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NO MORE SLEEPS! Today is Puppy Day! T.

Only ONE MORE SLEEP!!!!!! Tomorrow is Puppy Day! T.

OMG! OMG! Puppy day on Saturday! You lucky devil you! T.

One of the vets at Annandale Vet Clinic is an expert in expressing anal glands - he doesn't get the ewwie stuff all over the dog either... T.

Try these guys for help with the goats... http://www.edgarsmission.org.au/ T.

How many more sleeps now Kirislin? T.

There will be some awesome photos of him once ruthless has been... *grin* T.

Some rescues have a more thorough screening process than for adopting a human child... I'm of the opinion that those ones are taking their responsibilities a little too far really... Some rescues have virtually no screening process at all. The best rescues have found a happy medium between the two, and adjust their screening for each and every individual animal available for adoption - after all, they all have different needs to be met, yes? T.

Sums it up perfectly really... *grin* T.

If you've paid the $40 NSW lifetime registration, that will stay with the dog for it's lifetime in NSW. Any council that tries to charge you again is misleading you. If you move, all you need to do is to update the Chip registry details - and depending on the council involved, they may charge you some sort of filing fee to do it for you on the spot - alternately, you can go to the DLG NSW website here... http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/dlg_InformationIndex.asp?mi=9&ml=1&areaindex=CA&index=303#Home - and download the forms, etc to do it yourself... T.

Guardienne seems to have a thing for LDH - pops up in every thread about them... definitely "con" LG... And dogmad - I have not denigrated ANY Victorian rescues that have managed to build any form of working relationship with the LDH in Victoria - more power to them I say! I'm happy to denigrate any rescues that cause any steps backwards with regards to rescue having any kind of working relationship with LDH in any state... Seriously woman - you should know me a bit better than that by now... *grin* T.

Hmmm... http://dogshome.com/pets/dogs/ ... quite a few long haired, large breed, not traditionally "pretty", and older dogs available for adoption across the LDH shelters... So you reckon that if the dogs actually up for adoption were actually getting adopted reasonably quickly, that wouldn't inspire them to put more up for adoption? Pretty big call to make there... You can call me ignorant all you like - if it makes you feel superior and more learned, that's fine by me. T.

You might have to rope Marcus into joining in with Sparky... lol! T.

Running to the media and screaming "killer" every time a rescue doesn't get the dog/cat it wants from a pound/shelter isn't exactly the way to charm the people who run said pound/shelter though, is it? At the end of the day, the pound is a business - and in the case of the LDH, it's a privately run business... tendered for and appointed with council approval. If you want to change things, you need to talk to council. Go to council with a plan to improve the problem as you see it - provide costings, and how to allocate funds/manpower towards what you'd like to see as a viable animal management plan. Make note of things such as space constraints, staffing levels, number of incoming and outgoing animals per annum, etc... Be part of the solution, rather than the "problem"... it's all too easy to run to the media with sob stories, but what else are you doing to try to solve the problem? It's not as simple as just saying "hand over the animals to rescue" when you take into account the myriad other things that go into running a pound/shelter effectively. In the meantime, ADOPT the available animals from LDH - they come desexed, vaccinated, and chipped for the price... and you are within your rights to rehome them after they are in your care, yes? Maybe if the LDH sees adoption numbers increase, they may put more of them up for adoption, ya think? T.

She'll be as fast as the Whippets if the boys keep that up... lol! T.

LOL - considering that the rescue I'm with (in NSW) has successfully rescued dogs from the Victorian LDH without paying a full adoption fee, and have spoken to GS on the phone myself with regards to the rescue of those animals... I may just have more "expertise" in this area than you might think... Your suggestions have some merit - however, have these tactics (especially the media campaigns) actually made a difference to the Victorian LDH kill stats or their willingness to work with local rescue? T.

Ummm... didn't they advocate the BSL laws in Victoria? And if "reducing the numbers of lost and stray cats and dogs" means euthing them so they don't reoffend... well - they have done their job there, yes? I'd like to see the LDH organisation work more closely with rescue - but they have been stung before by some overzealous people involved in rescue, so are probably not overly open to that idea. Maybe they need to have some of the less radical types in rescue come to them with a proposal that all can work within, and maybe we could see some changes there... T.

Run free Maddie and KC... My heart breaks for you CaseyKay... remember them in your heart and they will always be with you. Smile for all of the good times you shared, and even though the end was not what you had wished, know that you made it easier for them when they needed to go. T.

Milton... love it! Sparky... too cute... Neko... the cheeky Miss... T.

If you are going with the cat theme... Puss would be a cool name for a dog... lol! T.

So - have you decided on a name for her yet? T.

Awww... how cute! You must be getting very excited now Kirislin... T.

Went to Symbio again today... and I met a new little arrival... 07-10-2013-symbio 004 by tdierikx, on Flickr Kato decided that sleeping like this was the go this morning... 07-10-2013-symbio 052 by tdierikx, on Flickr Jalur was first out for lunch... 07-10-2013-symbio 053 by tdierikx, on Flickr 07-10-2013-symbio 074 by tdierikx, on Flickr ... and then Cinta decided she'd come out too... 07-10-2013-symbio 084 by tdierikx, on Flickr 07-10-2013-symbio 124 by tdierikx, on Flickr Common Marmosets are deadly cute... but check out the teeth! 07-10-2013-symbio 327 by tdierikx, on Flickr This little one decided to check us out... 07-10-2013-symbio 544 by tdierikx, on Flickr ... and Woody is a right corker, isn't he? 07-10-2013-symbio 584 by tdierikx, on Flickr Plenty more at... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdierikx/sets Enjoy! T.

Sunday's efforts are now up on Flickr... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdierikx/sets/ Here's a taste... 06-10-2013-taronga 060 by tdierikx, on Flickr 06-10-2013-taronga 336 by tdierikx, on Flickr 06-10-2013-taronga 458 by tdierikx, on Flickr 06-10-2013-taronga 570 by tdierikx, on Flickr 06-10-2013-taronga 629 by tdierikx, on Flickr Enjoy! T.

That's Jalur. He is 5 years old, and came from New Zealand with his sister Cinta. Cinta has been a bit of a princess of late, preferring to stay in the night dens/yards instead of coming out to play... so Jalur gets 2 lunches when she doesn't feel like coming out after the keepers have laid out lunch... he's no silly billy! T.