newfsie

I am so sorry for your loss. No one can ever take the happy memories away from you both. Another sweet Angel for Rainbow Bridge

Prayers and good healing thoughts.........

I have horses too....Six to be excact. Our horses and dogs are all fine together and often when we ride inour own paddock our horses are with us..........But our pups only get introduced to the very quiet horses that we have. We have three that are particulary fond of dogs. Our Clydesdale is very careful around dogs and allows the dogs to eat with him, our newfies love him and often hang out with him. Even Katy as a ten week old could be around Johnno with us there too. I did have her on leash initially. Two of our older Quarter horses are great too. Especially my older gelding Robert. he will put his nose right down and investigate our newf pups and is very gentle around them. We have had dogs and horses for the past thirty plus years and no problems. But hubby also trains horses and I would NEVER allow any of our dogs near any of those. Or even my young dogs near the other three horses. I would find a horse like our Robert and slowly re-introduce them. Our working dogs used to jump onto our laps from a barrel to travel with us. So you can make horses and dogs get along. Just each need to have the education to get used to one another..........The bad thing that can happen after this is that your pups fear can lead to barking at the horses and if it has some work dog in the breeding it could lead to the pup rushing the horses. So I would take the pup and intro it to a happy relaxed horse and see if you can get it to relax. I do hope that your little on will get better and used to horses again. Some of our horses get to graze in the garden, especially during the Drought.........And I was always glad that they got on so well. Johnno did not even care when the newfy rescue barked at him, because he had never seen a horse. but they have now settled too. Tobias has decided horses are OK. I think you need to pick your horses and slow it all down..........good luck

Yes.......

Yes......He was an accidental breeding from a Guide dog sire and a Tervueren......Josh was the most incredible dog we ever owned. He was born trained. I am not sure why, but he just understood everything. he was gentle and strong. he loved all living creatures. And when he once got into a fight with an aggressive Blue heeler, we recalled him out of it, even though the dog continued to fight with him. he swam and "rescued" people. he did bite someone once, the person did not report the quick-bite he received from Josh. Two weeks later we learned this man was a pedophile and when Josh bit him he was with two young boys, it came out of no where and we were extremely concerned at the time. it happened whilst we were visiting a friend. Josh had the most amazing re-call and was just gorgeous and sooooo obedient. I still miss him, even though he died of an anaphylactic shock (horse wormer tube) at the age of ten in 1990. the sweetest boy ever..........

I have just started the NDFT course and am going to a training Block 19th November. Anyone else going??

My newfie (14 months) has an all time favourite toy......It is a 3litre milk bottle with a rope attached. She flies with it everywhere. we often change the bottle, but she loves it. it seems to make the right amount of noise and movement to keep her interested for hours. She teases the older dogs with it and races off, rope in mouth. the older dogs often give chase just for fun. it is the cheapest and most time enduring toy we have ever had

Spring and newfs = hair and lots of it My trusty Wertheimer takes care of it

I would definitely not say that a kelpie can never be aggresive, any breed can be aggressive.........But I would most likely put it down to herding stare

I never owned pugs in the NT, but ticks, ticks and more ticks...we alsways seemed to find ticks, even with all the meds we used as preventatives. Temp wise it is always about 33 C, but in the Summer time it is with the high humidity. Our dogs loved to swim and went into our pool a lot to cool off. We did not have aircon, just a well designed house and lots of fans. it makes it easier, because going in and out of aircon, you never get used to the heat. I must admit I have never missed living in Darwin

Yea! That's what I think about...what if nothing ever happens or if it does you arent covered and youve forked out thusands over the years...that would rip my knickers big time I figured that keeping a piggybank and depositing $30 into it yourself would be more effective than taking out insurance (in most cases). Especially if you've got a hardy breed that doesn't usually have many illnesses to worry about. For, say, a CKCS, insurance would probably be worth getting insurance knowing how many severe illnesses are reportedly associated with the breed, but for a cattle dog or something like that.. Best off with a piggybank. even the tougher/hardier breeds can have an accident that will require many $$$$'s. Our work dogs seemed to spend quite a bit of time at the vets with injuries

Town kept working dogs sometimes just want to work any animal and the "stare" can be part of "working" the stock (your dogs).......Our working Kelpies often "stare" at sheep, before directing them as to where to move to. Does the dog move its front end lower? And maybe circle around your dogs? Even just a little and slow and is the tail low?

