mrs tornsocks

I work in the 'meedja' and there are a thousand well known anecdotes about what a truly awful man he is. I have never met him, but a friend and colleague was present at one particuarly disgusting display. How he got away with it and became a darling of the old ladies still astounds many people. He is very controlling though, so wouldn't be surprised that he's phoning himself rather than a producer. And now that's he's not king of television, he's probably skimping on production staff (or no-one would work for him). He does 2UE in Sydney and still has a mag. If anyone has seen the Matty John's show take-off of him, they kinda alude to it when he the camera is turned off in the skits.

Read through this thread, and tears welled at almost every post, but I hadn't added my bit. Now I read of Magnus they are flowing freely. When I think of how awful the loss of just one doggie may be, how can we possibly fathom the loss of that many ? Poor babies, poor Jed. May the fur babies frolic in eternal puppyhood at the bridge. Godspeed Jed, as you begin your journey to health and re-building. You have the most incredible amount of support here.

Oh poor Mason !! This may be a stupid question do his sores actually seem to be worrying him much ? I hope not. Could you ring Murdoch and explain your vet won't give you a referral but you'd really like to come down there ? They at least may be able to recc a vet who will (not having seen Mason).

What a horrible situation for you boxerfamily. Maybe worth a trip to your GP for some advice and a possible referral to someone for professional help ? Perhaps you could ask the question of your breeder that Molly goes back to the breeder while you try and sort out the situation ? If she/he knows your boys love Molly so much maybe they might consider helping out by minding Molly for a few weeks while you talk to a counsellor etc.

I live in the northern beaches Oh, that's a little bit far from Blacktown for me to come take him for a walk. How long are you laid up for ? One little training exercise is a simple focus exercise where you either call his name or choose a command 'look', 'watch', 'focus' or something like that. This is cut and pasted from the web, but it's this kind of thing. Watch your dog's eyes. Whenever your dog looks at you, click or say your marker word, and give your dog a treat. Don't do anything special to get your dog's attention - just wait for it and capture it. Do this throughout the day.In addition to noticing your dog's attention to you throughout the day, do some rapid rounds of rewarding eye contact. For one minute, click or mark and treat every time your dog looks at you - as many times as you possibly can in one minute. Repeat this a few times. Now play "The Eye Contact Game": hold some treats in your hand and hold your hand out to one side. Don't say anything to get your dog's attention; just wait patiently while your dog stares at the treats to tries to get them (just hold your hand closed). The moment the dog tears his eyes off of the hand with the treats and looks at your face instead, click and treat!

Ah the joys of puppyhood - but what a cutie ! How long were you outside with her before you brought her in ? I'd also recommend crate training, also means if you want to take her anywhere, it's simple. Good too, for when she gets a bit more bolshy and runs around and in between everyone, and you want to just calm her a tad, esp if you've got a young soon. Just a good, cosy, warm and 'den' like environment for a young pup.

Where do you live LMS ? Sorry to hear your back is no good.

took these in NYC last year, in and around Central Park, so a bit of cheaties I guess. Going to try and join the photo challenges, they're great ! This one isn't great technically but I just loved the doggie's surprise at seeing a bigger fluffier version of him.

Poor Mason ! I don't have any advice MM but I'm sure the vet will be able to solve the mystery. Could it be from swampy / river areas ?

Any parameters of the documentary within the assingment ? Any specifics you've been given ? Duration ? Shooting schedule / due date ? These questions- and others -should help define what you should do. Part of the assignment / challenge will be getting permissions. If you are able to present a professional synopsis and treatment to the pound, but a guarantee that it will not actually air anywhere, you might be a chance. I would start making preliminary contact with some of the types of places you might want to utilise. You can always say thanks but no thanks. Getting those first points of contact right, and the correct authority can be time consuming.

Obviously doesn't help now, but in future, any way the meat supplier can do it ? I get the butcher to cut it up if I can but not sure on a bulk order if this is feasible.

Hi Jackie Swore I was jumping off this thread but here I am again with one final plea. There have certainly been some informative and constructive posts, and once again, I thank those that have provided them. I have added a series of 'can we stop this now' posts, to no avail. Of course it's not up to me to tell people what or what not to write, I'm simply asking us all to acknowledge that this thread came to a natural conclusion - on the topic I posted in the first place - some while ago. There are a few individual posts that are simply rude and completely unhelpful. Put it this way - I think that I posted this topic in the first place means that I have some idea that my dog is playful and bouncy (but also 1yo and aside from his puppiness, pretty well behaved). Kinda pointless for people coming on and saying that over and over again, don't you think ? Just for the record, I haven't been defensive, happy for you to point out where I have if you feel differently. One post that stated my dog was rude and I was ok with it could not go without response, but I was defending my dog (and myself) - not being defensive. Quite a difference. thanks again. I have asked Troy to remove this thread, it's not going to achieve anything more.

That's a bit unfair. If you've read the posts in this thread, the OP has acknowledged the points raised and is taking them on board. Yeh, what Erny said ! . That is actually really unfair and quite rude in itself. I'd encourage you to read my posts a little more thoroughly. I never once said it was okay for my dog to behave in this way so pull your head in and pay a little more attention to detail. Leaving this thread now, again, I'd like to thank the many constructive posts and those who took the time to reply with thoughtful input. edited to add: Rebanne, I can see from your posts in other threads that your contributions are incredibly constructive and clearly composed with alot of thought. See any pattern emerging ???

