PuddleDuck

Ummmmm well they both had their Euk kibble, and.... Vegemite toast Sultanas Cheerios Ham Cheese Jatz crackers Meatballs Yoghurt Broccoli Cucumber Leftover toast crusts Watermelon Carrots Various bits of scrap paper Whatever they stole that I didn't see I think that's it. Basically that's what happens when you use dogs to clear up after toddler meals :D :laugh:

I don't do people name for pets since I had a dog called Kerry when I was a kid and within a short time we had 1 older brother dating a Kerry and another engaged to a Kerry. Twas very confusing especially as they turned out not to be nice girls and family dinners would wind up with someone yelling 'Kerry' followed by 'oh sorry I meant the bitch' while someone else would then mutter 'yeah but that is all of them' :laugh: so I'm off people names for pets now! I'm yet to meet a person called doofus anyway :laugh:

So so sorry...I have no words

Loads of walking. I can't ski, so I love to just spend quiet time reading. Usually I hang with the dogs while hubby goes skiing at hotham (20 minute bus ride away). Hubby also loves photography so he spends a lot of time taking photos while the dogs and I play behind the camera. Throwing snowballs for a ball obsessed dog is hilarious-he gets so mad when he can't find them :laugh: If we are there for the sled dog races we just leave the dogs in the apartment while we go watch, it would be a 2 minute walk from where we stay to the race. Although you may find it harder to get dog friendly accommodation when it's on, as most of the sled dog guys book waaaay in advance. We try to go for a week to 10 days. If we thought we could get good, steady work down there I doubt we would leave-we just love it. The only annoying thing is there are no yards attached to any of the places we stay at so have to make sure we come back regularly to let then out to toilet. And if they decide they 'need' to go in the middle of the night it's bloody awful dragging yourself out of since warm bed. I strongly recommend making your OH do that job - mine does because I am fairly prone to falling over a LOT down there, I swear I have no balance at all :laugh: especially when you add ice. I would also recommend teaching a reliable heel before you go cos walking a pulling dog on an icy road is hilarious for everyone else watching but not so much for yourself :D

Yes we needed permission but it would appear to be a LOT bigger than folks imagined :laugh: we submitted the plans to the exec committee and they said it was fine subject to council. The council has exemptions and it is just within those guidelines so we are all good :D It's funny but a lot of people here actually don't realise we have dogs. We don't walk them locally - tend to drive somewhere then walk, and if I'm chatting to a neighbour and mention them they usually express shock that we have them here at all :laugh:

No worries. It's our favourite place in the world, if you go I'm sure you will love it :) Try to arrive in daylight as well. The drive up from the bright side can be a bit scary, particularly in the dark!!!

We live in a ground floor unit with 2 dogs, a turtle, a lizard and a toddler....and we used to have a cat as well. Our strata is unusually good and we had no issue with having doof when we bought-I got written permission before we signed anything. We had to get special permission as the by-law states that dogs must be carried on common areas but he weighs 27kg, so no way. We got written permission before we got kodiak too. But we are lucky that it isn't a fussy group, I hear horror stories of strata's that don't let you hang washing on your balcony, no-one here could care less about that stuff. We did have some issues with things being dropped from units above which caused doof to go nuts with fear barking. So my husband took matters into his own hands and built a huge pergola so people can't do that anymore :laugh:

Good memory SM! We take them to Dinner Plain every year (except last year....long story!). Its the only place in Australia you can take dogs to the snow, all other alpine villages are within national parks. I'd try for accomodation within DP - Bright and Myrtleford are a reasonable drive away Have a look HERE - we always book through them and stay at Shiraz which is a 1 bedroom apartment and they love having the dogs there (take extra treats for Ben, who is the dog that belongs to the lady who runs the visitor centre there, he is a sweetheart!). It is an upstairs apartment in the middle of the village. If it doesn't work for you though I'm sure the wonderful ladies there will be able to help find another one that suits you are your dogs :) Please dont book Shiraz for the first week in August - I'm calling dibs on it!!!! RSA you should be fine to still get accomodation there. We didn't book until around June last year - its not massively busy like the major ski resorts are. Thanks heaps for the info :) I did actually look at that site already, but was expecting to see some of the properties listed as "dog friendly" but as far as I saw none of them said that so I assumed none were. Is it a matter of calling each one to enquire whether they allow dogs? Just call or email the accommodation service (details will be listed on that site) and tell them what you are after, and they'll give you a list of properties to choose from :)

Hope so! If you see her around dogs there is no doubt who's kid she is Just need to train the toller to pull a toboggan :)

Book away SM, I'll just have to come stay with you there :laugh: Hopefully will get to go this year! Won't do it without the dogs again, they seem to be the source of the girlchild's happy :laugh: if she doesn't like it this year I'll have to get her reprogrammed :laugh:

Good memory SM! We take them to Dinner Plain every year (except last year....long story!). Its the only place in Australia you can take dogs to the snow, all other alpine villages are within national parks. I'd try for accomodation within DP - Bright and Myrtleford are a reasonable drive away Have a look HERE - we always book through them and stay at Shiraz which is a 1 bedroom apartment and they love having the dogs there (take extra treats for Ben, who is the dog that belongs to the lady who runs the visitor centre there, he is a sweetheart!). It is an upstairs apartment in the middle of the village. If it doesn't work for you though I'm sure the wonderful ladies there will be able to help find another one that suits you are your dogs :) Please dont book Shiraz for the first week in August - I'm calling dibs on it!!!! RSA you should be fine to still get accomodation there. We didn't book until around June last year - its not massively busy like the major ski resorts are.

