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I have NEVER had them slimy & gross & frying them up makes them very easy to handle & not at all gross...very easy to break into tiny pieces. I just make up a batch & keep them in the freezer. True...not entirely homemade...but then again what is???? A whole lot better than those doggy treat stick things you buy :) When I get the clicker out & the garlic fried lamb chunkers out, my two dogs give me their full attention.

I never buy commercial treats. Sometimes my dogs win them & they come in handy for just sticking in my pocket, but I make my own. I have put them together on a web page if you are interested. The ones my dogs go nuts for are the VIP Lamb Chunkers lightly fried in oil & garlic & broken into tiny pieces. Anyway if you are interested, you can find my ideas HERE :)

thanks guys, 1) pedigree'd; no worries here I will be buying from a local reputable breeder. 2) yes, ging to the park would be really great, although I can organise my hours ot go when it is less busy. that surprises me to hear that as the place where I usually go with duke (richmond), has quite a few staffies that i have come to know over the last two years, a few americans/english, and a few resident bull terriers as well ! Just make sure your local reputable breeder is a "registered" breeder, registered with ANKC not just the council or some other body. You will need to get either "Mains" or "Limited" Registration papers with him from the ANKC.

I may be wrong here...but I thought that you were not allowed to have those breeds in Victoria

I was giving my two...average of 20 kilos....one tablespoon a day on their food. So probably about one & a half tablespoons, but introduce it slowly. They really don't mind the taste :)

"The Focused Puppy" available from Clean Run is a great book

I wanted 1 of those as well and was also offered 1 of the donkeys or hippos instead. I think I picked the donkey. I REALLY like the periwinkle dragon though so am going to do a second order an get a mini one. LOL. I ordered one & I got an email saying my order had been posted last week....so fingers crossed, it's in there

Oh...sorry...I didn't realise that there were some people on here that cant read posts properly

why on earth would you give your dogs a different food if they were doing so well on BH? To give them a completely different taste from lamb..I got the fish one. So what's so funny about that Are you calling me a liar or something. And at $82 for 6 kilos, I certainly wont be buying it again, especially if it makes their poos so sloppy I can't pick them up & the smell is so vile. I feel so sorry for your poor dogs...no variety in taste, seeing you have been using the same food with them since they were concieved.

Where would I find that? At the health food shop :)

You could also try a tablespoon of cold pressed organic coconut oil daily on his food....can work wonders not just with his coat but with other "old age" problems. Just make sure you get the proper one from the health food shop.

My two border collies have been on Black Hawk now for two years & they are lovely & fit, well muscled, absolutely no itching or skin problems. Coats are a little dry, but that's because they swim daily in the family pool, then sit in the sun to get dry & I don't rinse the pool water (Chlorine) off them. Only two poos a day & nice & firm...couldn't be happier. I thought I would give them a bit of a change, so last week bought a 6 kilo bag of Earthborn Holistic Coastal Catch ($82) & have been mixing a little of that in with their BH. Their poos are now sloppy & smelly but I will give it a bit longer before I make a decision on it.

I was just searching Ebay & found someone is selling three unopened bottles of Proban (50 tablets). Thought someone here might be interested Proban on Ebay They expire Dec 2012, so no good to me

These are Goji berries & I am referring to the pitted & dried variety. They are about 1/3 rd the size of a dried cranberry. I eat them all the time & put them in cookies etc & have never found a pip. They are not really a stone fruit, more like a blueberry.

They are commercially dried so I doubt if they would contain pips.

My girl just discovered that she just 's my dried Goji berries. I only gave her a couple but she immediately starting performing tricks to get me to give her more. When she carries on like that it usually means that she has given something the tick of approval. :laugh: I googled it & a couple of sites said NO & many more others said YES. What do others think & if they are OK, then how many would be too many???

Sorry to sound a bit blunt....but you have won a $90 plus bag of premium dog biscuits. You are complaining about the small size of the kibble which is the same size as a LOT of Premium Dog Foods & you are almost willing your dogs to get sick on it. If you are so worried about the size of the kibble & are so worried about your dogs getting sick on it then show us where your heart is & donate it to a rescue centre....I sure they would appreciate it. For every dog that it doesn't agree with, like all kibbles, there are hundreds that thrive on it.

Advantix...apply it to several spots on the skin along their back & keep them out of the water for 48 hrs afterwards. You will still have to check them daily at least.

I havn't read the whole post, but I am just wondering why you have called it "out" & not "give" or "ta". I guess you can call it anything you like, but to me & my dog "out" means to move away from me & I use "ta" to ask her to give me what is in her mouth. I think you could probably fix this problem if you clicker trained your dog & taught it some tricks via "shaping", then you could "shape" it to give you back the toy/object.

Alyosha, it's working now. They must have been in the middle of a changeover.

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I have a lovely one of those growing right next to the dwarf oleander & the dogs do zoomies around them. I don't really see why a dog would bother to eat it or the leaves from any other bush as long as they have some good grass to nibble on. A good idea for dogs is to plant some Cat Grass...they love it. Maybe put some in a pot & get it established. I have seen a dog with toxicity from Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - it had eaten a bunch of seed pods (edit: apparently berries - all the parts of the plant are toxic but in this case we were identifying things in faeces!). Never say they'd never eat anything stupid, but in this case it was a Labrador, so maybe that explains everything. I've also seen a small dog (Maltese x) come very close to losing it's life after eating a few leaves from a Kalanchoe plant. I'm not sure of which species in particular but it was a succulent variety - they seems to be very popular at Bunnings too. I didn't think of the berries.... I think I might dig mine out just to be on the safe side.

I have a lovely one of those growing right next to the dwarf oleander & the dogs do zoomies around them. I don't really see why a dog would bother to eat it or the leaves from any other bush as long as they have some good grass to nibble on. A good idea for dogs is to plant some Cat Grass...they love it. Maybe put some in a pot & get it established.

Mine too

It was bait. Still don't know how. It has just made me really paranoid about keeping the dogs safe and one reason that I moved. So when the guy told me 2 dogs had died here I flipped out a bit. I haven't worried too much about plants in the past as so many are poisonous. So I was just wondering if other people considered plants. Was just about to plant tomatoes which are poisonous! Probably the only way to make sure if you are really paranoid is to have absolutely no garden at all, but then there are the grasses which can be "poisonous" at different stages of their growth. Also a lot of plants that are classed as poisonous are not deadly, they just make the dog feel off colour or give it the runs. I have never seen a dog eat tomato plants. In fact I have never seen a dog eat any plant other than grass. I know they will eat fruit. With the bait, I suppose it could have been possible that a crow could have dropped it or a neighbour may have been baiting carrots for rabbit control. Which ever way, it was tragic & if it happened to me, I would be paranoid too Can you divide your yard into two & have one half for the dogs & the other for your garden.