Just thought I'd share a little story from this morning's walk. On our way home (on leash ) we usually cut across a big car park, never any cars first thing in the morning. Noticed two dogs - a pair we see regularly in the area, have never met, but often comment on them (my OH and I call one of them the horse dog.) They're about 30 metres away, off leash and their owner walking but reading the paper at the same time. Dogs saw us first. I don't know exactly what breed / mix the big one is, but it is like a giant white mastiff. It has quite incredible shoulders and massive chest. Anyway, bounds up to us, has a sniff and within ten seconds is growling and has a little go. Archie tried to escape a bit, running around the back of OH, which tempted the aggressor a bit more. Archie then rolls straight onto his back, by which time the owner arrived. Owner clips the horse dog back onto lead, kicks it in the head, kicks the other (quite old) dog for good measure. The mastiff gave a slight cower and kind of shut its eye a little - clearly expecting a follow up kick or two. Two very different experiences in two days.

I may have to ask to have a thread I started closed. It's disappointing, exciting, yet somehow quite strangely flattering !!! As I said, I really really appreciate and take on board all the good and wise advice here. I have learnt alot in a very short space of time and some new behaviours of my own, as I continue to improve Archie's. I hereby would like to exercise my option as the OP and exorcise any human growling that may have found its way into the thread. So I appeal to you DOLers one and all - this is a genuine request to, as someone posted earlier, live and let live. Of course we have different opinions to each other, of course some of us are more experienced dog owners/trainers etc than others. Either way, may I suggest those who disagree with each other, whether 'right' or 'wrong' maybe take it off line or PM to thrash it out ? Or just relax and have a nice evening ! It really does end up becoming a bit of a tit for tat with no-one feeling very good or satisfied in the end. Altogether now ;)

Thanks heaps everyone for all the input, some great posts here !

I think there's also another thread on this MM. Haven't been in there because as soon as I saw the words '100%' and 'recall' next to each other, I knew I didn't really belong :D

Archie doesn't back off every time then. Not exactly sure what you mean. He has to approach before he can back off --- obviously he doesn't back off when another dog says 'yes, I want to play', but the moment they say no I don't want to play (via growls or moving away or whatever), he backs off or walks away. In this case, the little dog didn't have a chance to react directly to Archie, because his mum picked him up straight away. He was growling etc in her arms, so presumably the owners figured their dog wouldn't want to play, and neither really did Archie or I until dog was in the arms of the owner. But yes, both dogs want to have to play, absolutely. I didn't call him back because 9 times out of 10 -in my experience in this particular chaotic park - dogs do bound up to each other. I put him back on lead for a while after this, let him loose again and unfortunately didn't see two other little ones coming up to him. He didn't quite rush to them but they all sniffed each other and moved on, and the owner of the second two smiled at me and vice versa. He had a great play with a group of about 6 other mostly bigger dogs who had pretty much all bounded up to each other (and one schnauzer who kept joining in) and then we all went on our way. None of this means Archie or I wuz right, just means I'll know better next time.

There are a million and one threads here about people going to off-leash parks and other dogs running up into their dogs faces while the owner says "Oh but he's friendly". Those threads never end well, regardless of the dog's intentions. I'm interested in this, and taking it ever so slightly off thread, does anyone here believe there is no way in the world their dog would not attack (ie provoke an attack) another dog ? I am pretty sure most of us feel like we know our dogs well enough to say that it would simply never happen to us. Put it this way, there aren't too many threads on DOL of dog owners who come in to tell stories of their dog ripping apart another. That said, we'd kinda like to assume that people who let their aggressive dogs off lead with awful outcomes, never thought their dog would attack either. So, given our dogs are animals, do you feel that you could 100% guarantee your dog would never provoke an attack on another in 'everyday' circumstances (ie no injury, bitch on heat, bitch defending pups, whatever) ? Or perhaps it's not that simple.

neither dog was leashed, although as mentioned, I can see a little owner's perspective.

Er, yes, your honour I plead guilty and weak in that area. :p Working on it though ! I'm sure you'll appreciate, 1yo male lab is a handful but he's getting alot better. If he ignores my call to his name when he's 'bounding' towards other dogs, second move is an 'uh-uh' and he generally stops and sits down, albeit still focussed entirely on doggie ahead though. I can usuallly reach him before he takes off again, so while he hasn't come right back to me, at least he's thought about it. Mentioned in the earlier thread I made mistake of not recalling him straight away when he started to bound to this particular white fluffy.

Would you have let Archie "bound" up to a bigger dog that was growling back at him? There are a million and one threads here about people going to off-leash parks and other dogs running up into their dogs faces while the owner says "Oh but he's friendly". Those threads never end well, regardless of the dog's intentions. Unfortunately he does do this sometimes, he almost aways runs away / backs off when he gets growled at (including littlies). The small one was in his mum's arms by the time archie actually reached him.

Fairy nuff, and absolutely, it is easy to put him on the leash and I can totally appreciate little 'uns paranoia. Was reading that horrible other thread with the injuries to schnauzer and maltese, which looked awful. I suppose I was a little surprised by the harsh reaction of the owner, particularly as Archie had sniffed one or two others small ones and owners generally smile and we all move on (including Archie who usually finds no interest in the littlies and vice versa). As far as bounding, no, it's not ideal, he is still pretty young though, and he is improving every time we go to this particular park (too crowded for my liking so we go once every few months at best). He recalled pretty much every time, and my mistake for not realising earlier that I should have called him off this particular dog sooner. The other dog was actually displaying some quite aggressive behaviour in his mum's arms although obviously I don't know his history. All good