Medibank private ( I get 10% discount for being a member myself).........I have premium cover, but I pay the first $500.00 per year. So that means I pay for the regular stuff. I pay $52.00/per month for my two newfs and one Border cross Golden, with none having pre-existing conditions. Our new rescue newf is uninsured, because he is old and has just too many pre-existing medical issues

Kinda sad/happy

Firstly Thankyou for taking on a rescue..........They give so much back. I do not have Golden's but we take on newfie rescues. we have had timid ones too and I found fun obedience just makes all the difference. We also found agility type training gives the dogs great confidence and fun. You can almost see the dogs smile when they get on a "table" or do a "tunnel". And you do not have to have expensive equipment for this, just home-made stuff will do. One of our newfies was extremely timid, which led to aggression and we found training got her past all of that. you are very lucky that your Golden is sweet. At present we have a sweet neglected newfie boy who also has to put on a lot of weight and who has a shocking coat. like you I just brush and get out some more knots daily. We feed our boy three meals a day now, but we started with four. He has put on 8 kg slowly. We feed RAW, with kelp, glucosamine, Vit C and E as additives. But I am sure any good diet would do. I do not pussy-foot around my rescues too much..I am quieter with the nervous ones, but I try to be as normal as possible. to get them into normal life. I move and behave normal around them, sothat they get used to being treated well and treated like everyone would most likely treat them. I found I was very soft with our first rescue and this did not help him in the normal world around him. he was still very nervous around Jo average. So we changed our tactics after a great dog trainer told us, now treat him like all your other dogs and get on with it. Our present boy Tobias was also treated unkindly, we think, because if you move towards him with a broom he flinches and reacts, but we have now made him see that a broom here does no harm. I think I am lucky in the fact we have other dogs, who are happy and playful. I hope your sweet Jackson has a happy life now

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Why the assumption that it's either alpha roll and choke your dog until it gives up, or food and cuddles? Who here is saying that dogs shouldn't learn the rules? Why the insinuation that if you use food or praise with aggressive dogs you aren't also able to implementing boundaries or rules? I have no problem with giving corrections, using tools like prongs or e-collars etc or giving dog boundaries but some of the things Cesar does makes me feel quite ill. Besides, many people would not be strong enough to choke or alpha roll a 50kg aggressive newfie until it gave up (or just plain ran out of breath). ETA: I find it amusing that anyone who doesn't 110% support Cesar is lumped into the new age food and cuddles, never ever punish your dog crowd. I agree with you, I am saying i could not have done it only with food and cuddles..I never alpha rolled my rescue, girl. I did use the check chain, but again never a choke-down. One of our main problems was she would not take food from us initially.....Only from her bowl. But we had to be extremely firm and exact with how we treated her to get her to fit in with our other dogs. I am sort of saying I agree with some of his stuff and not all. All my dogs from pups are trained with positive reinforcement. But I believe that different methods are to be used for different dogs. The other thing is I am always very aware of this dog around people and other dogs....She seems fine and gets on well with other dogs and people now, but I always watch her. We have done a lot of work with her and she is socialized a lot with people and dogs every week, but it is always in the back of your mind. I definitely am someone who uses the as you call new age, but also the other systems that work

what, like on every episode it is written do not try this at home without a professional? Yes I would not have been able to bring my 14 month 50kg people and dog aggressive recue newfie around with just food and cuddles. She needed to know the rules.......

Just praying and hoping all is well

And my pack has increased by one, so here is the update, with our newfie rescue Tobias (31'' high) I cannot believe how small he makes our Katy (28'' high) look and Annabelle looks like a mini newf (26'' high)........Tessa is just a midget next to him

That was truly funny..........

Hope the poor dog is found soon

Prayers and positive thoughts for your dogs...... :laugh:

My newfie girl was in a bad home (divorce led to changes in family).....She came from a good breeder, parents were well tempered. When we got her she was people and dog aggressive. For 6 month we struggled, but with good support form a trainer we now have a lovely dog. So her bad temper was due to environment not breeding

Soon there will be a marriage between PETA and the RSPCA