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Speaking of stencils, my Olle, who is afraid of cats is also afraid of stencils of cats. Someone had painted them everywhere I our old neighbourhood and he refused to turn his back on them until he had turned the next corner. There were also random stencils of Charlie Chaplin. He was fine with the little ones and also with the life size image, until one day someone painted it over with a camouflage pattern. He was so frightened that he wet himself, which he had never done before or since.

Olle really isn't a bad dog to share a bed with. The worst thing he ever did was fart, but he rarely does that since I started raw feeding. He does tend to hog the bed when he first gets on it, but unless I fell asleep within about 10 minutes he usually gets off with a sigh to lie on the floor. He gets back on the bed during the night. Apparently I am the bed jiggler in this relationship. He leaves bits of leaves and sticks on the bed, but not in the bed since he is a hot bod most of the time.

Darling Harbour has fireworks about 5 times a month on average, so some suburbs in the inner west are not great for noise phobic dogs.

I can't complete the poll because I have one dog who isn't afraid of storms but there is no zero response.

Mine is a great alarm clock. He insists I get up and make him breakfast at 6 am, so I am never late for work.

Not that I can see. I only got a copy because my work place subscribes. Unlike human medicine, veterinary medicine is not moving toward open access unfortunately.

Agree with this. There is way more to it than a dog biting simply because it is entire. The way they interpret that stat is very poor science imho. They leap to the assumption that it is a cause not just a correlation. That is just bias. It isn't poor science. I checked out the actual paper. They only use descriptive statistics, which is entirely appropriate for a study of that size. They also discuss the limitations of the study in the results.

An audio recording would work as well. I use a free computer app, audacity, randomly to check how much noise Olle is making.

Olle in a Christmas card outtake from a couple of years ago.

Any one got any suggestions for a book on trick training for kids?

When Olle was a puppy, the local pet shop had three Beddlington terriers puppies for sale. Two sold within a week but the last one took ages to sell, despite heavy discounting. Long enough that they got him a second set of shots and started bringing him to the local park for socialisation. One if the employees would take him home at night walking him through the park on the way out and the way in. He was a very sweet dog and I still see him around from time to time. I think that was the last time that pet shop had puppies.

If it is personal recommendation you are looking for, I have a couple of cousins that housesit. http://happyhewitts.com/ They are a lovely older couple who love animals, and really enjoy looking after them. They get a lot of repeat business and can be hard to get at peak periods. They have mostly been house siting in the Brisbane area, but are branching out now that they are both retired.

Anyone got a tip for beard cleaning between baths? I've been using soap and water, but he is never that keen.

The ears on a leonberger don't make the right shape and the colouring would be wrong too if the picture is a guide.

I went to to UK for 18 months in my mid 20s leaving behind the dog I got as a teenager. The first thing he did when I got back was bark loudly at me in complaint.