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Me Registered nurse in Radiology Dept Annabelle would be a police officer ( an old fashioned village policeman), she police's our lot and everywhere else here and keeps the peace. She always stops disagreements. Tessa, would be a nurse, always taking care of the other dogs and very caring. Katy would be a life guard on Bondi beach, she wants to rescue everyone in the water

My dogs love to play with other dogs, but i pick the dogs and the dogs they get free run with are obedient dogs and friendly. We have been to several newfie days in NSW and all the dogs have been off lead, with even some other breeds in amongst and they have all been social and happy. My dogs follow me as soon as I turn around and head the other way or call. We also know some friendly labs and curly coated retrievers that are great play buddies.

I am relaxed and laid back and I like to help people...........Like the newfs who are relaxed and are always trying to rescue people, I just hope I do not drool

My dogs have a good recall and they are often off when we are out and about, but they are also on the umbilical system ( our pup is more on than off at present) when on lead at a campsite....So they have a great time. Why not just keep him with you on lead all the time, sothat he is part of it all. keep going, it will get to be more fun and keep working on the obedience. it won't happen overnight, but it will happen. Avoidance does not teach. All dogs ( and owners) have to start somewhere. I must admit it drives me to distraction when people have to camp right on top of you, when there is a lot of available space. Almost seems they have a fear of space........

We have three large dogs..2 are newfs. We have a kennel room, which is 10'x10' ( for Winter and when it is wet and cold) and off it comes a run which is 10'x16'. It is 8' foot high, with concrete plinth's to prevent digging and has a plum tree growing in it for Summer shade and Winter sun. the dogs love it and often go there when it is left open, when we are home. The run is mostly sand and the kennel room has a little verandah off it, which is concrete. There is a gate off the kennel run and a door in the kennel room. The kennel room has a 6'x4' carpeted raised area and a window, which is mostly left open on the run side with a doggy door for in and out. Hubby built it very strong, out of welded steel and it a great secure place for our dogs.

I just read this...A little late :) for being a healthy ten, must be all those Omega three's in the Salmon :laugh: :) :)

I personally could not have my dog taxidermied........., I am lucky now because they can be buried on our property and we have several dogs of friends buried here too, because they like you were still moving around. Do you know anyone with a preperty who may allow that, I surely would be happy to do that for a person........Because in my early days we traveled a lot, we have had to leave loved ones behind. This always gave me some comfort to read Where To Bury A Dog There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else. For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all. If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there. People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. by Ben Hur Lampman

My Parents bred GSD's for a long time, both overseas and here. We brought a few dogs in from Germany. And my Dad used to have lots of books that i used to look t as as child......Many of those old GSD's looked like that. Even some of the ones my DAD bred looked a lot like that. he was heartbroken when the conformation changed so much and actually stopped breeding in the mid seventies because of it.

RIP little Beam...........very sad story

Sweet Oscar :rofl: Our newfs are very much like that, they are very sweet with anyone with disabilities/frail or young. I think some dogs are just sensitive that way. Our Golden/Border Cross is much the same way, though she does not cope to well with screaming disabled children. The newfs don't mind at all. I love therapy work, very fulfilling, though we have not managed to be in an official group, I would love that. but I have taken mine to work quite often

Well it doesn't happen where I go........If anything the owner gets told to be softer. it hasn't always been like this, but it is great now. And we love going. My Annabelle is very sensitive and yelling would never do. And telling a dog off after it has returned, well there goes the future recalls for sure. I would turn around and leave if it happened. Dog training should be fun and educational.

My next newf will be a rescue newf. From newf rescue..I alternate, rescue, puppy, rescue.....they both have their positives To Add my puppies are always from a registered breeder

Made me feel sad, I hope some will make it home

How sad for you and your Family.I am so sorry

We own three dogs..........I find only the grooming a lot more effort, being newfs. But we only have one rule at home, before we get the next dog, make sure the dog or dogs preceding are well behaved. So we waited with our newfie pup, until we considered our newfie rescue well mannered and trained. And the same before her. Training two dogs at the same time can be quite difficult. And I have now noticed that our seven month old newfie girl is so well mannered, because the other two are...She just follows their rules. the last pup has been a dream. I found single dog ownership the most difficult, because i always felt guilty about leaving the dog by itself. These three are good company for both us and them

Phew...........Just being a beagle can get you into a lot of trouble. So glad it was something simple

Possible bloat or something stuck in his mouth, teeth.........Hope everything is OK, thinking of you, let us know how Charlie is going

Medibank Private.I get a discount, because we are also members. I have not made a claim, but my friends with newfs have.......One was for a hip replacement, no issues and the dog is still covered. They do check for pre-existing conditions and do not cover for them. I only have mine covered for the major stuff and not the little incidentals, that makes the monthly payment a lot less. I pay $52.00/month for three large dogs

An oldie but good one..makes me smile every time

My problem is keeping them in..Rain = newf-heaven. It is water after all

Wel there were no newfies in Albury.....I traveled many miles to see some in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. I am still very lonely now when I enter locally with my newf The other thing is, if they get to know you a little you might be thought of for a rescue or a re-home and that would be cheaper. i know budgeting is hard...Newfs are not cheap either. Good luck anyway

This is what I did with my 1:1 and 1:2 croppings

:laugh: Yeah Michael.....now lets hope it catches on to all the others

We took in a seven year old rescue, her name was "Savage"......She was a gorgeous GSD, we renamed her Lobo. She instantly knew it was her name. It is like calling a stranger dog, Puppy. If they like the sound, they listen. We also had a rescue newf called Zuess...........We changed his name to Zacky, it jus happened. My friends dog was called Zuess and Zacky never listened when we called him. But he listened to Zacky.

I know of a newfy girl who had bloat and was shown again a year later and had two litters, one a year. She is still alive, but retired.