Me too :D I prefer to keep them the same colour so I can pick furniture and carpet that the hair doesn't show up on as much! :laugh:

OT but when we go to the snow the dogs travel on the backseat rather than in the boot of my SUV. Usually an hour or so into the trip the toller works out how to open the electric window with her paw! Thankfully they have seatbelts on so they can't hurl themselves out

When your humans clean the glass sliding door for the first time in ages and you see a possum on the other side and knock yourself out assuming the door was open When your humans take you walking on a golf course and you try to run across the lily pads over the pond assuming they are grass.....then when your humans are too paralyzed with laughter to come help you out of the water

Oh my god....my 15 month old is going to lose her s**t......Elmo AND a puppy!!!!! Thats her happy place right there :laugh:

No, I have to agree with Danois on that, the word might not be offensive but the tone seems to be! Anyway, that's OT I try to do the same, though bear expects dinner at 8.30 she rarely gets it then. I used to feed on time and seeing how worked up she got when it wasn't delivered on the dot made me feel I was causing her unnecessary anxiety, so we mix up the when, where and how, and they seem gradually calmer at night because of it.

Kodiak was the same with dinner-if we were a minute past 8.30 she would be inconsolable. Then we had the girlchild and we made dinner time more flexible....any time after our dinner. She hasn't adjusted well, she lies on her bed completely alert whimpering softly. Pre-girlchild she would put a paw in her bowl and flip it over then sneak a glance at us during the ridiculous clatter to see if it worked. As she can't make that much noise anymore she goes and lies just outside the open dog door and growls, whimpers and scratches to be 'let in' despite the dog door being open and her knowing full well how to use it. Doof couldn't care less. It's easier....shame he is off the wall neurotic in so many other ways!

Deer antler and cow hooves are the go around here, and if their teeth need a clean we use dried beef tendon as they can't eat whole bones

A vet once told me that 80% of ticks he found on dogs were forward of the shoulders. That's what we were always told too, apparently from them sticking their heads into shrubs and bushes for sniffing stuff?

Oh another trick we used to use-search him with your eyes closed, using your fingertips. I don't know why but sometimes it helps you feel things better

Agree with the others, definately take him back if no improvement. I'm surprised the vet didn't at least keep him in for obs if he suspects a tick! Try to keep him in a cool and quiet place and let him rest as much as possible. Agree with teekay too, see if he can bark. About 10 minutes after my boy gets a tick his bark goes funny. If you aren't sure, I would shave him, and spray him as well with frontline SPRAY (not topspot) or something like permoxin or fidos (we actually used this for ticks when I vet nursed, we tested a heap and the fidos killed them fastest). I don't know what you can use with advantix though so check that first. Ticks hide in the oddest places-I spent hours shaving an Akita once and the tick was inside his anus!! Also if you suspect a tick do not give free access to food and water as their ability to swallow can sometimes be compromised and they can aspirate it, give him small, supervised amount often. If you catch them early enough SOME dogs can recover well without serum, but I would be straight back to the vet if you have any doubts at all God I hate ticks! So lucky when we lived in a tick prone spot my dog at the time was immune to them!

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When I was pregnant kodiak decided to take over! If you said 'where's your baby?' She would tear in from wherever she was and put her head on my tummy. We never taught her to do it and after I had whelped if you asked her where her baby was she would ignore you. If the girlchild was going nuts with the kicks and Kodi put her head on my tummy the kicks stopped immediately. They had this weird connection. The oddest was when I was out with hubby and my blood pressure went stupid and I collapsed on the ground for about an hour. It was quite common and he took me home when I could get up again. When I walked in Kodi took one look at me and started growling. I lay on the couch and she sniffed me head to toe, still growling, the spent 5 minutes shoving her nose into my belly and sniffing as hard as she could while grumbling to herself. She lay with her head on my belly and when I tried to stand she put her front paws on my shoulders and growled. I wasn't allowed up for about 2 hours. Funnily enough when we did introduce her to the girlchild (look, it's your baby!) she gave us a 'you moron, my baby doesn't make any noise' look and then moved into the backyard for a few weeks

Mantis my old boy riff was mental for beer....we had a sailing school and always had a few people in the yard working on boats. He'd pretend to be asleep on the wharf and when they'd go below he'd dash over and stick his tongue down the neck of the beer bottles they'd left on deck and slurp what he could then dash back and pretend to be asleep again when they'd come on deck to finish them. I didn't tell dad till after riff died, he was a wee bit annoyed My dogs favorite time of day is when they get called in to clean up the food around the high chair. I don't understand how people have toddlers without a canine cleaner!

I am relatively certain kodiak will keep eating when she is dead....nothing turns that little toller-seagull off her noms!!!! Doof eats only because kodiak does, and he doesn't have the self confidence to not go with the crowd. When he was an only dog food held little interest for him at all, irrespective of weather or deliciousness.