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*waiting patiently for news and pics of new puppy fun* T.

Run free and healthy at the Bridge sweet Rosie... T.

This is my Lab in her prime... at around 4 years old... She is now nearly 8 and is carrying about 2kgs more weight than in the above photo - so still nicely proportioned - but I tell her she has "booty" and think she's a bit chubbier than I'd like. Funnily enough no-one else thinks she's chubby... This is a photo taken around January this year - to me she looks a bit more portly than I'd like... T.

I am vicariously getting my puppy fix through your gorgeous photos Kirislin... I can't have pups here for some more time yet... so thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous little new addition with us. Looking forward to the looks on the Whippets' faces when she meets them... they are going to be looking at her as if to say "she looks like us, but is so TINY!" Mini Me time methinks... lol! Have you settled on Neko as her name yet? T.

Woohoo!!! Puppy day today!!! T.

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.