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Sage and Toby are the snuggliest two from that litter PS... excellent choices... lol! T.

I'd love a brindle Lab... if it wasn't crazy like my current yellow girl... *grin* T.

My Lab girl was very "red" when she was a pup - and still goes through phases of being a bit darker than the average yellow at certain times of the year. There is a "red" in Labs, yes? But I've never seen them in Australia... I'd prefer that over chocolate... I'm not a fan of chocolate Labs myself. T.

Milo and Sebastian have been adopted! YAY!!!! That leaves only Oliver and Holly from Blossom's litter still available... We have some appointments for various pups from Daisy's litter over the weekend, so hopefully they will all find new homes for themselves too... T.

I was looking at her photos and thinking exactly the same thing Aussie3... but I think it's just her colouring that makes us think that. Her ears are way too small for a start... lol! Here's a couple of pics of her mum a few days before Harper's litter were born - and she came to us like that from the pound. We have no idea what dad may have been - maybe some AmStaff cross?? All of the other pups in the litter look like Staffy crosses - 2 white with blue patches, 3 brindle, 1 black and white, and 1 black, and Harper of course... T.

You know we will be needing photos once you get her home, don't you? *grin* T.

Seriously - people are STILL spreading that one around? You'd think they'd get more creative over time, wouldn't you? All I have to say is that I wouldn't want to be the one who pays our desexing bill at the vet... and it's a bit hard to breed from a dog with no uterus, isn't it? How about I fuel her fire by saying that I have no hesitation to give a broken dog it's wings... but unlike rehoming it to some other poor sap to take on the burden, I will actually be the one there holding the dog as it goes from this earth. Rescue is by no means for the faint of heart (or bleeding of heart for that matter) - sometimes the hard decisions need to be made and then acted upon. There are laws about truth in advertising that PR are blatantly breaking with their "save this particular dog" blurbs pasted all over the internet. Lying by omission is still lying... T.

I don't think she's going to be too huge Alkhe... I'm tipping about AmStaff height, but maybe not as chunky. She's quite a lean build with long supermodel legs - which makes her feet look bigger than they actually are. T.

I have been avoiding that thread happypaws... I seriously have so many puppy toys already... *grin* T.

She's definitely a unique colouring - I have never seen anything quite like it before, but it's most becoming, don't you think? It all came together in a perfect little package I reckon. So sign of allergies or anything like that, which can be a concern with a dog of the "blue" variety and of unknown parentage. So far she's coming along great guns - and I think she's having a growth spurt right now... she's eating like a horse! Last week she was more grazing than eating a meal in one sitting. Puppies can be funny like that I've found - some eat like horses all the time, and some just go up and down as their growth spurts happen. My fave time of all is in the evenings when I veg out in front of the TV and Harper snuggles up to me and we both end up asleep on the couch... which is what I'm about to go do now... *grin* T.

Hehe! Even with crazy eyes and flappy ears, she's beautiful to me... *grin* I am so in love with her... *sigh* T.

That last shot is a corker! Flying Frenchie! T.

Simple answer dogmad? I'd assume that the pounds may be worried about retaliation if they refused or revoked the 16D... You have seen how these people operate, and how fanatical some of their followers are, hven't you? I'd be somewhat worried about their possible reactions if I were to intentionally try to stop them doing what they are doing... errr! T.

OK - more photos of my baby girl... taken this afternoon. T.

So, when a dog is released from a pound under the Pound Rounds Clause 16D, whose name is it going into? Theoretically speaking it should be going into the name of whoever holds that 16D, yes? Under that premise, Pound Rounds would/should be the ones assuming liability from that point on if they "rehome" the dog to someone else, yes? T.

Ain't she just? And we both love each other to death which is the icing on the cake... *grin* T.

http://www.petrescue.com.au/groups/10440?page=2 <-- check out Samuel and Sage on that page... and Leroy on page 3 http://www.petrescue.com.au/groups/10440?page=3 - they look like short coated BC's T.

My Lab's pups some years ago weighed in at 500g each at birth - and she had 9 of them! They grew at a rate of knots too, probably because my girl had mega boobies to rival Dolly Parton's... The largest pup in that litter weighed 9.3 kgs at 10 weeks old. My vet adopted one of the smaller males, and he ended up at around 36kgs lean... so I don't think Katdogs' Buddha Boy is doing too badly there... lol! It will be funny to see him and my pup playing together when he's had all his shots - she's 8 weeks older than him, so she might be reasonably even with him when they can play. T.

Happy Gotcha Day Ziggy!! T.

I'm pretty certain that she's going to have her current eye colour forever... just one a darker shade than the other. I don't mind though - she has very pretty eyes I reckon... especially when she sits so nicely and looks up at me wanting a cuddle... *grin* T.

PR don't have insurance... and they claim to be "facilitators", not an actual "rescue" group. Their site says they will facilitate a foster carer getting a dog from the pound, then put said carer "in touch" with a local rescue group. Basically, they absolve themselves of any and all liability for their actions by doing it that way. Once the animal is out of "their" pound(s), it is someone else's problem... T.

These pups are in NSW, but may suit your requirements... http://www.petrescue.com.au/groups/10440 There are actually 3 pages there... check out the BC cross pups in particular. T.

You are going to have to rename him to Buddha methinks.... hehehehe! T.

Until your friend has had to hold a dog while it is given it's wings due to it being totally unsuitable for rehoming, even after months of rehabilitation efforts, she will never know how reputable rescue REALLY works. There are sound reasons why reputable and ethical rescues opeate the way they do. In rescue there are 2 main truths... 1. Not every pound animal should be "saved". 2. The measure of a reputable and ethical rescue is NOT how many animals they save, but how well they do it. It is never easy for a reputable rescuer to go into a pound and see all the animals there, then leave without taking any of them - but the reality is that is what we must do sometimes. We DO know exactly what happens to those we can't take (for the record), and really don't need armchair "rescue" upstarts preaching at us when they really don't care to understand the consequences of getting it "wrong" (both for the animals AND the public). T.

20kg already?!?!?! Him's is gonna be HUGE when he's finished! Huge... but VERY handsome! *grin* T.