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I've got 2 shedding undercoat here too - Pickles is a demon for shedding... but the rest of the coat is gorgeous on Freddie, so can tell he's in great nick... T.

Awww... Dulcie is so cute... I love how all your dogs are in such beautiful condition - both the house pets and the working ones - simply stunning... T.

Naww... too cute! T.

We seriously need a massive Love button! T.

That's my boy! You go Pudden... don't worry when mumma perse laughs at you... T.

Merry Christmas Pudden!!! Love ya, ya big galoot! T.

We need a "love" button... *grin* T.

The $161,912 left over after all other expenses should be enough for website enhancements, no? T.

Employee expenses > $500,000... wow! T.

You would have gotten MY business SM... *grin* T.

I was at a park on a headland - with no fences, and a sheer cliff drop on the other side of the roadway around the park - where a "dog walker" van pulled up, and the person opened the back door to let a stream of unsecured and unleashed dogs out. Needless to say that complete bedlam ensued whilst some 15 dogs ran off in all different directions - including towards the edge of the cliff! Stupid "dog walker" had no control, and very little clue really - then tried enlisting park goers help to round up the dogs and get them back into the van... WTF!?!?! And people pay top dollar for this kind of "service"... *sigh* This was in a rather upmarket suburb of Sydney (north side) to boot... The dog walker local to me that I highly recommend does NOT take dogs to the local dog parks... she physically walks them individually or in pairs (only same household dogs together) for a good hour before returning them home and making sure all water bowls are topped up, and any excess energy is expended with some toy/ball throwing in the back yard. She ony takes on work that she can physically handle and doesn't take shortcuts. She believes that the one-on-one time spent with the dogs is just as important as the exercise they all get during their walks, and I agree wholeheartedly. She's even picked up my friend's dogs and taken them for vet checkups when my friend can't get an appointment outside business hours... and picked up the vet prescription food too... she's seriously the BEST! T.

I wonder if they can prove what they are claiming in paragraph 5... I'm thinking not... T.

My Lab used to inhale her kibble dinner... thought nothing of it until the day she aspirated some and ended up with aspiration pneumonia... we now feed raw in large pieces she HAS to chew.. All of my dogs get fed separately - 3 adults in separate rooms, and 3 foster pups in individual crates in another room - and I don't need to supervise... *grin* T.

When one of my friends was looking for a dog walker, she had me come and interview a couple before we settled on one we and the dogs approved of... and she's completely awesome! If anyone is looking for a brilliant dog walker that goes the extra mile for your dogs in the Riverwood/Narwee/Roselands (Sydney) area, PM me for her contact details, I can't recommend her highly enough... People like the one in this news article should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law IMHO... how awful for the dog and it's owners... *sob* T.

The report says the dog has had a go at the owner more than once? Seriously, if one of mine turned on me with malice aforethought just once... it would no longer be with us... T.

At least the willy wagtails can't steal the eggs from under the chooks and ducks like the ravens do... errr! As long as the ravens stick to getting rats, they are welcome - but please stop dropping bunny bits near my head... grrr! Or said eggs! I love watching the superb fairy wrens doing their little mating dances - not as fussed washing off the poop from my car side mirrors though... *grin*... and the little bugger is too flighty to get a decent photo opportunity of him doing over my mirrors... Love watching the sparrows hover, then nip in for a tasty spider or other bug... T.

Got an email yesterday warming me about a certain "grinch"... errr! Looks like @shel has gotten under their skin a bit... hehe! T.

Have I told you lately that I think I'm in love with Pudden? Just want to grab his shmooshy face and plant a kiss right between the eyes... Please give him a cuddle from me and tell him I hope Santa spoils him rotten... T.

What a load of bollocks... excuse the pun... grrr! T.

We get some raptors over the farm... mainly the smaller types like goshawks and kestrels, but I've seen one or two wedgies... funniest sight the other day was the poor kestrel getting nailed by the territorial willy wagtails we have in residence at the moment... they take on the ravens also... lol! The willies ALWAYS win and drive off the bigger birds too! Won't be long before the resident shed willies take to swooping us as we try to work... Whilst I love seeing the wedgies, I get our baby goats inside pretty quickly if one is about... errr! I had a little superb fairy wren manage to get inside my car the other day while he was attacking my side mirrors (the car was parked)... luckily I noticed him before I got in and drove off! AND we have sparrows at work! Been years since I've seen sparrows in any numbers anywhere... they and the willies keep the spider population down in the shed, so they are VERY welcome! T.

I don't mind the ravens too much... I've watched them hunting rats too... *grin* Sitting bottle feeding the baby goats one afternoon, I saw a flurry of activity near the back of the shed, and it was a raven sticking it's head down a rat hole... it came up with a rat and proceeded to smash it about then tear it up and eat it... good raven! Not as fussed on the buggers stealing golf balls from the local range and dropping them from above me... or when they've gotten bread from somewhere local and dunked it into the paddock waterers, clogging them up so I have to clean them every day... grrr! I've found numerous interesting items jammed in the waterers too - golf balls, rubber ducks, toy cars... As for the foxes - I'm keeping an eye on our smaller paddock goats at the moment, as they are still small enough to be targets... hopefully the foxes will stick to the myriad bunnies for a while longer... *sigh* T.

We don't tend to have the DPI dropping 1080 around the farm thank dog! Regular Calici drops though... *sigh* I haven't been taking my foster pups to work of late, as it's either been too hot or too wet for them there... The ravens have been increasing in numbers due to the large number of bunnies too... and the buggers are getting so cocky that I've even caught them nosing under the ducks and chickens to steal their eggs! More fun stuff for the buggers to drop on our heads... grrr! T.

A really dumb fox would still make the smartest Border Collie look like a dunce... they are super smart... and have memories like elephants to boot! For all the things we don't really like about foxes here in Australia, you still have to admire their adaptability and tenacity to survive and thrive - no matter what we stupid humans do to try to stop them... *grin* Saw my first evidence of fox activity at my work farm in ages yesterday... a bit of bunny fluff scattered near a fence. Good thing too, as the bloody bunnies have been getting so thick on the ground that they have been wandering up to the cattle/goat/sheep feed troughs and feeding happily alongside our animals for weeks now... Even the ravens have been poaching small bunnies at the farm lately... but I wish they'd stop dropping bits of bunny from the sky... I nearly ended up with a bunny leg hat the other day! Seriously, the portion landed less than 6 inches from me! Still hasn't stopped them going into the duck pen and stealing the eggs though... T.

Nice work Shel!!! T.

I have 2 dogs here that eat poo... and the only reason for it is that they like it... grrr! We have found absolutely no other reason for it... T.