Rebanne

I have no basis for what I am about to write but I would prefer the crate.

Best you speak to the breeder. Did he have two when you first got him? some go up and down for a while.

Don't heart and eye certificates only last 12 months?

and you didn't choose to educate them? I find that sad

lots of people might have shared without saying so. I am often that sort :)

my chiro always said to have the dog in a sit stay, throw the ball along the ground, then release the dog to get the ball. This was for a ball mad GSD with very bad hips. If I had stopped the ball throwing all together she would have thought her life wasn't worth living.

done, hope she gets her dogs back unharmed

I love ozentries but not many shows in Vic have them

I just want to point out that most entries close 4 weeks before the show so you would have been too late even if your baby had been old enough. Lots of clubs will hold entries open longer then the advertised closing date but you then have to be prepared to have your entry returned to you by the clubs that don't. Enjoy, it's a great hobby. :)

wow charming character, wonder how he got his lab back or is it another one that is being maauled by his neo. Certainly can't seem to manage his dogs too well at all.

I think you have to accept that the bulk of the raising will be done by your partners family. Hopefully they will listern to your concerns but really, while you are at work, they will do what they think is best. They can tell you they are doing this, this and this but you will never know for sure if they doing what they say. Hopefully your little guy will be fine.

one of the dogs should most likely be rehomed or it sounds like the lab could be killed being so much smaller. If the lab has not been damaged temperament wise by the attacks on it, it would be the easier dog to find a new home. Me, I'd get rid of the newcomer, but I would have done so after the first fight. Straight back to the breeder.

Bottom line is you have chosen to knowingly breed a dog with serious faults, faults that can be passed on, faults that can cause a dog a life time of misery and their owners too. That makes you extremely unethical.

depends on the breed of dog, growth plates aren't closed in my dogs at 9 months. Desexing a dog does not make it gain weight usually. What happens is the desexing coinsides with maturity and people forget to stop feeding their adult dog like a puppy.

[quote name='dog geek' timestamp='1328056564' post='5704756' And I judiciously adjust the price of my pups to allow for the fact that - unlike the majority of current Pom breeders - I: conduct formalised health testing on the pups and their parents I devote a great deal of energy and resources to raising pups that have the advantage of having been socialised in a manner designed to produce emotionally resilient family dogs and that I offer a lifetime of interested, engaged support to the owners of my puppies. Indeed - I am happy to have shared the best qualities of my imported dogs with a fellow breeder with no money changing hands; and this next litter of pups will be priced to only cover the costs of immunisations and vet checks, but not including specialist consults as I pay those myself. It is interesting that you are still making comparisons with the dreaded blue staffy breeders...[/b] Interestingly you have enough money to pay for all these 'specialist' tests but couldn't find the money to buy a sound bitch. You are worse then a BYB'er, you are knowingly breeding from an unsound bitch, crossing your fingers that the pups will magically be sound because the sire supposedly is. If you now no longer need to use poor Sweetie in your breeding program cause you have something better why not abort and spey? But then you would lose the money these coloured pups would bring you. You are not a ethical breeder and shouldn't be allowed to post on this forum.

I don't have toys but I don't understand why you would breed from such a bitch either. Why are you in such a hurry to get so many litter's on the ground? My bitch has had 10 live pups in 2 1/2 years. I have kept two boys, one already desexed. The bitch is also now desexed. I won't be getting another bitch for around 4 years, then won't be breeding for at least another 3 or 4. So potenially it's 8 years before I breed my next litter. It will take me 4 years to save the money to get my next bitch, most likely imported, you could have waited and saved as well instead of breeding to such a poor example of the breed. You could have done as already suggested and got a nice solid colour to breed too. You are just breeding for colour IMO. Too bad on your poor puppy buyers if any health problems don't show up until after you have sold them. Can they cope with the heartache and the expense? Can you wear the lawsuit?

I used a speedo right from the start. My GSD passed her ET after 10 weeks training, my smaller crossbreed had 12 weeks. It is way too hot up this way to do much before March and I actually prefer not to start until April.

couldn't agree more. Don't muck around with parvo.

can some one tell me how many of the neuter breeds at Cranbourne had more than one entry? I need to order cards for the OVCC shows and am trying to work out how many BOB and how many challenge cards are needed. TIA

IMO yes

do your research on what is the best age to desex a giant breed.

or two emails I have sent in the last month not replied to

problem with that is who exactly is going to go around collecting all the stuff? Most committees are flat out the morning of a show, have a lot of older people on them that aren't capable of going around pulling gazebo's down or tarps up. I find it tiring enough putting my gazebo up and down once, no way I'd be going around removing others. It's a VCA rule, maybe they should get the groundkeeper to do the job?

your breeder should be able to help you with this.

If it survived Christmas Day you've got a top gazebo on your hands I'd say :laugh: it's been up around 7 or 8 months now, I think the vent at the top helps a lot