tdierikx

Kitties!!! Beautiful! T.

WOW! Just.... WOW! T.

Like Rebanne says, just put pup down in back yard and then let Wilbur out (on lead if you prefer some extra control of him). Puppies are a hell of a lot more robust than you think... they can take a fair amount of rough play... and you'll probably find that once Wilbur has worn puppy as an ear or face ornament for a while, he won't be as excited about the prospect of playing with puppy all the time. I wouldn't separate them at all while you are there - start out as you intend for them to live together. Puppy will need to be contained somewhere safe when you can't supervise - if only to stop her eating stuff she shouldn't... T.

I'm sure that baby chimps understand full well that people are there to see THEM... and play to the crowds like little professionals. Our (Taronga) current 10 month old fellow Fumo is a complete crack up when he knows that people are watching him... and I'm sure he's learned it from his babysitter Sule (6), who is notorious for playing to the crowds too. It will be interesting to see how the latest arrival, little Sudi, shapes up over the coming months. If Shiba lets Sule help babysit like Kuma has with Fumo, I think we may have a good chance of ending up with another well adjusted young chimp... if not, who knows? Hey grizabella - I'm starting to think that Fumo's daddy might be Shikamoo... but we have to wait for a DNA test to be sure. Just something I've noticed about interactions, general looks, etc over the past 10 months... Sudi looks like he might be Shabani's offspring... errr! Even the keepers are saying that's what they think... he's not the prettiest little thing, and has other features in common with Shabani. Of course, that would make his brother his daddy... get out the banjos... lol! T.

Love it Perse... you can almost feel the movement in that shot... T.

My girl Blossom was fun to mess with when she was pregnant... we'd wait until the little wrigglies inside would settle, then we'd wobble her tummy and they'd all start up again... lol! T.

Am SO loving the Meerkat! That deserves a big print, a nice frame, and hanging on the wall in pride of place... WOW! As for slimy fingerprints on the glass/perspex - if they are on the outside - I carry a small towel for wiping them off... *grin* T.

Gorgeous shots Leanne! T.

GCCC probably don't care where the dog goes - as long as he's not under their jurisdiction any more... *sigh* Passing the buck of the highest order IMHO. T.

Good point, Ams. So does the menacing order still stick interstate? Genuine question I have no idea :/ It should... if the dog is on a national chip database, it woukd be marked as menacing on that - but if they never try to register him, who'd know? T.

I assume your post is referring to my post. I wish it were that simple. Sometimes it's easier to just not notice things. I think the post referred to was by Tdierik It was 20 years ago in my wayward youth... and it seemed like the thing to do at the time. Wasn't the first time that particular poodle had been a menace towards me, and words had been exchanged with the owner on previous occasions obviously to no avail... Future sightings of said poodle saw that the owner was finally walking it on leash... so at least it had some effect... T.

You should have bitten the owner if you wanted to bite someone, rather than traumatise the poodle further. Trust me, that poodle was NOT traumatised when it bit me... it may have been AFTER I bit it back, but it deserved it - nasty thing that it was, biting people for no reason.Bloody thing had drawn blood too... it was a bite, not a nip that it gave me, and I wasn't trying to interact with it at all. T.

It makes you wonder when the vets are offering to desex during a c-section though... T.

My Rotti girl gained 15kgs for her 11 pups... and they were all around 450g each at birth... which was a nice size I reckon. she was so big near the end that she couldn't reach to lick/scratch between her enormous udders, so we taught her a new trick "show us yer tits", where she'd roll on her back to show her boobies, and then we'd scratch between them for her... lol! I didn't weigh my Lab before she dropped her 10 500g pups.. but she was HUGE! And udders that would have put Dolly Parton to shame to boot! T.

If you don't mind her going 2 days over, then the babies can share my Pickles' birthday... *grin* ZsaZsa Bitch Vizsla would only eat loin of veal in milk. That litter produced 12 fat, healthy babies too. Yeah - they seem to know what will produce big fat babies, don't they? T.

A big NO to desexing... T.

When's the approximate due date Allerzeit? The last time I had a pregnant Rotti was back in 1995... she blew out from 36kg to 51kg, and gave me 11 big babies on Christmas Day... so much for me relaxing and enjoying myself... spent the afternoon/evening up to my eyeballs in dog afterbirth... *sigh*... she was a complete bitch about food while pregnant too - would only eat lean beef (no fat at all) smothered in milk... T.

I bit a poodle once... but it had bitten me first! It's owner thought that biting strangers was acceptable behaviour from his unleashed dog... he soon learned to leash his dog to "protect" it from strangers that bite back... lol! T.

Don't panic, if you've raised a litter of 8 or more, double digit litters aren't really that much more work... lol! The worst part is making sure the smaller ones (if any) get on boobie first... oh, and when they get bigger, cleaning up the poopies! Apart from that stuff - think of how much puppy breath you can get with a double digit litter... heaven! T.

Dogs can be contagious for up to 14 days prior to symptoms appearing... and for up to 14 days AFTER the symptoms have gone. Incubation can be as little as 2 days though... T.

I have my 100-400 on a crop sensored body... I can get around 640mm from it... *grin* T.

I'm telling you, there are more than 10 in there! T.

I'm loving your work CC... gorgeous! T.

Thank Spoony - Dixie is a bugger to track sometimes - she's so fast! I was really happy with this sequence all being so in focus... lol! T.

I use a growly "aarrgghh" with my girls... or "leave it!" in a deep growly voice. I'd never try to alpha roll a strange dog... that would just be stupid IMHO. I knew my boy well, and knew he wasn't likely to bite me no matter what I did - but he needed to be stopped from being the pushy and obnoxious turd he was being at the time and nothing else was working... funnily enough, it must have been exactly what he needed in order to learn that mummy wasn't going to put up with his crap... I flipped him over and growled in his face, then let him go, that's it - pretty much the same way my girls did with obnoxious foster pups. T.