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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.

Would you report if your dog weighs six or seven times as much as the attacking dog and your dog contributed a little. Olle got bitten on the nose by a chihuahua on the weekend. He definitely contributed because he always wants to greet every dog he sees. The only thing that stops him is a treat waved under his nose; only we were a block from our house and I had run out. Anyway the dog, whose owner often lets him out the front without a lead where he runs up and down the road like a mad thing, was running past and Olle put his head down to sniff the dog and got bitten. It is just a scratch, we were a partly at fault and Olle wasn't fazed at all, so I don't even know if it is worth reporting.

This is so sad. It's always heartbreaking when a person decides the dog they're about to give their wings to will be their last. It does make it extra sad. He's a lovely man and a dedicated owner. I guess he just isn't sure that he will be able to remain active enough to meet the needs of a new dogs. My Mum feels the same. Her BC is almost 13. I would guess she has another year or two at best and she will likely be my Mums last dog. I think Mum will get a cat - one my cousin will hand rear specially, which makes them more people focused - and she will still have her grandogs but it won't be the same.

I love our local off-leash parks. We have a great community of responsible dog owners and its wonderful to catch up with the dogs and other owners to talk about the highs and lows of dog ownership. I love meeting the new puppies and watching them grow, but the flip side of that coin is that some of hem also die. We lost one of our oldies two weeks ago, a lovely GSP, who had had a couple of strokes this year and was finally put to sleep. Then a young dog took a bait in one if the local parks, and finally today I saw another if our oldies really struggling to get around. He had a horrible bunny hop and the owner told me he has an appointment at the vets for the end of the week. The owner also told me this was likely to be his last dog. Maybe I'm a sap, but the whole thing makes me but weepy.

I never thought Olle had very good language comprehension skills, especially compared to the BC I had as a kid. He had several hundred words he would respond to appropriately. I talk to Olle a lot as it is just the two of us and he often cocks his head in response to key words, such as walk, but he never gets excited until I actually take the lead off the hook. (Of course, I don't think there has been a day in his life he didn't get a least one walk, which may have something to do with it.) He surprised me one day, though. He had been playing with another dog, chasing her though the bushes because she had nicked his isqueak. Somehow the ball got dropped and they came out of the bushes without it. I was talking to him as I started along the path they had taken, saying "where is it. Where's the ball. " somehow he managed to put it together and took off sniffing down the path and came up with the ball.

same here. I wish I cared as much about my own diet as I do for my whippets Oh, me too. Why can't I be as nice to myself as a I am to him. Though he would be obese if given half a chance. He is so food orientated. He can exert quite a bit of pressure for a tidbit, so I do understand why some people find it difficult to resist.

I have been using them for food and parasit control for about 18 months now and am really happy with the service. They are very relable and I especially like that you can push the delivery dates back if they don't suit.

I second the consideration of the dogs age. Raising a puppy in an apartment is a huge undertaking, particularly if you are single, and I say this from a place of experience. My pup and I lived in a second floor apartment for his first 20 months. He has never been a particularly vocal dog though he would alert bark for visitors (not residents). The toileting was hard though. There were many middle if the night trips to our local park because he would only go on grass. I also needed to be really prompt on my trip home from work and I couldn't go out after work or do overtime unless I took it home with me. As an adult Olle is really chilled in the house, but as an adolescent dog he needed longer twice daily walks for the mental stimulation. That being said we saw all sorts of dogs living in apartments when living in the inner city from small white fluffies to German Shepherds, Labs, Staffies and even one very chilled BC.

I'm sure the man was upset and not thinking clearly, but I do think the failure lies mostly with him. Quadrupling the dose of paracetamol would kill an infant, but it is sold over the counter and parents are trusted to accurately measure and dose their children.

I admit I don't know oodles of Standards, but I have met more than a handful, including two that we see on a regular basis. I have found their temperaments quite varied as I find with Wheatens, but my Wheaten is more of a handful than both the Standards I know well, though Olle is at the more exuberant end of the Wheaten spectrum. (Actually, that may be the biggest difference Wheatens are giddier and more apt to clownish behaviour.) I think they both need experienced dog owners as they can be stubborn and more difficult to train for that reason.

Standard Schnauzers and Wheatens are very similar both in look at personality, which is only to be expected given that they have a similar history and purpose. Both were originally farmdogs used for vermin hunting and guarding. The biggest difference is coat. In addition to the colour, Standard Schnauzers have a wire coat. Structurally, there is not a great deal of difference between them. I think Standard Schnauzers are marginally taller and Wheatens are a bit stockier. We have a Standard Schnauzer that lives a couple of doors up and when Olle is wet there does not appear to be a great deal of difference body shape. They also have very similar play styles.