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No you decided to rant and have a rubbish on everyone else cause you didn't like what you were being told. If I was getting a Flat Coat I would get one from Fetchitup or Hawksdale here in WA or Skyehaven in SA but since you were critising Flatties that win and do well you should steer clear of these health tested performance titled dogs and breeders and go ahead and get one from a breeder who has puppies for sale every week, no health clearances for hips and eyes and that won't let you meet the dam or even meet the sire without a fence between.

Me too! ;)

Big D how do you think Flatties came into existance? They are no F1 cross, line breeding was used. Line breeding is the most tried and tested method to produce dogs consitant in temprament and type. Line breeding IS not inbreeding. My Chessie is line bred, his grand dam on his sires side is his great grand dam on his dams side, he has really bred back to this line, phyically and temprament wise and has been evaluated by several respected breeders from here and overseas as not just a nice Chessie by Australian standards but up there with the top quality in the states too. This line is extremely healthy (great hips, eyes, cancer free) and had great bird sense. There are currently about 15 dogs worldwide that carry this line and his litter is the only one with the line on both sides of the pedigree (one dog with this line behind him won the national Speciality in the states last year). His COI is about 13%, much lower then the Queen of Englands. People are more likely to be breeding to the "dog of the day" as an outcross so your argument does not make sense on any level. Think about what you are saying, my breeder has been planning this letter for 10 years, had they given in to "fads" they would have just used whoever had won the latest speciality around the time thier bitch was in season. I don't get how you can have a "faddish" interpretation of a standrd, people can misread the standard or breed to thier own interpretation BUT at the end of the day a judge is the one who evaluates the dogs from THIER interpretation of the standard. Frank Kane is a highly respected UK gundog judge who has published a book especially about gundogs and how the stardards are meant to be interpreted following the rule fit for function, when he came out to Australia and judge he put a Flat Coat as Best in Group so obviously Flatties aren't so "faddish" or the judge from the UK would not have selected one as his BIG.

Dozer sounds seriosuly adorable! Lol about the shadecloth Amypie. I only wanted to see if it was any good to know if I should order mine My dogs (and me) will be getting a very exciting parcel in a couple of weeks AND I am getting my jump cups and will have 10 colourful jumps with heights 400,500 and 600 withing a month! (I am getting my dad to powdercoat them red and blue )

My mum's work friend has a GR from an infamous FCR and GR breeder in WA, he is DA. Her other work mate has an entire Akita bitch who has killed two SWF's and is very very dog agressive! They were chatting one night about how they should breed them togther to make "money and really fluffy cute puppies". I wasn't there but thankfully my mum was channeling me and laid into them! They have not discussed the idea since and I sudder to think of the potential results!

Pictures!!! :D Well done Mr Charlie! Any bobs?

bahahahahaht that's great Totally! Did you order shade cloth walls yet Amypie?

Bad girl I need Cool Coats! (and a few tug toys... and an exercise sourcebook... and a couple of balls... )

Ok does anyone know the direction to point me in re titre testing for Toby? Also awesome clips Ptolomy and Mirawee. Jenna is just too funny! Doing a clean run order now

These were shot on auto so I am not sure of the ISO ... I think I have to get a book about photography so I can start learning how everything works and how to do things properly. Like 99% of my shots come from my 40-150mm lens These ones did too. Lightroom has some noise reduction stuff but the really noisy photos were show inside, at the Adelaide Royal on auto. I was probably asking way too much of my camera though as I was trying to get action shots in a dimly lit hall with no flash other then the one that came with the camera. Also did'nt know about the noise reduction settings! Any recommendations for a book that is either very general or had some Olympus tips? Lots of them seem to lean towards Canon and Nikon :D

Nah it's the behind neighbours house.Toby is in our back paddock in both pictures

Happy Birthday ST!!! Have a good day!

I love seeing the editing effects a lot of you do so I turned my hand to lightroom and came up with this: and this Before I started on DOL I thought a good photograph shouldn't have to be edited but from seeing a lot of your work and having a go I can see editing can take a good photo to a great photo. Thanks guys! On a side note my Oly is far too noisy for my liking

Congratulations guys! Glad you all had awesome weekends! Training tomorrow night should be good

All Gundogs are on the Wednesday 29th of September

I know

The breed above I am trying to campaign to Deshonko often has blue eyes until 16 weeks and sometimes even longer

You mean like this? ETA not actually a lab... another purebred dog

She sure does love beef I think I could steal her and as long as I kept up the beef supply she would be content for life... might bring some to Perth Royal

I made a thread that went poof! There is an 18mth old unsterilized St Bernard bitch advertised at my local IGA and I made a thread in rescue asking if anyone knew who to contact and it went poof But I found the St Bernard clubs email so I have emailed them and if anyone here knows anyone who may know anything better let me know. I hate the thought of her becoming a puppy factory and they want $1200 for her I am sure people will see $$

Near the river I guess? I think I will be coming dogless because managing two is going to give me a headache and my family is away so I can't leave one by itself.

The city is open late night Friday I feel for people like you emery (I did a 4 year stint at K-Mart) BUT I think Perth needs late night trading to become more vibrant and not dead after dark. Which one? Me too :D I was layby chick extraordinaire! But it's been quite a few years since I worked there. I would like shops open every night too, especially supermarkets! Trying to get to a supermarket on a weekday after work before 6pm is almost impossible. I usually make it in 10 mins before it closes K-Mart Midland I was the fitting room girl Your laundry looks great now! We have some before and after pics of of our place that are just shocking... and a whole heap of "during" ones at the moment too. :D

Bayswater station. If you know what time you will be at the station I am sure me or another DOLer can pick you up from there ;)

I have my boys booked into the Paw House over Easter Lincoln looks at the owner like this

Thanks Amypie! Sucks for those of us who will be using max 2 tunnels and max 5 jumps