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I am involved in pointer rescue ( the english kind )and friend of mine recently adopted a pointer pup from an RSPCA shelter in the country ... this pup is not papered but purebred as we know the lines the backyard breeder is using ( a whole other story !). Right up to when the pup left the shelter kept telling my friend...'no love not purebred, something else in there maybe a great dane cross !! I STILL tease my friend about her cross bred dane LOL!!! The upside was he was cheap ... not being a purebred. :)

Hi....I too have an 8 year old. He is not a great eater and I struggle to keep weight on him. His coat was looking terrible, really awful and I started to look at better food for him. The past 5 months he has been getting Black Hawk Holistic kibble which he loves, fresh chicken wings or lamb flaps, a little yoghurt and sometimes some tinned food in with his kibble. He now looks great and his coat is wonderful. I highly recommend the Black Hawk combined with the fresh food. He also has great poo and a lot less of it !

Good luck DD. I am sure you will have a much happier dog after treatment. I hope it all goes smoothly Thanks so much Jumabaar....after being quite a sick girl for the first week after starting her treatment we are now into the second week and she is feeling very much better now...I now see her smiling face more than the sad one though not so sure I'm smiling that much....keeping an active gun dog quiet for a month is no picnic !! ;)

I read with interest of the comments here...having just picked up an absolutely lovely rescue foster and have her test positive to heartworm and caring for her through her treatment...all I can say is I don't care what type of heartworm preventative people use so long as they use SOMETHING and do it regularly.

I am very sorry, I know this was serious BUT :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Your Cocker spaniel is gorgeous I had my lemon and wht pointer at a cafe the other day and the waiter asked me if he was a boxer...WHAT THE !!!! :p

Jed...here here :cheer:

ROLMAO ...I have seen this before..and do wonder if Fenton is STILL running ! ;)

Hi - both dogs are crate trained, yes. This was a great suggestion, thank you. We've crated them for various reasons previously but it hadn't been a thought to use this as a management method. We are just looking now for a crate big enough for the dog - as we live in a remote area we will have to buy online. Know anywhere good? Thanks again Hi Sharna, I'm no expert but just wanted to give you some hope...I have 3 boys who all get on relatively well...the odd grumble here and there but nothing that cannot be managed and all was well...UNTIL WE MOVED......Big problems within the first few weeks. Long story short...crates were used, new routines established and within a 4 month period they all settled down and life is once again sweet. Take heart, it may be that if you can manage them until they feel settled and secure again that things will settle. Best of luck to you.

A live peacock....well..not so alive after they caught it.....

Unfortunately I had to drop my pet insurance...the premiums more than DOUBLED in one year Fingers firmly crossed I don't live to regret that decision ;)

I was in this position a couple of years ago....we went the rescue in the end. Costs actually worked out a bit more than if we got a pup from a breeder but we have never regretted it. We still got our breed of choice and every time I look at him I feel really good about what we did. He has been challenging at times as we got him at about 9 months of age and he was terrified of life but when I look at his now confident and cheeky face I have no regrets whatsoever....we will still get a pup at some point in life but at that time it seemed we were chosen for that particular dog.Good luck with your decision.

I would fence it off from him... I have pointers and if it were mine it would be the rabbit they are after ;) !! If you think it's just the wood and not the rabbit he's trying to get then you can try a horse product called cribstop..it's a thick ointment like stuff that stays on and tastes horrible.

I have a 7 year old highly storm phobic pointer....thundershirt did not work for him and I have gone the medication route...xanax a couple of hours before the storm...fine in theory for obvious reasons LOL!! When I get the timing right it works great...now if I could just predict the exact time the storms will hit..... ;)

I also live in Brisbane area with a terribly storm phobic dog.....after trying lots of things I now give him xanax prescribed by my vet.This is given on the day a storm is expected. It works if I get the timing right...the problem is they need it at least an hour before a storm comes so some days I get it right and others I don't but when I get it right it works for us. He is able to lay down in a safe spot and endure the storm quietly. Good luck with your dog, storm phobia is a real pain.

I had a somewhat similiar experience...terminally ill dog at home and wanting to get the third dog so he was in place to be with my other younger dog when my sick girl passed as my younger dog had never lived alone....went to the council office and explained the situation , was told that I would need the expensive 3rd dog permit to be legal ...then the staff member leaned over the counter, gave me the application form and said 'take this home and put it in your drawer, if you get inspected before your old dog dies then whip this out and say you had just picked it up to apply for the permit' ;) .....I was so appreciative of that...saved me almost $200 at the time.

We used to live on Tamborine Mountain where there are LOTS of scrub turkeys....and I have pointers...sigh ;) The turkeys never did get the message to stop coming into our yard even after one or 2 of them were..errr...'pointed' at !! ( coughing into hand as they are protected) Dumbest birds ever though now we have peacocks in our new neighbourhood who are running a close second !!

I personally think every human on the plantet should watch the documentary ' Earthlings'...makes me hang my head in shame to be human at times...

Gretel thank you for the link... I too have emailed my thoughts.

That was exactly what I thought too....I was actually thinking to myself as he was speaking...'go on bit the bullet and say what REALLY needs to be said' ! argghh that would be 'bite' !!

That was exactly what I thought too....I was actually thinking to myself as he was speaking...'go on bit the bullet and say what REALLY needs to be said' !

I have three pointers....all pets only. One is bird crazy, will even try to climb the trees to get to them and so far hasn't eaten any but also won't give then up to me either. My oldest is birdy and good at catching them too...he used to give them to me but I guess he figures that as I'm going to take them away he'll get in first and he now he eats them if I approach him :D ! My other one is not so birdy much prefering the couch LOL!!! I'm thinking they might all be failures in the field LOL!!

Up until 2 years ago we had a german shepherd and her friend was a pointer. It worked really well, pointers are up for lots of games and had no problem playing with the shepherd.Pointers are high energy and playful but with soft temperments usually. Big lap dogs in the house.

We used an electric fence at our last place when we had fence running issues, worked brilliantly.Stand it off the bottom fence line as much as you need ( you can get different sized fittings for it) and make sure at some point it will get in the way of the running. Not nice for the dogs the first time they touch it but it's effective and they learn very quickly to stay away from the white tape. Mine never got zapped a second time and the fence running stopped. Sorry you are having issues with the neighbour.