Herbert too I could get dokken!!! Will add that to the toy box list :)

I would love to but this one is keeping me pretty busy :) Maybe next year :)

I have thought about water, but we have a lot of tiger snakes around here and whilst it will be snake meshed I am not sure I want to give them something they will want in summer. Digging sand corner - great idea :) There are bunnies occasionally outside the fence, plus birds that like to tease, the odd cow or two and hundreds of sheep :)

Link doesn't want to come up but if that is the three Boof heads racing through the concrete pipe it is what got me to thinking! :)

I did :) I owned Rottweilers when a lady in Perth got killed by one and three crosses in a market garden. I owned Dobermanns and people either loved them or were terrified by them - except for the brown on. We had a Stafford, yep you can imagine. Now I have Whippets and to be honest I am far more hyper vigilant than with any of my previous dogs. This is purely because they are smaller, have thin skin and tear easily. Mine have required a few stitch ups when they were playing and one ran into another's tooth. In general I am more wary of big dogs purely because they can do more damage to my dog, than a smaller one. That doesn't mean I don't worry about the small ones, I do. One snap from a JR sized dog can mean a vet visit for another stitch up. I don't care what breed they are I am far more wary and protective due to the dogs I have now. There is nothing nicer than seeing dogs playing and having fun. Unfortunately most people have no idea what their dog is saying regardless of size.

Oh and pictures greatly appreciated.

As above, I have dog boarding kennels. I am currently building some day yards, then I am going to build a very large dog exercise yard. I want to put things in there dogs will enjoy playing with/on Currently I am going to get a large cement drainage pipe, cover it with sand and grass so they can go through and over. I am also going to put some pieces of concrete leach drain in with areas on the top they can jump up on, lay on etc. I will also attach an Aissie dog toy it two to trees. What fantastic ideas can all of the lovely DOLers give me to make this dog exercise area stimulating and fun for my dogs. The area is around 60metres square.

So are some of the others if you look closely. Ummm yep........I did..............

Interesting cover photo..........

My Dobe was Black and Tan had very dark eyes and would stare at people without blinking for a very long time and bore holes in their eyes. She was not aggressive and wasn't going to launch - if she started rumbling from deep down her toes there was an issue. Why did she do it??? Becasue she had been encouraged to seek and hold hard eye contact and had been very highly rewarded for doing so. It did used to freak people out a bit as not only was she staring she was often stock still. It could have been her and yes she would have stared you out because she was trying to turn you into a vending machine.

Yep I have heard of them :) and only know the basics about them :)

With one common thing.....................

Thank you for filling in the other side to the story. I have no idea of training and protocols for training POlice dogs however to allow a dog to get into a position to be able to bite - and obviously quite severely - an innocent member of public is a tremendous error of judgement on the handlers part. The dog should never have been in the position it was. I wish your husband well in his recovery and also in your legal endeavours. I woudl be interested when you can down the track to hear what ends up happening. I hope your husband has no long lasting effects, it would have been terrifying.

No dogs don't have a right to attack, but if the small dog picked a fight a dog may well have reacted that would normally not. I note sympathy towards a small dog who is obviously reactive and provocative and got a reaction that ended up with it in trouble, but you then bring in a different story about a bloke who lost a finger becasue the dog looked like a pit bull to you. Really - we have figured you don't like them. I work with dogs every day and I have worked with pitbulls. I have one who is terrified by fluffy small dogs. He is the least aggressive dog of any breed or size anywhere I have met. He is a big gooey eyed dope. I have had many dogs try to bite me and trust me Pitbulls are not the ones I am on high alert for!

MIne eat it as it, it is firm and easy to spoon and I plonk it ontop. Whilst you may like it all mixed in nicely your dog doesn't care. Mine is Virgin Cold Pressed Organic Coconut oil and I get it from our local wholesalers

I take my phone for photos and incase of emergencies. I have it turned to silent though

The thing is many people think that cows should be filled out and covered like horses. The shouldn't. NO they shouldn't be skinny but a cow can be covered and its hip/pin bones should be easily visbile. Some people think they need to be round and shiney like a horse. Milking cows quite often look boney but theya re well fed and glossy and they don't carry extra weight as they put all the extra into producing lots of milk. A smiliar story occured when a farmer had put his dairy herd onto pasture while having a break from the dairy - I think they were having a break before being mated or some such thing. Anyway they were in normal lean dairy cow condtition. The RSPCA decided they were starving and the farmer turned up as they shot the last of them. They were prime cows put out for a break. Bastards. the have no bloody idea and play god. A worrying combination.

Heard very much the same stories involving cattle before. They have no idea. I hope they are fined heavily so in future they stop and think before needlessly slaughtering animals.

RIP Little boy. If his dad is responsible he should be locked away to rot. Such a young life extinguished far far too soon

Whenever I get to it, anywhere from 6pm to midnight. They get fed, then a little while later go out and toilet, then are fine and as long as they are let out by 6 to 6.30am there are no toiletting issues.

Thanks goodness his injuries are not sever and thank goodness Noel's injuries are not severe. Glad all are accounted for, healing vibes to those injured and RIP to those lost. Heartbreaking.

Thank god they found the dog, hoping the injuries are not serious.

So sorry to hear that PD With our kids we tell them fairly staright, but we do say Vet not doctor. We also do not say they are getting put to sleep as I have know of kids starting to worry if they went to sleep - or someone they loved went to sleep they would never wake up. We tell them they are very very old not just old as lots of people say theya re old when really they are not and once again kids start to worry people they know may die)and have an illness that the vet cannot fix. They will die, their heart will stop and then they will be gone. The kids watch us bury them so they know where they are - if you get them cremated then the kids also know where they are - and they know they won't be coming back. I did once have a 4 you son say to me when discussing Boris and the facr he was now gone that - NO mum he's just out there in the ground, we could dig him up. That caused some interesting conversation for curious minds. Young kids quite often get upset because we are but they don't really understand the sitaution and quite often go yep they have died but don't get hugely upset. They may miss them and get upset they are not there but don't actually get upset about the death. I find being as honest as possible in terms they understand and remembering kids are very literal and explaining it is the best way to go. I am thinking of you all, it is very hard no matter how unwell they are.

Yes brilliant idea

Not so long ago I was walking along watching the Whippets chase each other when suddenly I was flying through the air. My husbands BC had taken me out from behind at a fast rate of knots. I became fully airborn and landed on my head, then tipped slightly from the fact he hit me slightly to one side, then back, arm and hip then my legs wacked onto the ground. I landed on compacted gravel and I can tell you I did not get up for a while and had an instant splitting headache and searing pain in my lower back. That was not including all the skin off and gravel rash. I think the only thing that cushioned my head was the fact I landed on my pony tail. It is entirely possible the child got taken out by the dogs. Is it the truth?? Well I guess that will come out in time. Carrying him home was very dangerous and foolish.