iffykharma

Its worth noting that she is currently on the Adopt-a-Pet site and available for adoption with no reference to her not being suitable for families with young children, cats or other dogs (and they normally do make those conditions clear). This means, for what it's worth, that she has passed the RSPCA's behaviour/temperament test. I don't know why they have suggested she not be fostered with other dogs, cats or children - I'm sure the Foster Care team have their reasons and I won't speculate. There could be any number of reasons and it doesn't necessarily indicate that she is either dog or child aggressive.

I thought people would be interested to see a little update about Indy. The RSPCA Foster Care team have sent out an email request to their foster carers for help with a few dogs.

An unbelievably inadequate sentence. Here's the forum topic relating to when the dog was found. http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?showtopic=190463 And the article in the Courier Mail. As one of the comments to this story says, if the Daughter is old enough to look after a cat, surely she should be held partially responsible for the condition the dogs were allowed to get into. This sickens me.

True, he should have been more appropriately punished - there's no excuse for it. But what about this bit? WTF??? This seems to be a pretty important part of the chain of events and it only gets a passing mention at the end of the story??? Bloody newspapers.

Article on Sunday Mail news site. LOUIE the toy poodle strutted his stuff to take out the longest ears title, but there was not a trophy in sight. Owner Marie Buckland said the Poodles in the Park day, run by the Poodle Club of Queensland at Meadowbrook near Logan, was just a bit of fun. "We're not show people," Mrs Buckland said. She owns Peninsular Beachfront Resort at Mooloolaba with husband Glenn. Mr Buckland said two of their poodles, Chloe and Kate, had died a few years ago. "They were a big part of the resort, guests used to come and see them," he said. Now Louie and another poodle pup, George, have come into their lives. Competitions yesterday included prettiest colour, waggiest tail and cutest pet.

Excellent comments everyone. Short sharp and to the point. I'll have to practice being more succinct. Well done and I hope he takes note.

Maybe yours couldn't be posted because of its length iffykharma? I'd say that's probably it... and at least someone has been able to make the point, succinctly and passionately. I may have a crack a editing my version... that's the trouble with trying to sound reasonable though, it does tend to be a bit long winded - well I do anyway.

I actually thought the same dogmad. Although I have to be fair and say that my thinking in relation to dogs has been greatly expanded in the time I've been reading and posting on DOL and I'm not certain that I would have "thought outside the box" beforehand in terms of how to manage the situation he described. But honestly I cannot see myself just leaving a family pet at the pound. I guess I'm also surprised that that was the outcome after they'd had assistance from a "dog whisperer", whatever the hell he means by that. I would have hoped that someone involved in working with dogs in that way would have been able to provide better guidance on how to deal with the situation in the event that behaviour modification wasn't successful??? Seems poor Billie was let down by everyone. Would be nice to think that he caught the eye of someone at the pound and found a great new home, but I'm too much of a realist to really believe it.

Lhok, No I'm pretty sure the message I got said it couldn't be accepted (or something like that), so I don't think it even get through to the moderation stage. I may have a look around the website and see if I can just send an email to him. dogbesotted, you've no idea how many times I had to rewrite parts so it didn't come off as a rant. I subscribe to the saying that you catch more flies with honey... and figure it is too easy for people to dismiss a idea, complaint or criticism if the person saying it sounds unhinged, much less easy to dismiss if comments are polite and reasoned. Not to worry though, I'm sure I'll have another opportunity to put these ideas forward again at some point.

I've just tried to post a comment but it wouldn't accept it - either too long or perhaps comments are closed as the topic is a week old. Here's the original blog post This is what I tried to post. I'd be interested in any other comments people would have made - or if you think I've made any errors in my response Thoughts please?

Oh My God... she is so stunning. I can believe it was love at first sight. That first photo in particular is so precious.

How do they do a behavioural assessment with an 8 week old GSD puppy I certainly wouldn't take the RSPCA's opinion of a GSD pup of unknown parentage how it will turn out as an adult in regard to health and temperament, they wouldn't have a clue, but they are happy to palm it off to someone regardless So your argument then is that the RSPCA SHOULD be euthanising all GSD puppies of unknown parentage? Good to know where you stand on the issue

OMD, isn't Ferny Hills in the Moreton Bay Regional Council? Have you been in touch with them as well? I would hope that anyone who'd lost their dog in that area would call both BCC and Moreton Bay because it's so close to the border, but you never know.

I am afraid that this may not be the first time this sicko has done this Last November 2 pet staffies went missing from Bargara and were found at Burnett Heads (all costal communities surrounding Bundaberg, as is Moore Park where the Dogues went missing from). The staffies were found alive but were so severely beaten that the female had to be PTS. The treating vet said that the females injuries were consistent with sexual abuse They haven't caught the person scum who did that so I am wondering if this latest attack on pet dogs could be the same person. Poor sweet dogs - makes my heart break and my stomach churn when I read these stories... I have to wonder though if one person would have been able to do this alone - stealing and causing such horrific injuries to two very large (85 kg and 60 kg) dogs. I'm sure its possible, but I suspect it's more likely that two or three people are involved, egging each other on and reinforcing each others sick behaviour. Its sickening and very scary.

This is just an educated guess, but there are a number of dogs now on the RSPCA Adopt-a-Pet site that I suspect are Wondai dogs (I honestly don't know for certain). Search for dogs at the Fairfield shelter and check out the dachshund puppies, some labs, poodles, etc. Animals with BT in their Shelter tag number are cruelty case animals. They are gorgeous pups (and adults) needing new homes.