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A friend sent me this email...don't know if it was a true ad in the Herald Sun but it is pretty cute anyway This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It is reported to have been listed in the Melbourne Herald Sun... SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your ute, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelit dinners will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me. Call ( 01409434328) and ask for Daisy, I'll be waiting.... ............................................... Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the RSPCA StKilda..

I have one pup left, has been flea'd and wormed, only $2800. One parent is available for inspection This breed are cheap to feed...just chuck them roadkill or the odd drowned cow and they are happy

I reckon you had best quit now Staffygirl88 I bet you are embarrassed now

I was thinking the same thing when he went all stupid with the bulldog puppies. Yes, he said they looked like slippers...and I reckon they did...lovely soft slippers

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I'm not too keen on Derryn Hinch but this is good news from him http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/17/3015062.htm Hinch vows to end to 'cruel' puppy farm trade By Sarah Collerton Joining the fight: Derryn Hinch holds his wife's dog, Scrappy Muttley (Supplied) Map: Melbourne 3000 Related Story: Puppy farm raids lead to push for tougher laws Related Story: Animal activists attack puppy farm 'junkyard' Related Story: Dogs seized from alleged puppy farm High-profile broadcaster Derryn Hinch says shops should stop selling pets in order to shut down the "cruel and brutal" puppy farm trade. Hinch, who will be speaking at a rally against puppy farms in Melbourne on Sunday, joined the fight against the industry after suspecting his own caboodle came from one. Animal activists have long called for a ban on puppy farms, which see dogs used as breeding machines for profit. They argue the dogs on the farms often live in filthy and cramped conditions, their coats are often matted with faeces and they get no veterinary attention when they are suffering. In the worst cases dogs are kept in tiny cages with little human contact and they develop physical and psychological problems. Dog-breeding regulations vary across Australia and breeders are difficult to monitor and even harder to prosecute. But Hinch says one of the best ways to get rid of puppy farms would be to stop pet shops selling pets. "Shut down the business. It's a very lucrative business," he told ABC News Online. "In some countries now, you can't sell pets in pet shops and I think it's the way it will possibly happen eventually in Australia. "It sounds crazy, but eventually you're going to find that pet shops will not be allowed to sell pets. "You'll still have pet shops to sell leashes and collars and treats and dog food, but you won't have these little cute puppies sitting in the window." Hinch is horrified to think that his own dog, which he bought from a "legitimate" Melbourne pet store, is most likely from "a puppy factory". He now works to raise awareness of the "cruel and brutal system" and encourages people to buy puppies from the lost dogs' homes or the RSPCA. "Most people are ignorant of puppy farms - when they find out what they actually are they'll be really shocked," he said. "These are literally dog factories in which they just use the mothers to have litter after litter after litter. "When you get your cute little dog, find out where it's come from. See if it's got papers, see if it comes from a legitimate breeder, not just from some vague place out in the country." 'Not all bad' But Malcolm Rolton, who works for the Banksia Park Puppy Farm east of Melbourne, says the industry is not all bad. "We like to think that we're at the cutting edge of the good end of the puppy farm business," he told ABC News Online. Banksia produces about 2,000 puppies a year, making it one of the biggest puppy producers in Australia. "It sounds like a massive lot of puppies, but the infrastructure that is there is quite fantastic," Mr Rolton said. He acknowledges some puppy farms do the wrong thing, but he says Banksia is clean, the dogs' beds are regularly changed and there is heating for the puppies during winter. "The dogs are probably looked after better than a lot of people's living conditions," he said. Mr Rolton says Banksia's large staff includes vets, groomers and people who simply play with the dogs. They even hired Mr Rolton to handle the "hurtful" negative publicity they face. Banksia, owned by the Hams family who have been in the dog-breeding industry for 50 years, sells most of its puppies to pet stores. Mr Rolton does not think it would be fair to stop puppies from being sold in shops. "I find the puppy shops we deal with do care an enormous amount about the puppies," he said. "Pet shops sell a lot less puppies than what is sold online. "Most of the unscrupulous deals are the ones that are happening on the internet, rather than the actual puppy shops." But Hinch doubts the puppies are well treated at any puppy farm - he says he is yet to come across one where the dogs are well-treated. "In the old days they say that some battery hen institutions were not as bad as others - I don't think that argument washes," he said. Edited to add...a pox on Malcolm Rolton

don't forget outside our local shopping centre as well....husky x Great Dane pups :D

I agree Mystiqview, my two have been going to obedience for a couple of months and our trainer always said that putting on the check chain means training time. Daisy gets pretty excited to put on her check chain, she loves the training, Mac not so much....means he has to think and that hurts his head

O NO YOU WON'T

I will vote for the---->definitely NOT on the back, perhaps in a corner or the middle of the top end option. ....do we win a prize if we guess (or vote) the correct way?

