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OMG! Fairy bread is my favorite ever! Gorgeous photos Kirislin... T.

They are not all put out in the yards like that... the staff really do a great job looking after every dog in their care... I know dogs who didn't want to go home! T.

Try Renbury Farm out at Austral... the staff there are exceptional... http://www.renbury.com.au/boarding/ T.

A pen in the garage? If you are worried about people stealing him... T.

Awww.... too sweet for words! T.

I find that experience breeds more lucky... *grin* T.

Brilliant capture in the last photo! T.

Too cute for boots! T.

Have a look at this place... http://www.farmerdave.com.au/ T.

Wow!!! T.

Gorgeous photos! T.

All urban myths have some basis in fact... *sigh* I'd tip that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of these sort of sites scattered in bush all over the country... and not only with greyhounds in them... We humans can be a mongrel bunch sometimes... T.

It's supposed to deter the "professional students"... meaning that if you have qualifications to get a job, you are expected to use them to try to do so... *sigh* I've run up against it myself when enrolling in TAFE to make a career change... had to pay a lot more for my Cert 2 course because, even though I'd been made redundant, Centrelink would not put me on their books until a month after the course started - meaning I had to pay a higher fee to enrol... and they will not refund me any of the money now that I AM officially unemployed in their eyes. Then again, when I come to enrol in the Cert 3 course I need to do to complete the basics required for the career I now want, I'll be paying the MUCH cheaper rate for it... *grin*... but only if I do it through TAFE... T.

TAFE operates under the new "Smart and Skilled" system for their fees - which basically means that if you have a previous qualification equivalent to a Cert 3 or above (in ANY field), you will pay considerably more for any course you wish to do - regardless if that previous qualification is now obsolete or not... *sigh* If you are employed or not on any Government based pension, you will also pay more for any course you wish to do. Most of the private providers of courses that are the same as the TAFE ones are also covered by the Smart and Skilled syatem, but they can choose not to take on students that can't afford the maximum fee... they call it a "selection process due to popularity" of the said course, which basically means that you have buckley's of getting into their course if you can't pay the higher fee. T.

Chalk it up to experience now perse... now you know that Don is sensitive to drunk and obnoxious people, and you can help him avoid those situations in the future. Did you give him my smoochies? T.

Dogs are so much smarter than most people... *sigh* I would have told the drunk to stay the eff away from my dog, and be darned with the consequences. Please give Don an extra smooch from me, OK? T.

It is not illegal to not vaccinate or worm your dogs... if they are otherwise healthy. It is illegal to rehome a pup that is not microchipped, but I've not seen that one enforced across the board - one just needs to look at the number of animals that end up in the pounds without chips to know that there are MANY people rehoming without chipping first... and new owners not actually bothering to do it either. The pup was rehomed to what appeared to be a decent home (at the time) with full disclosure of his issues... so who's really at fault here... the breeder, or the new owner who offloaded him to someone else when they realised that they couldn't deal with the issues any more? T.

Awww... little dog and little human... too cute! T.

See now, if the pet shop concerned passed on those expenses to the "breeder" that supplied the pup... maybe that would have an even greater effect. The shop should have the details of where the faulty pup was sourced from, yes? T.

*giggle* @ Gruf! T.

It's OK about the Airedales... I can cuddle my neighbour's one any time... but it would have been nice to see/pat a really nicely bred one up close... As for the Labradors... Spagnolo's dogs did seem to have a winning streak, didn't they? I was of the opinion that the judge was favouring the larger dogs overall... and I don't mean just in height. When I started to notice the trend, I was able to pick every dog he would put up from that point on... errr! Going to the Show again on Sunday... guaranteed to get me plenty of Weimeraner cuddles, as a friend is showing hers... *grin* T.

I'd rather see a petition to stop the use of the stupid "breed" names slapped onto crossbreeds in order to extract a high dollar value for pups... Say I mated my Rottweiler to my Labrador, then advertised the pups as "Rottadors"... funnily enough people will pay more dollars for said pups with that "breed" name attached than they would if I advertised them as Rotti x Lab. Seriously, if a breed mix is not currently recognised by any registry, and the lineage is not traceable, then they are crossbreeds/mutts... simple. T.

I'd be more worried about the fact the pup had not been wormed, vaccinated, or microchipped before offloading to the new owners at 4 months of age... T.

Last Sunday it was the Airedales and Frenchies that were away from public view/attention... and the couple of Airedale people that were near to the public accessway weren't all that interested in letting the public see or touch the dogs at all... and I did ask nicely AFTER their competition session was over... *sigh* Managed to get me some Frenchie smooches when a couple came back from the wee yard... *grin* Completely off topic, but the highlight of the day for me was in the petting zoo where the baby alpaca decided to nibble up and down my arm/hand ever so gently, and it also smooched my face/chin/nose... heaven on a stick! T.

Funny how Vic councils managed to find the manpower to chase up all of those "pitbulls" when that sweet piece of legislation came out... but still have difficulty chasing up existing legislation with regards to animals - microchipping, illegal breeding practices, etc... T.