Rebanne

Didn't you just say you were a nurse no that's donatella

at least they got the ratio correct but they need to use a spell checker if they want to be taken seriously

The poor eyes... are u insane!! Id be using more luke warm tea.. don't worry salt water can cure everything don't worry about the stinging the dog has to endure

I have hit or kicked about 3 dogs over the years that have kept coming close enough to be hit. Most back off when you swish the riding crop around, they don't like the sound or they are unsure what is happening. I did also actually kick a dog who jumped up on my daughter as well when she was sitting/leaning on the back bumper of my car and she wore it's nail marks on her neck/chest for weeks. He was just saying hi.

educate you you're the 2 second expert on everything dog

sometimes but so do people and we don't pour heavily salted water onto their open wounds do we?

I am referring to you saying use a tablespoon of salt to a cup of water on a dog while you only use saline on a person. You need to be more careful giving out incorrect advice on forums.

do not pour salty water onto a wound like Donatella says. I don't care what the reference says, it is way too strong a mixture. I too am a nurse and human skin is actually tougher then dog skin and you wouldn't use such a strong solution on the vast majority of patients so why torture your dog?

I'll bite My dogs are perfectly capable of performing what they were originally bred to do, whilst being bred to the ANKC standard but unfortunately they aren't allowed to hunt deer etc anymore.

I sincerely hope for your dogs sake you never have to protect it.

I know someone who was biten by a dog who was wagging his tail... and humping can mean dominating

a wire crate is better until the pup/dog is crate trained. You can throw a cover over the wire crate, a sheet is fine, but you need to educate your children that if the pup is in it's crate they must leave it alone.

I actually went to a fully fenced dog park in another town yesterday with a friend. There were clear rules written up which included dogs must be under effective control at all times. It did also have a warning that your dog might be approached by other dogs. Enter a young cattle dog cross, very over the top, very friendly, with not an ounce of training, as told to my friend and I by the grils who had come in with the dog and it's owner. At the other end of the park was a young couple with a toddler and a young lab or golden, not sure which. Toddler was with her Mum every time I looked up that way, as in right next to her. Young cattle dog cross ran the full length of the park to jump all over the toddler! Toddler screaming and crying and of course cattle dog cross totally ignored her owner's calling her. Young couple with toddler and young dog quickly left. Poor people, trying to do the right thing by giving their dog a bit of an off lead run as a family unit and it was totally ruined by another dog. Luckily the toddler has her own dog to help her realise not all dogs jump all over you. Just up one end of the dog park doing their own thing, trying to be good dog owners. Then there was the swf who considered the park was all hers and had to run up and challenge each and every dog that entered. When my friend gathered her dog in she was laughingly told that the swf was friendly and not to worry if friends dog objected as swf needed taking down a peg! I can safely say, seeing what went on yesterday, that neither my dogs or I are missing out on anything wonderful and I will be quite happy to never set foot into another fenced off leash park again.

perhaps you might like to explain why Eric has been in so many fights then? It is something you have stated in other threads.

If moron's can't understand basic manners and can't/won't control their dogs then I am being responsible by defending my dogs in any manner I see fit. When you have one of your dogs attacked you may feel differently about whether any dog should be given the benefit of any doubt on it's intentions. My very first loyalty is to MY dogs, no one elses.

yes remember it well, the dogs packed up, as dogs are inclined to do and it was on, all after the one dog who was damn near scared to death and none of the owners could see it, none of them reacted, they all thought the dogs were having a great game of chasey and they were standing right there! They had no idea, even the owner of the one they wanted to kill. Thank God for muzzles or there would have been at least one dead dog.

clearly some people need to realise how rude they and their bloody dogs are and not let anything off lead that does not have a relaible recall. Why should I be prevented from using a lovely walking track cause people can't control their dogs? Why should my slightly anxious girl be denied a nice walk by the river? Why should I be denied a nice walk by the river with my dog who loved those walks? But we have been denied those pleasures by people who obviuosly think the same as you

easy, the rude owners of the rude dogs would say it shouldn't be there. My nervous old girl did love her walks but those rude dogs did have the potential to ruin it for her, hence my carrying a riding crop and using it. Off lead area near a river = free for all. ETA I gave up walking this dog cause there were just too many idiots to contend with. She made do with runs with the greyhounds at the slipping track ;) Hang on, does the above mean that you would walk your girl in an off lead area, and if another dog ran up to her to "say hello" (yes rude but with no aggression) you would hit the other dog with the riding crop? yes I would and did, it was a common walking track for everyone and dogs were allowed off lead if under effective control. In the end the idiots drove me out but everyone was allowed to walk there, dogs on lead, dogs off lead, Mums with babies in prams, older people out for a stroll. It was a walking track for everyone long beofre it became an area for dog to be let off lead. What part of effective control do some of you people not get??

my greyhound man says it's a split tendon sheath. My greyhound has them on both front legs. I only noticed the other day that one has gone right down while the other is still as large as life. I didn't treat it as it is causing no problems.

easy, the rude owners of the rude dogs would say it shouldn't be there. My nervous old girl did love her walks but those rude dogs did have the potential to ruin it for her, hence my carrying a riding crop and using it. Off lead area near a river = free for all. ETA I gave up walking this dog cause there were just too many idiots to contend with. She made do with runs with the greyhounds at the slipping track ;)

sorry for quoting it all but the above post is spot on!

My local off leash areas are not fenced and are in fact walking tracks popular with everyone. What do you suggest I do with my greyhound, that by law, can not be let off lead?

I suggest you read the article I posted, "He Justs Wants To Say Hi" talks a lot about rude dogs and how they cause the bad behaviour by rushing at dogs minding their own business.

I'm with Medibank, 2 dogs under the 100% cover after $100 excess and one under 80% cover and no excess. I'm happy with that and unless the bill runs into thousands the 80% no excess is actually a better deal. Recently has a vet bill for $110, would have got back $10 if I had bothered to send it in ( 100% cover, $100 excess). Under the 80% would have got back $88. I've had a few like that in the past few years that I haven't bothered to claim but I will on the one with the 80% cover.