Hi woodbyne, I posted this (as a matter of fact it was a reply to Anne's post, it didn't help her though as I think her dog had a different epilepsy than was in my reply) anyhow, these links may be of interest http://dogtorj.tripod.com/index.html and http://dogtorj.tripod.com/id21.html

Hahahaha Staranais, I didn't even think the title was odd until I saw your post...now that I keep looking at it....it is positively risqué....I keep picturing the Willies in the Moreton Bay

http://www.baysidebulletin.com.au/news/loc...ay/1933675.aspx Overboard Willie plucked from bay DANI VOLKE 06 Sep, 2010 12:00 AM A SEVEN-month-old West Highland terrier is lucky to be alive after going overboard from a ferry travelling from Cleveland to North Stradbroke Island. Willie, who wandered away from his family's car as they headed to Point Lookout on Saturday, was rescued, tired and exhausted, wading near a mudbank. Willie's owner, JP Shelburn, said he had let the dog out of the car to have a drink of water, but within seconds he was gone. "I turned around after getting our second dog, Clinton, out of the car and he [Willie] wasn't there. I started looking under cars and then I told the skipper that I thought our dog had gone overboard," Mr Shelburn said. Mr Shelburn said the master of the 12.30pm ferry had made an announcement to other vessels to keep an eye out for a Willie. "The ferry was turned around and we spotted Willie swimming in the channels and he had made it to a mudflat. He would have been in the water on his own for about 50 minutes," Mr Shelburn said. "He was spotted by one of the water taxis and the master of the ferry authorised me to put on a life-jacket and swim out to get him. "When we got back on the boat everyone was cheering and wanted a photo with him and I shouted everyone a beer. "He was definitely scared and shaken." Mr Shelburn said Willie was an adventurous dog. Stradbroke Island Ferries Chief Executive Officer David Thomson said the rescue had been handled well. "It is quite a big deal to turn a boat around and we empower our skippers to make on the spot decisions like these," he said. "Master of the boat on the day, Bob Francis, coordinated the crew to do the right thing. The customers understood the situation and the reason for the delays, which were about 15 to 20 minutes," Mr Thomson said. A passenger on the ferry, Shane McDermott of Wellington Point, said he had been taking visitors from Victoria over to Straddie when Willie went overboard. "It was a heart-warming experience and we thought it was a great effort by the crew," Mr McDermott said.

Poor bugger, how is he this morning?

Penny, Mac and Daisy love them...there was a bunch on the tree we were keeping an eye on so we could cut it off when it was ripe as they taste HEAPS better if ripened on the tree...well checking on them sort-of slipped our minds, we had gone out for the day and at least 9 ripe ones had fallen on the ground, all we found was the skins But to top it off Penny (I know it was her!) had pulled the lid off the bucket of canary see that we feed to the little wild double-bars that visit here and the dogs had eaten a fair bit of the seed as well. I was picking yellow-seed-encrusted poo off the grass for two days...it looked like strange museli bars Anyway, they can eat heaps of bananas without any problems, though my lot prefer ripe Ladyfingers over ripe Cavendish

kbrown is selling a pig in mud door in Member Marketplace, for $360 it (the door) is in Canberra though http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?showtopic=201825

Thanks for that Cramet, I will let him know

I had the same problem ages back and I ended up buying one of the humane traps as we also had native rats where we were living (I also caught a bandicoot in one...how it managed to squash itself in was a mystery!) The traps are so good that friends asked me to buy some for them. The rat is still alive when you catch it so you can release it somewhere along way from home or at the car-sales yard (whatever you fancy really ) I have found that it is best to wrap a piece of cheese up in some muslin, smear the wrapped package with peanut butter then attach it to the little bait-wire with a little bulldog clip, otherwise the rat pulls it off so gently the trap door won't snap closed. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HUMANE-RAT-TRAP-MOU...AU_Pest_Control I am pretty happy with mine, though little mice will get through the holes

Hope it works.....be sure to come back here and let us know how you went :D

Can you tell me the quantity you used for bathing please? Thanks I would just use around 1/4 cup of dried petals Aly, but I don't really know...PM Westiemum and Erny and they will tell you EXACTLY... also...what are you feeding your dog with?, perhaps we can suggest stuff that will help the itchies.

Hi Jed ;) hope you are feeling a bit better Travis looked as though he wanted to go to the toilet in that photo loved the dogs, just beautiful they are.

I'm sure this kind of care would be for a Yorkie with a SHOW coat. AFAIK the show coats for Yorkies is much, much longer than you would normally keep the coat for a pet Yorkie. A woman who lives along our street has two Yorkies, she keeps them clipped so their coat is about 1/2 length...they look great!

Thanks heaps for the answers peoples, I will print out the posts and give him the info...the link to PetsPantry is really good and the info about different check chains will be useful for him Erny. The dog is a Cattle Dog x, the dog's owner is hard of hearing, is shy of praising his dog (our instructor shouts out to him YOU CAN PRAISE YOUR DOG NOW, WE WILL WAIT UNTIL YOU PRAISE HIM ) the dog is brighter than he is so he has trouble checking him as the medium chain does dig into the dog's neck and is also too long, the problem seems to be he won't 'check and release' That is why a (perhaps) heavier chain may do the trick. Next task is to find some second-hand agility equipment...hummmm, might be a bit of a long-shot I reckon

I checked out those fur saver types on http://www.thefind.com/pets/info-fur-saver-dog-collar and I don't think it is what he wants Kathq, (thank you ) I think he just wants a 20" (55cm) choker with heavier links. I checked out the Kramer site but got a bit confuse in finding them, I'll give it another go :D It seems that one can buy heavy chains in a longer chain but not in the shorter length....perhaps some chopping is in order!