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I like this advice best... especially if you are not a seasoned breeder with some experience of these things. Odds are that your girl will require a c-section if she's only got one pup on board - something about singleton birth not necessarily producing enough of the hormone that aids the contractions, etc... Raising a singleton pup is harder than raising a larger litter, funnily enough. I'd be taking up the offer your breeder has given you and let them take the pup and see if the other bitch will take to it. T.

Vote #1 best answer! T.

It will be 10 years for me and my heart dog Woosie come September next year... it doesn't hurt any less now than it did then... I take heart in knowing that we WILL be reunited when it's my turn to cross over... and that makes it a bit easier when I get maudlin. T.

Definitely deserves shouting about... it's no mean feat yellowgirl. Again... WELL DONE! T.

There are a few tests dogs must pass before getting accredited as an assistance dog - like the Public Access test, etc... It's not necessarily exhorbitantly expensive to train your own dog to be an assistance dog - and as long as the necessary access tests have been passed, I don't see anything wrong with people going the owner training route. The waiting lists and time it can take to get an assistance dog through certain channels is prohibitive for many people - not to mention that in some cases, the group may tell someone that they "aren't disabled enough" to be considered by the agency at all. I know someone with an assistance dog they trained themselves. This dog is the sole reason that person is alive today and living a relatively normal existence. The agencies considered this person "not disabled enough" to be helped by them... but thank dog there was a trainer who was willing to help train the dog to full assistance accreditation for this person. Without the dog, this person would most likely be confined to their house and familiar environments, or worse, dead from depressive illness (read suicide). The dog and the bond they share give this person a reason to get up and face the world every day, and be a part of it. People who fake needing an assistance dog solely for their own purposes need their head read. T.

Merry Christmas Juniper... looks like you got yourself a forever family from Santa (and his little helpers)... *grin* T.

That is torture for a Rottie grumpette... see if she'll do it for a banana... lol! T.

OMG! It's Kermit! Lol! T.

She is running a close second to Katdogs' Jodie as my fave dog from DOL... T.

Awww... I want a dog just like Maybe! What a stunner! T.

You are a perfectionist Kirislin... they aren't blurry at all from where I'm sitting... just gorgeous pics of 2 besties having a snuggle. T.

Yay!! We can see your pics again! ... and what gorgeous pics they are too! T.

You may have to post as an attachment... *grin* T.

Can you post a screenshot of what you are seeing Kirislin - maybe we can get our heads together and work out a solution? T.

Kirislin, can you post a screenshot of what you are seeing on Flickr? Maybe we can put our heads together and find a way to enable the sharing again... T.

Poor Feather! Little Neko munching on her ear! T.

Good quality food - raw or dry - will usually result in firmer poo that is easier to pick up and doesn't get spread about too much. Then again, it also depends on how many puppies you have at the time too - more puppies means more poo, therefore more chance that someone will walk in/on it or decide to play with it... *sigh* T.

Maybe I've been "lucky" to get the ones that seem to be trying to bluff their way through then... or the ones so darned eager to prove to the clinic that they can bring in the money... Considering I tend to bring in "interesting" cases for my preferred experienced vets to ponder on - you'd be amazed at the range of diseases and ailments you see in rescue - I'm just not comfortable with a kid that reaches for a textbook or wants to run a battery of expensive tests for all manner of things because they have really no clue where to start. T.

Well done Little Legs and Tim V! T.

I simply refuse to deal with vets on their first year out of Uni... and some for longer... I know quite a bit more about doggie ailments than them in most cases. I had one young lass actually reach for a textbook to look up diagnostics for a certain issue one of my dogs had... then she wanted to anaethsetise my dog for a follow-up x-ray on his paw (funnily enough at an extra $400 cost). I called for the regular treating vet who took my boy out to x-ray, had him sit in a beg position at the x-ray table with his paw in the right spot, told him to stay, then did his x-rays - no fuss, no drugs, and took all of about 15 mins (funnily enough exactly that same way they had x-rayed him the first time). The young lass was still trying to argue that my dog needed to be anaesthetised for an x-ray when the other vet brought him back into the consult room with the completed x-rays.... and she didn't have the faintest idea of how to read them either... *sigh* I did have one very experienced vet reach for the MIMS once to look up what drugs and dosages to give for coccidia - she had literally NEVER seen a case before... lol! She was so excited doing the fecal float and checking for the nasties that I suspected a foster pup had, she dragged me back to the lab section and let me look in the microscope at them... *grin* Those are the vets I love - ones who really get excited at learning about new things and working with owners on treatment plans and the like. Sadly she left not long after the practice was sold to Greencross... T.

My foster pups would get Royal Canin Junior for their type... they all did well on it. T.

Awww... I like Gussy - she's my kind of cat... T.

The odds of the vaccination taking on a pup that is also on AB's for a skin infection are pretty low. No good vet I know would vaccinate an immune compromised pup... There are so many alarm bells ringing in this particular case for me... personally, I wouldn't adopt the pup at all at this point. Who is paying the vet fees for the pup while all of this is going on, by the way? T.

There will be a special new star in the heavens tonight... maybe you and the kids can look for it? Run free sweet girl... T.

Jill will know if there is another JRT Rescue for sure... or she may be able to help... T.